Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun prp] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he never existed , it is probable that the Almoravid Moors , under their fanatical leader Yusuf , would have overrun a far greater area of central Spain — and perhaps prevented the gradual blurring of the two cultures which produced the later kingdoms of Moorish Spain and thereafter the great empire of the sixteenth century . |
| 2 | The American looked shattered at the end — it was his third career defeat at the hands of 21-year-old Ivanisevic and easily the most decisive . |
| 3 | They 'd started out as mods but gradually dritfed into fifties Americana and then the Alan Ladd suits . |
| 4 | The project of exporting social responsibility across frontiers is rapidly breaking down , and immigration from the Third World , from eastern Europe and possibly the Soviet Union will be the major phenomenon of the next quarter-century and a central problem for any new world order . |
| 5 | Just over a week later his forces marched on Aachen ( Aix-la-Chapelle ) which fell on 12 July and there the archbishop of Cologne , Adolf , anointed and crowned Otto . |
| 6 | The resignation of Sir Geoffrey Howe , the Deputy Prime Minister and last remaining member of Mrs Thatcher 's original 1979 Cabinet , on 1 November provided both the issue and the trigger . |