Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Details were wanted on the number of Englishmen employed " in the Mynes or at the said worke , either for getting Oare or about roasting & melting furnace or hamers , & whether there be any skilful to manage those works if the now farmers should dye . " |
| 2 | Either in March or in the second budget which is due in December this year tax increases of some kind therefore seem inevitable . |
| 3 | Either in March or in the second budget , which is due in December , tax increases of some kind therefore seem inevitable . |
| 4 | This new housing brought inevitable changes to the life of the village , and many of those who live here now work in the city of Hull or at the nearby installations at Saltend and Easington . |
| 5 | Nothing that has happened in Czechoslovakia or in the wider world since that time has diminished the willingness of the Czechoslovak people to accede to this wish . |
| 6 | Bouterse claimed that Shankar had collaborated with the Netherlands government to humiliate him by failing to lodge a diplomatic protest when , on three occasions during December , he was denied access to the Netherlands or to the local press while in transit at Amsterdam airport . |
| 7 | Sadly , these arguments do not seem to be uppermost in the current discussions at Whitehall or in the Royal College of Psychiatrists . |
| 8 | The skinhead style never quite died out in the East End or in the industrial Midlands . |
| 9 | Other nationalist movements in Europe had the character rather of independence movements directed against a dominant empire , such as that of the Habsburgs or of the Russian Tsars ; and as Seton-Watson ( 1964 ) observed , some of them — for example , those of the Slovaks and the Ukrainians — began as cultural movements resulting from the creation of a standardized literary language . |
| 10 | Perhaps we should draw satisfaction from our willingness to accept such directives , unlike so many of our European colleagues , but if that is the situation now , when most Members of Parliament believe that we are still Members of a sovereign Parliament , what might it be like if we were to surrender the rest of our sovereignty to Brussels or to the European Parliament , in which we have only 16 per cent . |
| 11 | If someone has taken out a PP which is contracted out of SERPS , the widow 's pension under SERPS or under the occupational pension scheme to which she belonged previously will be replaced by an annuity bought out of the fund of contributions built up so far . |
| 12 | If a comprehensive settlement included the repatriation of the refugees ( admittedly a wholly inconceivable eventuality at present ) , Jordan would cease to have either economic or political importance , and would probably be absorbed eventually either by Syria or by the Palestinian state . |
| 13 | She had no wish to be left stranded with the horrible Mr Jefferson nor with the oily Signor Silvio . |
| 14 | Within it there is evidence of a N.W.-S.E. component in subsidiary basins , well seen at Larne and in the offshore North Channel Basin . |
| 15 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
| 16 | In the 1890s there was a strong Methodist presence in Edenderry and in the early years of the twentieth century the row of houses running from Watson Street to Mr Hoy 's butcher 's shop was known as ‘ Methodist Row ’ . |
| 17 | Many people doubt it , both at the European Community 's headquarters in Brussels and inside the Greek government . |
| 18 | Another significant absence was that of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi , leader of the mainly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party , who withdrew from the Inkatha delegation because of the refusal of the CODESA steering committee to allow separate delegations for Inkatha and for the Zulu King Goodwill Zwelethini . |
| 19 | To be an acute embarrassment to Nelson Mandela and to the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress . |
| 20 | It would be an acute embarrassment to Nelson Mandela and to the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress . |
| 21 | His success at Brisbane and in the fifth Test , followed by a century for Victoria against the Englishmen , sealed his reputation . |
| 22 | Researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States and at the Medical Research Council Unit for Applied Psychology in Cambridge simultaneously identified the tasks sensitive to the effects of even one night 's loss of sleep as those which were not self-timed , which went on for at least ten minutes and which were not intrinsically motivating . |
| 23 | Somehow the country has managed to consume more energy per capita than anywhere else other than rich ( and notoriously thriftless ) Canada and the United States and at the same time plunge into a state close to bankruptcy . |
| 24 | It is clear from thinking in Brussels and Paris that their views on international trade owe more to Friedrich List than to Adam Smith , although it is always surprising that they bemoan their countries ' so-called tutelage to the United States and at the same time attack the liberal economic policies which lie at the root of American power : why do they not realise that they should adopt economic liberalism as well ? |
| 25 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | Rallies , demonstrations and strikes were reported on Jan. 4-6 in a number of towns and cities in support of the nationalists ' demands , and on Jan. 5 there was a general strike in Kurdzhali and in the nearby city of Khaskovo . |
| 28 | The incident with the residents from Conway House seemed to have struck a note of rapport between Rachel and David and during the following week their working relationship seemed much less strained . |
| 29 | He likes Basingstoke and as the youngest member of the cast of 16 , he is enjoying himself immensely as Young Charlie in Little Tramp — he reckons it is the best show he 's been in . |
| 30 | Gold was also applied to ivory sculptures in Minoan Crete and in the chryselephantine work of Classical Greece . |