Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the reaction might have been different if Philip the Fair , rather than St Louis had been king of France at that time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | James Macdonald 's searingly-acted production gives us Kathryn Pogson as Sandy , an elegant collection of angry bones who is even more frightening than Joe the husband who punches and kicks her , then tells her to take off her clothes . |
| 4 | After his death his empire could barely be sustained by the new rulers ( including Charles the Bald and Charles the Fat — is it possible to hold an empire together when the populace is taking the mickey out of you to that extent ? ) and crumbled away over a period of two centuries . |
| 5 | In a country as large as Australia the need for transportation fuels is paramount and even to keep growth down to this level will mean continuing efforts at economy by use of smaller cars and the replacement of oil-fired by coal-fired power stations . |
| 6 | Licensing agent Janet Lees added : ‘ It 's difficult to give a total but Thomas the Tank made £250 million in the UK alone . ’ |
| 7 | Identical twins , dwarves , ghosts , the love lives of Caligula and Catherine the Great and Vlad the Impaler , Nordic iceclouds , Atlantis , the dodo . |
| 8 | WHAT do Alfred the Great and Sonic the Hedgehog have in common ? |
| 9 | At 1l o'clock in the morning they had met-Curzon , Cecil , Long and Chamberlain-in the Secretary of State 's room at the India Office . |
| 10 | The bloodless Norman conquest initiated by David I in Scotland was almost as effective as William the Conqueror 's had been in England 60 years earlier . |
| 11 | But Luke also makes it plain that John the Baptist , through his mother , was descended from the priestly dynastic succession of Aaron — which would mean , of course , that Jesus was too . |
| 12 | best on the nineteenth money , finance has become a little shaky as Saturn the planet of restriction approaches to Venus on the twenty sixth , this is not a time for speculation . |
| 13 | Other than Strokkur the Geysir site is a little disappointing . |
| 14 | Sooty and Muffin the Mule |