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

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1 Our charge against the Government is that they have next to no positive proposals for Maastricht on the subjects that I have mentioned or on any other subjects .
2 The influence of his mother 's family secured Pyne 's election for Poole to the Parliaments of 1625 , 1626 , and 1628 , but he did little in Westminster .
3 ‘ It 's to raise money for Dressage at the Olympics — you 'll love it . ’
4 ‘ And I have read the story about Bernini in the diaries of Gregorio Sabatini . ’
5 But there was disappointment for Britain with the men 's lightweight four of Christopher Bates , Carl Smith , Thomas Kay and Toby Hessian , who were chasing their third successive world gold .
6 There is in fact a detailed expression of Plan B , which we may as well call Plan C. It was put out earlier this week as a joint reconstruction programme for LA by the Bloods and Crips , the LA gangs whose truce in fact began before the riots began .
7 The Government 's decision not to refer Anglo-Welsh 's bid for Palatine to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission has set alarm bells ringing throughout the brewing industry .
8 Although the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry decided not to refer the bid for Pilkington to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , BTR abandoned its attempt to takeover the company , claiming that this had been motivated , not by adverse public reaction and the political storm created , but by Pilkington 's better than expected profits forecast , which indicated that the likely price required to capture the company would be greater than BTR was willing to pay .
9 ‘ You 've got to remember that the Trunchbull once threw the hammer for Britain in the Olympics so she 's very proud of her right arm . ’
10 He represented the borough of Northampton in the Parliaments of 1624 , 1625 , 1626 , and 1628–9 .
11 Ltd v. Heller & Partners Ltd and Anns v. London Borough of Merton as the authorities which give rise to this proposition .
12 The linking of the national President of Mexico with the workers through clientelist relationships can be seen in the pattern of strikes over the years .
13 There is no further mention of Ambrosia in the records , and possibly she is to be identified with the ‘ Dame Ambroise de Saint-Joire ’ named in 1288 among the first entrants to the Carthusian nunnery of Melan ( Haute-Savoie ) founded in 1282 by Beatrice de Faucigny .
14 Mouse.com was supplied but not Mouse.sys and there is no mention of Mouse.sys in the manuals .
15 The first letter , from the Jews of Judaea to the Jews of Egypt , commends the celebration of the Feast of the Purification of the Temple and is dated in 124 B.C. The second letter , from Judas Maccabaeus and the people of Jerusalem to Aristobulus , " teacher of King Ptolemy ( Philometor ) " , is apparently dated in 164 B.C. : it tells the story of the end of Antiochus IV and the institution of the Feast of the Purification of the Temple .
16 Circulation of Roy of the Rovers peaked at around 200,000 but was now down to barely 30,000 , said Mr Hunt .
17 He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig .
18 No wonder its coming puts the fear of God into the Philistines !
19 Pioline , the 15th-seeded Frenchman who has never won a tournament , followed up on his fourth round demolition of world number one Jim Courier by beating Andrei Medvedev of Ukraine in the quarter-finals 6–3 6–1 3–6 6–2 .
20 Occasionally , I caught glimpses of Shelley through the vines , skipping about in a somewhat girlish manner between the two houses and the little landing stage where their boats were moored ; there were a collection of rowing boats and a masted boat with a deck which Claire referred to as ‘ the schooner ’ .
21 In such poems as ‘ Break of Day in the Trenches ’ , ‘ Returning We Hear the Larks ’ , and his masterpiece , ‘ Dead Man 's Dump ’ , Rosenberg succeeded in his intention of writing ‘ Simple poetry — that is where an interesting complexity of thought is kept in tone and right value to the dominating idea so that it is understandable and still ungraspable . ’
22 Similarly , the plundering of Wales by the Foreigners ( i.e. Scandinavians ) of Dublin and the English , recorded by the Irish Annals of Tigernach under 1030 , may have been a joint expedition , and there is a faint possibility that Dublin 's first bishop was consecrated by Archbishop Æthelnoth of Canterbury in Cnut 's time , with whatever implications that might or might not have .
23 If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts .
24 The only way that the Šiptars of Kosovo and Metohija can be united with Šipnija is through a common struggle with the other nations of Yugoslavia against the occupiers and their lackeys .
25 His fellows include those who brought bananas from the Indian Ocean coast to the highlands of east Africa , those who brought cassava from the Atlantic coast of Angola to the forests of Zaire , and those who first trekked the hump-backed Zebu cattle down the valley of the Nile .
26 C Hughes spoke against the parliamentary candidature of Barnes on the grounds that he was a member of the ILP , and ‘ for him to force the members to support him was downright tyranny ’ ( SE 31 January 20 ) ; he could muster little support .
27 We shall see that in writing this letter Anselm was concerned to safeguard the privileges of Canterbury against the claims of legatine authority ; but he was also inspired by a traditional respect for royal authority , and the common-sense view that in fact nothing could be accomplished without help from the king and his officials .
28 Indeed , they would find the relationship even closer than companionship with Jesus in the days of his flesh .
29 The move and the dual occupation are confirmed by a documentary source , however , for the entry under Easingwold in the pages of Bulmer 's Directory of the North Riding of Yorkshire ( 1890 ) notes : ‘ Jolly Farmer , Spring Street : George Webster ’ and ‘ Saddlers and Harness Makers : George Webster , Spring Street ’ .
30 It was the base for his ‘ Highgrove set ’ , the gang of pals which included Camilla Parker Bowles whose friendship with Charles over the years made Diana so jealous .
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