Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For hapless Wales in the Royal Bank international at Murrayfield , it happened straight from the second-half kick-off . |
| 2 | Deeply troubled by this experience , he sailed for Latin America in the late summer of 1886 in an attempt to save the firm . |
| 3 | Modigliani left Nice for nearby Cagnes in the first half of April . |
| 4 | Clearly the difference for contemporary Japan in the pluralist approach , lies in the framework of a representative democracy with intense interest group activity . |
| 5 | Now he 's found , but if there 's a hope of getting to the truth about Sabine Jourdain in the next day or two I could linger . ’ |
| 6 | The Duke and Duchess of Kent this evening attended a Gala Evening in aid of the Council for the Protection of Rural England at the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 7 | A kind of feudal system developed , but this had been present in much of rural Britain throughout the Roman period . |
| 8 | Response by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales to the Welsh Office consultation paper |
| 9 | Response by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales to the Welsh Office Consultation on Mineral Planning Guidance Note 3 |
| 10 | Response by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales to the Welsh Office draft Planning Policy Guidance Note |
| 11 | CPRW is concerned about protecting the quality of rural Wales in the longer term . |
| 12 | As with the resistance movements of occupied Europe during the Second World War , many hajduks outwardly collaborated with the occupying administration , whilst clandestinely supporting the resistance . |
| 13 | Yet , when it did , it quickly established a leadership even more remarkable than that of north-western Europe during the Middle Ages and maintained that position until near the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | Northern Ireland came into being , but only after the Protestants had decided to give three of the counties of historic Ulster to the new Irish Free State . |
| 15 | For example , how to land allied armies and vast quantities of supplies on the beaches of enemy-occupied Normandy during the Second World War ? |
| 16 | The Pattyndennes were of the newly emerging class of yeomanry , who with the gradual acquisition of land in the fertile valleys of the Weald were one step ahead of the rest of agricultural England during the mid-fifteenth century . |
| 17 | This ‘ codex ’ was to become the classical liberal constitution of Latin Europe in the early nineteenth century . |
| 18 | One major consequence of Communist International neglect of Latin America during the 1920s was that inadequate literature was made available in Spanish for the dissemination of Communist ideas ( this was pointed out by a Mexican delegate at the Sixth Congress ) . |
| 19 | May I refer you to my letter of 30 March regarding the above tape , for which you placed an order on 16 March . |
| 20 | In its aftermath Mrs Thatcher apparently took greater care to consult the Cabinet more fully and was overruled by it on the proposed sale of British Leyland to the US-based General Motors . |
| 21 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
| 22 | Indeed , ‘ Fleet Street ’ itself was a misnomer from 1985 onwards , as modern technology and high unit costs led major newspapers to move out of central London to the eastern inner suburbs , to avoid the unions ' stranglehold . |
| 23 | They bear some resemblance to figurines of the Italic culture of central Italy of the mid-first millennium BC . |
| 24 | It is nevertheless of interest that supplies were being drawn into the Chinese market as early as the Han empire , that it featured among the tribute rendered by the Turkish tribes of central Asia during the tenth century A.D. , that the Portuguese introduced European amber through Macao and that during the Qing dynasty supplies were assured from the mines of north Burma , situated in the same region as the sources of jadeite . |
| 25 | During this period he collected well over 80,000 ancient coins and other objects which first provided a chronology of the dynasties of central Asia in the unknown centuries after the death of Alexander the Great . |
| 26 | An even easier victory followed , at Moy , nine miles [ 14 km ] short of Inverness , where the prince was staying the night of 16–17 February at the local big house , Moy Hall . |
| 27 | Only the Maronites felt able to drink from the cup of French tutelage and even they quickly found that the chalice contained a special , colonial poison , the effects of which would be passed on to future generations ; for by adding such large areas of Muslim Syria to the new ‘ Lebanon ’ , the French ensured that the Christians ' precarious status as the largest religious community would — once the Muslim birthrate increased — be lost . |
| 28 | We left Martin 's Haven , near Marloes , on the morning of 4 July in the red painted Arklow . |
| 29 | As pesticide concentrations in the environment fall , birds of prey are returning to areas of eastern England for the first time in decades . |
| 30 | Stalin 's frank priority was the post-war reconstruction of the USSR , not the winning over of Eastern Europe to the Soviet cause . |