Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Many people doubt it , both at the European Community 's headquarters in Brussels and inside the Greek government . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To be an acute embarrassment to Nelson Mandela and to the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress . |
| 7 | It would be an acute embarrassment to Nelson Mandela and to the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress . |
| 8 | His success at Brisbane and in the fifth Test , followed by a century for Victoria against the Englishmen , sealed his reputation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Gold was also applied to ivory sculptures in Minoan Crete and in the chryselephantine work of Classical Greece . |
| 18 | Brave as could be in the cocked-up invasion of Crete and in the Yugoslavian mountains with Tito , he was still just the sort of awkward squaddie no army likes . |
| 19 | British Rail remains convinced that , the appraisal tests that we have set can be met ; that is to say , for InterCity and for the international services , an 8 per cent . |
| 20 | Miners in Nottinghamshire and in the surrounding area want to work towards the future . |
| 21 | A reply was then received from Mr Quarry but the proposed ground rent of £15 a year was considered too high and another effort was made to get from the Baroness von Steiglitz some ground at the corner of what is now Carrickblacker Avenue and in the same field where the existing Tabernacle stood . |
| 22 | ‘ Hopefully , he 'll learn something from Saturday and from the other games we 've played so far . |
| 23 | Then the heavens opened for torrential rain , thunder and lightning and the resulting floods washed away the bridges on the high road from Bridgend to Port Ellen and on the low road over the Machrie river . |
| 24 | Anyone who takes the pilgrimage route — to Santiago de Compostela from the Pyrenees and along the northern route via Pamplona , Logroño , Santo Domingo de la Calzada , Frómista and León will find that almost the opposite is true . |
| 25 | Stone was , however , more common in southern France , Armenia , Georgia , Syria and on the Greek islands . |
| 26 | Mubarak 's visits in May to Syria and to the Soviet Union marked the full normalization of relations with these two countries [ see p. 37471-72 ] . |
| 27 | Other areas of conifers are found in the High Weald and on the Lower Greensand , but the heavy soils of the Low Weald are dominated by deciduous woodland . |
| 28 | The patriarchate of Aquileia was under the protection of Charlemagne , and the influence of the Frankish kings was felt both in Dalmatia and in the Pannonian region , where Croat tribes were established to the east of the Slovenes , in the middle Sava valley . |
| 29 | Two reports : on the hints of progress in Washington and on the mixed reaction in Israel |
| 30 | All these activities are vividly depicted in the great seven-sacrament fonts of East Anglia and in the stained glass of All Saints ' , North Street , York . |