Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newspaper Moscow News reported on June 11 that a local KGB ( State Security Committee ) official had confirmed that the graves in a forest outside Kharkov , uncovered in April , contained the remains of Polish officers interned at the camp run by the NKVD ( the KGB 's forerunner ) at Starobelsk , as well as the remains of Soviet citizens executed by the NKVD in the Stalinist purges before the Second World War . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ) , |
| 5 | The Prai seat , won by the DAP in the 1990 elections , was taken by the Malaysian Indian Congress , a BN component . |
| 6 | 5.4.8 Finally , an interesting issue is raised by the activities of the DCSLs in the two schools described above . |
| 7 | There is first of all the question as to whether the EEC through a Single Currency will become an economic union , as directly proposed by Maastricht , or whether , to the contrary , its members will direct their energies into becoming a closely knit association of free-trading independent nation states . |
| 8 | On the surface , de Gaulle even seemed to favour the idea of the EEC as a political unit . |
| 9 | There was , in fact , a social element present in the Treaty of Rome itself , but Mr Hattersley had a point when he suggested that the last ten years saw capitalism and the pursuit of free trade relegated within the EEC to a secondary position . |
| 10 | The project involves the assessment of the impact of Regulation 84/83 ( Block Exemption from Article 85/3 of The Treaty of Rome for Brewing and Petrol Exclusive Purchasing Agreements ) by the EEC on a British institution , the Working Men 's Clubs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In general , we have to thank the Orient for the early breeds and North America for the late ones . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Signe stopped the VW on the far side of the road and killed the motor . |
| 15 | Haddington Sheriff Court heard that the left-hand drive Land Rover driven by Timothy Taylor collided with a ten-ton lorry on the Edinburgh-Newcastle road near Spott , East Lothian , while their 18-man team were returning to Germany from training in the Highlands with the Royal Marines . |
| 16 | She is now expected to leave the Highlands after a miserable break . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | TOM joined the family business as the fourth generation and served in the RAF during the second world war . |
| 19 | That may be enough to see the RAF through the present war . |
| 20 | A sketch wad found on my locker door and I believe the author was Nobby Hall ; he had opposed my views on ditching , as well he might , since he was an ex-officer , Merchant Navy , who had joined the RAF as a direct entry sergeant pilot in the Baldwin expansion period , and it was indeed ironic that he should perish and his crew saved . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 27 | But the Jews rebelled after a defeat , and Antiochus IV naturally turned against them , killed all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and converted the Temple into a pagan sanctuary . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ START 2 is not going anywhere until START 1 is ratified by everyone and everyone joins the NPT as a non-nuclear state , ’ laments an American official . |