Example sentences of "the [noun prp] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The most recent observation of the region with a filled-aperture telescope is the 20' resolution survey made at 2.3GHz : the map shown in Fig. 2 illustrates the relationship of the source to the SNR in the MOST map and the galactic ridge . |
| 3 | The SD in the industrial town of Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia reported complaints in March 1941 from the poorer sections of the population that badges bearing a picture of the Führer could only be obtained through a sizeable contribution to Winter Aid collectors , and that there were too few to satisfy the demand . |
| 4 | But this triumph of the Apolline is qualified by the predominance of the Dionysiac in the total effect . |
| 5 | It was not until 1903 that the famous rope of Ravanel , Giraud and Comte completed the first grand traverse of the Drus in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | Shearman also offered opportunities to existing organisations to join forces with the WEA in the rural scheme . |
| 7 | Figures such as these fuelled the arguments put forward by the WEA in the main body of the text . |
| 8 | Euro-rebel Bryan Gould — who has quit the shadow cabinet — was voted off the NEC in the same section , with his support halved . |
| 9 | For those who do not know what I am on about , why not pick up a Birthday Scheme Leaflet and make it your resolution to support the Medical Work of the BMS in the New Year . |
| 10 | The history of Burgundy and the Auvergne in the later period can , however , be reconstructed with some confidence . |
| 11 | Aratus wrote his hymn to Pan after Antigonus Gonatas ' victory over the Gauls in the following year . |
| 12 | Cicero denigrated the Gauls in the Pro Fonteio about 69 B.C. because his client Fonteius had been accused by them . |
| 13 | The USA first threatened to call off talks with the PLO in the immediate aftermath of the May 30 seaborne attack on the Israeli coast by guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) [ see pp. 37443-44 ] . |
| 14 | Buckmaster parked the Volvo in the underground garage , used the special key to open the executive elevator door , ascended to the eighteenth floor . |
| 15 | Moreover the style faithfully mirrors the puerility of the content : to think that the barons who faced King John at Runnymede were anything like the Cokes or Hampdens who challenged the royal prerogative of the Stuarts in the seventeenth century , or that these in turn had much or anything in common with Sam and John Adams or Tom Paine , is to adopt the notorious ‘ Whig interpretation ’ of English history in a sort of parody version for grade school . |
| 16 | As Bishop John McGann pointed out boldly at Casey 's funeral Mass in May 1987 — the Reagans in the front pew , conservative heavyweights in rank behind , North somewhere — Casey found a ‘ fundamentally moral purpose ’ in American actions in the world , specifically against Communism , and particularly in Nicaragua . |
| 17 | Sometimes the public distancing of Romania from its Warsaw Pact allies , especially Big Brother in Moscow , was done in a quite insulting fashion : Ceauşescu could even implicitly put the Kremlin in the same category as the White House : ‘ The small and medium-sized states refuse to play the role of pawn in the service of the interests of big imperialist powers any longer . ’ |
| 18 | He was convicted with the Maguires in the parallel case of a ‘ bomb factory ’ . |
| 19 | Nkrumah refused to recognise the Npp in the new parliament as the official opposition . |
| 20 | Their new abode was in a small , intimate street of 26 houses ; the Titfords in the male line were second generation immigrants from Somerset , but their neighbours there in Islington consisted of families who had been born anywhere other than London — a cosmopolitan mixture of Geordies , Lancastrians , people from Essex , Suffolk , Shropshire , Kent , Wiltshire , Somerset and Norfolk . |
| 21 | Our people were killed in battles such as the great CuChulainn of the Chariot Horses at the Battle against the Erl-King in the High King Cormac 's time . |
| 22 | Furniture and furnishings in Parma show a strong French influence , too , being Parmesan adaptations of the Empire style ; and the local dialect has numerous words which are purely French ( although these must have been imported at an earlier time , perhaps under the Bourbons in the eighteenth century ) — armoir for armadio ( a wardrobe ) , vin for vino , boucho for tappo ( a cork ) , artichaut for carciofo ( an artichoke ) , and so on . |
| 23 | Undoubtedly land-use practices influence flooding and erosion , but ignoring the impact of natural processes in the search for a human scapegoat is not going to pre-empt the potential land crisis of the Himalaya in the twenty-first century . |
| 24 | Some of these names represent principalities and have a political significance ; others are simply regional tags which identify the surrounding population , for example the Solland in the far south , which used to be an independent realm but which is now part of Wissenland . |
| 25 | Poor , silly Ma Norris , who had never been quite right since her three sons were killed on the Somme in the last war . |
| 26 | We are looking at another reorganisation of the NHS in the northern region with all the demoralisation and uncertainty that creates . |
| 27 | Mr Phil Lenton , assistant divisional officer for Nupe , said : ‘ We are looking at another reorganisation of the NHS in the Northern region with all the demoralisation and uncertainty that creates . |
| 28 | Sharif retaliated by refusing to let the four go and furthermore supported the charges laid by the Punjab police against leading PPP members in the state , including Salman Taseer , deputy leader of the PPP in the provincial assembly . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , after the Romans left in the 4th century , very little is known of the inhabitants of the area until the arrival of the Normans in the 11th century . |
| 30 | The first stone ridge was built over the Vltava in the 12th century . |