Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high . |
| 2 | The Boy Looked At Johnny , the now alarmingly naive book he 'd written with Julie Burchill ( soon to become a temporary Mrs Parsons ) had caused a splash , and both writers resigned from the NME on the same day . |
| 3 | Studies in the Coinages of the Eleventh Century ( 1981 ) , pp. 211ff ( a die chain between imitative coins with different mint names ) ; R. Reece , Coinage in Roman Britain ( 1987 ) ( the study of site finds ) ; T. R. Volk in G. Depeyrot , T. Hackens and G. Moucharte ( eds . ) , |
| 4 | Whether this clamour is loud enough to bring about so fundamental a change in the EEC at the very time when Community institutions wish to move in the opposite direction is a question which needs now to be addressed . |
| 5 | Sotheby 's sale of books about the Orient from the Blackmer library have made £2.2m over the last two days with less than one per cent unsold . |
| 6 | Signe stopped the VW on the far side of the road and killed the motor . |
| 7 | Graham served in the RAF during the Second World War and it was under the war-time ‘ guesting ’ arrangement that he first turned out for Palace . |
| 8 | TOM joined the family business as the fourth generation and served in the RAF during the second world war . |
| 9 | That may be enough to see the RAF through the present war . |
| 10 | Of the air-delivered systems , Skybolt was technically the most advanced and was seen by the RAF as the best weapon for extending the life of the V Force . |
| 11 | Our American Allies were all out to see this job through and were full of stories of the RAF on the first trip which was so successful and were even more sure that the second run would be better . |
| 12 | KINGS CLIFFE AIRFIELD was seconded from the RAF by the 20th Fighter Group of the USAAF 8th Air Force which flew P38 Lightnings and , later , P51 Mustangs on bomber escort duties . |
| 13 | On the broadcasting of the Video : A reasonable payment to be negotiated which will be in line with the agreements for terms that exist at the time between the Society of Authors and/or Writers ' Guild on the one hand and the ITCA/BBC on the other hand |
| 14 | On the broadcasting of the Video : A reasonable payment to be negotiated which will be in line with the agreements for terms that exist at the time between the Society of Authors and/or Writers ' Guild on the one hand and the ITCA/BBC on the other hand |
| 15 | By April 27 it was reported from Khartoum that the Sudanese government had agreed in principle to hold peace talks with the SPLA in the Nigerian capital Abuja on May 24 . |
| 16 | The tank blew up , hurling the Vauxhall through the closed garage doors , which caused twenty more gallons of petrol to explode , blowing the front off the house . |
| 17 | Soon Vickers at Barrow was building the Hercules for the Argentinian navy and then , under licence , helping it to build the Santisima Trinidad at Rio Santiago . |
| 18 | Assistant Dean of the Modular Course ( new post from 1 September 1987 ) The Assistant Dean is responsible through the Dean for the day-to-day management of the Course . |
| 19 | The trees of the Dean on the distant bank were taking on a blue haze in the glorious afternoon sun . |
| 20 | Kirkman saw Nkrumah as ‘ the Rousseau of the African revolution … |
| 21 | I should be grateful if you would amend the small advertisement for the B.A.E.C. at the next time of insertion so that the last part reads : ‘ For details , write to the Secretary , . |
| 22 | The IDA had now commissioned a report from the IIRS on the safe disposal of asbestos waste . |
| 23 | The J94 lookalike has been hired to provide additional loco support for the SDR after problems were encountered with Chatterly Whitfield Mining Museum visitor ‘ Joseph ’ which will be leaving the SDR during the 1992 season . |
| 24 | Then if a micro-instruction contains the control bits 10011 followed by zeros , the paths from the accumulator to the left-side of the adder , from the SDR to the right side of the adder , and from the result latches to the accumulator are opened ; thus the contents of the accumulator and SDR are added together and placed in the accumulator . |
| 25 | Oscar , I said , let me take you to Coney Island , it 's like Brighton , I think , the Brighton of the New World . |
| 26 | No candidates were proposed by the advisory committee of the SCS for the forthcoming election . |
| 27 | I hope to send the document to the DoE via the Welsh Office in the next couple of weeks and to publish it late in May . |
| 28 | The station was described by Koebel as the Waterloo of the southern hemisphere , handling more passengers than all the other Buenos Aires terminals together . |
| 29 | This time , there is a break with tradition , an England A XI providing the opposition instead of the MCC for the four-day game . |
| 30 | It is perhaps the best example on the Bodensee of the successful marriage between the demands of a growing holiday trade and a carefully guarded past . |