Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The member for Berwickshire went immediately to the head of the Administration and ‘ desired the D[uke] of Newcastle to refresh his Lordship 's memory ’ , but Lord Anson was a master of diplomatic procrastination , never refusing an important supporter of Government , yet delaying performance of his undertakings . |
| 2 | I turn to see Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare standing theatrically on the mezzanine above , barking into a mobile phone . |
| 3 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
| 4 | The castle may cast its shadow , but the character of Arbon formed equally by the half-timbered houses . |
| 5 | In the sixteenth century , St Teresa of Avila complained bitterly of the perils of the parlour in her fashionable convent , where the nuns practically ran a salon ! |
| 6 | Sit at the bar or relax by the pool on the stunning roof-top terrace of the Villa Franca and below the village of Positano stretches downwards to the shoreline — the most marvellous sight . |
| 7 | The Life of Udalric of Augsburg refers lyrically to the specially composed chants which were performed at the Palm Sunday services on the hill called ‘ Perleihc ’ by the canons and boys of Augsburg cathedral . |
| 8 | ‘ If Armitage did it in conjunction with Latimer , that explains the window , the lurking on the gallery , and the presence of Latimer acting suspiciously in the area at just the time the murder was committed . |
| 9 | It is a geological fault , the result of a convulsion of nature in ages past when the north and north-west of Scotland moved away from the rest of the country , leaving a clear divide , straight as an arrow and sliced as though by a giant cleaver , across the breadth of Scotland from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |
| 10 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 11 | With the virtual disappearance of the farm pond , frog populations in some parts of England declined drastically between the 1950s and the 1970s . |
| 12 | When Elizabeth of England died early on the morning of 24 March 1603 it had already become obvious to her entourage that James VI of Scotland was her only possible successor . |
| 13 | The amount of banknotes issued by the Bank of England depends largely on the demand for notes from the general public . |
| 14 | The shift of people into the Midlands and south of England slowed substantially during the later 1960s and early 1970s , but its subsequent re-emergence formed one of the key features of the 1980s , along with the ‘ transfer ’ of large parts of the Midlands into the North ( Green , 1988 ; Lewis and Townsend , 1989 ; Martin , 1989a ) . |
| 15 | Mr Vaz said the report ‘ very clearly states that the Bank of England acted improperly in the way it conducted supervision of BCCI and puts forward very powerful arguments for compensation . ’ |
| 16 | The Venetian author of the Italian Relation of England commented specifically on the English sense of national pride , and presumably was thinking of attitudes which he encountered generally and not merely the point of view of the more literate : ' … the English are great lovers of themselves and everything belonging to them ; they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say ‘ he looks like an Englishman ’ ' ( 35 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 17 | The Grand Masters of Valiance argued long into the night with Implexion and his staff , claiming that Valiance should not be viewed as a rival religion , but simply as a fellowship that promoted justice for the weak and helpless . |
| 18 | On the west the present-day boundary between Bosnia and the Dalmatian region of Croatia corresponds roughly to the historic boundaries of Roman Dalmatia , and later of the Venetian and Ottoman empires . |
| 19 | FIGURE 9.1 The orbits of the satellites of Jupiter viewed edgewise to the Jovian equatorial plane ( only Callisto of the innermost group is shown ) . |
| 20 | He is a way of Eddie explaining clearly to the reader what his views are on Rodolpho 's sexuality for instance without the subtleness of when he is conversing with another character . |
| 21 | We are deeply concerned by what is happening in the occupied territories and we are urging the Government of Israel to negotiate sensibly with the Palestinians within the occupied territories . |
| 22 | The ghost of Shostakovich hangs heavily over the Cello Concerto , although the Sixth Symphony , with its barrenpointed landscapes clearly points more in the direction of Kancheli . |
| 23 | By nine o'clock , the Double Eagle and the Crowned Lion of Hesse flew alongside from the roof of the little village hall . |
| 24 | Above all , his teaching about his own role in the purposes of God depends entirely on the conviction that he must fulfil the Old Testament . |
| 25 | Commenting on the numbers from ethnic minorities in prison , Vivien Stern , the director of NACRO went straight to the point when she suggested : |
| 26 | Most of those caught in the siege of Makati spoke highly of the rebels . |
| 27 | The Bishop of Derry talks exclusively to the Belfast Telegraph about his illness and the road to recovery . |
| 28 | The Bishop of Derry talks exclusively to the Belfast Telegraph about his illness and the road to recovery . |
| 29 | The men who obey their party 's call in the House of Lords do so for the highest of motives . |
| 30 | This applies not only to bringing the Springboks up to running speed on the international scene but also , and more crucially , to ensuring that the process of black and white integration stated by the formation of SARFU advances far beyond the fundamentally cosmetic union achieved to date . |