Example sentences of "[noun prp] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas Ferrar , portrait by M. Gheeraerts the Younger ( c. 1617 ) |
| 2 | A chapter on famous people , I was amused to see , devoted only a paragraph each to renowned saints , scholars and patriots , but devoted nearly a whole page to Collier the Robber ( 1780 — 1849 ) , a noted highwayman . |
| 3 | By ALAN MURRAY THE RUC is conducting a nationwide hunt to track down 400 boys as part of an investigation into allegations of sex abuse at a Belfast home . |
| 4 | Morvael The Impetuous ( Imperial Calendar +1121 to 1502 ) |
| 5 | In 1945 , after sharing with Chain and Florey the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine , Fleming , in a speech given in Lyon , paid generous tribute to the work of Duchesne , which by then was known to him . |
| 6 | In Passages in a Wandering Life , Thomas Arnold the Younger tells us that between 1835 and 1850 : |
| 7 | In Germany the Bundestag ( lower house of parliament ) gave its approval on Dec. 2 by 543 votes to 17 with eight abstentions and the Bundesrat ( upper house ) did so unanimously on Dec. 18 [ for Bundestag 's first reading in October see p. 39158 ] . |
| 8 | It was Stalin 's unfortunate deviation which led to the whole series of attempts by Western European Marxists to return-to-Marx — the major examples in France being Sartre and Althusser , and in Germany the Frankfurt School . |
| 9 | In mid-June the Kent rebels marched on London , where they were joined by the Essex men and secured support from discontented elements in the capital . |
| 10 | From mid-May to mid-June the Mozarts stayed in Naples , where they visited Vesuvius and Pompeii , went to the opera at the beautiful San Carlo theatre , and were received by the King and Queen of Naples . |
| 11 | End of an era : Hoddle gives Swindon the Chelsea boot . |
| 12 | On 29 March the NIRC found the union in wilful contempt of the order and , following subsequent complaints , imposed fines totalling £55,000 . ’ |
| 13 | On 2 March the Singapore Trade Development Board devoted part of their budget statement to the burgeoning art trade in the region . |
| 14 | In March the USA and France had led opposition to the granting of any new credits to Brazil in view of the slow progress of its negotiations with private banks . |
| 15 | In March the EPRDF began an advance through Shoa province which took it to within striking distance of Addis Ababa on several occasions by mid-year . |
| 16 | Earlier in March the UK government had indicated that it might resume the forced repatriation of boat people from Hong Kong , which it had begun in December 1989 but suspended soon afterwards [ see pp. 37121-2 ] . |
| 17 | Also in March the US administration agreed to grant Venezuela a bridging loan of $450,000,000 to support economic reforms and assist debt repayments . |
| 18 | In late March the US Senate had introduced an amendment barring arms sales to countries which had failed to keep up contributions to US Gulf war costs . |
| 19 | In February and March the Menem administration moved to prevent the collapse of the privatized national airline , Aerolíneas Argentinas , sold in November 1990 in a $2,300 million cash and debt-for-equity swap to a consortium led by the Spanish airline Iberia [ see pp. 37608 ; 37773 ] . |
| 20 | They were on weak ground , for there were no precedents for this , and on 8 March the Cologne assembly , now meeting at Mulhouse , divested Philip of this title and denied the validity of his election , saying that it had been carried out in an unusual place and that the count Palatine and the archbishop of Mainz had been absent . |
| 21 | Talks between Bangladesh and Myanma during January and February had yielded few results and so in March the Bangladesh government launched a diplomatic offensive in an attempt at spurring the international community into preventing a major tragedy occurring . |
| 22 | In early March the SIG moved to Kabrit and were put through a hard training programme to fit them to operate in the desert alongside the SAS . |
| 23 | In March the MNR had threatened to intensify its attacks on these corridors , repeating its allegations that Zimbabwean troops were still stationed in other areas , while the international Joint Verification Commission ( JVC ) continued to assert that there was no evidence to support the allegation [ see p. 37993 for February allegation and JVC response ] . |
| 24 | FROM MARCH THE ARCHERS WILL MUCK IN WITH EMMERDALE FARM |
| 25 | During March the Northern Ireland office drew attention to the discussion papers and issued advertisements which included the following : |
| 26 | During the year to the end of March the Northern Ireland group saw pre-tax profits climb to £25.3m from £18.8m previously . |
| 27 | By March the Fleming Cup was under way , the eventual winner in June being the ubiquitous Ernest Fryer , the Managing Director of Henley Brewery and who also played at Peppard . |
| 28 | In March the Clydesdale Bank led a mission of 11 companies to Dusseldorf and in June the Royal Bank of Scotland again sponsored the Council 's mission to Madrid and Barcelona . |
| 29 | In March the Levy Board said it would cut its contributions to prize money by a tenth . |
| 30 | It also insisted that it was the lead partner working on multi-processing technology using IBM 's Power RISC chip , and that IBM would more than likely OEM the Bull work for future versions of its own RS/6000s . |