Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [art] [det] [no cls] " in BNC.

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1 In being trusted with one delicate mission after another ( the Diplomatic Service Appeals Board , compensation for the wrongfully imprisoned Guildford Four , the grievances of the former M.I.5 officer , Colin Wallace ) Calcutt was bidding fair to become the chief of this tribe in the nineties .
2 The device was also hailed as the next step in Inmos 's technological evolution , filling the gap between the former T2 , 4 and 8 families and the proposed modular ‘ Chameleon ’ product line ( CI No 2,137 ) .
3 The arrival of the T9000 Transputer last week was hailed as the next step in Inmos Ltd 's technological evolution , filling the gap between the former T2 , 4 and 8 families and the proposed modular ‘ Chameleon ’ product line .
4 From this position , the significance of a school lies in its relationship with the " workshops " responsible for individual mosaics ( these appear to be — almost exclusively — the work of the same craftsman/men ) .
5 McErlean , 26 , the husband of a former Sinn Fein councillor , was ambushed by Loyalist hitmen as he and his teenage brother drove to work from his home in Dunloy , Co Antrim .
6 The absurdity of the " Spycatcher " ban was the result of a dogged insistence on viewing the memoirs of a former MI5 employee as the " property " of government , and conducting the litigation as if he had stolen the office furniture .
7 On Nov. 26 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the United Kingdom government had been in breach of the Convention on Human Rights in attempting to prevent three newspapers from publishing extracts from Spycatcher , the memoirs of the former MI5 officer Peter Wright [ see pp. 35537-39 ; 36155-56 ; 36502-03 ; 37158 ; 37784 ] .
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