Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Saturday the police have set a limit of 4,500 . |
| 2 | For Saturday the police have set a limit of 4,500 . |
| 3 | He lovingly picked out for Waddesdon the deks of Kings and carpets of emperors . |
| 4 | In April and after mid-October the winds are unpredictable and sometimes dangerously strong . |
| 5 | There would be compensation payments , of course , but after Chernobyl the doubts had set in . |
| 6 | For a rime after D-Day the stories of incoming prisoners had developed a new excitement . |
| 7 | In the Forest of Dean the verderers sat with the deputy Constable of St Briavels to hold attachment courts at Kensley every six weeks ; fines were imposed for hunting with long bows , and for offences against the vert such as cutting great branches , rooting up hollies , hawthorns and hazels , and collecting ‘ Oke-cornes ’ . |
| 8 | Motherwell should beat Partick at Fir Park to leapfrog into ninth place while in the battle of Brockville the losers of the Falkirk v Airdrie match will , realistically , have little chance of avoiding the drop . |
| 9 | By the end of March the totals had reached 81,607 Germans to 89,000 French . |
| 10 | Where the line emerged from a cutting north of Plowden the Trustees were no doubt concerned that the sudden appearance of a steam locomotive from the cutting would be startling . |
| 11 | In the northern parts of Sulawesi the maleos obviously know of the presence of hot underground streams , using the heat in the volcanic gravel to incubate their eggs . |
| 12 | When parliament heard the news of Crécy the commons ‘ thanked God for the great victory He had given their king and they said that all their money had been well spent ’ . |
| 13 | To the east of Klagenfurt the mountains diminish in size , but the western Carinthia/eastern Tyrol border around Lienz contains the highest peaks in Austria and is an area of Alpine valleys surrounded by forests and mountains rising to more than 10,000 feet . |
| 14 | THE president of the Court of Governors of the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth , Sir Melvyn Rosser , has joined the board of Menter a Busnes , the agency that aims to make Welsh speakers more enterprising in business . |
| 15 | On the 23rd , however , even after percolating the softening filters of G.Q.G. the reports sounded so bad that Joffre was persuaded to dispatch his Assistant Chief of Staff , Colonel Claudel , to Verdun to make an on-the-spot report . |
| 16 | So in other words , Mill accepts the arguments of Russo the arguments of the participatory er theorists that participation in government , participation in public affairs is a good thing , people should be encouraged to participate and it has an improving effect . |
| 17 | Revenge is said to be a dish best served cold , but in the heat of Texas the Bills could be savouring its taste tomorrow night . |
| 18 | On the other hand , when in the ruined court of Eblis the bees find ‘ wild grass for their pleasure ’ , that is good too . |
| 19 | A year after the capture of Chichester the Royalists , helped by the irrepressible Ford from his house at Up Park , seized Arundel . |
| 20 | In the valley of Kashmir the police are almost entirely Muslim . |
| 21 | Again the Serbs were disappointed , for in 1812 at the Treaty of Bucharest the Russians again made peace with the Turks and agreed that Serbia should remain within the Ottoman empire . |
| 22 | Although relations between the bishops and the resident aristocracy are harder to piece together , the fortunes of one or two families are clear enough ; in the pages of Gregory the descendants of Quintianus 's opponent , Hortensius , appear consistently as failures ; so too does the ill-fated family of the comes Firminus . |
| 23 | By the second half of February the Germans were beginning to be really worried by the advance — although slow — of the Allies and by the strong resistance of the partisans , so they decided to make a deal with the partisan leaders to save their own lives . |
| 24 | Apart from the Royal Bank of Scotland the laggards were Kwik-Fit , Lilley and Scottish Metropolitan . |
| 25 | By expanding their rule over the rest of Spain the Romans acquired the Douro , the Tagus and the mineral deposits of the Asturias . |
| 26 | To be eligible to be purchased by the Bank of England the bills must have an underlying short-term trade finance role , as evidenced by a clause on the face of the bill , and must have been accepted by an ‘ eligible ’ bank . |
| 27 | ‘ By the common law of England the judges have the right to determine who shall be admitted to practise as barristers and solicitors : and , as incidental thereto , the judges have the right to suspend or prohibit from practice . |
| 28 | From opposite ends of England the academics said that this was a born teacher who ought to be in teaching as soon as possible . |
| 29 | In the North East of England the waterways developed as a network linked to the wide rivers Aire , Calder , Ouse and Trent . |
| 30 | In 1845 he published in vol. vi of the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England the results of a successful experiment in cultivating swedes to determine what would happen when the essential constituents of a plant were supplied to ‘ barren ’ land . |