Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [subord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the issue of international monetary reform had been seriously debated in 1972 the United States started from the position that ‘ the system should neither bar nor encourage official holdings of foreign exchange ’ , suggesting that ‘ the United States still thought of the SDR as providing a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar ’ ( Williamson , 1977 , p. 176 ) . |
| 2 | However , John Howard , an official of their union commented as early as November 1985 that the HMI of Mines feared that the proposed new mining legislation would reduce the power of the HMI whilst raising the power of the colliery manager , who could decide what is ‘ reasonably practicable ’ ( Labour Research 1988a ) . |
| 3 | He had seen his first Rottweiler in the UK whilst visiting a police dog training centre and he was greatly impressed with his working ability . |
| 4 | A TOP British pilot has died of altitude sickness in the Himalayas while leading a probe into an air crash . |
| 5 | Among the countries of South East Asia , a recent World Bank report regards the Philippines as having the highest level of poverty and the lowest calory supply per head . |
| 6 | The young baby in the carry-cot described by the IRA as an accident of war , the young nun serving the community described by the IRA as being in the wrong place at the wrong time and a fireman trying to put out a blaze described by the IRA as helping the British war machine — we did not expect to reach the stage where the IRA would break every precept of human compassion and morality by bombing a hospital . |