Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Mediterranean or Caribbean the peak sunlight lasts longer and is more reliable , while the wind 's strength is frequently weaker than in the UK . |
| 2 | No more dolies or William the bear to cuddle and hug , no more fairy stories at nanny 's knee it is all aboard the fairy bus for the dungeons . |
| 3 | It is little wonder , therefore , that during those parts of the year which were spent at Saint Cloud , Compiègne or Fontainebleau the emphasis should have been placed on greater informality . |
| 4 | Is there a single Escort , Allegro or Sierra the length and breadth of the land which is n't emblazoned with some message the driver is desperate to convey to fellow motorists ? |
| 5 | Visit the reproduction Bayeux Tapestry in the town museum , or Senlac field where William the Conqueror defeated Harold . |
| 6 | A famed enchantress , known also as Morgaine le Fee , or Morgana the Fairy . |
| 7 | By June or July the insect may have gone . |
| 8 | If Peter is actually a ‘ tough ’ whose nickname means ‘ Rocky ’ , is it not possible to equate him with the fierce individual known as Simon Zelotes or Simon the Canaanite — to equate him , that is , with Simon the Zealot ? |
| 9 | Athelstan rubbed his chin with the palm of his hand and remembered he 'd promised Benedicta to meet her at the Fleet prison where Simon the carpenter would spend his last evening on earth . |
| 10 | Such association as there was between Stoker 's vampire and the historical Vlad IV of Wallachia ( 1431–76 ) , known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad the Impaler , may have been suggested by his friend Arminius Vambery , a Hungarian professor learned in Transylvanian folklore . |
| 11 | I 'd said warily , expecting Lorne or Meadowbrook or Frank the Phone . |
| 12 | If I had followed a different route through Bradford or Brixton the complexion of this story would have transformed some of its objectives : whiteness and blackness would have encountered each other dramatically . |
| 13 | Where Tom the ostler listened , his face was white and peaked . |
| 14 | BLACK AND WHITE Hohner Rockwood Guitar & Bass The budget guitar market is teeming with brigands and ne'er-do-wells … |
| 15 | Whether the artist of these three was Mikon or Polygnotos the evidence does not allow us to say . |
| 16 | He says Alsys has not decided whether to make Soft Bench or Atherton the backplane of the Thomson Ada software engineering thrust . |
| 17 | There is a cult of the Holy Spirit , and often it has precious little to say about Jesus or God the Father . |
| 18 | In possibly solving a problem in relation to stamp duty or SDRT the arrangement may throw up problems in other areas : ( 1 ) Section 89(4) of CA 1985 ( statutory pre-emption rights ) provides that the statutory pre-emption rights do not apply to a particular allotment of equity shares if these are , or are to be , wholly or partly paid up otherwise than in cash . |
| 19 | Whilst the manner of non-statutory assessment is a matter for the school or LEA the Act prescribes a formal assessment procedure . |
| 20 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |
| 21 | Last Tuesday or Wednesday the traffic on UUNet over this BSDI suit ( see front page ) got so heavy the protesters formed their own group ( alt.suit.att-bsdi ) — and this before the news hits the fan that the University of California , Berkeley is being brought up on charges too . |
| 22 | If Judas Thomas , or Jude the Twin , were indeed Jesus 's twin brother , what would have been his status among his contemporaries ? |
| 23 | One of those to die was a naturalist and an Admiral in the Roman Navy , Caius Plinius or Pliny the Elder , who was a much-respected man and widely-known in his own time . |
| 24 | We would be marching along in perfect time , waiting for the cue to start a new verse , when suddenly Da Silva , or Gionesca the Italian , who were both incapable of marching correctly , would pipe up by themselves . |
| 25 | Or Sammy the Dinosaur ? |
| 26 | Richard Kahan , the Battery Park commissioner , awarded Olympia & York the contract when Reichmann guaranteed payment of several hundred million on the city 's bonds which were due the next year . |
| 27 | ALLEN & HARRIS THE ESTATE AGENTS |
| 28 | As in Yugoslavia or Bulgaria the task of the school is clearly defined . |
| 29 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 30 | A new French-German television channel called simply ‘ Arte ’ is to broadcast programmes on the visual arts , theatre , dance , music , cinema and documentaries on the European frequency formerly occupied by Italian media magnate Berlusconi & C. The channel has been created from the merger of two public networks , Arte Deutschland TV GmbH ( Germany ) and la Sept ( France ) and should soon be transmitted throughout Europe . |