Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conservation programmes arose both within the United States , and , more or less independently , in the colonies of sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 2 | If , in the lifetime of Gerard , their family world appeared to be very much that of the Dutch reformed and Huguenot expatriate communities in London , their social horizons expanded considerably after the Walpole marriages . |
| 3 | The US government also vetoed a plan to have the reports of the working groups reviewed jointly by the US National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) and Canada 's Royal Academy of Sciences . |
| 4 | The Daily Telegraph , Observer and Economist , unsuccessful in groups bidding variously for the Yorkshire and Central Scotland franchises , were given holdings in LWT . |
| 5 | Today it has a distinct weight advantage over its rivals , its 400-day weights equalled only by the Simmental , and the meat is very lean . |
| 6 | Two hundred wives have gone to live in Northern Ireland to be with their husbands serving there with the Gloucestershire regiment . |
| 7 | Both were built from bricks fired locally in the Newent area . |
| 8 | Since most foreigners know only of the Phoenix King and the pre-eminence of Eataine they tend to assume that Ulthuan is a far more homogeneous bloc than in fact it is . |
| 9 | Further east these limestones pass upwards into the Rossmore Mudstone . |
| 10 | In western Siberia , while Turkic tribes from the steppes moved into the southern fringe of the forest and pressed upon the Samoeds , the Ugrian ( Khanty and Mansi ) peoples moving eastward from the Ural mountains into the Ob-Irtysh basin also mixed with the Samoeds , who by then occupied the northern forest and tundra from the White Sea in the west almost to the Lena in the east . |
| 11 | Toward the heart of the village one might see some Pipistrelle Bats flying aerobatically around the Kirk taking insects . |
| 12 | SEVE Ballesteros has his eyes fixed firmly on the Ryder Cup clash at The Belfry in September — and is determined to play more match-play golf . |
| 13 | CANDIDATES gathered anxiously at the Guildhall on Thursday to await the results of the Derry City Council election . |
| 14 | Cars skimmed past on the Earls Court Road , their headlights drawing his shadow again and again across the back of the booth . |
| 15 | When the programme 's ratings dipped immediately after the November revamp , Focus came in for the heaviest criticism . |
| 16 | In the course of its provincial party convention on March 9-10 , the ruling Liberal Party in Quebec adopted the Allaire report which called for almost full political autonomy for the province , contrary to the proposals put forward in the Meech Lake Accord [ for collapse of which in June 1990 see p. 37519 ] and despite the opposition of the party leader and Quebec Premier , Robert Bourassa . |
| 17 | Conditions of unification included a 1:1 exchange rate for the East and West German Mark for savings , wages and pensions ( rather than the less favourable proposals put forward by the West German Bundesbank — see below ) , and the safeguarding of rights to employment , housing and education . |
| 18 | Delegates failed to approve two sets of restructuring proposals put forward by the EC countries and by the USA . |
| 19 | Mrs Angela Rumbold , Education Minister , said in a BBC Radio interview that there was no question of reviving the proposals put forward by the Higginson Committee for a ‘ leaner and fitter ’ five-subject Alevel . |
| 20 | Mr Patten said there had been ‘ static in the air ’ before over proposals put forward by the Hong Kong government . |
| 21 | An anti-terrorist law enacted on Sept. 26 threatened to upset the government 's current peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) and the National Liberation Army ( ELN ) guerrilla groups acting together as the Simón Bolívar National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Board ( CNGSB ) . |
| 22 | Its European outlet , Pinnacle Data Systems UK Ltd , is currently in talks with a European manufacturer to get its products made locally for the UK and continental markets . |
| 23 | This perhaps accounts for the expenditure on news media such as newspapers , teletext etc , and the continuous radio and television news programmes operated commercially in the USA , and planned for the UK. * the need to have an aesthetically pleasing environment , and to get rid of ugliness , pollution etc . |
| 24 | France 's new government has hinted it will be more willing than its predecessor to accept freer farm trade , along the lines agreed abortively between the EC and America late last year , but so far there have been only hints . |
| 25 | The third part , " Hiroshima Collection " , is a meticulously photographed series of artefacts from the 6,600 articles gathered together in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum . |
| 26 | Matters developed slowly in the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 27 | Havel 's friend and co-resister Ludvik Vaculik describes a birthday party for ‘ our own particular Wenceslas ’ ( Vaclav is the Czech version ) in one of its restaurants a few years ago , on one of those occasions when they were wrily living ‘ as if ’ in freedom ; all those present remember some high or low point of their lives happening somewhere in the Lucerna Palace . |
| 28 | De Michelis said that Italy ( which was to assume the EC presidency for six months at the end of June 1990 ) would work to accelerate the process whereby the three countries drew closer to the EC . |
| 29 | The record companies ' mouthpiece , the BPI , told us : CDs cost less in the UK than many European countries . |
| 30 | They also welcomed the prospect of a unified Germany ; reaffirmed the commitment to reduce the Third World 's debt burden , specifically supporting proposals to extend repayment periods put forward by the Paris Club of creditor countries ; and reiterated the commitment to combat drug trafficking . |