Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In January 1980 a Soviet commentator noted that according to the admissions of the American State Department ‘ the leaders of Egypt , Oman , Somalia and Kenya have agreed to grant the Pentagon the right to use the ports and a number of military installations in their countries ’ . |
| 2 | Mitterrand and Thatcher were said to be ‘ in harmony ’ over the EEC the day before France said it was opposed to flexible arrangements for the British contribution to the EEC . |
| 3 | The crucial difference , however , is that over half of this amount went on defence ( which is comparable to the USA ) whereas in the EEC the proportion was one-quarter and in Japan zero . |
| 4 | Within the EEC the commitment to the Community seemed to be less ; or at least it was rather different . |
| 5 | Britain should give the EEC the sort of leadership that France would not and West Germany could not provide . |
| 6 | It was the Office of Woods and Forests which offered the RAF the site at the head of the Whitehall Stairs on Victoria Embankment , and the Memorial Fund gratefully accepted the offer . |
| 7 | On the Moscow Petrograd line workers reported in the middle of February that they had not been paid for all January ; in the Caucasus the backlog in August stretched back to October 1921 . |
| 8 | The Head of Department is responsible for discussing and agreeing with the Dean the withdrawal of modules from the course as a result of low recruitment or resource problems . |
| 9 | For a split second Joseph looked as agitated as he had been on the Jonquil the day after the murder . |
| 10 | People boasted to journalists , it might not be at all difficult to get Tim to say exactly what had happened on the Jonquil the night Sabine Jourdain was killed . |
| 11 | In Kenya , though there was relatively little pressure for further alienation of Masai land after the second Masai move , what pressure there was was resisted by the administration , and R.W. Hemsted tried repeatedly to retrieve for the Masai the land alienated to Powys Cobb , which contained streams of crucial importance to Masai stock . |
| 12 | During 1985–6 in the Caribbean the script-writer was still West Indian . |
| 13 | Similarly the FDP campaign was dominated by Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the longstanding Foreign Minister who had also played a leading role in the unification process , and FDP posters urged the electorate to " Vote for the Germany the world trusts ! " . |
| 14 | An alternative introduced last year , is the Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education — the C.P.V.E. The aim of this course is to enable students to develop their general education in a broad vocational context . |
| 15 | He had never come across an electric cooker before , as in the Netherlands the cooking and heating are done by natural gas . |
| 16 | The euthanasia law was a broadly backed compromise worked out after 20 years of exhaustive public debate and has given the Netherlands the world 's most lenient policy on mercy killing . |
| 17 | This condition is a constant feature of the Apterygota , where it is a primitive character , but in the Pterygota the loss of Wings is secondary ( La Greca , 1954 ) . |
| 18 | This is seen , correctly , as potentially very rewarding for the domestic industry , and in some First World non-hegemon countries and in the NICs the supply of materials and components , for example to the automobile TNCs , has certainly been economically rewarding . |
| 19 | Furthermore , water running down the outside of the Pertex helps to draw out some of the water that penetrated through to the Parameta.a The rest stays there and evaporates in the wind or trickles down between the layers . |
| 20 | In the Jura the Tithonian can be seen in places to be a coral reef limestone , but usually the corals have been obliterated by dolomitisation and dedolomitisation as is commonly the fate of reefs . |
| 21 | Set in beautiful parkland 15 minutes only from Birmingham City Centre , 20 minutes from Birmingham Airport and The NEC the hotel is the perfect location for the travelling business person , easy access from M6 , M5 , M40 and M42 . |
| 22 | The Wedgwood Group business comprises the manufacture , distribution and retailing of high quality bone china tableware and giftware by Wedgwood together with quality earthenware tableware by Johnson Brothers and the distribution of crystal products in world markets other than Ireland and the U.S.A. The Company 's principal subsidiary companies as at 31 December 1992 are listed on the inside back cover . |
| 23 | It would seem that on the basis of recent research in the U.S.A. the answer would be ‘ no ’ as it has been suggested that even a panel of eight is too small to obtain consistent and reliable results . |
| 24 | The most mouthwatering specimens tend to be found in limestones — famous sites are in the Silurian rocks of England and Mississipian rocks of the U.S.A. The group as a whole had a major crisis in the Permian , during which most of the Palaeozoic forms died out . |
| 25 | On the Brother , if the Part button nearest the knitting is in , or on the Toyota you 've chosen the Empty control nearest the knitting , or on the Knitmaster the side lever nearest the knitting is forward , then the NEXT row will slip . |
| 26 | Here we go again , said everyone , and they were right ; on the first two days there had been plenty of cloud to help the bowlers , but on the Saturday the sun shone and West Indies made the most of it . |
| 27 | The Army team 's last hope in the Inter-Service Championship disappeared at Aldershot last week when they lost 2–0 to the Royal Navy , after being beaten by the R.A.F. the week before . |
| 28 | In the ECM the avoidance of reserve requirements , etc. , permits the payment of higher interest on deposits ( competition forced these cost savings to be passed on to depositors ) while large loans are arranged in many cases by telephone or telex , and thus operating costs are kept to a minimum . |
| 29 | A spokeswoman said : ‘ It was a wonderful donation and because it was so generous we gave the Leas the chance to name the two dogs . ’ |
| 30 | A spokeswoman for The Guide Dog for the Blind Centre at Middlesbrough said : ‘ It was a wonderful donation and because it was so generous we gave the Leas the chance to name the two dogs . ’ |