Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The truth behind the search for Ivan the Terrible 's fabled library |
| 32 | In a last bid for survival the programme had more recently tried to pick up social realism , taking on subjects such as bisexuality , suicide and abortion in a Catholic family . |
| 33 | Written in June 1936 , " Secrets de l'Espagne " , Nizan 's extended analysis of the Spanish situation for La Correspondance internationale , bears witness not only to his perceptiveness ( " There is emerging on the Republican horizon a fascist bid for power the conditions for which are being prepared by the social unrest orchestrated by the right " ) , but also to his enormous talent as a political reporter . |
| 34 | ‘ I organise the jumble sales for Oxfam and the annual pig-roast for Help The Aged … |
| 35 | We arranged an interview for noon the next day at his house on Rocky Point . |
| 36 | On the other hand the owner is clearly involved in the business and may well use his car for business the question is how much . |
| 37 | The octagonal shrine , the Dalada Maligawa , houses the tooth-relic of Buddha , an object of veneration for Buddhists the world over . |
| 38 | This comment from the editors in their introduction to this book spells out the dilemma for lesbians the whole world over . |
| 39 | Accompanied by wonderful press release describing it as ‘ pound for pound the best value art book … high quality art publishing for just over 8p per page ’ . |
| 40 | In their original submission for finance the deputy head explained the aims of the project . |
| 41 | The decision to go ahead with the press conference two days later was finalised ; Pons edited a note alerting his staff to this effect , called Jones on the phone to reconfirm the joint submission for Friday the 24th but , according to Jones , said nothing about the press conference planned for the day before nor of the 11 March submission by Pons to the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry . |
| 42 | The consequences of rejecting him could be ( a ) a fatal split in the Labour Party as a whole ; ( b ) an utterly confused state of party politics in the Commons ; and-most serious of all in the immediate term for Labour-(c) the danger that the Queen might refuse to appoint B Prime Minister because of his obvious lack of a Commons majority . |
| 43 | I wanted to get a cardigan for school the other day and |
| 44 | ( d ) Transfer A reminder to prepare and send to the other side for approval the draft transfer in duplicate . |
| 45 | As Endill was walking back to his dormitory after lessons the next day he heard a faint ticking at the end of the main corridor . |
| 46 | English Nature is discussing with the London borough of Greenwich the adoption of a management plan for the wood . |
| 47 | Erm , originally is was sung in Latin , in the time of the Stuarts , and then , an er , after the exile of James the Second , and English version appeared . |
| 48 | It was to satisfy a roving disposition and an idle curiosity rather than any deep ideal that Rudolf Rassendyll , man-about-town , decided on impulse while travelling in France to visit Strelsau for the coronation of Rudolf the Fifth . |
| 49 | She can remember Queen Victoria 's diamond Jubilee , and the coronation of Edward The Seventh . |
| 50 | Object : A great deal of publicity the book received in China . |
| 51 | Fronting the object , on the other hand , foregrounds it and gives it local prominence ( cf. A great deal of publicity was received in China and A great deal of publicity the book received in China ) . |
| 52 | Certainly , attempts to read the poem at a wholly symbolic level with the violence being explained away as allegorical representations of abstract moral conflicts ignore the great deal of interest the poem shows in history , particularly Spenser 's contemporary history . |
| 53 | Over and over Mrs Browning emphasised what a deal of trouble the Ogilvys were being put to on her behalf , by allowing their maid to do what she was going to do , and Wilson knew it was true . |
| 54 | With a great deal of diplomacy the contract was cancelled . |
| 55 | Since the lifting of sanctions the last couple of years has seen a flood of wines onto our shelves from the Cape — which has some of the most beautiful winelands in the world . |
| 56 | Without this intimidating ring of fire the herd might easily smash its way out . |
| 57 | Pending discovery and/or the administration of interrogatories the best particulars the plaintiff is able to give of such transactions is that the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in each and every transaction of which the following payments and each of them represent the proceeds of such transactions namely : … |
| 58 | Six hours after administration of indomethacin the level of reduced glutathione was significantly decreased ( p<0.001 ) to 46.9% of the control value , but the level of oxidised glutathione was not affected . |
| 59 | With the defeat of Napoleon the German states reversed emancipation of the Jews . |
| 60 | Since the collapse of Leyland-Daff the only entrance to its sales headquarters has been partly blocked by heavy trucks . |