Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( There were even reports of some of them being sent to bases in Iran well away from Allied bombing , much as had been done with civil aircraft in Amman in the 1980s . ) |
| 2 | Draught for the fire comes from an air pump from Enfield and there are hand bellows from Hatton on the Grand Union Canal . |
| 3 | The Maryland legislation was symptomatic of the continuing national debate over abortion , and the uncertainty surrounding the future of Roe v. Wade since the Supreme Court 's decision in July 1989 undermining that ruling by enabling states to restrict access to abortion [ see pp. 36809-10 ] . |
| 4 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 5 | Successfully managed from headquarters in Glasgow for the past 19 years , Michael Heseltine , the president of the Board of Trade , has decreed that the OSO experience be examined as a role model for restructuring the relationship between his department and industry generally . |
| 6 | MY gratitude to the people of Liverpool for the wonderful reception and kindness shown to myself and my old comrades . |
| 7 | She had read , ‘ Art forms are made by the people of Luctia from the preserved arms and legs of the people of Vascar . |
| 8 | I have had the immense privilege of serving the people of Worcester over the past 30 years . |
| 9 | Along the British leg of the journey Richard Groom , Richard Lang Burns and Shaun Williamson collected signatures from mayors and other civic dignitaries for a scroll sending a message of goodwill from the people of England to the other European countries . |
| 10 | The Minister knows of my concern about the attitude of this Government and previous Governments and that of the people of Britain towards the disabled . |
| 11 | For his generous relief to the people of Lewis during the great famine of the late 1840s , he was made a baronet in 1850 . |
| 12 | A 15ft long bronze sculpture on the wall next to the store entrance depicts the history and main occupations of the people of Frome from the late seventh century until the present day . |
| 13 | Princess Victoria waved to the people of Swanage from the little window within the pediment . |
| 14 | Not only am I aware of that dependence ; I am aware of the debt that we owe the area and of the real contribution made by the people of Plymouth to the Royal Navy and the Royal Marine Commandos , among other units involved . |
| 15 | On Sept. 23 the human rights organization Amnesty International alleged that government troops had killed at least 300 people in Juba in the previous three months . |
| 16 | More recently , it has been estimated that there were some 20,000 black people in Britain in the eighteenth century and , in the nineteenth century , substantial numbers of Irish entered the country , especially following the potato famine of the 1840s . |
| 17 | There were more radio sets than people in Britain in the 1980s ( like sheep in New Zealand ) . |
| 18 | A French Basque , Henri Parot , arrested at a routine roadblock outside Seville on April 2 with 300 kg of explosives in his car , admitted that he was the leader of the " itinerant commando " of the Basque separatist organization ETA which had killed at least 33 people in Spain over the past 12 years , including Gen. Victor Lago Roman in Madrid in 1982 [ see p. 32803 ] and the Madrid prosecutor Carmen Tagle on Sept. 12 , 1989 . |
| 19 | The same method was used by country people in Spain in the 19605 and probably still is . |
| 20 | Yet it was the Burgundians , if anyone , who were the most prestigious people in Gaul in the second decade of the sixth century . |
| 21 | SOMALIA : Clan warfare and anarchic violence have led to the deaths of more than 10,000 people in Somalia over the past 18 months , according to an Amnesty International report , Somalia : A Human Rights Disaster , published on 5 August . |
| 22 | I join the House in expressing sympathy to the families who have been so griveously bereaved through this tragedy , a tragedy that has been the experience of so many of the British people in Ulster over the past 20 years . |
| 23 | While in the last century there was still some attempt to embrace all people in Ireland as the Irish nation , now the nation subsists in the Irish catholic population . |
| 24 | B. Some great industrialists and business people in Sheffield in the last century developed special skills in steel making and made huge profits which provided the capital for larger works . |
| 25 | WARSAW ( AFP ) — The Polish government is to take legal action against those responsible for torturing and murdering thousands of people in Poland during the Stalinist era . |
| 26 | POLICE have stopped and searched 9,124 people in Strathclyde during the past three weeks as part of Operation Blade and found 126 carrying knives and 66 other types of weapons . |
| 27 | There have been people in Australia for the last 40000 years and claims for their presence there in the last interglacial have been made . |
| 28 | According to local health officials quoted on Aug. 3 , the disease had killed 843 people in Nigeria in the past 10 days alone . |
| 29 | Word is circulating that Digital Equipment Corp will be laying off 1,000 software engineering staff in Europe over the next couple of weeks on top of the 6,000 redundancies worldwide that were announced last week . |
| 30 | The first stemmed from the arduous shift patterns worked by staff in Exminster in the late 1970s . |