Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three Samoans who played in the World Cup — Tagaloa , Bunce and Steve Bachop — have just been picked for the All Black trials . |
| 2 | Wyllie , who stood down as a candidate for the All Black job after a confidential letter from NZRFU Chairman Eddie Tonks criticising him was leaked to the press , returns to what he loves most , working with clubs to develop the skill and the knowledge of the average club player . |
| 3 | Prices start at around £80 per person per day double occupancy , for the all inclusive package — inclusive accommodation , breakfast , lunch , afternoon tea and dinner , open bar , house wines , and local entertainment . |
| 4 | If Ballesteros was partially responsible for the all those individual successes , then Jacklin may deserve the credit not just for the Ryder Cup but for demonstrating that inspirational leadership , combined with an infinite capacity for detail , can produce a team better than the sum of its parts . |
| 5 | A letter from MDS Transmodal to a Finnish company , also passed to The Scotsman confirms ‘ we are currently working with Scottish Enterprise … to assess the commercial potential for the former naval dockyard at Rosyth , on the Forth . ’ |
| 6 | The same was noticed by the senior civil servants themselves , who , almost without exception , had a high regard for the former assistant principal in the Ministry of Civil Aviation . |
| 7 | The rural district council relied on the assumption of responsibility by the corporation in 1945 , while the corporation denied responsibility for the former rural district families and claimed that the 1956 Housing Act had made the rural district council responsible for all the families in the camp . |
| 8 | Britain is to provide £2M for urgently required medical supplies for the former Soviet Union . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give details of the programme of aid and assistance for the former Soviet Union . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman will know from our debate this morning that the United Kingdom is fully ready to play its part in providing the financial assistance , on a multilateral basis , which is likely to be necessary to support an IMF programme — such as the stabilisation fund or some other suitable instrument — for the former Soviet Union , and especially for Russia . |
| 11 | After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , Russia , whose delegation was led by State Councillor Sergei Shakhrai , had taken over responsibility for the former Soviet military divisions in the Baltic . |
| 12 | He told the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) afterwards that the former Soviet states wanted to implement the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) on troop reductions , and now had to decide how to apportion their shares of troop numbers under the treaty 's overall ceiling for the former Soviet Union . |
| 13 | It appeared that the " Paris Club " of Western creditor governments had softened its insistence that Ukraine should assume collective responsibility for the former Soviet Union 's foreign debt , following a meeting between Vitold Fokin , the Ukraine Prime Minister , and Jean-Claude Trichet , the Paris Club president , on March 3 . |
| 14 | The World Bank and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , meeting in Washington on April 26-28 , approved massive financial backing for the former Soviet republics on the condition that they took rigorous action to privatize and stabilize their economies . |
| 15 | The IMF approved on April 27 the principle of membership for the former Soviet republics ( except for Azerbaijan , whose status remained pending ) . |
| 16 | The moves were the first steps in a longer-term support package for the former Soviet republics , estimated at US$24,000 million , which had been mapped out by the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38888 ] . |
| 17 | In our bilateral aid the main need was for carefully targeted and flexible assistance in the form of advice , skills and training and our response in this area for our bilateral aid was the creation of the know how fund for the former Soviet Union and for central and Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | It then raised the possibility that ‘ there is indeed a faction within MI5 which is gunning for the former prime minister ( and by implication the whole Labour leadership ) . ’ |
| 19 | But one of the best stories in the Kelly collection concerns how he disrupted a social weekend in Northern Ireland for the former Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald . |
| 20 | Its chieftain is Abdul Rashid Dostam , who ran the army for the former communist president , Muhammad Najibullah . |
| 21 | To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis . |
| 22 | For the latter you will probably join Lincoln 's Inn , for the former one of the three other Inns . |
| 23 | Director for the past five years of the National Campaign for the Arts , he previously worked for the former Labour minister , Mr Albert Booth , and the Low Pay Unit . |
| 24 | As to Wayne Proctor , there were those who would have gone for the former Welsh hurdler , Nigel Walker , though , heaven knows , Proctor , the fastest player in the side , was himself no mean athlete in his schooldays . |
| 25 | Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki had stated that should the next parliamentary elections be brought forward from 1993 the practice of reserving 65 per cent of seats in the Sejm ( which is the lower house of the National Assembly ) for the former ruling parties , as in the June 1989 elections , should no longer apply . |
| 26 | Last night a nationwide alert was issued for the former foreign embassy bodyguard , who has Merseyside connections , and the public was warned not to approach him under any circumstances . |
| 27 | In West Berlin the huge crowd at the Rathaus , some of whom had crossed from the East to listen to the speeches , reserved their greatest enthusiasm for the former Social Democrat leader , Chancellor and Mayor of West Berlin , Mr Willy Brandt , who told them , to wild cheers : ‘ Berlin will live and the Berlin Wall will come down . ’ |
| 28 | THE wheels of justice began turning yesterday for the former Bolivian Interior Minister , Mr Luis Arce Gomez , when he appeared before a Miami magistrate following his arrest and deportation from Bolivia . |
| 29 | Mr Waigel is a Bavarian born and bred who has little love for Bonn but none at all for the former Prussian capital . |
| 30 | ASUNCION ( Efe ) — Paraguayan judges signed an extradition request for the former French information minister , Jacques Soustelle , accused of swindling £62.5m from the state-owned cement industry during the regime of the former dictator , Alfredo Stroessner . |