Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , we have made great progress in bringing inflation under control and we shall soon have a lower rate of inflation than Germany for the first time in a generation . |
| 2 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 3 | Hugh , who is known affectionately to local Italians as Hugo , recently staged an exhibition in Newcastle and Middlesbrough about the Italian community in the North-East . |
| 4 | BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck . |
| 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 | The Beazer Homes League visitors have displayed a knack this season of stealing last-gasp cup match goals , and it was another 89th minute affair which helped check Cornard for the second time in two months . |
| 7 | DES Walker has been dropped by Graham Taylor for the first time in 36 games as the England manager fights for World Cup survival against Poland tomorrow . |
| 8 | Colonel Hamilton told his men that the Prime Minister had described the second battle of the Marne as the greatest victory in the history of the war . |
| 9 | Most of all , he missed Jack Warner as the old-fashioned robocopper in Dixon of Dock Green , zapping the Frenchies with his bio-implant bazookas . |
| 10 | Fears of recession which heightened the perception of silver as an industrial metal and heavy over-supply over an extended period , caused prices to plummet to below $4.00 a troy ounce in mid-December for the first time in fifteen years . |
| 11 | Back in the thirteenth century , Marco Polo described Bukhara as the finest city in all Persia and Tabriz as the most splendid city in the province ( of Iraq ) , neither of which corresponds to our contemporary understanding . |
| 12 | The UGT on May 1 held parades and demonstrations jointly with the CCOO for the first time in many years . |
| 13 | It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen . |
| 14 | Since Hick 's elevation to the Test team we 've seen England share the most successful series against West Indies in the last nine , win a series against New Zealand for the first time in four attempts , win a Test match against Pakistan for the first time in 10 years , and , for good measure , reach the World Cup final . |
| 15 | Mr Alfred Nzo , general secretary of the ANC , said yesterday that he spoke to Mr Mandela for the first time in 26 years . |
| 16 | Hans Waldman , another great Zurich burgomaster , led the Swiss forces to victory at Morat during the Burgundian war in 1476 , defeating the formerly all-conquering Charles the Bold . |
| 17 | Useful pedigree CHICAGO ( AP ) — The Queen of England will race a horse in the United States for the first time in 35 years at Arlington International Racecourse . |
| 18 | You visited the United States for the first time in 1963 . |
| 19 | But that Saturday for the first time in his life , he invited his youngest son Patsy to attend the ball-game along with himself and his other three sons . |
| 20 | We also showed that the N-Oct 3 protein , previously identified by EMSA as the major Oct-factor in cells of the nervous system [ 14 ] , is identical to brn-2 , a partial clone , generated by PCR , comprising solely the POU domain [ 11 ] . |
| 21 | As well as being profitable and actually paying a dividend back to Detroit for the first time in years , Vauxhall is an important part of the GM empire for political reasons . |
| 22 | He returned to Syria for the first time in July 1992 to attend the funeral of his mother . |
| 23 | This field either contains the PSN of the last entry in this bundle assigned on that basis ( restricting the range of the search ) or contains a negative value indicating that there are no more entries of the kind in this bundle . |
| 24 | The two leaders on June 17 signed an unprecedented arms reduction agreement which would eventually cut the two powers ' nuclear arsenals by two-thirds , going far beyond the START treaty signed by President Bush and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in July 1991 [ see p. 38320 ] . |
| 25 | The present drawings represent a selection from a larger exhibition ‘ Italian Master Drawings from the British Royal Collection ’ , organised by Jane Roberts of the Royal Collection in 1987 and also exhibited at that time in America . |
| 26 | Although Trofin had been an ally of Ceauşescu against the old guard in the mid-1960s , in an act of rare solidarity , perhaps even comradeship , Draghici , Bârladeanu , Brucan , Corneliu Manescu , and others turned out to mourn him at his funeral . |
| 27 | Customs officials have seized 170 tonnes of bananas worth £150,000 being smuggled into Portugal via the Spanish border in foreign-registered vehicles . |
| 28 | They went to a floodlit performance of Mireille in the Roman arena in Nîmes . |
| 29 | These documents refer to a spaceship that crash-landed on the island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides in the autumn of 1983 . |
| 30 | The Goanese from the Portuguese territory in western India traditionally dominated the catering trades . |