Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [subord] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The successor , therefore , acted as the son of Horus in the rites of burying the Osiris as in the legend and was thus recognised as the legitimate king . |
| 2 | By 1988 Britain was for the first time selling more to the EEC than to the rest of the world ( £47 billion out of £93.5 billion at 1991 prices ) . |
| 3 | This was a prevalent interpretation within the EEC , and one which was reinforced by the tone of the debate in the British House of Commons upon the Stockholm Convention , in which most speakers concentrated more upon the relationship with the EEC than upon the organisation and aims of EFTA . |
| 4 | It is a system that works particularly well with the Yakuza because of the bizarre but rigid code of ethics by which the Japanese Mafia conducts itself , quite different from any other criminal society in the world . |
| 5 | And as a Warsaw Pact leader they know him more intimately in the Kremlin than in the West . |
| 6 | As indicated above , the Cuban revolution induced Soviet leaders to modify the view ( hitherto almost as firmly believed in the Kremlin as in the White House ) that the Latin American nations were destined to remain trapped in a position of subservience to the United States . |
| 7 | For example in 1981 1,100 exploration wells were drilled in the USSR while in the USA 12,000 were drilled . |
| 8 | The agreements with the United States had been bought at the cost of disproportionate cuts in Soviet weaponry and were clearly dictated by the need to reduce military spending , a much heavier relative burden for the USSR than for the United States . |
| 9 | Unlike Khruschev , Gorbachev had been raised after the 1917 revolution , was less concerned with ideological radicalism and more interested in the protection and strengthening of the USSR than in an active Third World policy . |
| 10 | There was no consensus amongst the Serbs as to the form of government they wanted if they were to be able to force recognition of Serbian autonomy from the sultan . |
| 11 | There was a lunatic called Mirabeau in the Rouen asylum who was popular with doctors and medical students at the Hôtel-Dieu because of a particular talent : in exchange for a cup of coffee he would copulate on the dissecting table with a female corpse . |
| 12 | Many thousands more have been sold at bookshop appearances from the northeast to the Midlands whilst at the Grove Bookshop in Ilkley , run by Andrew Sharp , Seasons of My Life — the Story of a Solitary Daleswoman , is , by a huge margin , the most popular book ever stocked |
| 13 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |
| 14 | When the parties are evenly balanced in the Commons or when the Government has to depend for support upon minority parties , the Prime Minister may well let it be understood that he will not resign or call an election on an adverse vote in the Commons except on an explicit issue of confidence . |
| 15 | There were subsequent cuts in allocations to the BEA because of the devaluation crisis of 1949 and the Korean War crisis of the early 1950s , and the difficulties of construction and boiler manufacture remained persistent . |
| 16 | There was also concern that groups were growing faster in the UK than in the rest of the world . |
| 17 | The system of both landscape and nature conservation designations is considerably more effective and comprehensive in the UK than in the French uplands and LFAs with the exception of French National Parks . |
| 18 | There are plenty of reasons why such a result is less likely in the UK than in the US , none why it is impossible . |
| 19 | The table also shows that the net rate of return has been consistently lower in the UK than in the other countries . |
| 20 | Investing in the UK because of the UK tax disadvantages of investing overseas is a road to competitive ruin . |
| 21 | ‘ A worldwide recession is no excuse for these disastrous figures , unemployment is rising four times as fast in the UK as in the rest of Europe . |
| 22 | On Oct. 12 the United States Senate voted to give US$20,000,000 in non-military aid to the non-communist Cambodian resistance , to be channelled openly though government agencies rather than covertly through the CIA as in the past . |
| 23 | Leslie reckoned that he would be in no more danger in the S.A.S. than in the Parachute Regiment : or so he persuaded himself . |
| 24 | There is also much criticism of the FC because of the high degree of autonomy that it enjoys and its legally-enforceable powers that allow for the compulsory purchase of land . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher interprets the Madrid formula more as a pretext for not joining the EMS than as a set of three conditions for joining it . |
| 26 | Under the 1987 Philippines Constitution , once the existing bases agreement expired , " foreign military bases , troops or facilities shall not be allowed in the Philippines except under a treaty duly concurred in by the Senate [ upper house of parliament ] … and recognized as a treaty by the other contracting state " . |
| 27 | For the Delphi as with the Victoria Centre it is important that schools recognize their needs but for Roger this is based upon a mutuality of interest which is unimpeded by the operation of specific criteria . |
| 28 | The MNR had until this time boycotted the CSC because of a dispute over the provision of accommodation in Maputo for MNR delegates . |
| 29 | Nucella has more species and a longer fossil history in the Pacific than in the Atlantic . |
| 30 | Computer products are relatively much cheaper in the US than in the UK , and Americans tend to be more computer literate . |