Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , in the Superette , these days , it 's true , the eyes of Tod Friendly linger on the bodies of the local frauleins as they tug their carts . |
| 2 | A new 31-member " central committee for the comprehensive management of public security " , headed by politburo standing committee member Qiao Shi , was set up on March 22 to liaise with the party central committee and the State Council in supervising work to improve public order and social stability . |
| 3 | The US Congress approved a bill on March 22 cutting off the US aid programme to Jordan , which had been placed under review in early February following King Hussein 's pro-Iraqi and anti-US speech [ see above ; p. 38024 ] . |
| 4 | Timothy Gedge had met Mr Plant half undressed in the middle of the night . |
| 5 | The Inland Revenue Budget Press Release of 16 March 1993 dealing with the taxation of dividends , paras 24 – 29 , reads thus : 24 Where trustees of trusts in which a beneficiary has an interest in possession receive income , they pass it on to the beneficiary with a credit at the basic rate . |
| 6 | Reg. v. Philippou , 89 Cr.App.R. 290 disapproved of the decision in Reg. v. Roffel [ 1985 ] V.R. 511 , where a husband and wife ran a small clothing manufacturing business . |
| 7 | ‘ Is n't Barney due to fly to the States at the end of March ? ’ |
| 8 | Hundreds of residents had a public meeting in the village hall to hear Ken Hind explain about the bypass . |
| 9 | Unlike his fellow sovereigns , Napoleon III reigned by the Grace of God and the will of the people , to whom the Constitution made him directly responsible — a point which he himself stressed continually . |
| 10 | When Ivan III came to the throne the Kremlin hill was still covered with wooden buildings . |
| 11 | The Supreme Court agreed on Jan. 21 to rule on the constitutionality of Pennsylvania 's restrictive abortion law before the end of its current session in July 1992 . |
| 12 | Here , we might note , the wife enunciates the aggressive sexual joke that Freud supposed to originate with the man . |
| 13 | Thame , Cardiff , Emanuel , and Wallington all flourished within the grammar-school tradition and 1959 is a good moment — before the critical voices drown the subtleties of that tradition — to try to define it , to place it in its historical and social context , and to prepare the scene for the massive reorganization of secondary schooling which marked the 1960s . |
| 14 | The exiled Prime Minister and Crown Prince of Kuwait , Shaikh Saad al Abdullah as Salim as Sabah , in an address on Jan. 17 spoke of the " legitimate struggle to liberate our dear homeland from the evil Iraqi regime 's occupation " . |
| 15 | So far as tomorrow 's game at Celtic Park is concerned , Rangers ' Goram , Gough and Steven all came through the midweek Champions League match without further mishap , and will play . |
| 16 | It seems possible to suggest , then , that in Fahreddin Acemi one finds the full realization of a conscious policy ( perhaps partly realized in Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan ) on the part of Murad II to create within the state " … alongside of the secular power , a religious authority … representing , so to speak , the religious conscience of the people " . |
| 17 | As a manager , initially player-manager , at Swansea , he leant heavily on former Liverpool club-mates : Tommy Smith , Ian Callaghan , Ray Kennedy , Phil Boersma , Alan Waddle and Colin Irwin all went to the Vetch Field . |
| 18 | When , shortly after Mehmed II came to the throne , he offered Molla Gurani a vezirlik , the latter is reported to have refused , saying : " Those servants and slaves who are in thy palace serve thee only that they may , in the end , obtain the office of vezir . |
| 19 | While riding along he fell into a lengthy dispute with Molla Muhammad , known as Zeyrek , at this time probably muderris at one of the medreses which Mehmed II created by the conversion of churches after the conquest of Constantinople , which were , in effect , precursors of the Sahn . |
| 20 | ( Reichelt had resigned on Jan. 9 after 17 years in office , and on Jan. 18 testified to the parliamentary committee investigating corruption and abuse of office . ) |
| 21 | President Mikhail Gorbachev on Jan. 11 went to the Soviet Baltic republic of Lithuania on a mission to seek solutions to a secessionist crisis created by the December 1989 decision of the Communist Party of Lithuania ( CPL ) to declare itself independent of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) [ see pp. 37128-29 ] . |
| 22 | The Baltic Council had on Jan. 5 appealed to the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) to withdraw the troops , but to leave the military hardware for the Baltic States to form their own militaries . |
| 23 | The non-governmental Straits Exchange Foundation ( SEF ) on Jan. 5 protested over the detention in China of a former mainland air force pilot , Lee Hsien-pin , who had defected to Taiwan in 1965 . |
| 24 | In 1292 , Amadeus V of Savoy bought thirty-six silver cups with silver feet , an almsboat , a set of knives and other plate from a Parisian goldsmith on his way to visit Edward I. Seven years later , the list of plate and jewels bought in Paris for Margaret , Philip the Fair 's sister , before her marriage in 1299 to Edward I reads like the contents of Aladdin 's cave . |
| 25 | When Edward I succeeded to the throne of England in 1272 , the king of Scotland was Alexander III . |
| 26 | So he stood for ten minutes at the window watching soldiers tossing bundles of equipment into the gurg-ling FV 432s parked around the parade ground and feeling the deep contentment of seeing other people working very hard very early in the day . |
| 27 | In 1124 , King David I came to the throne of Scotland . |
| 28 | We believe that the consistently low values of HNO 3 measured inside the vortex in spring ( Fig. 2 ) result from conversion of HNO 3 from the gas to the solid phase , probably accompanied by loss from the atmosphere altogether by sedimentation . |
| 29 | Humberto Romero , hitherto Secretary of Defence , was on Jan. 25 appointed as the new Defence Minister . |
| 30 | More than 100,000 people demonstrated in Paris on Jan. 25 to protest against the rise of right-wing extremism and racism in France and elsewhere in Europe . |