Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captain McCann ( inset , left ) is one of two masters in command of Buffalo and , with Captain Nick Spencer ( inset , right ) , was with the ship during the Fleet Review off Holyhead earlier in the week . |
| 2 | DAVID PLATT celebrated his Italian league debut for Juventus yesterday with the goal that earned them a 2-2 draw at Genoa . |
| 3 | Chamberlain 's practical experience of first-class cricket is slim , confined to six matches for Northamptonshire shortly after the war . |
| 4 | A Russian tanker had struck one off Kuwait earlier in the year . |
| 5 | Shearer returns to The Dell for Blackburn tomorrow for the first time since his £3.6 million transfer in the summer , anxious to make life even more uneasy for Branfoot . |
| 6 | In addition to Cardinal , Szabo , Jackart , Charron , Woods and Lougheed , the capped players in the 22-strong party are outside-half Bob Ross and lock Ian Gordon , a replacement for Charron late in the second half for last year 's famous win over Scotland . |
| 7 | THE launch of Middlesbrough yesterday as the country 's second environment city did n't exactly get off to a flying start . |
| 8 | In a famous book ( The King 's Two Bodies ) , E. H. Kantorowicz illustrated his theme of the development of Christ-centred kingship with the depiction of the Emperor Otto III on a page of a gospel book made for the imperial church of Aachen probably in the 990s . |
| 9 | Of the 29 rifts identified in Africa , five have led to continental separation and a further three have been associated with the movement of Madagascar away from the African mainland . |
| 10 | PENSIONER Sophia Hymes will be given the freedom of Chester today at the age of 91 . |
| 11 | The white marble figure of Bacchus now in the ilex walk at Ham House in Richmond , for example , is almost certainly that mentioned in a 1672 inventory — ‘ For 1 Pedastall for ye figure Bacchus ’ . |
| 12 | This covers most of Scotland apart from the Midland Valley and identifies estates by name , with a map showing their boundaries . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | From the northern tip of Spain across to the Western edge of Italy , this magical coast boasts mile upon mile of golden sand lapped by clear warm seas . |
| 15 | ‘ The Secretary of State may , if recommended to do so by the Parole Board , release on licence a person serving a sentence of imprisonment for life … but shall not do so in the case of a person sentenced to imprisonment for life … except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice of England together with the trial judge if available . |
| 16 | It will be seen that section 61(1) does not require the Secretary of State to release any person serving a sentence of imprisonment for life on licence , but imposes two conditions which must be satisfied before he may do so , namely , that the release must first be recommended by the Parole Board ( a body which was itself constituted by section 59 of the Act of 1967 ) and that the Secretary of State may not release on licence except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice of England together with the trial judge if available . |
| 17 | ‘ The Secretary of State may , if recommended to do so by the Parole Board , release on licence a person serving a sentence of imprisonment for life … but shall not do so … except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice of England together with the trial judge if available . |
| 18 | These restrictions on testation had disappeared over the greater part of England early in the fourteenth century , but they survived in the province of York till 1692 , in Wales till 1696 , and in London till 1724 . |
| 19 | Inventories such as this have been used in bulk by agricultural historians to show how varied were the regional farming practices of England long before the Agricultural Revolution . |
| 20 | One can not compare exactly the customs accounts from the two ports , because those for London ending in 1460 conclude at the end of July instead of the normal date of Michaelmas , so the second period employed in the comparison is that of the eleven years 1450–61 . |
| 21 | Since enamelling was taken over by the west to produce jewels like that which tradition claims was presented to his foundation , New College , Oxford , by William of Wykeham early in the fourteenth century ( fig. 29 ) , enamel has held its own in the embellishment of symbols of high achievement . |
| 22 | To me there are prototypes of Alf all over the country : far too many of them in fact . |
| 23 | Leave Market Square and go south down ‘ The Drapery ’ — the name derived from the congregation of Drapers there in the 18th and 19th Centuries . |
| 24 | He was satisfied to leave the government of Sicily largely to the chancellor , Gauthier de Paléar , bishop of Troja , who stood for Sicilian rights and was anti-German . |
| 25 | Sadly , the gloom of World Cup failure prevails ; Denmark 's 1–0 defeat of Albania earlier in the day rendered even the most optimistic mathematician 's calculator redundant . |
| 26 | The most serious problem remaining for 5 Corps was thus that posed by the approach of the main body of Croat troops ( reported as being 200,000 in number ) , accompanied by huge numbers of Croat civilians , who were attempting to escape into Austria via Dravograd , towards the small town of Bleiburg just inside the Austrian frontier . |
| 27 | It compares the centralised approach of CND unfavourably with the West German peace movement , which does not have a permanent organisation . |
| 28 | Across the little Livre valley the vines grown on the east and south-east-facing slopes of Mont Écouvé , at a height of between 150 and 170 metres , are an extension to those of Bouzy just over the hill . |
| 29 | Mr speaker I beg to move that the draft European parliamentary constituency 's England order nineteen ninety four erm the draft European parliamentary constituency 's Wales order nineteen ninety four which were laid before the house on the twentieth of January together with the draft European parliamentary election changes to the franchise and qualification of representatives regulations nineteen ninety four which were laid on the second of February , be approved . |
| 30 | Jehan knew that many of the Khans had been won over to support of Artai principally by the knowledge that the probable alternative was civil war , and he shook his head angrily . |