Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to take this opportunity to thank all the employees of Johnson Matthey for the skilled and dedicated service that resulted in this year 's record performance |
| 2 | Other spellings — Kyese , Keise , Keese — are known to have been recorded in the shires of Gloucester , Worcester and Hereford during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , but today only the style Keyse is found in that area , and Kease appears nowhere except in the author 's own ancestral bloodline . |
| 3 | The English first bred turkeys in Norfolk during the 17th and 18th centuries . |
| 4 | Negotiations on June 2 in Moscow between the Russian and Moldovan Foreign Ministers agreed to establish working groups for a negotiated settlement . |
| 5 | These were Denis Baxter for his delicate etching ‘ Cannington Viaduct ’ , Miranda Ellis for the almost abstract and evocatively coloured watercolour ‘ Blue morning kitchen window ’ , Sophie Rider for the solid and amusing sculpture ‘ Horse with tulip ’ and Bonnie Brown for the de Stael-like oil painting ‘ Celia 's dream on the headland ’ . |
| 6 | For students taking the American Studies strand , a particular feature of the course is the intercalary year which is taken at a university in the United States between the second and final years . |
| 7 | Listen to the Ink Spots , watch Paris , Texas for the eighth or ninth time , shut the doors and lie back on those same damp pillows . |
| 8 | A particular form of abuse which was greatly resented was the levying of extra taxes to pay for imperial ceremonies — for example the assumption of power by a new sultan — and for the increasing costs of the wars which the empire was forced to fight as its power was challenged by its enemies , notably the Habsburgs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 9 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 10 | This effort at reconciliation , combined with gradual economic improvement , allowed Kádár to steer Hungary through the 1960s and 1970s towards increasingly liberal , economic and social measures . |
| 11 | Such technical control was first developed in the mechanised , mass-production industries in the United States during the 1890s and early years of the present century , as epitomised in the steel mills . |
| 12 | She worked widely in the United States during the forties and fifties , playing , among other parts , Blanche in Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire , then made her English début in the West End in 1960 , playing Mrs Patrick Campbell . |
| 13 | He 's accused of murdering Dr John Gore and his wife Ruth Gore at their cottage in Tetbury between the 6th and 9th of September last year . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | The shirt with full sleeves , the boots and the guitar , slowly turning her nice conservatively dressed Dr Rafaelo into the glamorous and dashing young singer , speaking only in Spanish , every girl 's heart-throb . |
| 16 | For most consensus theorists , the answer lies in a theory of social structure made famous by Durkheim in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and developed to such an extent by Talcott Parsons and his followers in the USA between the 1930s and 1950s that during these years it came to be seen as the sociological theory . |
| 17 | The estimated 70,000 Rwandan refugees in Uganda , many of whom as members of the Tutsi ethnic minority had left Rwanda in the 1960s after extensive communal violence [ see pp. 20085-86 ] , were the subject of bilateral talks in November 1989 . |
| 18 | Some further evidence can be gained from a series of very interesting experiments undertaken in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 19 | A branch of psychology , developed in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s , looks at the links between body shape and personality , and defines three major types of body : endomorph , mesomorph and ectomorph . |
| 20 | Some commentators saw corporatist trends in both Britain and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 21 | The publicity given to the award-winning designs must have helped to establish the popularity of the Second Empire style for certain buildings in Britain and the United States in the 1860s and 1870s , but it did not introduce the style to Britain . |
| 22 | The attempt to make sociology as much like a natural science as possible reached its height in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 23 | The shift of Richard Branson from the hazy and ill-defined politics of idealism to the politics of pragmatism had begun in earnest . |
| 24 | After the Turkish conquest of most of Hungary in the 1520s and 1530s the Hungarian nobles who had then fled westwards often still maintained claims to their former lands and even asserted their right to live tax-free on them for a limited period and to levy feudal dues in them . |
| 25 | But they were unsystematic and not sustained , and form only a minor qualification to the general proposition : it was the concerted efforts of Barbarossa in the 1150s and 1160s which first seriously checked the spirit of independent prosperity . |
| 26 | The two ‘ Arminian ’ bishops of Chichester in the 1620s and 1630s , Richard Montague and Brian Duppa , clashed as surely with the local squires as had Bishop Curteys fifty years before , but this time the enraged Sussex gentry found no support in their appeals to the king ; not surprisingly , a substantial number of them saw Charles 's pretensions as a growing threat to their own social position and local prestige . |
| 27 | The parishes they served varied considerably , from the single streets of Chichester to the 9000 or more acres of Battle . |
| 28 | It was the Lourdes of the 13th and 14th centuries . |
| 29 | We bypassed Shaibah of the famous and immortal song Shaibah Blues — which will be belted out by our sons and their sons I hope for evermore — and on to Bahrain where we landed and had a bit of a briefing by the CO of No 84 Squadron based at Shaihali , and so on down the Gulf to look for the City of Glasgow . |
| 30 | In the last 30 years , and long before the amalgamation in March of the white and black and brown rugby factions , the unions were gradually split and sub-divided until now they number perhaps 26. of these , 20 are rural , including Boland and Border , and have been weakened to a point where they are virtually powerless , impoverished , dying or dead . |