Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | Even though Rome was giving little in return in terms of moderating its claims to be the only true Christian church , faint liberal breezes had been blowing through the Vatican since the second Vatican Council . |
2 | Do you think do you not think sometimes dad that some of the Stoke on the broad Stoke on Trent accent is a bit like Lancashire or Yorkshire . |
3 | Hundreds of clergy and laity , both Roman Catholic and Protestant , lost their lives in the Germany of the Third Reich . |
4 | Williams made friends at the Slade including the late Allan Gwynne-Jones RA and Bernard Dunstan , who had left the Slade but was still working in Oxford , and who , with his wife Diana Armfield , has remained a close friend . |
5 | The procession , which takes place on the Saturday before the first Monday in August , leaves the town hall at 2pm and arrives at the cathedral some two hours later . |
6 | On the Saturday before the final Preston came to Leeds Road for a League match and were beaten 6–0 . |
7 | Well backed by the huge number of British racegoers who had flocked to the Arc on the first Sunday in October , Dancing Brave started at odds of 11–10 on the Pari-Mutuel to beat his fourteen opponents with Bering second favourite at 11–4 . |
8 | This has to be done by the Tuesday before the weekly Friday sale so that potential buyers can then tune in to an electronic preview of the lots to be offered together with their weights , breed and feed methods . |
9 | Faced with a sharp fall in support for the CDU in the former East German Länder , CDU general secretary Volker Rühe ( with the tacit support of Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl ) had led the group within the party pressing for the replacement of de Maizière . |
10 | Having a friend who lives on the Blackwater in an old Thames sailing barge , complete with sails and engine , I rather object to the notion that barges must be passively powerless . |
11 | British pacifists , painfully aware of their own marginality , looked across the Atlantic to the still-neutral United States . |
12 | Characteristic of Lanzarote are the numerous cones of extinct volcanoes , their surfaces smoothed and round by the dry , fierce winds heading out across the Atlantic from the Moroccan Sahara . |
13 | The Bosnian Serb news agency said the number of beaten Croat soldiers and civilians seeking shelter with the Serbs in the nearby Mount Vlasic area had doubled overnight to 8,000 . |
14 | WEST Belfast MP Dr Joe Hendron has been challenged to justify his opposition to opening one of the main routes from the Shankill to the Royal Victoria Hospital . |
15 | The London service went on air on 22 September 1955 , with the Midlands in the following February and the Northern Region in May . |
16 | IN THE WILDERNESS : Having lost his Minister 's limo , David Mellor leaves the Commons in a C-reg VW |
17 | Apparently Ray still could n't bring himself to sell it , and instead donated it to a pond built by the Norwich section of the BKKS for a local Cheshire Home . |
18 | He also claimed his party would ‘ kick-start ’ the Mike Potter , who stood for the SDP in the 1989 Richmond by-election , said he would n't be standing in the forthcoming general Labour 's Tony Blair , Tory Michael Fallon and Lib Dem 's Alan Beith clashed in a live TV debate over the NHS . |
19 | In 1980 a majority of the member countries of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) recognized the Polisario as the rightful government of Western Sahara , which took its seat as the SADR at the 1989 OAU summit , whereupon Morocco , which had become increasingly isolated in the Maghreb region over the issue , resigned from the OAU in protest . |
20 | Feast Sunday in Kilburn is the Sunday after the 6th July ; the 5th July was Midsummer 's Day before the change to the Gregorian Calendar in 1752 . |
21 | Three days later the ICJ announced that on March 26 it would open hearings on Libya 's application concerning the interpretation by the USA and the UK of the 1971 Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation . |
22 | HANDLEY PAGE Hampden P1344 , imported into the UK from the former USSR by collector Jeet Mahal , is destined for the RAF Museum , after a series of negotiations . |
23 | One hundred and fifty storage places have been reserved for NUKEM at Dounreay , and article 3.5 of the agreement states : ’ If NUKEM decide not to reprocess , all the fuel in storage at Dounreay shall be removed from the UK by the 30 September 1996 ’ . |
24 | It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress . |
25 | Harkness , 74 , reached his football peak as president of the SFA during the ill-fated Argentina World Cup campaign . |
26 | Obviously there are plenty of unconformities where the break is obvious , such as the splendid unconformity between the Upper Cretaceous and the Precambrian of the Bohemian Massif shown in plate 3.1 . |
27 | Colin and Eamon Meehan claimed that they were not guilty of trying to buy weapons in the US for the Provisional IRA because their internment by the British in the 1970s drove them insane . |
28 | Mr Buckland said Unigate was also evaluating the possible flotation in the US of the 235-strong Taco Bueno and Black-eyed Pea chains of restaurants , which last year made profits of £13.3 million . |
29 | A twin-hulled powerboat speeds along the Mersey during a previous New Brighton championship event |
30 | For his wartime services he was rewarded with the GBE in March 1918 and the GCB in the following January . |