Example sentences of "[art] [n mass] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A detailed exploration of the area has succeeded in locating the headquarters of the rebel leader who led the revolt of 66-70AD and who fought alongside the Masada rebels for several years . |
| 2 | It was an explosion which destroyed 6 Cromwell Road , Belfast , the headquarters of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | At least part of the explanation is the setback in February caused by the explosion which destroyed the headquarters of the Alliance Party in Cromwell Road , Belfast . |
| 4 | Three hundred and fifty jobs are to go at the headquarters of the credit card company Barclaycard . |
| 5 | ‘ In 10 years , it could be the headquarters of the whole of rugby league , those guys up North have run the show for too long ! ’ |
| 6 | Human rights groups also accused right-wing paramilitaries opposed to any peace settlement , or the military , of the brutal murder on July 8 of a nightwatchman at the headquarters of the Council of Marginal Communities ( CCM ) ; his wife was critically wounded in the attack . |
| 7 | By 1914 , it had become the headquarters of the Village Institute stopped generating electricity and was , in the 1930s , largely destroyed by fire . |
| 8 | The city 's police headquarters and the headquarters of the West Bengal state government , of which Calcutta is the capital , are nearby . |
| 9 | The city 's police headquarters and Writers ' Building , the headquarters of the West Bengal state government , of which Calcutta is the capital , are close to the district . |
| 10 | Until the sixties the headquarters of the Legion had been at Side Bel Abbe s in Algeria , the country which for 150 years had been the Legion 's home . |
| 11 | The collected eggs are reburied at the headquarters of the maleo reserve at Panau and left to incubate naturally but protected from predators . |
| 12 | But we still believe that even with this twenty five per cent lessening that there will be a sufficiency in the headquarters of the Education Department for advice to be given as is needed by the primary schools for the special needs . |
| 13 | The rebels seized the headquarters of the Army and the Naval Prefecture in the centre of Buenos Aires , and the Patricios infantry barracks in the suburbs , the scene of the fiercest fighting , where two loyal officers and a corporal were killed . |
| 14 | In an FMLN mortar attack on the headquarters of the Defence Ministry in the capital , San Salvador , on Feb. 19 , one person was reported killed and eight others injured . |
| 15 | Through his efforts a fine property was obtained in Kilmarnock where the headquarters of the Mission became established , and a home for deaf women was founded in Ayr . |
| 16 | With the active cooperation of members of the Northumberland and Durham Branch , and Colin Jenks from the College of Arts and Technology in Newcastle , and Branch-sponsored tuition scheme has been established in Newcastle , meeting at the headquarters of the Logic Group plc . |
| 17 | The 1.3-litre hatchback rarely managed more than 28 mpg between their home at Kidsgrove in North Staffordshire and Manchester 's Royal Infirmary and the headquarters of the North West Regional Health Authority . |
| 18 | On May 3 sources at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) in Brussels claimed that on Feb. 25 , the day of major opposition demonstrations in Moscow and across the country [ see p. 37322-23 ] , a division of up to 6,000 heavily armed troops had been mobilized on the outskirts of Moscow . |
| 19 | The monument , in Dzerzhinsky Square opposite the Lubyanka , the headquarters of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) , consisted simply of a granite boulder brought from the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea , site of one of the first camps for political prisoners established under Soviet rule . |
| 20 | At 7 a.m. the same morning Lance Buckmaster arrived at the headquarters of the company he had founded in Threadneedle Street , World Security & Communications Ltd . |
| 21 | British Steel 's Corby Works , the headquarters of the company 's Welded Tubes business , has had a presence in the town since the early 1930s . |
| 22 | On 22 November four members of the strike committee ( among them two women , Jayaben Desai and Yasu Patel ) went on hunger strike outside the headquarters of the Trade Union Congress in London . |
| 23 | Jaq had learned all this during his training in the headquarters of the Inquisition , that labyrinth many contorted thousands of kilometres in extent which cut through the bed-rock deep beneath the massive concealing ice-cap of Earth 's south polar continent . |
| 24 | One of those oaths bound him never to return to Earth , never to revisit the headquarters of the Inquisition , nor the even more elusive bastion of the Ordo Malleus . |
| 25 | Now you can there is no way that an opted out school on its own could repeat the exercise which was done by and absolutely excellent staff at the headquarters of the Local Education Authority , who managed to achieve this great success . |
| 26 | Most of the Andean stations have an abandoned air and see few trains , although those in the capital cities derive a certain faded grandeur from the fact that their buildings often incorporate the headquarters of the railway companies . |
| 27 | Working members enjoy the social life at Llanfair Caereinion the headquarters of the railway , there are numerous hostelries and eating places within the village , a walking distance from the B R sleeping coach which offers an overnight rate of £1 per person . |
| 28 | It is a narrow gauge Pacific 4-6-2 locomotive designed to operate on the railway and way built in the workshops at Kingsmere , the headquarters of the railway in the Moors Valley Country Park . |
| 29 | product of an ancient and powerful Tory family ( his father , Lord Salisbury , had been Prime Minister ) , Cecil combined leadership of a non-party mass organization with an insider role both at Westminster and Geneva , the headquarters of the League of Nations . |
| 30 | The headquarters of the League became a club where members could go for a drink and where Joyce served behind the bar . |