Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She takes over from Susan George and before that Jan Francis in the show . |
| 2 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 3 | It dates from the days of Charlemagne , Charles the Great , who signed a treaty of mutual assistance with the legendary Scots King Achaius against the Saxons about 800 A.D. In historical times the links between Scotland and France have been close at every level from the monarchy , to trade and language . |
| 4 | At a public meeting in Barking Town Hall Wilson repeated the message to a wider audience , advising all the strikers in London to return to work , denouncing a prayer offered up on Tower Hill by the fiery Ben Tillett for the death of Lord Devonport , the Chairman of the Port of London Authority , assuring the men present that a just settlement could be achieved and declaring his intention of ordering his 4,000 London members back to their jobs . |
| 5 | IAN RUTHERFORD Looking ahead with apprehension : A dockyard worker contemplates the future after yesterday 's grim news A grim-faced Allan Smith at the yard yesterday after the news was announced |
| 6 | Although his career may be on the wane , he should still prove a useful asset to Ballymena , who just pipped top Junior side Coleraine for the veteran 's services . |
| 7 | With the addition of the two seats held by Moledet , the coalition now held 66 seats in the 120-member Knesset [ see p. 37872 for addition of four-member Agudat Yisrael to the coalition in November 1990 ] . |
| 8 | A pre-tax income OA on the horizontal axis corresponds to the same post-tax income OA on the vertical axis . |
| 9 | Hunter F.51 E-412 in the colours of 43 Squadron RAF outside the new aircraft hall . |
| 10 | The plague bacillus , known by the Latin name Yersinia pestis , was carried on marmot skins by fur traders travelling along the old Silk Road from the East . |
| 11 | The headquarters of the KGB is 2 Dzerzhinsky Square in the heart of Moscow , close to the Kremlin , and incorporates the site of the notorious Lubyanka prison where so many opponents of the Russian regime have been tortured and murdered . |
| 12 | ‘ I was about to visit old Will Yaxley at The Pightle , ’ Frere volunteered eventually . |
| 13 | I do not recall much of the plot but all through childhood and beyond I have remained haunted by vivid remembered images : little leprechauns in mad underground celebration dancing round pots of gold , leaping over plundered treasures ; Michael and Katy skipping hand in hand through the fields ; the jaunty , laughing , Guinness swilling , devil may care Darby with his pub stories , his sideways philosophy and his battles of wit with the wily King Brian of the leprechauns ; but mainly , and most frighteningly , the dreaded death coach with its headless coachman come to call Darby 's soul on the one way trip to hell . |
| 14 | She and Horatia , her daughter by Nelson , were taken from their house in Fulham to a Lock-up or Sponging House within the ‘ Rules ’ ( boundaries ) of the King 's Bench Prison in Southwark — no. 12 Temple Place on the east side of Blackfriars Road where it joins St George 's Circus , one of a terrace of twenty houses . |
| 15 | It would be wrong to assert that Ayrshire 's claim to Old King Cole of the nursery rhyme can be substantiated beyond reasonable doubt but only the foolish would ridicule the ancient legend . |
| 16 | We are now seeking experts for long and short term assignments in Francophone West Africa in the following disciplines : |
| 17 | French West Africa in the late 1940s might not seem the most urgent subject for your attention . |
| 18 | So I mean you 're not gon na say well let's go and get another Ian Wright off the peg so fair enough . |
| 19 | What 's this Monte Viso in the horizon of which you operate ? ’ |
| 20 | THATCHED HOUSE LODGE 5 October : Princess Alexandra , attended by Lady Mary Mumford , left Royal Air Force Benson this morning in an aircraft of The Queen 's Flight to visit the Caribbean Dependent Territories of Montserrat and the British Virgin Islands in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricane Hugo . |
| 21 | Her sister did not reply , confused by the question , and the anxiety that had been aroused by those few moments , during which two men had helped old Eleanor Thorne down the front path and into a waiting ambulance . |
| 22 | DEFENDING champions Ajax Amsterdam were knocked out of the UEFA Cup last night when a 1–0 home victory was not enough to claw back a 4–2 first leg deficit to French club Auxerre in the quarter-finals . |
| 23 | In return for permission to reside on Henderson , Smiley Ratliff has promised to provide the inhabitants of nearby Pitcairn Island with the use of his proposed airstrip , a launch to ferry them the 90 or so miles between Pitcairn and Henderson . |
| 24 | One interesting find was a pre-war Dinky car , identified by a helper with the words : ‘ Oh yes , that 's the 20 horse-power Rolls Royce with the Mulliner body . |
| 25 | ‘ And me thinking of old Al Bowlly in the Blitz , London , fog in the streets . |
| 26 | But composer Sir Andrew says Moore is now in the running to play ageing lothario George in the £15 million film , although he is also considering Michael Caine for the part . |
| 27 | For the critic William Feaver , Treasure Island represents Minton 's greatest triumph as an illustrator , ‘ a surge of inky hysterics extending from the first creak of the shivering timbers of the Old Admiral Benbow to the vividly contrived Spyglass Hill ’ . |
| 28 | I thought I was very abnormal to have created this second Lily from the real one . |
| 29 | We come this Advent Sunday to the wonderful season of hope . |
| 30 | ‘ About someone called Angela Morgan whom you or another F. Wilson at the DTI had lunch with a couple of weeks ago . |