Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as we noted , the movement of which Jesus and his followers seem to have been a part regarded the Maccabean regime as a prototype for their own aspirations . |
| 2 | The British Museum has acquired Britain 's most important piece of Romano-British silver , an elaborately decorated fourth-century tray called the Risley Park lanx . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury . |
| 4 | The Square is named after one of the original Bolshevik revolutionaries , Felix Dzerzhinsky , who founded Russia 's first secret police force called the Cheka . |
| 5 | Vehicles are allowed along a 45 mile stretch called the Wessex Ridgeway . |
| 6 | In the 1960s , Lotus produced a delightful little sports car called the Elan . |
| 7 | And his lawyers are pointing to a multi-national agreement on child abduction called the Hague Convention . |
| 8 | So I set out to have a go at the Station side , but it just happened that there was also a scratch side called the C.N. Lowe 15 . |
| 9 | So our circumnavigation of Hascosay continues , past Oxnageo and the stack called the Grey-bearded Man , through the gap inside the notorious reef called the Baas of Hascosay , the graveyard of a number of ships , and back to our moorings in Mid Yell . |
| 10 | The town has also ar institution called the Spittel , built from an endowment of 1225 which laid an obligation upon the Teutonic Order to maintain a hospice for tending the poor and providing hospitality to pilgrims . |
| 11 | Prince is also reported to be compiling a soundtrack and story for a new movie entitled The Dawn . |
| 12 | Having a programme suppressed the PR word is ’ postponed ’ by the BBC is rather like having a book banned by the Clogthorpe Public Libraries Committee . |
| 13 | The Lord Chancellor consulted the Lord Chief Justice , the Master of the Rolls and the President of the Probate , Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court who all agreed with his reply . |
| 14 | For example , the 1985 Local Government Act abolished the GLC and the six metropolitan counties with effect from I April 1986 and the 1988 Local Government Act abolished ILEA with effect from 1990 . |
| 15 | The hotel has a popular cellar dance bar called the Rustik Stuberl , which plays a mixture of live and disco music every evening from mid-June to the end of the season . |
| 16 | In the second chapel of the left aisle is another miraculous painting , a fourteenth-century fresco of the Madonna with Child called the Madonna of the Tears because it was seen to cry on 13 July in 1620 , perhaps as an omen of the plague . |
| 17 | Furthermore , some of the best producers are members of a consortium called the Consorzio di Chianti Classico — the bottles are sealed with a black rooster symbol . |
| 18 | Far below , on the winter 's day when I stood and watched , the Aleksandr Ulyanov — a 30,000-ton general freighter — was grinding slowly northbound , back to the Atlantic , back to Mother Russia ; a comfortable-looking , rust-stained Greek liner called the Corfu Reefer had passed heading south . |
| 19 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 20 | turn right at the lights and er , then take the first left and there 's a pub called The Bull |
| 21 | The door to the pub called The Armitage was of thick wood , lacking a bell or knocker . |
| 22 | Darius says I have to show up outside Deptford in an Irish pub called The Colleen Bawn . |
| 23 | In Sheffield ( Britain 's fourth largest city ) the only gay facility at the time was an upstairs bar in a pub called The King William . |
| 24 | She 'd meet him in a pub called the Camden Head , at nine . |
| 25 | He was waiting on the Jackley Road outside a pub called the Ostrich , Kevin 's double in every particular until he had grown a moustache . |
| 26 | If the yeah there 's a fella , there 's a fella alive today I wa I was in the car outside the pub called the Carpenter 's Arms with him cos er ai n't you trouble with your , oh oh Chuck his name was , Chuck , I said do n't you worry what you what yo ah ! |
| 27 | Opposite the Arena is a pub called the George . |
| 28 | Mr Leslie had been to a railway staff party in a pub called the Flint , which is situated across the road from High Wycombe Station . |
| 29 | Readers of this column who can cast their minds back to 1984 may remember a piece of equipment called the Nava Skiing System . |
| 30 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |