Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There were some 5,000 people on the demonstration , members of the BPR on the whole .
2 What 's that shop in the Causeway near the sunbed erm it it 's a second hand furniture in there is n't it ?
3 We remember the Spiros as a warm and loving family . ’
4 The path was built to serve an observatory that functioned at the top of the Ben at the turn of the century .
5 To avoid it , it meant climbing up from the Glen Lyon side and attacking the Ben via the three westerly Munros that share its ridge .
6 I can not recall seeing any other walkers when I climbed the Ben by the route I have described some thirty-odd years ago although the day was fine and the month May .
7 It is important to check whether the dead person left any instructions with the Will about the funeral , or wished the body to be given for medical research ( see Section 7 ) , or organs to be donated for transplantation ( see Section 8 ) .
8 Do n't be — check out The Waterbratz at the Rosetta on the 18th .
9 There does not appear to be a graduation from the small semi-transparent scales of the Ophiacanthinae to the larger , well developed , plates of the Ophioplinthacinae .
10 The newspaper Moscow News reported on June 11 that a local KGB ( State Security Committee ) official had confirmed that the graves in a forest outside Kharkov , uncovered in April , contained the remains of Polish officers interned at the camp run by the NKVD ( the KGB 's forerunner ) at Starobelsk , as well as the remains of Soviet citizens executed by the NKVD in the Stalinist purges before the Second World War .
11 At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high .
12 The Scala in the 1960s showed all-night horror films .
13 He may have left the Daltons at the time of their troubles .
14 This huge old hospital is known by the Milanese as the Ca'Grande , or ‘ Great House ’ , and was built by Francesco Sforza in 1456 as a way of bringing together in one place about thirty little hospitals which had grown up around the Porta Romana .
15 From the castle he ruled the lake , more as pirate than governor , choosing just the right moment to sell the fortress to the Milanese during the time of the Spanish-French war .
16 Punk rock almost caught the NME on the hop , despite soothsaying the ‘ phenomenon ’ in the fabled ‘ Sinking Of The Titanic ’ piece a year earlier .
17 The Boy Looked At Johnny , the now alarmingly naive book he 'd written with Julie Burchill ( soon to become a temporary Mrs Parsons ) had caused a splash , and both writers resigned from the NME on the same day .
18 Changes were afoot in the world of Britpop but even so , the NME of the '50s was still a big band paper first and foremost , and one that saw its typical reader as a working musician rather than a fan .
19 But clearly being a spare time hairy was proving too difficult for the NME of the early '70s .
20 HAVING BEEN a close follower of The Lone Groover and loon pant ads in the NME of the '70s , I had formed a lasting impression of The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly as an impenetrable fortress of wit , intellect and sneering clever-gits .
21 Talking exclusively to the NME about the background to the song , songwriter Tim London said : ‘ Claire 's Kitchen ’ is based on an interesting rumour , but is really there to point out the hypocrisy of a political party that has championed so-called family values , whilst indulging in the biggest spate of shagging around since The Beatles .
22 EVEN THOUGH there has been a copy of the NME in The Kabin every week since 1974 , no-one has ever bought one .
23 Studies in the Coinages of the Eleventh Century ( 1981 ) , pp. 211ff ( a die chain between imitative coins with different mint names ) ; R. Reece , Coinage in Roman Britain ( 1987 ) ( the study of site finds ) ; T. R. Volk in G. Depeyrot , T. Hackens and G. Moucharte ( eds . ) ,
24 Overseeing the whole process would be a Scottish Deer Commission , replacing the RDC as a credible and contemporary wildlife management agency , with wide responsibilities , adequate resources and meaningful powers .
25 Hodge worked to advance the RDC as the coalition of rightist elements that would strengthen the American band in the impending negotiations with the Soviet Union in the Joint Commission .
26 This was strengthened by the American admission during the exchanges that they proposed to recognise the RDC as the official consultative body in the south .
27 He also moderated political conduct , mediating peace between Ecgfrith and Aethelred in 679 following the battle of the Trent at a time when Ecgfrith was otherwise honour-bound to pursue hostilities to avenge Aelfwine ( HE IV , 21 ) .
28 The complete absence of information makes it very difficult to uncover the processes of change which may have been at work among the peoples north and south of the Trent during the reign of Eadwine , but it is inconceivable that Eadwine was able to extend his hegemony southwards without first achieving domination of the Mercians .
29 Following Aelfwine 's death in the battle of the Trent against the Mercians in 679 or 680 ( HE IV , 21 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) ( see below , p. 117 ) , Deira was ruled from then on directly by the Bernicians ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.1 ) .
30 When the key is played , the beak , the part of the hammer shank on the other side of the Kapsel from the hammer , catches on the escapement .
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