Example sentences of "[noun prp] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In milder climes , and Moscow in the autumn ( ask Napoleon and the Germans ) , the problem is deep mud ; you need wellies . |
| 2 | For example , there is a famous story about a conversation between the Emperor Napoleon and the astronomer Laplace . |
| 3 | We have to remember that Napoleon and the literal believers in old men on clouds have got it wrong . |
| 4 | Of the extensive Bonaparte family only Napoleon I 's remaining brother , King Jerome , and his family ( the Prince Napoleon and the Princess Mathilde ) , were given the status of Imperial Princes ( Princes français ) , with a separate civil list and the right to sit in the Senate . |
| 5 | Napoleon and the French in Spain entirely failed to grasp the significance of this popular movement . |
| 6 | In different degrees , both the earlier tsars had devoted their first years on the throne to improving the condition of the empire , but one of them had been distracted by Napoleon and the other by foreign war and a rebellion in Poland . |
| 7 | I wo n't be a beggar for him — the swine — but I will be one for Samavia and the Lost Prince . |
| 8 | Iles Crozet and the Prince Edward Islands share a submarine platform , and a much shallower platform links Iles Kerguelen and Heard Island . |
| 9 | The UGT , the CCOO and the Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations ( Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales — CEOE ) agreed at a meeting with Solchaga on Dec. 27 to recommence talks on a social pact which had foundered almost a year previously [ see pp. 36406 ; 36777 ] . |
| 10 | On Sept. 18 thousands of striking mineworkers and members of the CCOO and the SOMA-UGT set up barricades across roads and railways in the northern province of Asturias , protesting against plans announced the previous June which would entail the shedding of 6,000 jobs in the state mining company Hunosa by 1993 . |
| 11 | The CCOO and the UGT joined with two smaller unions to organize a general strike on Sept. 23 in Jerez de la Frontera , Andalucía . |
| 12 | The ash-fall which buried Pompeii and the mudflow which covered Herculaneum , however , are first-class examples of two major kinds of volcanic phenomena , which have been repeated scores of times on different volcanoes in different parts of the world and we will be following them up more closely when we come to a detailed consideration of the mechanisms of eruptions . |
| 13 | The account of his stay in Naples includes a visit to Pompeii and the ascent of Vesuvius ; Florence is included in his return journey from Rome to Genoa . |
| 14 | The earliest known example is at Pompeii and the largest is the Colosseum . |
| 15 | As indicated in the first chapter , there has evolved during relatively recent times a " traditional " listing of Muftis , the tradition beginning essentially with Mustakimzade and reaching perhaps definitive expression in the widely-used the equally widely-used chronological history by Danismend , and , more recently , Altunsu 's In respect at least of the origins of the institution this tradition has triumphed over another of some antiquity , advanced by Katib Celebi and followed by Hezarfen and the western authors d'Ohsson and Hammer , which names Hizir Bey ( d. 863/1459 ) , the first kadi of Istanbul , as the first Seyhulislam and which differs in several other respects from the now-accepted account of the succession of fifteenth-century Muftis . |
| 16 | For ‘ The Phoenix and the Turtle ’ , another poem , a different problem , Shakespeare could celebrate the union of those two birds on an emblematic , almost mystical level : The paradoxes are as bewildering as the mystery of the Holy Trinity : Mysterious and desirable though such a union may be , it is not given to human beings , and in the Sonnets it does not take place . |
| 17 | The Democrat nomination was won by Terry Goddard , former mayor of Phoenix and the son of a former governor . |
| 18 | International money orders , available in sterling or US dollars from Barclays , or dollars only from Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland , are the next best bet . |
| 19 | International money orders , available in sterling or US dollars from Barclays , or dollars only from Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland , are the next best bet . |
| 20 | International money orders , available in sterling or US dollars from Barclays , or dollars only from Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland , are the next best bet . |
| 21 | It illustrates the pyramiding effect of interbank lending which means that no single customer or bank can be sure of where credit , i.e. deposits loaned , it extends will end up ( Shell 's deposit was loaned by Barclays to Lloyds and the latter used it to grant a loan to BP ) . |
| 22 | The takeover of the Midland , after a brief , savage struggle for ownership between Lloyds and the Hongkong Bank , was a tragic fate for a once powerful institution . |
| 23 | It was fully underwritten by Lloyds and the claim has been unfairly rejected in my personal opinion . |
| 24 | The regional team of officers began from the basepoint of the Mezey Report , but this left them with considerable policy problems to solve since the zone hospital concept was supported neither by the constituent health authorities of the region ( the AHAs and the DMTs ) , nor by the community health councils . |
| 25 | Evans-Pritchard 's ‘ Social Anthropology ’ devotes much attention to the Victorian anthropologists , Tylor and Frazer , then passes on to their critics , ‘ Durkheim and the Année Sociologique group of writers ’ , thus recapitulating Eliot 's own interests ; some ‘ features may be found to exist in all human societies , primitive and civilized alike ’ ; the paper relates anthropology to religious belief , ‘ with special reference to Catholic apologetics ’ . |
| 26 | Turner follows Radcliffe-Brown 's classic analysis of the religion of the Andaman Islanders which was first published in 1922 and heavily influenced by Durkheim and the French school ; he sees the luxuriantly rich ritual and symbolism of the Ndembu as providing socially integrative forces compensating for the lack of a unitary political structure . |
| 27 | You can find them in the Loire valley , Burgundy , Alsace and other lesser-known regions like Savoie , the Jura and the Aude . |
| 28 | The boundary-line was drawn northwards from Italy , via Geneva , the Jura and the Meuse valley to the North Sea . |
| 29 | His shouts brought out Nellie and the children , and the young ones rushed to the back of the cart . |
| 30 | ‘ And do n't yow take them clothes away from her either , ’ she concluded , just as Mum saw her chance and slammed the door shut , leaving me standing there with Mrs Smith , Nellie and the neighbours . |