Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was probably through the patronage of John Prideaux that Calandrini came into contact with James Ussher [ q.v. ] , later archbishop of Armagh , whom he assisted in his scholarly activities during the latter 's three-year stay in London . |
| 2 | But could you do two copies between the four er three of you . |
| 3 | In addition it was permitted to enslave prisoners of war in order to provide ancillary troops and labourers for the Turkish smallholder/soldiers . |
| 4 | I 've had two letters , one from Mrs Pauline Oliver of March , Cambridgeshire , and one from Mrs Brenda Mitchell of Shipley , West Yorkshire , about accessories for the Zippy De Luxe . |
| 5 | Furthermore , in the period after 1944 when selection for secondary schools through the 11 + examination predominated , girls ' 11 + performances were weighted differently to boys ' performances so that girls achieved fewer places than their examination results indicated , and boys achieved more places than their results merited . |
| 6 | He topped the batting averages on Durham 's tour of Zimbabwe and has earned his chance by hitting two centuries for the second X1 this season . |
| 7 | No sign of the Cosworth four-valve heads for the turbocharged V8 , though — at least not yet . |
| 8 | ‘ We used to have to go to them all and raise funds for the old Alma Mater . |
| 9 | I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to . |
| 10 | The surge of inquiries for new cars after the five per cent tax cut in the Budget was subdued by election uncertainty ; it should now become a flow of firm orders . |
| 11 | In being trusted with one delicate mission after another ( the Diplomatic Service Appeals Board , compensation for the wrongfully imprisoned Guildford Four , the grievances of the former M.I.5 officer , Colin Wallace ) Calcutt was bidding fair to become the chief of this tribe in the nineties . |
| 12 | Other attacks included : ( i ) an explosion at the offices of the French Banque Nationale de Paris in Athens on March 10 , 1989 , which a group calling itself Revolutionary Solidarity claimed was in support of the French urban guerrilla organization Action Directe ; ( ii ) a bomb attack on April 10 on a judge 's apartment in Athens for which the May 1 Revolutionary Organization claimed responsibility and threatened to attack any judge supporting the extradition to the USA of Muhammad Rashid [ see p. 36667 ] ; ( iii ) a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry on June 1 and on three government offices in Athens and Piraeus on June 13 for which the Revolutionary Popular Struggle ( ELA ) claimed responsibility ; ( iv ) car-bomb attacks on three US vehicles near Athens on Oct. 22 in which four Greeks were slightly injured and for which ELA claimed responsibility ; ( v ) a car-bomb attack on March 19 , 1990 , which injured a former senior British Petroleum executive ; and ( vi ) attacks on 12 cars belonging to East European and Arab diplomats on March 27 , for which an organization called Social Resistance claimed responsibility on behalf of the " vested rights of Third-World countries " . |
| 13 | With his long-time partner Liesl Karlstadt , Valentin performed his comic-surreal sketches and songs in Munich beer halls of the 20 's and 30's . |
| 14 | On a more positive note , the new car covers ground with a sense of stability and security all drivers should appreciate and drivers of the previous 325i could only dream about . |
| 15 | However , although the employee needs to be ‘ sold ’ the attractions of the new job/new area , it is important that questions are answered truthfully and realistically . |
| 16 | By Aug. 23 the army had regained control of both towns , but at least five people were killed in clashes in Toamasina between rival supporters of the Comité des forces vives and the MMSM . |
| 17 | He cried aloud in agitation and tried to twist free , but the sturdy thighs of the anonymous Moi girl held him fast . |
| 18 | In the church scene the words of the Anglican matins are made to allude heavily to Grimes 's troubles at almost every point : " we have erred and strayed from thy ways " just as Ellen notices the tear in the apprentice 's coat ; " 0 Lord open Thou our lips " with Ellen 's " John , what are you trying to hide ? " ; and finally " Amen " as answer to Ellen 's " We 've failed " , which Peter takes up literally in his most crucial phrase " So be it , and God have mercy upon me ! " [ 18 ] . |
| 19 | Poor Marshall unwittingly summarises the contradictions of the vigilant A&R man trying to placate two stubborn beast . |
| 20 | The hard campaigning continued and two years later , in 1985 , 21 countries signed the Helsinki Protocol , a legally binding agreement equivalent to the demands of the Thirty Per Cent Club . |
| 21 | Finally , the mutagenized plasmids were restricted with Eco RI and the Eco RI fragments with the mutagenized deoP2 promoters cloned in pJEL126 . |
| 22 | The sole reference to the peasantry in these laborious instructions was an order to open all rural reading-rooms in the surrounding volosti on 7 November . |
| 23 | Mr Mulrine said the latest application was for a single-storey extension containing eight bedrooms to be built onto the existing farmhouse , with access for drivers from the busy A68 . |
| 24 | Cool Doohan MOTORCYCLING : Michael Doohan scored a cool-headed victory in front of his home supporters in the Australian 500c motorcyling Grand Prix in Sydney today . |
| 25 | Civilian breakdown organisations more used to recovering cars from the nearby A66 broke out in a sweat when businessman David Gresty told them where his truck had been ditched . |
| 26 | The key worker system was introduced in children 's homes in the 60 's and 70's . |
| 27 | But the conjunction of hostility to competition and hostility to the kind of authoritarianism thought to be implied in ‘ old-fashioned ’ teaching was a powerful influence in many comprehensive schools in the late l960s and l970s . |
| 28 | Diversions will send traffic on to other nearby routes , meaning inevitable jams , worsened at times by roadworks on the nearby A1 at Mill Hill and the North Circular . ’ |
| 29 | Effect of cimetidines on the basal in vitro growth of MKN45 and MKN45G |
| 30 | The resort is now even easier to get to , thanks to the new A55 Expressway . |