Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the authors lived in St Helens for the last three weeks of the strike , becoming as immersed as possible in all aspects of the activities of the strike committee . |
| 2 | I should like to take this opportunity to thank all the employees of Johnson Matthey for the skilled and dedicated service that resulted in this year 's record performance |
| 3 | Stourport 's Imran Sherwani was in Swindon for the qualifying rounds of the National Championships . |
| 4 | Many of the best women tennis players from home and abroad will be competing in Swindon for the next 7 days . |
| 5 | Mick and Lisa Hayes have lived at Haydon Wick in Swindon for the past 9 years . |
| 6 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 7 | The parade complete , all repair to the NAAFI for the traditional celebratory drink . |
| 8 | In general , we have to thank the Orient for the early breeds and North America for the late ones . |
| 9 | The Art Master , Mr. J.T. Stanley , had led archaeological digs to Bakewell for the Sixth Form and organized his first foreign visit to the Pyrenees . |
| 10 | Across the Mersey , Wirral 's civic heads congregated in Wallasey for the wreath-laying ceremony . |
| 11 | TUESDAY , November 3 , was an historic day for the Diocese when Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Crowley as the Sixth Bishop of Middlesbrough Diocese . |
| 12 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 13 | The policies of the Fabians were described by Beatrice Webb during the 1890s as ‘ essentially collective ownership wherever practicable ; collective regulation everywhere else ; collective provision according to need for all the impotent and sufferers ; and collective taxation in proportion to wealth ’ . |
| 14 | By an editor 's mistake we described ( March 17th ) the drug baron Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha as the Colombian government 's main surviving enemy . |
| 15 | Murray slip : Britain 's athletics selectors were left with red faces again today after picking world indoor champion Yvonne Murray for the wrong event at the European Cup . |
| 16 | It appeared to Nizan as the only realistic method of conducting human affairs in a civilised manner . |
| 17 | I still regard ITN as the premier television news operation in this country . |
| 18 | Inspection of this helical pattern , together with the distribution in December 1953 of a report by Franklin of her work , gave crucial information to Watson and Francis Crick for the final building of their DNA model in February–March 1953 . |
| 19 | In Turkestan , the issues were at their most stark , for the province was cut off from Moscow during the Civil War . |
| 20 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 21 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 22 | However , there was high praise from Pringle for the Scottish bowlers . |
| 23 | There 's only one fresh face at Kingsholm for the new season … but that 's the all important one … |
| 24 | At the same time as the appointment on July 10 , 1989 , of Gen. Isidro Cáceres as the new Army Chief of Staff [ see p. 36810 ] , Rear-Adml . |
| 25 | But while international and long-distance tariffs have been reduced especially in the USA and Britain — the gap between costs and prices remains massive ; the price charged by Intelsat for the transocean telephone call from Paris or London to New York is multiplied by something like ten times when the customer is billed . |
| 26 | Other spellings — Kyese , Keise , Keese — are known to have been recorded in the shires of Gloucester , Worcester and Hereford during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , but today only the style Keyse is found in that area , and Kease appears nowhere except in the author 's own ancestral bloodline . |
| 27 | He was joined by Richard Van Allan as the Grand Inquisitor , and these two bass-baritones supplied the power and nobility which had been wanting . |
| 28 | Former technical director , Valeriu Irimescu , who coached Romania during the late 70s and early 80s , has also left for France . |
| 29 | Like many of Nicolae Ceauşescu 's critics within the Romanian Communist Party , Borila had been an émigré from Romania during the 1930s . |
| 30 | Clearchus wrote a dialogue on sleep , in which he introduced his master Aristotle as the main speaker . |