Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The following morning , after dropping Iris at Les Châtaigniers for the second day of her course , Melissa returned to the auberge and telephoned Antoinette Gebrec . |
| 32 | KEEGANMANIA AS THE EX-BEATLE HITS LONDON TOWN |
| 33 | Commenting on its figures ( see page five ) , Eschborn , Germany-based Linotype AG says its 1992 domestic orders fell by 6% but the company enjoyed solid gains in key foreign markets , with the US up 18% , Japan up 24% and the Middle and Far East showing gains of between 15% and 49% ; the US market surpassed Germany for the first time , and exports at the computerised printing systems and equipment company accounted for 72.1% of overall business in 1992 after 69.1% a year earlier . |
| 34 | After that , he flies to Paris for a meeting with the French President , then on to Germany for the first historic conference with the heads of all the NATO , European Community and Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 35 | Clearly , we have made great progress in bringing inflation under control and we shall soon have a lower rate of inflation than Germany for the first time in a generation . |
| 36 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 37 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 38 | The Russian army team will earn more in the four-day trip to Germany for the European Cup crunch than they would in a month back home . |
| 39 | Big stock boats came from Russia and Germany for the salted Herring and it was a busy time when they were loading . |
| 40 | Dutch kennels often travel to Germany for the larger shows . |
| 41 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 42 | Every one of the European allies by whose side she had fought against Nazi Germany for the previous two years was now defeated and occupied . |
| 43 | The 1990 Act remains firmly within the philosophy and structure of welfare provision characteristic of Germany for the past 100 years . |
| 44 | Luck had been on Cassie 's side up until now , for Stephanie had been working in Germany for the past few weeks and this circumstance had removed the necessity of proffering an invitation ; with , of course , the desirable Martin in attendance . |
| 45 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |
| 46 | Of these countries , West Germany as the highest consumption of spirits at about 8 litres a year , Portugal the lowest at 2 litres . |
| 47 | The early classical works in sociology of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were produced in France and Germany , with Emile Durkheim in France and Karl Marx and Max Weber in Germany as the outstanding figures . |
| 48 | The USA overtook Germany as the leading exporter of merchandise , with a 7.5 per cent rise in exports , and the USA was also the world 's biggest merchandise importer , with Germany second and Japan third in both categories . |
| 49 | Although the Soviet Union had become the major influence on revolutionary socialist movements since 1917 , the Communist International had always looked upon Germany as the next most likely centre for a proletarian revolution . |
| 50 | A massive product , occupying some 18Mb plus of hard disk space , with the whole of 15th Century Germany as the playing area . |
| 51 | I 've been staying with Aunt Alicia for the past six months … |
| 52 | However , we have also been very grateful to WWF/UK for the valuable grants you have provided . |
| 53 | On Oct. 1 Kebby Musokotwane , hitherto secretary-general of the previously ruling United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) , was elected party president at an extraordinary congress , succeeding former President Kenneth Kaunda who had resigned the party leadership in January ; others elected to party posts included Patrick Luvunga as vice-president , Gen. Malimba Masheke as chair and Gen. Benjamin Mibenge as the new secretary-general . |
| 54 | Burco Ltd produces and sells two products : X and Y. During the last year 700 labour hours were worked and the operating results were as follows : |
| 55 | In it he arrived , among many other discoveries , at the law of inertia later used by Isaac Newton as the first law of motion , at the parabola as the path of a projectile , at the relationships between distance and velocity and between distance and time , and at the continuity of acceleration . |
| 56 | Over 60 school pupils from all over the Strathclyde travelled to Hunterston in Mid-June for the annual Mathematical Challenge Prize Day organised by Glasgow University . |
| 57 | This was strengthened by the American admission during the exchanges that they proposed to recognise the RDC as the official consultative body in the south . |
| 58 | Orwell 's point can be extended , since these writers recognized not only the dissolution of public or social values but also the bankruptcy of private ones : it ought to be remembered that the notion of " personality " reached its apogee in Oscar Wilde during the same period of scientific and social optimism . |
| 59 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 60 | Following negotiations between the members of the ruling coalition , Franco Carraro was elected in mid-December as the first Socialist mayor of the city . |