Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] and [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it fails to do so , in the case of a company incorporated before April 1990 , the reference date is 31st March and in the case of a company incorporated thereafter , it is the last day of the month in which it was incorporated . |
| 2 | Workers at British Leyland and in the coal industry rejected the advice of union leaders to strike over wages or job losses . |
| 3 | There was the board of governors sitting at the back on this cold grey Monday and I got up and I did some Shakespeare and by the time I finished , dawn was breaking . |
| 4 | The success of the two movements was attributed to their association with the highly popular Havel and to the fact that their candidates included some of the most prominent ministers in the government of national understanding . |
| 5 | An estimated 40,000,000 people witnessed the longest total eclipse of the Sun visible anywhere on Earth on July 11 in a 150-mile path stretching from Hawaii , through central America and into the north-east of south America . |
| 6 | Despite the April heat , the rebel army made fast progress through Central India and by the end of the month had reached a position near Ujjain . |
| 7 | The case for this development , which seems likely to come about , is strengthened by the fact that the voluntary colleges are already involved in their appropriate RACs and by the existence of the ‘ hybrid ’ colleges , that is those administered jointly by voluntary bodies and local authorities . |
| 8 | A general armistice was signed on 4 December and by the treaty of Brest-Litovsk the war was brought to an end . |
| 9 | This corresponds to the Archibenthic Zone of Transition in the eastern Atlantic and to the Abyssal Province in the west . |
| 10 | The extraordinary background of this veiled beauty is at first revealed only in hints and large generalisations as Ayesha woos Leo Vincey as her reincarnated lover , and the story was not extended significantly until thirty-six years later when Rider Haggard indulged his passion for Ancient Egypt and for the occult by giving Ayesha a family and a local habitation in Wisdom 's Daughter . |
| 11 | Finance Ministers and central bank governors noted especially the central and important role played by the IMF and the World Bank group institutions in the move towards economic stabilization and reform in central and eastern Europe and in the implementation of the strengthened debt strategy . |
| 12 | The association between youth and beauty has been evident throughout history , particularly in ancient Greece and during the Renaissance . |
| 13 | Yet democracy , both in ancient Greece and in the politics of the past two centuries , has never been achieved without a struggle , and that struggle has always been , in good part , a type of class struggle , even if it is very simply characterized , as it was by many Greeks , as a struggle of the many poor against the few who are rich and well-born . |
| 14 | The proposal will be considered by the regional council on 3 March and by the district council on 11 March . |
| 15 | Wedgwood is giving employees the chance to show they care by holding an Anthony Nolan bone marrow register clinic at the Barlaston pavilion on 1 March and in the Group the next day . |
| 16 | The FMC has received frequent complaints about shippers having to pay freight twice , both to the insolvent NVOCC and to the shipping company which had not been paid by the NVOCC . |
| 17 | Until recently , barn owls were also quite rare in Malaysia , although common in neighbouring Thailand and to the south on the islands of Indonesia , especially Java . |
| 18 | THE KEIGHLEY & Worth Valley Railway started taking bookings for its Santa Special services on 1 September and by the close of business on Wednesday September 9th 40% of seats had been sold . |
| 19 | The Railway Gazette reported that it had become an attraction to sightseers , rather like the early days at the first Euston and at the inauguration of the great European and American stations . |
| 20 | The couple Debbie and Tony o drove a blue Sierra and during the holiday it was their anniversary and Debbie 's birthday . |
| 21 | In Kleisthenic Athens and in the Cyrene of Demonax ( see p. 59 ) , as also in the Rome of Servius Tullius , such tribal changes , compromises between the criteria of family descent and physical residence , were a way of coping with new claimants to citizenship ; and perhaps the same is true of Corinth , which needed to enfranchise immigrant craftsmen and the population of freshly incorporated and conquered areas , thus strengthening the citizen body . |
| 22 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
| 23 | Few could go so far as Musurus Pasha , who during his thirty-five years as Turkish ambassador in London staffed the embassy entirely with his sons , nephews and sons-in-law ; but even in the most developed states of western Europe and on the eve of the 1914 conflict family influences could still be important . |
| 24 | He completely forgot about young Mabel and at the end of the day went home to bed . |
| 25 | I 'm glad to report that Captain Alwyne Farquharson of Invercauld who has estates on Royal Deeside and on the island of Mull , has finally abandoned his opposition to a film crew building a temporary track on the island . |