Example sentences of "[noun prp] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a short lying-in-state at the Abbey of St Denis the remains were shipped back for eventual burial at Westminster , some two months after the death had taken place . |
| 2 | v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra . |
| 3 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 4 | In the New Forest the duties of the Verderers ' Court are now mainly administrative , and are concerned with the supervision and administration of rights of common on the open forest . |
| 5 | With help from Susan and a recovered Ian the renegades are caught . |
| 6 | The distinction between Spence and Litster is that in Spence the dismissals had nothing to do with any transfer of a business . |
| 7 | At Vauxhall the unions are divided on a two-year offer of a 9.7 per cent rise plus a lump sum payment of £200 in the first year and inflation-plus-£5 in the second . |
| 8 | Solidarity is giving Moscow the V-signs and fight-intros . |
| 9 | In the former West Germany the Greens , represented in the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) for the last seven years , fell below the 5 per cent threshold and lost representation altogether . |
| 10 | As a result , for the first time in the history of East Germany the Communists were in a minority in the Council of Ministers [ for initial composition see p. 37025 ; for January 1990 changes see pp. 37170-71 ] . |
| 11 | In France the legend gave prestige to the monarchy ; in Germany the monarchs could make some practical attempt to walk in their predecessors ' footsteps . |
| 12 | Coleridge tells us that after he ‘ had successively studied in the schools of Locke , Berkeley , Leibnitz , and Hartley and could find in none of them an abiding place for [ his ] reason ’ ( Biographia Literaria , ix ) he discovered in Germany the writings of ‘ the illustrious sage of Koenigsberg ’ : Immanuel Kant . |
| 13 | In West Germany the super-constituencies are the ten Länder . |
| 14 | In Germany the numbers seeking asylum increased by 59.1 per cent in 1990 to 193,063 , the largest group of 35,345 being from Romania [ see also p. 37677 ] . |
| 15 | In West Germany the requirements for the selection of constituency candidates apply also , mutatis mutandis , to the selection of list candidates , with the important additional stipulation that the ranking of these must like their nomination be decided by secret ballot : again , an example that United Kingdom electoral law should follow . |
| 16 | To emphasise their changed attitude to Germany the Allies were politically represented in West Germany in future not by Military Governors , but by High Commissioners . |
| 17 | In Germany the dukes and counts — old royal officers now become semi-independent feudal lords — had obligations to produce knights for the imperial army . |
| 18 | In Germany the unions cooperated with the ‘ concerted action ’ programme initiated when the SPD entered the government in 1966 . |
| 19 | As in Germany the wives contributed considerably to the work on the farm . |
| 20 | Bruce and Siddy the boxers are eight years old but can no longer stay with their present owner . |
| 21 | Debbie Beckerman at Transworld has bought from agent Jane Judd the memoirs of jockey Lester Piggott , to be written with his daughter , journalist and television presenter Tracy Piggott , as the third title of a three-book deal for Partridge Press . |
| 22 | Anyway , at Fontainebleau the doors were thrown open so we could feast our eyes on this Most Christian of Kings . |
| 23 | Then , Siward 's father had submitted to Olaf , but before ten years had gone by , his father had finished his dialogue with Olaf 's enemy Canute , tucked the Lapp fur-monopoly under his belt , and shared with Kalv the blows that killed King Olaf at Stiklestad . |
| 24 | By mid-June the rebels had advanced to within 50 km of Monrovia ; thousands of civilians fled by road , and many also sought refuge in US installations , including the embassy . |
| 25 | During the conquest of the Caribbean the Spaniards trained packs of such dogs to kill Indians and so to wipe out whole villages . |
| 26 | Since 1923 , on Barro Colorado Island the numbers of species of reptiles , amphibians and birds have fallen since the effect of the secondary habitats associated with agriculture , prevalent there beforehand , has diminished . |
| 27 | In one area of Isabela Island the donkeys seem to be keeping goat numbers in check , while cats , wherever they occur , tend to keep down the rats . |
| 28 | On their return to the Conscience Island the travellers find the Voord in control , and Arbitan dead . |
| 29 | Reaching back into the womblike darkness of Mother Earth the waters issue forth into a small pool , then over an edge being transformed into a miniature cascade . |
| 30 | In Palestinc the Jews had to face the intruding Greeks . |