Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was something about March the second , it was just a clip |
| 2 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 3 | The most important is Domesday Book , the great survey compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086 . |
| 4 | She knew stories about Anancy the spider and the Maroon people who fought the British in the mountains . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's an exhibition about Michelangelo the sculptor , not Michelangelo 's sculptures ’ , in the words of Pietro C. Marani of the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici of Milan , curator at the Pinacoteca di Brera , and scientific co-ordinator of the exhibition . |
| 6 | For Nizan the originality of the contemporary period , however , is that history has violently entered the arena and fractured the classical mould- The non-reflective , naturally ordained existence of the classical period has been ruptured . |
| 7 | But for McLaren the enmity was more than ideological . |
| 8 | Money procured for Minton the kind of men he needed , but his inability to possess them left him with insatiable desire , to such an extent that his relentless pursuit of young men began to intrude into everything he did . |
| 9 | This hardly looks the same principle , but the connection lies in the fact that for Kant the sense in which every person is an end is that each is a rational agent who , as such , should be conceived as potentially cooperating with me in settling upon and living by universal principles of behaviour taken as binding on all rational agents . |
| 10 | For Etzioni the compliance of professionals to their organizations rests upon ‘ normative ’ commitments . |
| 11 | Since there is no letter ‘ B ’ in Greek , Sophie B Hawkins is referred to as Sophie The Sausage Hawkins in that country . |
| 12 | And for Hobbes the idea of the sovereignty of the ruler was paramount . |
| 13 | For ICI the excess is more than 10 percentage points in 16 years out of the 20 years . |
| 14 | For Hayek the rule of law is a meta-legal doctrine or a political ideal which serves to impose a limitation on all legislation . |
| 15 | Theatre 's task is ‘ to smash language in order to touch life ’ ; it is to show that the force of the aural lies in sound ( reduplicating for Artaud the significance that dreams give to the sounds in speech ) and not words ( Sellin 1968 , pp. 49–52 ) . |
| 16 | Second , the absence of clarity as to whether Balinese dance is , on the one hand , art , or on the other , life , underscored for Artaud the importance of cancelling the separation of the two realms . |
| 17 | For Lisa the experience was a revelation — and a chance to shake off her earlier strange feelings . |
| 18 | But for Frances the impact of those few words felt like a cold and heartless rejection . |
| 19 | The first was coming back from a fruitless wait for Gríshnakh the orc , dead and burnt that same day , with the smoke from his burning ‘ seen by many watchful eyes ’ . |
| 20 | I see for Larbert the prospect of all the changes that I outlined in answer to the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) . |
| 21 | There are clear parallels between Hayek the economist , concerned with the analysis of market and command economic systems , and Hayek the political theorist , attentive to the conditions of order and freedom in society . |
| 22 | Town are still on the bottom of the table but for Swindon the season starts here |
| 23 | Trevor George [ a close pal ] was the star of the evening as Touchstone the clown . |
| 24 | He announces his inability to arouse Sir Ralph , is about to return and unlock Whitton 's chamber himself , then changes his mind and goes for Colebrooke the lieutenant . |
| 25 | In fact he was so huge that he became known as the Paunch of Misty Mountain , or simply as Grom the Fat . |
| 26 | Chelsea , the club he joined four days later , are already paying Swindon 120,000 pounds in compensation for Hoddle the manager , but they 'd offered nothing for Hoddle the player , threatening to withdraw his playing contract rather than part with any more money . |
| 27 | Chelsea , the club he joined four days later , are already paying Swindon 120,000 pounds in compensation for Hoddle the manager , but they 'd offered nothing for Hoddle the player , threatening to withdraw his playing contract rather than part with any more money . |
| 28 | For Fe the valence levels would include the 3d , 4s and 4p subshells , which could hold a total of 18 electrons if filled . |
| 29 | For Camus the sky was a source of sustenance that he could draw on at will ; for me it is a thwarted promise , yearned for and glimpsed against the odds . |
| 30 | For Camus the beauty of Algerian women was ‘ just part of the rapturous wealth heaped on the senses ’ . |