Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a failure to negotiate a comprehensive peace settlement for Cambodia during the second Jakarta Informal Meeting ( JIM ) in February 1989 [ see p. 36464 ] and during the Paris conference on Cambodia in August [ see pp. 36848-49 ] , certain concessions offered in late 1989 by the resistance groups and the Phnom Penh government indicated that a political solution to the Cambodian problem might be taking shape [ for acceptance in January 1990 of an Australian peace proposal by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council see pp. 37186-87 ] . |
| 2 | An important headstart for Swindon in the first leg of the play offs . |
| 3 | CCG HAS started a new contract to provide school meals for the London Borough of Wandesworth over the next four years . |
| 4 | He saw a good deal of Eden in the next months , and with a genuine desire to see him Prime Minister gave him a lot of advice . |
| 5 | I have tried to focus such an examination by playing the parlour game of making a list of the 50 Europeans who have most influenced the consciousness of Europe in the last 1,000 years . |
| 6 | The Russian Revolution , and the revolutions in Central Europe at the end of the First World War , took place after military defeats ; and while in China the revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party was finally victorious in a civil war fought after the defeat of Japan in the Second World War , that victory was nevertheless largely due to the earlier defeat and retreat of the Chinese Nationalist armies in the war with Japan , and to the success of the Communist Party in organizing guerrilla warfare in the Japanese-occupied areas . |
| 7 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 8 | Hassan Gouled Aptidon was re-elected President of Djibouti for the fourth time . |
| 9 | It was attended by ministerial delegates from the 13 member countries , and chaired by Jibril Aminu , the Nigerian Minister for Petroleum Resources , who had been elected President of OPEC at the last six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 [ see p. 38602 ] . |
| 10 | The victory follows a 2–0 aggregate defeat of Sahel Club of Niger in the first round . |
| 11 | The US secretary of state , George Marshall , displayed such imagination for the stricken continent of Europe after the second world war . |
| 12 | Drawing on his own earlier study of Preston in the mid-nineteenth century , Anderson ( 1972 ) also has used arguments about economic advantage to examine the question of why the average household size seemed to be larger in the developing cotton towns than elsewhere . |
| 13 | The contrast between the two major opposing historical interpretations is brought out well by comparing two studies of urban Lancashire : Anderson 's ( 1971 ) study of Preston in the mid-nineteenth century based on documentary data , and the study of Roberts ( 1984 ) of Preston , Barrow and Lancaster in the period 1890–1940 , based on oral history . |
| 14 | Among more specific causes Tilly mentions the growth of cities , trade , merchants and manufacturers , and observes that ‘ Later on a powerful reciprocal relationship between the expansion of capitalism and the growth of state power developed ’ ; a relationship which was noted earlier by Max Weber ( see p. 88 ) and is one of the principal themes in Fernand Braudel 's ( 1972 ) study of Europe in the sixteenth century . |
| 15 | A study of Cheshire in the first quarter of the fifteenth century , however , shows how the social ties of the gentry class were rooted in the locality . |
| 16 | Coun Richard Wastell , of Scarborough , was named as the mayor of Whitby for the third time . |
| 17 | Altogether in his Palace career , Jimmy Hamilton made 16 FA Cup appearances at centre-half and , later , at right-half and he scored our last goal in the 7–0 rout of Luton in the 3rd Round Replay in January 1929 to equal Palace 's best ever FA Cup score . |
| 18 | He will be discussing the future of Leeds over the next 5 years or so . |
| 19 | The most dramatic and explosive of these changes was the devastating impact upon the social and political fabric of Europe of the First World War . |
| 20 | It was first systematized by Gratian of Bologna in the twelfth century . |
| 21 | It shocked my manager a lot too and he 's going to be concentrating on a big relaunch of Suzanne over the next while so I think it 's a good opportunity for me to take my career more into my own hands . ’ |
| 22 | Research published by Friends of the Earth suggests that rising sea levels could make severe flooding a frequent occurrence along the south and east coast of Britain in the next century . |
| 23 | Taken together , these results suggest that proteins synthesized from pre-existing mRNA are required for the maintenance of LTP during the first few hours ( corresponding to LTP2 in the classification shown in Box 1 ) . |
| 24 | The condition of London during the nineteenth century was particularly bad . |
| 25 | Blackburn boss Dalglish faced the nostalgia head-on as he prepared to lead out the opposition against Liverpool for the first time since his astonishing walk-out 20 months ago . |
| 26 | Gloucestershire are facing the prospect of defeat against Somerset in the second round of the Nat West Trophy . |
| 27 | United played some classy football against Millwall in the first half … they looked good for a few goals but ended with nothing … |
| 28 | Since my episode with Moustaine during the first week of training , I had taken due care with my backside ; but others had n't got the point . |
| 29 | Meese did in fact call while they were there , to set up an interview with North for the next day , Sunday : the interview in which he was to be confronted with the memorandum . |
| 30 | Until they supplemented it by jadeite from Burma during the eighteenth century , the Chinese relied on nephrite . |