Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1803 " From a statement to this Meeting of the Desertion of the Militia men or non appearance ; which they consider as Disgracefull to the Inhabitants of Islay . |
| 2 | She was the daughter of Harmsworth and Morag Stove , my half-uncle and half-aunt by my father 's first marriage ; they were the couple who had looked after Eric between the ages of three and five . |
| 3 | The most significant sites in North Shields are Chirton Industrial Estate , originally comprising 110 acres , which was acquired by the council and transferred to North East Trading Estates , and Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate , comprising 132 acres bought from the Duke of Northumberland in the mid-1960s by Property Security Investment Trust Ltd . |
| 4 | Another American , Malivai Washington , overcame Keil 's resistance in the third round and the stubborn efforts of Fitzgerald in the quarters before bowing out in just 73 minutes in the semi-final to Edberg . |
| 5 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 6 | On the issue of Germany in the years before 1914 Quelch was not as xenophobic as Hyndman , but he supported the idea of a ‘ citizen ’ army and an ‘ adequate ’ navy to counter German expansionist aims . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But she stood up as eager as Joan of Arc before the judges at her infamous trial . |
| 9 | The woman who came towards Molly from the shadows by the bookcase was very tall and swaying like a poplar in a high wind . |
| 10 | Eden Hall was the family seat of the Cumbrian family of Musgrave since the days of King Henry VI ; the ‘ Luck ’ is an heirloom , a beautifully enamelled and engraved glass goblet with Moorish-style decorative work on its surfaces . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 13 | Hasted writes : " Egberth King of Kent with consent of his nobles and princes , gave ten ploughlands in Hailing , with all appurtenances , together with fields , woods , meadows , marshes , fishings , huntings and fowlings belonging to them to Bishop Doran and the Church of Rochester with the denberies in the Weald , Bixle , Speldhurst , Meredaen , Thaerbe , Eastan , Rustewellee and Teppennyse , witnessed by King Heaberth and Archbishop Jaenbert . " |
| 14 | Edward I , with his eye on a complete subjugation of Scotland on the lines of his conquest of Wales , pressed for the marriage of the child to his son Edward , later installed as the first Prince of Wales . |
| 15 | First , she made a free gift of Scotland , and her claim to England , to the French king , should she die without issue ; second , she put her country in pawn , for the money spent by France in defending it and educating her ; and third , she negated in advance any agreement between her and the Scottish Estates which ran counter to her disposal of Scotland in the interests of France . |
| 16 | Next to the thistle , the insignia which represents the spirit of Scotland in the minds of many foreigners who are potential visitors are the grouse , the red deer and the salmon . |
| 17 | there is a better chance now than ever before to break down that prejudice which prompted the Irish people to confound in one common hatred the oppressed classes of England with the oppressors of both countries . |
| 18 | At least he is able , so long as the money holds out , to preserve his own patch of England against the depredations of progress . |
| 19 | His eldest son — also John Sich — was a Lieutenant in the Corps of Chiswick Volunteers formed at the time of the threatened invasion of England by the forces of Napoleon . |
| 20 | The residents of Kent are generally fairly prosperous and many are prepared to forgo higher growth in order to preserve the Garden of England from the depredations of developers . |
| 21 | Two such passages stand out in my memory : one was of a forced march during the Crimean War ; the other , an account by someone who had travelled in the west of Ireland in the years of the Great Hunger . |
| 22 | He had in fact saved the lands and life of Sir Thomas , who was charged with supplying money to Margaret of Anjou during the Wars of the Roses and had thus infuriated the king . |
| 23 | More seriously , the Soviet alliance system in Eastern Europe began to disappear as a series of popular revolutions overturned the communist governments in Poland , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , Romania and the GDR ( which became a part of Germany and thereby of NATO under the terms of a treaty signed by the two Germanies , France , Britain and the United States as well as the Soviet Union in September 1990 ) . |
| 24 | The drawing just pre-dated the wilder stories of Modigliani 's debauchery , before he became the established drunk of Montparnasse in the eyes of the world . |
| 25 | The Conference decided " that the leaders of the next Labour Government and the Parliamentary Labour Party be instructed by the National Conference that , on assuming office , either with or without power , definite Socialist legislation must be immediately promulgated , and the Party shall stand or fall in the House of Commons on the principles in which it has faith " . |
| 26 | There is no audit certificate relating to the economy , efficiency and effectiveness examinations ; s.9 says that the C. and A.G. may report to the House of Commons on the results of any examination . |
| 27 | We would hope that by doing this we 'd actually mobilize the whole country to get down into London and to protest at the House of Commons against the closures in the Health Service . |
| 28 | This method has been used since , and others have been added to it , including methods based on the effects of Jupiter on the paths of fly-by spacecraft . |
| 29 | Such an act may well have provoked strong reaction in both ecclesiastical and lay circles , and Osred , exiled son of Alhred , was tempted back the following year from exile on the Isle of Man by the oaths of certain Northumbrian nobles ; but his supporters then deserted him and he was captured by King Aethelred and killed at Aynburg on 14 September 792 . |
| 30 | Yet most Tories were as concerned as Whigs to protect the Protestant succession , and virtually all supported the Act of Settlement of 1701 , which guaranteed the security of the Protestant monarchy in England by passing the descent of the Crown to the House of Hanover after the deaths of William and Anne . |