Example sentences of "the [n mass] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Landing the headquarters at the Old Entrance was itself a miracle of seamanship among the blazing wrecks and heavy fire directed at the MGB . |
| 2 | It has been alleged by the director of a management investigation company that telephones in Transport House , then the headquarters of the Labour Party and still the headquarters of the TGWU , were tapped for long periods during 1972 , a time of union opposition to the Industrial Relations Act 1971 . |
| 3 | On 17 June 1972 , five men were arrested while attempting to break into the headquarters of the Democratic Party 's National Committee in the plush Washington apartment block called the Watergate Building . |
| 4 | On June 9 a bomb placed on the roof of the headquarters of the Honourable Artillery Company in London injured 17 civilians , mainly students , who were attending a 21st birthday party there . |
| 5 | He emerged two minutes later with a bulky small man , and the Land Rover turned on to the Cambridge road , making for the headquarters of the regional crime squad . |
| 6 | Lending Services , as the headquarters of the regional library system in Scotland , has been as active participant in VISCOUNT since its inception in 1985 . |
| 7 | The rebels abandoned the Bancasi army camp in Butuan , the headquarters of the 402nd brigade , after government aircraft bombed the camp 's main buildings and communications systems on Oct. 5 . |
| 8 | Islamic demonstrators on Jan. 25 , 1990 , stoned the headquarters of the provincial government in Sidi Bouzid , 200 km south of Tunis and one of the areas worst affected by that month 's floods ( see below ) ; an official statement blamed " religious extremists ' for the attack . |
| 9 | He had spent most of the Forties in the Washington embassy , sat on the Anglo-American committee on atomic information and had a permanent and unrestricted pass to the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Commission , which he frequently used late at night . |
| 10 | As the Russian engineers were arriving in Scotland , Gordon Beattie from Scottish Nuclear 's Contracts and Purchasing department was setting out for Bulgaria for a six month secondment working at the Headquarters of the Bulgarian Energy Committee in Sofia . |
| 11 | The cost of underwriting claims , such as the massive bomb in April which caused over £800m worth of damage to the Baltic Exchange and the headquarters of the Commercial Union in the City of London , had proved too great . |
| 12 | There was also no agreement on where to site the headquarters of the nascent Europol organization , which would co-ordinate law enforcement intelligence . |
| 13 | The attempt began at 2 a.m. with an assault on Dodan Barracks on Ikoyi Island in Lagos , the headquarters of the military government . |
| 14 | After staging several provocative manoeuvres in Vilnius , the newly arrived Soviet paratroopers on Jan. 11 occupied the headquarters of the Lithuanian Defence Council , a government department set up as a first step towards establishing an independent Lithuanian army . |
| 15 | Many of the present team have been with the organisation at least since 1974 when Mr d'Ancona , an assistant secretary with the Department of Energy at the time , was asked to implement a political decision to transfer the headquarters of the fledgling organisation from London to Glasgow . |
| 16 | History comes alive with a tour of Newmarket , the Headquarters of the racing world . |
| 17 | Bombs delivered to the NAACP office in Jacksonville , Florida , and to the headquarters of the 11th Court Circuit in Atlanta , Georgia , were intercepted before anyone opened it . |
| 18 | Christmas shoppers were given 25 minutes to evacuate the area before the van exploded in Market Street only half a mile away from the headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | The stars , writers , musicians and leading lights of Oxford gathered at the headquarters of the British Academy of Film and Television . |
| 20 | When he reported for duty in Simla , then the headquarters of the meteorological department , he had no knowledge of the subject ; he had to learn it by reading , guided by senior staff . |
| 21 | The Princess Royal , Patron , College of Occupational Therapists , opens the College 's new headquarters , Information & Study Centre at 6-8 Marshalsea Road , London SE1 ; opens the Young Designers ' Centre , The Design Council , 28 Haymarket , London SW1 ; visits the Headquarters of The Special Escort Group at their Barnes Headquarters , London SW13 ; and , this evening , attends a Banquet at the Guildhall given by the Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the invention of the knitting frame by William Lee . |
| 22 | This afternoon The Princess Royal visited the Headquarters of the Special Escort Group at their Barnes Headquarters , St Ann 's Road , London . |
| 23 | She went to the headquarters of the Special Air Services in Hereford where she underwent a ‘ terrifying ’ driving course where she learnt the basic techniques in handling a possible terrorist attack or kidnap attempt . |
| 24 | A UK company installed an electronic ‘ torture chamber ’ inside the headquarters of the Special Branch in Dubai , reported The Observer in January 1991 . |
| 25 | US officials say privately that Washington promised the rebels that American troops would block two key roads leading to the headquarters of the Panamanian Defence Forces ( PDF ) . |
| 26 | They also attacked the headquarters of the National Federation of Widows of Guatemala , closely linked to the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu [ see p. 39140 ] , stealing documents connecting the military to attacks on Indian villages . |
| 27 | At present the building serves as the headquarters of the local branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade . ) |
| 28 | Which London club was once the headquarters of the Conservative Party ? |
| 29 | It is not enough for the Minister to pass the buck to the chief inspector of constabulary . |
| 30 | The White House , not surprisingly , pointed to its tax legislation stalemate with Congress and quickly passed the buck to the Federal Reserve . |