Example sentences of "[coord] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Mediterranean or Caribbean the peak sunlight lasts longer and is more reliable , while the wind 's strength is frequently weaker than in the UK . |
| 2 | No more dolies or William the bear to cuddle and hug , no more fairy stories at nanny 's knee it is all aboard the fairy bus for the dungeons . |
| 3 | It is little wonder , therefore , that during those parts of the year which were spent at Saint Cloud , Compiègne or Fontainebleau the emphasis should have been placed on greater informality . |
| 4 | Is there a single Escort , Allegro or Sierra the length and breadth of the land which is n't emblazoned with some message the driver is desperate to convey to fellow motorists ? |
| 5 | A famed enchantress , known also as Morgaine le Fee , or Morgana the Fairy . |
| 6 | By June or July the insect may have gone . |
| 7 | If Peter is actually a ‘ tough ’ whose nickname means ‘ Rocky ’ , is it not possible to equate him with the fierce individual known as Simon Zelotes or Simon the Canaanite — to equate him , that is , with Simon the Zealot ? |
| 8 | Such association as there was between Stoker 's vampire and the historical Vlad IV of Wallachia ( 1431–76 ) , known as Vlad Dracula or Vlad the Impaler , may have been suggested by his friend Arminius Vambery , a Hungarian professor learned in Transylvanian folklore . |
| 9 | I 'd said warily , expecting Lorne or Meadowbrook or Frank the Phone . |
| 10 | If I had followed a different route through Bradford or Brixton the complexion of this story would have transformed some of its objectives : whiteness and blackness would have encountered each other dramatically . |
| 11 | BLACK AND WHITE Hohner Rockwood Guitar & Bass The budget guitar market is teeming with brigands and ne'er-do-wells … |
| 12 | Whether the artist of these three was Mikon or Polygnotos the evidence does not allow us to say . |
| 13 | He says Alsys has not decided whether to make Soft Bench or Atherton the backplane of the Thomson Ada software engineering thrust . |
| 14 | There is a cult of the Holy Spirit , and often it has precious little to say about Jesus or God the Father . |
| 15 | In possibly solving a problem in relation to stamp duty or SDRT the arrangement may throw up problems in other areas : ( 1 ) Section 89(4) of CA 1985 ( statutory pre-emption rights ) provides that the statutory pre-emption rights do not apply to a particular allotment of equity shares if these are , or are to be , wholly or partly paid up otherwise than in cash . |
| 16 | Whilst the manner of non-statutory assessment is a matter for the school or LEA the Act prescribes a formal assessment procedure . |
| 17 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |
| 18 | Last Tuesday or Wednesday the traffic on UUNet over this BSDI suit ( see front page ) got so heavy the protesters formed their own group ( alt.suit.att-bsdi ) — and this before the news hits the fan that the University of California , Berkeley is being brought up on charges too . |
| 19 | If Judas Thomas , or Jude the Twin , were indeed Jesus 's twin brother , what would have been his status among his contemporaries ? |
| 20 | One of those to die was a naturalist and an Admiral in the Roman Navy , Caius Plinius or Pliny the Elder , who was a much-respected man and widely-known in his own time . |
| 21 | We would be marching along in perfect time , waiting for the cue to start a new verse , when suddenly Da Silva , or Gionesca the Italian , who were both incapable of marching correctly , would pipe up by themselves . |
| 22 | Or Sammy the Dinosaur ? |
| 23 | Richard Kahan , the Battery Park commissioner , awarded Olympia & York the contract when Reichmann guaranteed payment of several hundred million on the city 's bonds which were due the next year . |
| 24 | ALLEN & HARRIS THE ESTATE AGENTS |
| 25 | As in Yugoslavia or Bulgaria the task of the school is clearly defined . |
| 26 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 27 | A new French-German television channel called simply ‘ Arte ’ is to broadcast programmes on the visual arts , theatre , dance , music , cinema and documentaries on the European frequency formerly occupied by Italian media magnate Berlusconi & C. The channel has been created from the merger of two public networks , Arte Deutschland TV GmbH ( Germany ) and la Sept ( France ) and should soon be transmitted throughout Europe . |
| 28 | Or Thomas the Tank Engine on meeting Diesel . |
| 29 | Otto Preminger — or Otto the Ogre — was another Viennese-born film director who established himself as a man many loved to hate . |
| 30 | Lothar promised to attack neither Charles nor Louis the German — which suggests that Charles and Louis were already in touch . |