Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last stanza of ‘ Exequy ’ is a summing-up of the kind of rituals described by Frazer in Adonis Attis Osiris where in the declining year the representative of the year-spirit was put to death , often by burning . |
| 2 | And as a Warsaw Pact leader they know him more intimately in the Kremlin than in the West . |
| 3 | Child care policy and practice in the United Kingdom , Flanders , and the Netherlands appear to be converging towards family and community-oriented services , although the pace of change seems to be slower in Flanders than in the other two countries . |
| 4 | Thus between 1900 and 1910 considerably more people migrated to the United States than during the entire period with which this book is concerned . |
| 5 | In a recent analysis that compared economic evaluations of the same intervention ( a new drug ) performed by identical methods in four countries , Drummond et al showed that although the drug was 36% more expensive in the United States than in the three European Community ( EC ) countries considered , it was also more cost effective in the United States because of the relative price and use of other health care resources compared with those in the EC ( such as the higher charges for surgical operations ) . |
| 6 | In the 1988 — 9 financial year , the poll tax would have resulted in 53 per cent of households paying less tax in Haringey than under the old rating system . |
| 7 | As the girl had said there was no way out of Albert Tarace except down the steep hill to the road by the shore . |
| 8 | It 'll complicate negotiations between Mr DeKlerk and Mr Mandela if at the same time as those negotiations continue , er Mrs Mandela is on trial which may of course be prolonged . |
| 9 | I like Alice in Wonderland because of the funny creatures and because they talk like people except it is not what you expect . |
| 10 | They reported that there was no difference between the first three prize-winners , and so he had appointed Scott because of the genius loci . |
| 11 | Bank fishing is verboten on Strathbeg because of the importance to nesting birds of surrounding marsh-lands , privacy being essential when engaged in the serious business of propitiating species . |
| 12 | He understood what she meant about Slorne because as the days and weeks had grown into months he had found great comfort in her strange and silent presence . |
| 13 | In a recent analysis that compared economic evaluations of the same intervention ( a new drug ) performed by identical methods in four countries , Drummond et al showed that although the drug was 36% more expensive in the United States than in the three European Community ( EC ) countries considered , it was also more cost effective in the United States because of the relative price and use of other health care resources compared with those in the EC ( such as the higher charges for surgical operations ) . |
| 14 | Additionally , there is also an economically driven swing towards higher quality crudes , which will benefit LASMO because of the composition of its portfolio . |
| 15 | This topic is particularly important in Mexico because of the earthquake which shook the city , and because of the massive size of Mexico City , the world 's largest city . |
| 16 | President Alfredo Cristiani , who had threatened on Nov. 11 to break off UN-sponsored peace talks in Mexico because of the FMLN 's continuing sabotage of electricity installations , said that the government would take action to consolidate the ceasefire , and on Nov. 21 he announced that troops would suspend aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of guerrilla positions . |
| 17 | Gregory 's account becomes exceptional in the second decade of the sixth century with the election of Quintianus , who had fled from his see at Rodez because of the Visigoths . |
| 18 | French sports minister Frederique Bredin is boycotting the Springboks ' opening match in Bordeaux on Saturday because of the make-up of the squad . |
| 19 | The game has been put back from next Tuesday because of the Old Trafford second leg . |
| 20 | They chose Whitehaven as their base , after fleeing from their native Hungary because of the Nazi threat , setting up the company originally known as West Cumberland Silk Mills . |
| 21 | Mr Rabin cut short a US trip on Friday because of the wave of violence . |
| 22 | In Section Two , leaders Bangor have a tough trip to Down while at the bottom , RUC have a chance to close the gap on South Antrim when they meet the Lisburn team at Newforge . |
| 23 | Punters ' money might well have drifted towards Pakistan but for the uncertainty over Javed Miandad 's fitness . |
| 24 | As indicated above , the Cuban revolution induced Soviet leaders to modify the view ( hitherto almost as firmly believed in the Kremlin as in the White House ) that the Latin American nations were destined to remain trapped in a position of subservience to the United States . |
| 25 | One reason the 1989 regulations were passed was to satisfy the United States as to the protection offered in the United Kingdom , otherwise there might have been some doubt as to whether topographies derived from the United Kingdom would have been afforded protection in the United States . |
| 26 | This is as true for a line of music by Mozart or Gershwin as for the skyline of Salisbury Cathedral of the Taj Mahal . |
| 27 | One of his most recent historical discoveries was that he was Victor Edmund on his birth certificate , and not Victor Edward as on the cover of his book ! |
| 28 | I believe Warwick changed over to using steel truss rods about eight or nine months ago but I would urge owners to have their basses checked as soon as possible , and would appreciate some kind of response from Warwick as to the precise situation . |
| 29 | ( Did an Edwina Currie when at the MMB , by speaking out against cows being injected with a hormone that can increase yields but which , she feared , would cause consumers to feel milk was not ‘ natural ’ . |
| 30 | Latin America is familiar territory for many in ELT although in the '80s it was sometimes neglected . |