Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun prp] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish gentlemen followed military careers in the service of the United Provinces of the Netherlands as well as in that of their own country , and political influence extended over the North Sea to include the Scots-Dutch regiments . |
| 2 | Kirk became known internationally as " Captain Kirk " in 1983 when he had led a fleet of fishing boats across the North Sea to challenge the 12-mile exclusion zone declared by the United Kingdom government [ see pp. 32340 ; 33681 ] . |
| 3 | On the night of 11 October , a day after Hunt 's publication , Protestants gathered on the Shankill Road to attack the Catholic Unity Flats , threw stones and bottles at the British troops who were thwarting their advance , overturned cars and set them ablaze , and , unprecedentedly , directed gunfire at the RUC . |
| 4 | But the reality was that the referendum showed that there was no majority , and the people of Wales recognised that it would be in the best interests of their country and the United Kingdom to sustain the present arrangements . |
| 5 | At least that way there is no way you can be held back by the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ — the phrase coined in the United States to describe the invisible barriers that allow women to rise only so far in an organisation . |
| 6 | On Nov. 16 the Afghanistan government welcomed the Moscow talks as part of the continuing efforts by the UN , the Soviet Union and the United States to resolve the Afghan issue . |
| 7 | Indeed , it only recognized the PLO as a substantive interlocutor for the Palestinian people after world condemnation of its decision to bar Arafat from entry to the United States to address the United Nations in New York in December 1988 , and after he had addressed its General Assembly in Geneva instead . |
| 8 | He knew of attendance by Stepan Holovich at NTS meetings in Paddington , and had the date that a father had taken his son to a house off the Cromwell Road to celebrate the National Day of the Ukrainian exiles with supermarket Italian wine and kitchen table cheese . |
| 9 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 10 | On the same day that he declared he had no intention of altering Danzig 's status , and after meeting Ambassador Lipski at the Reich Chancellery to make the same assurance , Hitler went to a private meeting with a small group of Nazi leaders . |
| 11 | She subscribed to the journals Poétique and Tel Quel so that she could be the first person on the Trumpington Road to know the latest thoughts of Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva . |