Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Salibi reasons this is because Nebuchanezzar in 586 BC put an end to this Jewish enclave in lands that eventually were to become the heartland of Mohammed the Prophet . |
| 2 | On the economic front Gorbachev in particular also stressed the importance of the trade agreement as well as several other agreements with US firms in helping to transform the Soviet economy . |
| 3 | The discovery of the expansion of the universe by Edwin Hubble in 1929 completely changed the discussion about its origin . |
| 4 | The mandate for prayers of thanks for the capture of Caen in 1346 also ordered the publication of the king 's itinerary ‘ for the comfort and consolation … of the entire English people ’ . |
| 5 | The junta that overthrew the old Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 brutally eliminated the tiny , rich and greedy elite around him . |
| 6 | A move to Wight with hostile intent against the Normans in 1022 also appears the less plausible because the eventual worsening of Cnut 's relations with the duchy ( see below ) is not known to have preceded Richard II 's death in 1026 . |
| 7 | The army with which Cnut eventually conquered England in 1016 also included a number of these largely independent warlords . |
| 8 | The first course will be run at Plas-Y-Brenin in November for those already holding a winter mountain leader award . |
| 9 | Finally , the rise of the new Labour party helped to ensure that the House of Commons from 1906 onwards had an increasing proportion of members whose interests lay primarily or exclusively in domestic issues and who knew little of those in the outside world . |
| 10 | The abdication of Miloš in 1839 temporarily interrupted the payment of the pension , but the new government eventually continued it . |
| 11 | A declaration by Saudi Defence Minister Prince Sultan ibn Abd al-Aziz on a visit to Qatar in 1984 probably reflected the atmosphere of GCC deliberations at the time . |
| 12 | The slaughter of around 30,000 peasants in the aftermath of a revolt in El Salvador in 1932 virtually eliminated the indigenous Salvadoreans . |
| 13 | Derain in particular soon acquired a large number of excellent pieces . |
| 14 | A well-known example from earlier in this century of a Law Lord speaking on a political matter in the House of Lords arose when Lord Carson in 1921 strongly attacked the proposal to establish an Irish Free State . |
| 15 | In particular Siemens and Philips in 1987/8 both had an annual turnover in the region of $25 billion ; this was approximately a third more than that of British Telecom . |
| 16 | This should not be exaggerated : the Spartan Lichas ( Thuc. viii.39 ) has the Cyrenaean patronymic Arkesilas ( cp. too p. 189f. for Pharax and Lysander ) ; and a remarkable passage in Herodotus ( ix.76f. ) makes Fausanias the Regent in 479 BC acknowledge a xenia ( guest-friendship ) with a man from Kos in the Dodecanese . |
| 17 | All the published sermons preached at St Paul 's Cross in London from 1570 onwards took a firm Calvinist line on predestination , and the theology faculties at the universities dispensed doctrinal Calvinism to those training for the ministry ; meanwhile the laity were provided with the Genevan Bible in 1560 and a Calvinist catechism in 1563 . |
| 18 | The annals in C after 1022 also originated no later than this , and may be earlier , while those common to D and E , as we have seen , were possibly written in Canterbury under the Confessor . |