Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An active suspension system is designed to keep the McLaren glued to the track by reading the bumps ahead and a radio link enables engineers to tweak the car 's operating systems during the race . |
| 2 | Then the Shah persuaded the Carters to see in the New Year at the palace and the Queen sent the Crown Prince into the Library to organize a smaller party . |
| 3 | The Hussars drew their sabres to drive the unarmed men back into the river , but French artillery had already closed on the southern bank and , as soon as the Hussars went into the trot , the first roundshot slammed across the water . |
| 4 | Pigs too were taken to sanctuaries to recover , as the RSPCA worked at the farms for days on end , work which eventually cost the RSPCA £15,000 . |
| 5 | The NME succumbed to The Smiths success by parading a lengthy Smiths interview by Biba Kopf , a writer not known for his enthusiasm for the Smiths . |
| 6 | Opinion in the Pentagon moved towards the belief that Japan was assuming more importance in global terms and that Japan must remain within the American sphere . |
| 7 | But , in 1942 , the Wehrmacht moved into the whole of our country and things changed . ’ |
| 8 | First mention of the Manor occurs in the Domesday Survey of 1086 ; it later belonged to the Priory of St Andrew , Northampton . |
| 9 | The Chester traincrew concerned were duly relieved about 11.15 am and hitched a lift onto the LM shed from the station . |
| 10 | The Marmorata built into the rocks |
| 11 | A large number of problems has been encountered , one of the most surprising being the fact that no UK Government department had taken responsibility for enforcing the EEC controls on the sale of protected wildlife specimens . |
| 12 | Tariffs and trade restrictions were to be reduced only gradually , so allowing the EEC to concur with the world organisation , GATT , to which the OEEC states belonged . |
| 13 | The La lies on the watershed of the main Karakoram and although we were still politically in India , geographically we had reached the valleys of Central Asia . |
| 14 | In determining whether a haulier is of good repute , the LA looks at the applicant 's conduct generally , not just at any previous convictions he may have . |
| 15 | ‘ A plastic sea kayak ; you must be mad , ’ was a typical comment from a Plas-y- Brenin instructor when the Seayak appeared through the post . |
| 16 | I have served for over 20 years now in the RAF specialising in the field of aircraft maintenance . |
| 17 | The FPR called for the overthrow of the regime and the return of all Rwandan refugees ( mostly Tutsi who had been forced to flee to neighbouring countries after ethnic clashes with the dominant Hutu over the previous 30 years ) . |
| 18 | ‘ This is him , Fagin , ’ the Dodger said to the old man . |
| 19 | The faction of the SPLA opposed to the leadership of Col. John Garang and led by Lam Akol and Riek Mashar Teny-Durgon [ see p. 38426 ] was now known as the Nasir group , after the eastern Sudanese town in which it was based . |
| 20 | The economy failed the March test under the IMF agreement by failing to reach the target for foreign reserves . |
| 21 | THE POLGARS live on the eighth floor of a block of flats on Semmelweis Street , a workers ' area in Budapest . |
| 22 | The children of the school regularly prepare and sing the Sunday Mass ; parents and school unite in preparing children for First Communion ; the Mothers and the Men have a variety of fund-raising and other tasks not least supporting each other ; the S.V.P. look after the elderly , and the senior citizens , particularly those who are housebound , pray for us all . |
| 23 | The Dean mounted towards the voice . |
| 24 | The Wickhams live in the clockhouse which was the old brewery and laundry for the big house opposite . |
| 25 | The Oceanis thundered down the middle of the harbour , the anchor crunching as it picked up several chains on the bottom . |
| 26 | The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window . |
| 27 | Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war . |
| 28 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
| 29 | They watched with detachment , and even with satisfaction , as the Masai began at the eleventh hour to organize themselves to resist what they feared would be the encroachment of agricultural peoples on their land , not as traditional appendages of the Masai way of life , but as conquerors armed with all the power of the modern state . |
| 30 | He is tall with an elongated , finely made face , a Masai face , lending some weight to the myth that the Masai came from the Nile . |