Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stourport 's Imran Sherwani was in Swindon for the qualifying rounds of the National Championships . |
| 2 | He was arguing with Lucie about the lost tributes of Pontydd . |
| 3 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 4 | Die Welt of Dec. 22 reported that France had raised the question of the payment of Second World War reparations to French nationals by Germany during the two-plus-four talks on German unification . |
| 5 | Although the Emperor had been slightly cool at the first meeting — boutonné was how the Queen described it — Eugénie was full of charm , ‘ so amiable , so clever and agreeable ’ that the atmosphere soon warmed and there was , apparently , a frank exchange of views between Napoleon III and Victoria about the various strains in the Anglo-French Entente . |
| 6 | Pynchon is as explicit as Burroughs about the disruptive effects of his method . |
| 7 | If this was the intention of Francois Mitterrand during the closing months of the Laurent Fabius Government ( January 1985 , when Mitterrand announced the advent of private sector television , to March 1986 ) , it scarcely succeeded . |
| 8 | Talented scrum-half Robert Du Preez has left the Blue Bulls of Northern Transvaal for the greener pastures of Natal , the first shot in a heated close-season transfer market . |
| 9 | These were the Bani Umayyah , whose head , Abu Sofian , was a particularly determined opponent of Muhammad during the early years of the propagation of his message , and the Bani Hashem , of which Muhammad was himself a member . |
| 10 | From his palace in Lucknow , the Nawab governed a province which stretched from Bengal through the rich plains of North India to the Doab . |
| 11 | The Joint Transport Operation ( with Oxfam ) which was formerly located in Desse , capital of the region of Walo in the north of the country , was relocated in Addis Ababba during the latter stages of the civil war . |
| 12 | In Australia , Canada and the United States during the 1970s inquiries into the political police and internal-security agencies demonstrated clearly that reliance on interviews with chief constables and general assertions of good faith by all concerned would be inadequate . |
| 13 | Find the H.C.F. of the following sets of numbers : |
| 14 | During the past decade , the zealous attempt to rid public buildings in the United States of the flimsiest traces of asbestos , and the personal damage claims that have simultaneously multiplied , have been financed to a substantial degree by the people at Lloyd 's . |
| 15 | Charles Briant welcomed Hari into the bright lights of his office . |
| 16 | Moving on from Port Erin there 's a mountain section over the three summits of Bredda Hill , Lhiattee ny Beinee and Cronk ny Arrey Las with the western sides of the hills falling down into the west side of the island to Point of Ayre there are long sections of lonely beach walks . |
| 17 | It was hard , perilous work which , by rockfall or dust , killed most of the men employed in it before their retirement age , and it left Evan with the gasping lungs of the silicosis-sufferer . |
| 18 | Traoré and his wife Mariam were arrested by soldiers at a military air base near Bamako in the early hours of March 26 , apparently attempting to leave the country . |
| 19 | The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s . |
| 20 | The UCS won the judicial capital , Sucre , and easily defeated the AP in the Andean cities of Oruro and Potosí and in total votes emerged as the country 's third political force . |
| 21 | Natal needed seven runs to win off the last ball against Transvaal in the semi finals of our Benson & Hedges day/night series . |
| 22 | She faces world 10,000 metres champion Liz McColgan in the 1500 metres in Sheffield on June 6 and 7 after registering her first victory of the summer with a rare 3,000 metres outing at Cardiff . |
| 23 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 24 | Certainly , the limited penetration of the Weald in the early centuries of Saxon occupation was along the tributaries of the greater streams , on the banks of the eastern and western Rothers and the Brede , in the hinterland behind Hastings . |
| 25 | Of all the consequences of the Battle of Gumbinnen , the most significant was the appointment of Hindenburg and Ludendorff to command , for they quickly formed a superlative military team , for a time as successful as that of Marlborough and Prince Eugene in the early years of the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | The foundations of Old Testament kingship were laid by scholars who wrote on the Old Testament , not least the Venerable Bede in the early decades of the eighth century . |
| 27 | Euromoney ranked Singapore 's economic performance as the world 's second best after Taiwan in the three years to 1992 , based on the views of 34 economists from leading banks . |
| 28 | Cynewulf 's annexation of land bordering on the Thames in Berkshire in the early years of Offa 's reign certainly appears to have been followed up by further action in the original Gewissian territory around Dorchester . |
| 29 | It is hard to see how a minute understanding of the development of the Greek language from Homer to Demosthenes , or of the keys used by Brahms in the second subjects of the first movements of his sonatas can be fitted into the usual pattern of socially useful knowledge . |
| 30 | Another 500 East Germans came out through Hungary in the 24 hours to yesterday morning , bringing the total who have left since Hungary opened its borders on 11 September to 26,500 . |