Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 That is the struggle between Milton the poet and Milton the puritan .
2 There are clear parallels between Hayek the economist , concerned with the analysis of market and command economic systems , and Hayek the political theorist , attentive to the conditions of order and freedom in society .
3 It 's significant too that , especially in the later Books , Nithard expresses increasing admiration for Louis the German .
4 The mist looked as though it had been created by the BBC special effects department for a studio play about Jack the Ripper , and yards away I could hear voices without being able to see the humans making the sound .
5 Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits .
6 The answer to the question ‘ who sold to Z ? ’ depends upon whether Y was a buyer and re-seller or whether he was merely an agent for X. The answer is not helped by the fact that people who are in fact buyers and resellers are often termed in the trade ‘ agents . ’
7 Friends raise funds for Mark THE family and friends of autistic five-year-old Mark Mason have raised £1,400 to buy special computer equipment to help him communicate and make better progress at the special school he attends in York .
8 Similarly prolific and passionate in their dedication were Canon Roger Lloyd , author of , among other works , The Fascination of Railways , Canon Reginald Fellows , researcher into the history of Bradshaw , Canon Victor Whitechurch , creator of the fictional railway detective Thorpe Hazell , and Revd Wilbert Awdrey , author of the much-loved children 's books about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends .
9 Books about Mary the Woman — almost , one feels , Mary the little woman ( if only metaphorically , given her physical size ) ; books about her marriages , at the level of personal relationships ; books about her Italian secretary Rizzio , Darnley and the Casket Letters ; all these make her personality , whether good or evil , an end in itself .
10 English Nature is discussing with the London borough of Greenwich the adoption of a management plan for the wood .
11 The centrepiece of this delightful sleepy village on the outskirts of Middlesbrough the winner of a ‘ Britain in Bloom ’ award , is the Parish Church where James Cook Senior and Grace Pace , Cook 's parents , were married in 1725 .
12 By the time they reached the outskirts of Portsmouth the rain had practically stopped , but the sky was still slate grey and threatening .
13 It was his arrival at Nijmegen in 837 that made the Vikings withdraw , and his leadership of the Rhineland campaign in the winter of 838 – 9 that caused the rapid collapse of Louis the German 's revolt .
14 Rivalry with France was one theme in the centuries of empire to come , but after the loss of Calais the English concentrated on capturing French colonies or in restraining French attempts to dominate Europe rather than on trying to make anything substantial out of the nominal claim to the French crown that English kings asserted until 1801 .
15 With the loss of Southwark the project organisers had to find another similar London borough .
16 Her husband the earl was brother-in-law of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror 's cousin .
17 In the Norfolk manor of Forncett the policy of leasing the demesne was adopted between 1358 and 1373 , but on some of the Percy lands the practice did not appear till later .
18 Amongst the offices listed are the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds and that of bailiff of the Manor of Northstead the existence of which is nominal only but ‘ appointment' ’ of a Member of Parliament to which is the traditional manner of resigning a seat .
19 Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own .
20 I can not forget the visits I paid to Norwich and sat quietly in the reconstructed cell of Julian the hermitess of Norwich , meditating on the Sixteen Shewings of Divine Love which she received in May 1373 .
21 " In the name of God be it Amen , the xxthe day of the Monthe of Marche the yere of our Lorde after thaccompt of the Churche of Englond Mcccclxxxvijth and the iijde yere of the Reigne of King Henry the Vijth …
22 In the United States of America the validity of ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ legislation has been challenged as being contrary to the Constitution and Federal copyright legislation .
23 Subsoil East and north-east of Sézanne the subsoil is substantially chalk , both Belemnite and Micraster .
24 And as top Australian journalist Richard Shears sums up in his stylish appraisal of Kylie the phenomenon : ‘ At the end of the year Britons will be able to make up their own minds when Delinquents is released .
25 SCHOOL pupils skipping classes to play with the latest piece of Sonic the Hedgehog software could find another computer is at work to track them down .
26 Russia in 1917 had indeed been ripe for socialist revolution ; Lenin had applied the science of society with brilliant precision ; and under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism the party had provided unfailing leadership of the working masses from that day to this .
27 Creature comforts of George the kid
28 He became the secretary of a standing committee of veterinary surgeons dedicated to petitioning the Privy Council for a Royal Charter ‘ conferring upon the graduates of the Royal Veterinary College and the College of Edinburgh the title of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons , upon the same plan and constitution as the present Royal College of Surgeons ’ .
29 In his deep distress at seeing the empty bottle , the words of Paul the apostle came to him :
30 Remembering the words of Nehemiah the prophet :
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