Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN 1982 , a naval task force was despatched to the Falkland Islands under the same authority . |
| 2 | This was the Falkland Islands in the distant southern Atlantic , where Callaghan managed to deter , or dissuade , the Argentine military junta from taking naval action in the vicinity of the Falklands or occupying South Georgia . |
| 3 | Like it or not , high-tech communications have arrived in the Soviet Union , and the King Canutes of the interior ministry have become an absurdity . |
| 4 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |
| 5 | The Persian Gulf proposals were an outgrowth of the sponsorship of a zone of peace in the Indian Ocean by the Non-Aligned , while the Mediterranean proposals were similar to ideas developed by the Mediterranean non-aligned states . |
| 6 | Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal . |
| 7 | Immediately to the west of the col is the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , then , to the left of that , the granite mass if of Néouvielle , with beyond it the rim of the Cirque de Gavarnie , and the Monte Perdido on the Spanish side ; and so on round to the south-east , in a wonderfully three dimensional arrangement of crests and hollows . |
| 8 | But the significance of the new plant , a £190 million refit of a factory last used to build the Vauxhall Chevette in the early '80s , goes further than just the V6 . |
| 9 | Maybe there will one day be a novel from Amis which portrays the Patrick Standish of the Eighties — more baleful , no doubt , on certain subjects , nicer to his cat , surrounded by the monuments of the New Right and by the debris of the swinging past to which he had once been a contributor . |
| 10 | We tend to think of most Central American countries as somehow linked by the Caribbean Sea to the Caribbean islands and cultures ; but all the republics have Pacific coastlines — and so Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras ( with a scant 45 miles of Pacific shoreline along the Gulf of Fonseca ) , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and of course Panama can rightly ( if pedantically ) be thought of as Pacific nations . |
| 11 | Together with the Normande , the cattle of Brittany helped to create breeds as geographically distant as the Canadian and the colour-pointed Mauritius White , both of which are descended from stock of the old types : the Canadian was developed from cattle which accompanied French settlers in the seventeenth century and the Mauritius White in the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | One of the prototype diesels used on the Sheffield Pullmans in the 1960's was DP2 . |
| 13 | What is interesting to the railway enthusiast is that the connection of the Van Railway with the main Cambrian Line at Caersws Station , now part of the BR system , is still clearly visible . |
| 14 | This is not a very remote county , but some districts still lost up to one-fifth of their population in only 20 years , roughly equivalent to the 17.6 per cent decrease that occurred in the population of the Scottish Islands during the same period ( Dunn et al . |
| 15 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 16 | The Swiss often define it with both geographical and historical precision as the region round the shores of the lake they call the Vierwaldstattersee Lake of the Four Forest Cantons . |
| 17 | But it was n't those balls that were important to me , and timid undemanding Jenny could n't compete with Liza 's inspired experimentation , nor a damp drab flop on the Iffley Road with the joss-stick-scented nest lined with Liza 's fauvist daubs where she and I lay after our bouts of dirty love , toking and talking , turning the world inside out . |
| 18 | The tension between the ideas of nationalism and of socialism , and the great strength of the former , can also be seen in other , somewhat different contexts ; in Quebec , for example , the rise of the Parti Quebecois in the 1960s almost certainly owed more to its nationalism than to the social democratic aspects of its programme . |
| 19 | In a belated attempt at conciliation , the Japanese Government announced in mid September that the drift-net fleet in the Tasman Sea for the 1989–90 season would be reduced to 20 vessels , in the hope that the South Pacific nations could be diverted from their diplomatic assault . |
| 20 | Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed . |
| 21 | The next day Signor Merli came to the bank , ostensibly on business , and whispered to me that some of the prisoners had decided to leave their hiding places and strike out across the Via Emilia towards the high Apennines . |
| 22 | A favourite composer of Beecham 's was Berlioz , so it 's good to have back in circulation his famous 1957 performance of the Symphonie Fantastique with the French National Radio Orchestra ( CDM7 64032 2 ) coupled with the overtures King Lear , made with the RPO , and the pre-War and still vivid Carnival Romain with the LPO ; even if the recording of the last is a bit confined . |
| 23 | As president of the LDP Miyazawa on the same day made changes in the party leadership . |
| 24 | Owen remembered the boy in the Coptic Place of the Dead . |
| 25 | It was the boy they had talked to in the Coptic Place of the Dead , the one who had given them information — and kicked Georgiades on the shin . |
| 26 | Then he realized where they were : the Coptic Place of the Dead . |
| 27 | Andrew Sarris accepted that , ‘ By following up the glamorous Graduate with the dreggiest drop-out imaginable , Dustin Hoffman has achieved his aim of not becoming the Andy Hardy of the sixties and seventies . ’ |
| 28 | Deeper water layers circulate counterclockwise , driven by the constant inflow from the Norwegian Sea along the Siberian shelf . |
| 29 | Send us a tape ( audio or video ) of your dog singing to classical music and your dog might become the Nigel Kennedy of the nineties . |
| 30 | His laddish image led one colleague to describe him as the Nigel Kennedy of the National . |