Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun prp] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mrs Thatcher decided to break the miners ' strike , if need be by force , there was no doubt where I stood ; or at the time of the Falklands , or the Suez operation against the Egyptian dictator , Colonel Nasser : foursquare behind the Tories . |
| 2 | Someone will probably tell me of the almost incredible persistence of the Karroo sandstones of southern and eastern Africa , or the Nubian sandstones across North Africa into the Middle East , or the Dakota Sandstone in the American West . |
| 3 | The site is approachable from the Bletchworth roundabout coming from Reigate , or the Dorking roundabout from the other direction . |
| 4 | At least until the 1970s , the Plenderwald forests were West Germany 's traditional playground , more important to the citizens of the Federal Republic for weekending or walking holidays than Britain 's New Forest or the South Downs , with a greater role in the national heritage of myth , folklore and literature than the Lake District to the English or the Great Glen to the Scots . |
| 5 | It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay |
| 6 | It was for these reasons that the United States in the late 1960s consistently opposed an increase in the official price of gold . |
| 7 | The Deputy Governor of Kordofan state in central Sudan , Umar Sulayman Adam , on March 12 denied allegations that the Nuba people of the Nuba mountains in his state were being subjected to official repression . |
| 8 | Roth would appear to believe both the claim and the counter-claim as to the value of the text , and to believe , too , both that the Roth part of the book does not represent an exercise of the imagination and that it does . |
| 9 | Thus despite the fact that the Thatcher government in the early 1980s was committed to a tight control of money supply and set targets for the broad monetary base M0 , and despite the fact that the authorities have expressed interest in monetary base control , this has not been the form of policy pursued . |
| 10 | Downing Street sources point out that the Clinton team including the new president have strong connections with Britain . |
| 11 | Blindcraft , which is based at Peffer Place in the city , has a history dating back to 1793 as it was then that the Edinburgh Asylum for the Relief of the Industrious Blind was set up . |
| 12 | The principle ground urged on behalf of the applicant was that the district judge had been misled by counsel then appearing or the Attorney-General into the belief that there was no real prospect that the B.M.F.L. prosecution of the applicant would go ahead , and that accordingly there could be no objection to pressing forward with the lesser charges . |
| 13 | But the main problem was that the PNP plank of the ‘ broadly-based curriculum ’ turned out to be fairly meaningless . |
| 14 | Gudok , the railway newspaper , reported on 22 September 1922 that the Moscow workshops on the Kursk line were full of rusting machinery , since rain came through the roof . |
| 15 | It did n't help that The Smiths video for the gorgeously maudlin ‘ Girlfriend In A Coma ’ featured the sad impassioned face of Morrissey and only Morrissey . |
| 16 | Soviet writers subsequently argued that the EEC policy on the Afghan issue , coordinated in the neutralisation plan , ‘ served as an additional factor strengthening the inconsistency of the policy of Pakistan in the ‘ Afghan question ’ and , consequently , postponing the prospects of a real settlement of the situation around Afghanistan ’ . |
| 17 | The inevitable result was that the Dumbarton element in the Rutherglen Council prevailed and their representative at the district meeting was for Dixon , although the Council was split . |
| 18 | My journey should also ensure that the Clio clocks up the miles quickly , helping readers to gauge the French supermini 's durability . |
| 19 | On May 5 a US Defence Department spokesperson announced that the US contribution to the war costs had been almost US$6,000 million , out of a total cost of US$61,000 million . |
| 20 | It was also reported that the US attorney for the District of Columbia was conducting a preliminary inquiry to determine whether transactions at the bank had involved criminal wrongdoing . |
| 21 | On Feb. 26 Israeli Justice Minister Dan Meridor said that the US policy over the guarantees had " interfered with the peace process and given Arab negotiators an unfair advantage " . |
| 22 | The only part of the natural world that the US delegation to the Earth Summit seems to be interested in is beavers , and how best to build dams and systematically reinforce the logjams that others are striving to break down . |
| 23 | On Feb. 4 President Roh Tae Woo placed South Korea 's armed forces on maximum alert , stating that the US preoccupation with the Gulf war meant that " the possibility of North Korean provocation is higher than ever before " . |
| 24 | Indeed , run-on analysis indicated that transcription of the tubulin locus continued through the plasmid , and that the VSG promoter within the plasmid was silent , even after fly transmission . |
| 25 | When a repeated eigenvalue 1 makes the characteristic matrix doubly degenerate , we know ( see ( 1.21.14 ) ) that the Sylvester expansion of the system matrix A is unc It follows that we can use the power method to find 1 ; postmultiplication by co gives in the limit , when r is sufficiently large , say s , unc We thus find 1 without difficulty ; but the determination of z11 + z22 requires further consideration . |
| 26 | The actual conduct of the war demonstrates clearly that the UN sanction for the war is a fig leaf of Korean proportions , and that paper wraps stone is less accurate a metaphor than velvet wraps fist . |
| 27 | The situation is that the UN Commander of the area requested information on the shot from the Turkish forces . |
| 28 | Mr. Browne 's first contention is that the P.C.A. documents in the present case fall into essentially the same category as those in Peach 's case [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 29 | The High Court ruling , by six votes to one , found that the Miriam people of the Murray Islands ( part of the Torres Strait group ) had retained ownership of their land under common law . |
| 30 | It is against that background that the DES approach to the CNAA to take over responsibility for the DMS has to be seen . |