Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Nizan the moral strength afforded the writer by revolutionary ideology eliminates the need for self-justification within the ethos of his work , eliminates the need to apologise for failing to conform not only to the conventions of bourgeois political structures , but also to the conventions of bourgeois literary structures . |
| 2 | However , after a further round of talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 28 , he left for Moscow the following day , his only apparent success being the Iraqi agreement to allow the return in the coming weeks of some 1,000 Soviet nationals who had been working in Iraq . |
| 3 | During March the armed forces , which had seized power in a military coup on Feb. 23 [ see pp. 38003-04 ] , established a timetable for a return to civilian rule . |
| 4 | I left Valladolid for Salamanca the next day . |
| 5 | He later became known as Magnus the Pious because of his unflinching devotion to the cult of Sigmar and to the ideals of nationhood which Sigmar still signified in the divided Empire . |
| 6 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |
| 7 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |
| 8 | It was made for Magnus the Pious by the Warrior Mage Fredrik von Tarnus after the Great War against Chaos . |
| 9 | The reception was held at the Mansion House in Harrow Weald , where the couple spent a romantic wedding night , leaving for Mexico the next morning . |
| 10 | And you 're making applications for an occasional license for Saturday the twenty ninth of October to run the bar at Nell Gwyn village hall on behalf of the the village hall committee is that right ? |
| 11 | And you 're making applications for an occasion licence for Saturday the twenty ninth of October to run a bar at Norbury village hall on behalf of the the village hall committee , is that right ? |
| 12 | And so he sat there , a tame lion , drumming his fingers , while Esther and Alix and Liz his wife chattered on , about scandals and liaisons , about breaking marriages and delinquent children , about Ivan the Terrible , about the Post-Impressionist exhibition at the Royal Academy , about the Arts Council , about the Beaubourg , about modernism in architecture , about Brian Bowen 's views on his reactionary boss at the Adult Education Institute , about what the word quango might be said to mean , about Kate Armstrong 's latest article on the single-parent family and child benefits : chatter , chatter , female chatter , unstructured , shimmering , malicious , appreciative , acute , indulgent , shifting , rapid , unpunctuated , glancing , a light bright surface ripple on a deeper current , and Charles sat on , biting his inner lip . |
| 13 | The death of a husband would almost certainly have resurrected for Jean the complicated feelings associated with her earlier bereavement . |
| 14 | The truth behind the search for Ivan the Terrible 's fabled library |
| 15 | And that was the Fox Report , and it was indeed the Fox Report for Tuesday the ninth of October , nineteen ninety . |
| 16 | And that was the Fox Report for Tuesday the second of October nineteen ninety . |
| 17 | And that was the Fox Report for Tuesday the twenty-fifth September , nineteen ninety . |
| 18 | And that was the Fox Report for Tuesday the sixteenth of October 1990 . |
| 19 | about Murdoch the Australian inverted commas because that his , he was , I mean when I first , I , I do n't know the man but when I first knew about him in Australia he was a he supported the Labour government 's election in in Australia . |
| 20 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 21 | About Picasso a great artist |
| 22 | But for Branson a quick death had become preferable to the prospect of prolonged agony . |
| 23 | In the battle for Tunis the 152nd had lost two commanding officers in three days ; and in Italy they had fought with the Guards in bloody actions from Cassino to the Po . |
| 24 | ( First Edition ) COMPUTER experts fear ‘ virus hysteria ’ as Friday the 13th , a date beloved of perpetrators of computer viruses , approaches . |
| 25 | MICHELSON 'S FOR HARRODS The polka-dot standard in monochrome . |
| 26 | The decision to go ahead with the press conference two days later was finalised ; Pons edited a note alerting his staff to this effect , called Jones on the phone to reconfirm the joint submission for Friday the 24th but , according to Jones , said nothing about the press conference planned for the day before nor of the 11 March submission by Pons to the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry . |
| 27 | On the whole , George Milton is a good , honest man who has a difficult life to lead , looking after Lennie the simple giant . |
| 28 | Immediately after Culloden the British government resumed the policy of trying to tame the Highlands with brick and rubble . |
| 29 | There is no need to say more here about Anselm 's primatial activity : he certainly thought that the evidence was sufficiently strong for him to make a most uncompromising claim to primatial authority over the whole of the British Isles , and it is quite clear that he did not think that the Canterbury claim to this position rested on a series of specific grants by popes after Gregory the Great . |
| 30 | After Alexander the Great 's victories in the near East towards the end of the fourth century B.C. , Greek became a common tongue over a wide area . |