Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this year BICC paid £106million for BRIntec in the US . |
| 2 | Tweed 's finger traced a route through Liège to the east and then down through the Ardennes , a remote hilly district . |
| 3 | Alex Salmond , Margaret Ewing and Andrew Welsh , you can be sure , will have weighed up carefully the predictable uproar and have decided that the obtaining , with only three votes , of such a sensible and important concession for Scotland from the Government is , in fact , a considerable achievement . |
| 4 | Despite a failure to negotiate a comprehensive peace settlement for Cambodia during the second Jakarta Informal Meeting ( JIM ) in February 1989 [ see p. 36464 ] and during the Paris conference on Cambodia in August [ see pp. 36848-49 ] , certain concessions offered in late 1989 by the resistance groups and the Phnom Penh government indicated that a political solution to the Cambodian problem might be taking shape [ for acceptance in January 1990 of an Australian peace proposal by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council see pp. 37186-87 ] . |
| 5 | The July Sales are a great idea for Christmas shopping particularly in slashed-price discontinued toiletries and I found several nice wee stocking fillers for Derek in the Novelty line and looked in vain for a birthday card for our Joy 's eldest but there was nothing suitable . |
| 6 | He said , ‘ We are currently in the process of completing a contract for SEP at the A1 nuclear power station at Bohunice to decontaminate the reactor hall . |
| 7 | Accordingly the ‘ cohort's- including the family , especially Maurice Macmillan and Julian Amery-warmly urged the case for Hailsham at the Imperial Hotel . |
| 8 | In other areas too , it seems that the case for Woodchester as the final pavement of a sequence of elaborations " cuts with a double-edged blade " : at the beginning of the sequence , for example , it is difficult to understand how a twenty-five year long period of development had no other local influence . |
| 9 | In your desperate struggle to dig up hope for Africa in the 1990s ( NI 208 ) you gave naive solutions . |
| 10 | The oil shocks of the 1970s , and the widespread sympathy for Israel in the United States , led to a new sense of vulnerability . |
| 11 | Wagner 's profession of sympathy for Schopenhauer at the November meeting could only have come as the happiest of coincidences , while , in general , this first experience of the composer 's powerful personality confirmed and added to his new status : Wagner was at one with Schopenhauer and he was ( to Nietzsche 's way of thinking ) an artist such as Schopenhauer himself would have wished him . |
| 12 | In any case , argues Ishrat Husain , chief economist for Africa at the World Bank , a lot of Africans welcome reform . |
| 13 | Drumchork is right opposite the turnoff for Aultbea from the A832 and this walk starts from the Drumchork Hotel . |
| 14 | Highfrith can be another winner for Richards in the Racing Post Novice Chase . |
| 15 | The other judges were Magnus Linklater , editor of The Scotsman ; Craig Winn , editor of M8 magazine and a semi-finalist representing Strathclyde University in the 1988 World Student Debating Championships ; Paul Sinclair , a researcher with Scottish Television and a winner last year for Glasgow University of the Observer International Mace , and Paul Spencer , a previous winner for Strathclyde of The Scotsman tournament . |
| 16 | The government disclosed its plans for WCY on the last day of January simultaneously in London and six cities , courtesy of British Telecom 's £200 an hour Confravision service . |
| 17 | Nicholas , who had missed the victory Mass for Kyrenia for the sake of an axe in his shoulder was present today , in body if not especially in mind , from the look of him . |
| 18 | Jim Muir bowling for Perthshire at the Stoddard Carpets Cricket Challenge Cup Final on 25th June at Williamfield , Stirling . |
| 19 | THE CONDITIONS OVERLEAF SHALL APPLY TO THIS QUOTATION AND TO ANY CONTRACT BETWEEN US FOR THE SUPPLY OF ITEMS DETAILED IN THIS QUOTATION ( SEE CONDITION 1 ) . |
| 20 | YOUR ORDER [ REFERRED TO ABOVE ] [ NO [ ] DATED [ ] ] IS ACCEPTED ON THE BASIS THAT THE CONDITIONS [ OVERLEAF ] [ ON THE REVERSE OF OUR QUOTATION NO [ ] DATED [ ] ] SHALL APPLY TO THE CONTRACT BETWEEN US FOR THE SUPPLY OF THE ITEMS DETAILED IN YOUR ORDER ( SEE CONDITION 1 ) . |
| 21 | He was said to have had a family in Belgium at one point , known Janke Adler , met Gauguin in a park , scribbled all over the statues at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts when a student in Paris , and lost all his money when the Japanese had the bad taste to conquer his rubber plantations sometime during the confused struggle for Manchuria during the opening stages of the last big one . |
| 22 | When the crowd sang Flower Of Scotland deep into the final quarter of the match , Hastings responded with a brilliant diagonal run off a dummy scissors which would have brought a try for Reed in the corner but for courageous defending from Davies . |
| 23 | That incident illustrated how easy it would be for an atomic war to develop , so a hot-line was set up by means of a permanent telephone link between Washington in the U.S.A. and Moscow in the U.S.S.R. |
| 24 | Sir James Campbell of Ardkinglas , the member of parliament for Stirlingshire in the Argyll interest , found out the cost of a disputed patronage appointment in 1756 , when the church of Gargunnock became vacant . |
| 25 | LEFT The arms of Andrew Forsey , member of parliament for Bridport in the reign of Henry V , and RIGHT those of Patricia , his 20th century collateral descendant . |
| 26 | If after the next election there is a clear majority of Members committed to reforming the United Kingdom and creating a Parliament for Scotland within the United Kingdom , will the Conservative party accept the verdict of the people of Scotland ? |
| 27 | TAKING the view that he will learn more about the players on the field , Jim Love will today make his debut for Scotland in the opening game of their South African tour , against Stellenbosch Farmers . |
| 28 | ADRIAN DAVIES , Cambridge Blue and Welsh International fly-half , made his debut for CARDIFF in the Schweppes Cup win over Pencoed . |
| 29 | In these circumstances in my judgment there is entirely adequate support for Paul of the sort that Mrs envisaged and indeed I am inclined to the view that one to one dedicated support for him out of classroom hours may not be desirable and might well tend at least to come between him and his fellow pupils so if one turns to Mrs schedule one on page forty seven , papers before me , I think that the appropriate arithmetic is to provide for twenty hours per week at seven pounds per hour for thirty seven school weeks , that is an enabler for the school period , I confess that I find it much easier to deal with Mrs schedules on page forty seven by treating schedule one as having to do with the , the school period , schedule two having to deal with the home periods and schedule three with parental care , as it is actually set out on page forty seven , and I confess that during the case I kept confusing myself about this point , schedule one deals not only with school but also , rather confusingly , with an enabler at home and I think it easier to confine that schedule to er school time . |
| 30 | Russian support for Austria in the Seven Years War ( 1756–63 ) brought Prussia to the brink of ruin : Frederick the Great was saved only by the death of Elizabeth ( 1741–61 ) . |