Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example prison officers at Wandsworth threatened industrial action in 1997 partly over the issue of the prison 's infestation by rats and cockroaches and the methods used to combat it ( Guardian , 24 January 1997 ) . |
| 2 | And er they , we had a , a stake in that too at the very beginning er we did have a converted er X W D lorries into charabancs and we also got some newer ones . |
| 3 | The alarmed Hungarians initially kept this threat to themselves , but have since raised the issue in private both within the Warsaw Pact and with certain Western governments . |
| 4 | It would also have provoked a military crisis in that once in the Crimea , the Emperor must become virtually Commander-in-Chief of all the forces , including the British . |
| 5 | His son , the present Lord Rathcreedan , born 1905 , recalls that his parents came to Henley in 1910 specifically for the golf and because it was not far from London . |
| 6 | Mrs. Thatcher carried her party to victory in 1979 largely on the votes of the electorate in the southern half of England , below a line drawn from the River Severn to the Wash ( see Map 5.1 ) . |
| 7 | It was he who had dramatically proposed an Anglo-French Union in 1940 just before the fall of France . |
| 8 | Though he established a military academy at Chełmno in 1776 specifically for the sons of the Polish nobility , this was not consistent with his general line of thought . |
| 9 | Though he claimed to have restored the Republic after thirteen years of civil war that lasted from the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 BC to the Battle of Actium in 31 , he was in fact sole ruler and emperor of Rome and its conquered territories . |
| 10 | In December 1941 , 2/2 Company sailed as part of Sparrow Force , 2,000 men in all mainly from the 2/40 Battalion going to reinforce the Dutch on western Timor , an island seventeen times the area of England and Wales , about 300 miles ( 480+km ) long and on average 40 miles ( 64km ) wide . |
| 11 | It depicts a favourite model , Zita , and was purchased by Sandbloom in 1933 directly from the Matisse family . |
| 12 | So lively did it get on occasions that Bishop Story had to order the pilgrims to carry crosses and banners in 1478 instead of the coloured staves with which they were prone to hit each other at the height of their religious fervour . |