Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Blackburn , a Belfast man , was clerk for the Northern Ireland Parliament from 1970 to March , 1972 , and then clerk of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973–74 . |
| 2 | But , he maintains , 24-hour protection for the Ks was simply not possible . |
| 3 | An air trooper of 2 flight Army Air Corps provides close protection for the Gazelle helicopters at a forward airfield |
| 4 | Thus it is argued that , in order to provide protection for the UK car industry , the VER negotiated with the Japanese to limit car imports into the UK should be tightened and the Japanese should certainly not be allowed to establish production facilities in Britain , whereby the VER might be avoided . |
| 5 | It was John Bright , the Free-trader and democrat , who was Abraham Lincoln 's strongest supporter in the British Parliament during the Civil-War . |
| 6 | The likely job-losses result from the withdrawal of Government grant for the Chambers Street dental hospital and school in two tranches , from this autumn and September next year . |
| 7 | The LEA grant-aid for courses of only £45 left the district with a substantial deficit , a position which was to recur in later years up to 1940 when the LEA approved a block grant for the WEA to meet anticipated deficits on courses . |
| 8 | And in July , Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine announced the grant for the Newtown area based on the incorrect figure . |
| 9 | In fact , he turned up to his Blackrock club ground at Stradbrook , to watch his brother Graeme training for the New Zealand side in preparation for the Lansdowne Road semi-final . |
| 10 | McGeechan reflected that Scotland probably should have scored three tries and there was some suspicion about the Scottish scrummage ( though preparation for the England game in that regard will not be as fraught as last week ) . |
| 11 | Scotland 's Andy Roxburgh made a departure from his standard procedure by naming his side 48 hours in advance , leaving a nervous Arrigo Sacchi to jumble his big names back home in preparation for the Ibrox showdown . |
| 12 | A massive industrial crisis came to a head in late 1991 and early 1992 with widespread industrial unrest in some areas as Spain began to restructure its loss-making steel , coal , shipbuilding and other sectors and withdraw subsidies in preparation for the EC single internal market in 1993 . |
| 13 | At a meeting in Rome on Sept. 8 in preparation for the December intergovernmental conference on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) , the EC Council of ( Finance ) Ministers failed to reach a consensus on the pace of integration . |
| 14 | A Foreign Ministers ' meeting had been held , in preparation for the Bishkek summit , in Minsk ( Byelarus ) on Sept. 8 . |
| 15 | ENGLAND 'S preparation for the Dubai Sevens are amateurish compared with the steely approach of Scotland and Queensland . |
| 16 | At last he began to sense that when he entered Lincoln he would keep his end up in spite of the sketchy nature of his post — Pauline preparation for the Oxford Final History Honours School . |
| 17 | Much more serious , Nijinsky 's summer holiday and then his preparation for the St Leger had both been painfully interrupted by an attack of ringworm , which cost him almost all his hair . |
| 18 | Throughout the Latin America/Caribbean region , we feel that this is the time to consolidate a long process which we began in preparation for the Manila Congress in 1989 . |
| 19 | Phar Lap relaxes in his private sandbath during his preparation for the Agua Caliente race . |
| 20 | It dominates the scenery in the outer ranges of the Alps ( for example , the towering escarpment of Glandasse above Hannibal 's route through the sub-Alps ) . |
| 21 | A little more information can be found in the reports of the " tourists , " but as Murray 's Guide says , " Islay is seldom visited by tourists , who usually follow the route through the Crinan Canal . " |
| 22 | A little more information can be found in the reports of the " tourists , " but as Murray 's Guide says , " Islay is seldom visited by tourists , who usually follow the route through the Crinan Canal . " |
| 23 | The venture is funded entirely by its board of directors , which includes Messrs Brown and Morse , along with Anthony S. Harrington , a Washington attorney who served as general counsel for the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign , and US Senator Terry Sanford , formerly North Carolina 's governor and president of Duke University . |
| 24 | The May inquiry was told on June 15 by counsel for the Maguires that inspection of the records of the scientists involved in the forensic tests showed that a second series of tests on the hand swabs had been carried out and had proved negative . |
| 25 | The following sections give greater detail on the level of uptake for the SCOTVEC Higher National awards . |
| 26 | They 're used by the South , Tyneside Local Authority Branch to help buy a camcorder for the Sullivan member who 's recently undergone surgery to remove a tumour from his brain . |
| 27 | Cameron also designed ( 1782–5 ) the palace of Pavlovsk for the Grand Duke Paul , where he built in the grounds the first Greek Revival building in Russia , the Temple of Friendship . |
| 28 | Financial Times owner Pearson this week dropped out of the bidding for the Maxwell 51 per cent share in Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 29 | It was this depth of breeding that encouraged such lively bidding for the Woodhayne stock which sold to 1200gns for Woodhayne Citrine , a Gulliver sired cow offered with a heifer calf by Mavesyn Midas . |
| 30 | Yet membership of NATO did not prevent Britain 's stand during the Falklands or the Gulf . |