Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The Orangerie des Tuileries has been refurbished ( 1983 ) ; the Musée Picasso created in the hotel Sale ( 1985 ) and other thirty major museums in and around the capital have been modernised and renovated .
2 Though this rate drops during the rest of the year , the small estuary of the Rhode River received for the entire year an average 5.1 tonnes of total nitrogen from bulk precipitation ( snow and rain ) , and 7.3 tonnes from watershed run-off .
3 The interest in Britain 's retention of bases and the deployment of troops , ships and aircraft in the Persian Gulf , at Aden and Singapore , and in the Indian Ocean deepened as the United States became ever more deeply and uncomfortably involved in war in South-East Asia from the mid-1960s .
4 But the real beauty of the Valor Revue lies beneath the surface .
5 Oakhurst , California-based Sierra On-Line Inc has cut its staff by about 10% and will take a $900,000 charge to cover the costs ; it warns that fourth quarter losses will be substantially greater than expected , based on current revenue projections at the Sierra Network combined with the lay-off charges .
6 The high tops of the Curlew Mountains loomed in the distance .
7 Michael Codron had been going there as part of the Kenneth Williams set since the time he worked for the Jack Hylton organization .
8 Sir Philip argued that anti-semitism appealed to a subconscious racial instinct which was almost universal , with the Colonel Blimps believing in the conspiracy theory , and that in East London it was envy of Jewish economic success which caused the problem ; this development represented the only real danger of fascism .
9 So it made the Stenness Loch polluted for the as pollution comes in the Stenness Loch and it f spoilt the fishing here .
10 The Mother Superior emerged from the confessional box , smiled at him and passed on .
11 The Chief Ringwraith stays on the Barrow-downs for some while before Frodo sets out , ‘ and the Barrow-wights were roused , and all things of evil spirit , hostile to Elves and Men , were on the watch with malice in the Old Forest and on the Barrow-downs ’ ( UT , p. 348 ) .
12 Representatives of the Phoenix King arrived at the court of the Emperor of Cathay .
13 The Phoenix King staggered towards the towering form of the Great Unclean One .
14 After visiting with Assiniboin Indians , the Nez Perce camped in the ravines on the east bank of Snake Creek between the Bear Paw Mountains and the Milk River .
15 The headmen councilled , and on 19th June the Nez Perce re-crossed to the Salmon River 's west bank .
16 The Nez Perce feuded with the Spokan and the Skitswish , but their most bitter enemies were the Shoshoni , Bannock and Paiute tribes of the Great Basin region to the south .
17 At dawn on 13th July , the Nez Perce scuttled across the Clearwater on their buffalo-bundle boats .
18 In September Lafayette took pride of place on the Stoddard Templeton stand at the Harrogate exhibition , the main retail carpet exhibition of the year , where it was officially launched and shown for the first time .
19 In his interpretation of the Gītā Gandhi refers to the battlefield of Kurukshetra as the heart of man in which the two natures of selfishness and unselfishness are engaged in combat .
20 For reasons of his own , the Rev. Stainer voted for the introduction of the Oral Method .
21 For that matter , why not a Scottish fondue made with the Orkney Cheddar distributed under the auspices of the North of Scotland Milk Marketing Board ?
22 The United Kingdom Parliamentary Human Rights Group Report , published on April 4 — the day the Dalai Lama arrived in the UK for a nine-day pastoral visit — and alleging that over 1,000,000 Tibetans had died between 1950 and 1984 as a direct result of Chinese rule , brought the same response .
23 Just as the Red Sea parted for the Israelites , Claudia thought , not at all surprised at their easy passage .
24 31 October 1990 The Reina Sofía reopens with the collections still incomplete , but with the travelling exhibition ‘ Italian art of the twentieth century ’ .
25 While the symbols of civilization processed with full panoply of State through the streets of London , out on the eastern marshes the North Sea nudged at the coastal defences which had been hastily shored up after the calamity just four months before .
26 Diplomatic relations between the two nations were resumed in 1955 , but a peace treaty has yet to be signed , largely due to disagreements over possession of certain of the Kurile Islands taken by the Soviet Union at the end of the war .
27 Justin Simpson , in his Historical Sketches in the Stamford Mercury written in the late nineteenth century , reflects that ‘ such a satisfactory and speedy termination to a law suit rarely falls to the lot of man to witness in these degenerate days ’ .
28 That was n't the Memphis Belle showing on the Monday , that was the Making or something .
29 The Black Mountains lie between the Grey and the Worlds Edge Mountains and divide the Empire from the wild southern lands of the Border Princes .
30 The Prince Napoleon-Jerome had from the inauguration of the Empire been a constant , and public , critic of his cousin 's policies , proving himself to be at best an embarrassment , at worst a threat to the regime .
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