Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Philip Pesaro was a good fighting man in a post that controlled all north-east Cyprus from Famagusta to the end of the Karpass .
2 THIS LEASE made the day of One thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven between Albert Hardcastle of The Gamekeeper 's Cottage Highfields near Scunthorpe in the County of Humberside Farmer ( hereinafter called the Landlord ) of the one part and Adam Swannson of 1 Delderfield Close The Kentish Hexagon near Westerham Kent Haulier ( hereinafter called the Tenant ) of the other part WITNESSETH as follows :
3 Operation rules out England striker Shearer for rest of the season
4 Early in the nineteenth century the Devon was shipped to Tasmania and was exported to mainland Australia at intervals during the century until health restrictions put an end to imports .
5 In South Arabia as part of the Pax Britannica in the 1950s and 1960s , when some local robber baron was ‘ persuaded ’ to stop plundering caravans , he was invited to surrender a hostage to authority , as a gesture of future good faith .
6 Sims toured the slums of south London for articles in the Pictorial World entitled ‘ How the Poor Live ’ .
7 In late May the FBI admitted that it had questioned thirty-one year old Brian M. McDevitt in connection with the theft , in which two robbers cut such masterpieces as Vermeer 's ‘ The concert ’ and Rembrandt 's ‘ The storm on the Sea of Galilee ’ from their frames .
8 In appreciation of the eccentric 's efforts ( regardless of intent ) in saving 44 World War Two aircraft from the scrap pile , Bob requested and was granted the Canadian civil registration C-Gevs in memory of the late Ernest Van Simmons .
9 A Sunday newspaper reported that the film team moved into the Chateau Garibondi at Cannes as the Comte and his bride-to-be ended a weekend there , and carried photographs of models cavorting in various parts of the property .
10 She had a nanny , Kent-born Judith Pamell who took the infant Diana for walks around the grounds in a well-used , highly-sprung perambulator .
11 This Information memorandum ( this ‘ Document ’ ) has been compiled by KPMG Peat Marwick on behalf of the shareholders of [ xxxxxx limited ] ( the ‘ Company ’ ) from information supplied to KPMG Peat Marwick by the shareholders and management of the Company .
12 Reid on loan FOOTBALL : Leicester midfielder Paul Reid is joining Third Division Bradford on loan until the end of the season .
13 The following passage is the opening to the short story Mozart in mirrorshades by the cyberpunk SF writers Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner .
14 It is difficult to avoid the comparison with present day Germany in relation to the other states of the EC and the quotation goes some way to explaining the motives for closer integration .
15 You can also redirect information to a printer by using the name PRN in place of the filename , as follows :
16 But once he reached Stowey the Coleridges greeted him warmly at Lime Street , where the cottage had gained another new resident only a week before : on 14 May , Sara had been ‘ safely delivered of a fine boy ’ , the child being given the name Berkeley in honour of the philosopher , for whom Coleridge was developing a great admiration .
17 Six side chapels were each dedicated to the Virgin Mary in relation to the Civil War : Our Lady of Africa ; the Immaculate Conception , patroness of the Army ; Our Lady of Carmen , patroness of the Navy ; Our Lady of Loretto , patroness of the Air Force ; Our Lady of the Pillar , patroness of Zaragoza and declared Captain-General of the Army during the war ; and Our Lady of Mercy , patroness of Prisoners .
18 The " battle of the plans " became public and dramatic from mid-June , with Yavlinsky presenting his proposals on June 17 to Gorbachev , to the Russian Republic president Boris Yeltsin and to the Khazakstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev , while on the same day Pavlov in remarks to the USSR Supreme Soviet ridiculed the " grand bargain " and called for wider executive powers for the Soviet Council of Ministers in order to deal with the economic crisis .
19 Simon R. Is your friend Noel O' Connor on the list , or should I send him the stuff another way .
20 And then there 's ‘ Stealth ’ , about the American public 's love affair with the bomber plane of the same name ; ‘ Lorraine ’ , the true story of Jacqueline Smith , who lives on the pavement outside Motel Lorraine in protest at the commercialisation of the scene of Martin Luther King 's death ; and ‘ Claremont Road ’ , with a rap from Prince Kool — a new Manchester talent from the same school as MC Buzz B. ‘ It 's just what we know , ’ says Colin , justifying such specific references to their home patch of Mosside .
21 Versant Object Technology is now developing a 32-bit OS/2 2.0 version of its object DBMS for release in the fourth quarter .
22 Other appointments were : Lee Boon Yang as Minister in the Prime Minister 's Office and Second Minister for Defence ; Mah Bow Tan as Acting Minister for Communications and Minister of State for Trade and Industry ; Seet Ai Mee as Acting Minister for Community Development ; and Sidek Saniff as Minister of State for Education .
23 The air of human drama and of history in the making is especially potent in times of crisis , when leaders can be shown locked in combat , for example Reagan with Gadaffi over the US bombing of Libya in April 1986 .
24 The paintings were evidently of no great value , but such as they were , they were genuine : a seventeenth-century Venus in oils in the drawing-room , some eighteenth-century engravings along the carpeted passage which led from the front door past the day rooms to the bedroom at the end .
25 Some protestors demonstrated against her Dresden visit ; wartime bitterness had earlier been aroused when the Queen Mother on May 31 unveiled a statue in London to Sir Arthur " Bomber " Harris , wartime head of Bomber Command , and when German plans were disclosed ( but subsequently cancelled ) to commemorate officially on Oct. 5 the 50th anniversary of the development of the V2 rocket technology on the island Oie off Peenemünde on the Baltic coast .
26 200 L of CSF was centrifuged and the pellet incubated for 3 h at 55°C in 100 L lysis buffer ( 50 mmol/L trometamol , 1 mmol/L edetic acid , 0.5% Tween 20 ) containing 400 g/mL proteinase K. After inactivation of the proteinase K at 95°C , 40 L of the mixture was used for amplification .
27 Two men have stood by him for most of his career — Homer Scott and Ian Ferguson — and it was heartening for Homer that Pat was able to ride Glitter Grey to victory in the Governors Cup at Down Royal .
28 The SPA confirmed a proposal , formulated on the previous day by the 20th plenary meeting of the sixth central committee of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party ( KWP ) , to appoint Kang Song San as Premier of the Administrative Council in place of Yon Hyong Muk .
29 And although England removed nightwatchman Morrison without fuss on the final morning , the draw looked odds-on as the tourists toiled for a third day in the field .
30 In 1613 , for example , the king married his daughter Elizabeth to Frederick of the Palatinate , one of the leading figures of European Calvinism ; similarly , in 1618 four representatives of the English church attended the Synod of Dort , the conference called to resolve the bitter dispute which had been raging in the United Provinces over the doctrine of predestination .
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