Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] the [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When English merchants moved out into the world beyond Europe , it was natural enough that the Spice Islands became their ultimate objective . |
| 2 | The axis of the great shift in the world ran between Bonn and Moscow , and if Britain was nominally closer to it all than the United States , its political leaders had even less to say . |
| 3 | Erm you 'll see sir in my submissions that I 've proposed a rewording of criterion three so that the Greater York new settlement should be located as close to the outer boundary of the as of the York greenbelt as is consistent with greenbelt policy . |
| 4 | COMPANIES in the offshore oil business were urged yesterday to change their thinking on ways of operating so that the North Sea could compete with other areas seeking shares of limited investment funds . |
| 5 | The move could force the city of Albuquerque to spend US$250 million cleaning up its water waste so that the Rio Grande is clean enough to drink in religious ceremonies when it reaches Isleta Pueblo , 20 kilometres downstream from the city . |
| 6 | With the crowd being the most volatile in the Caribbean — rioting held up play for 25 minutes during the Test against India in 1989 -there might be some trouble but only if the West Indies are faring badly , rather than as a result of any anti-South African sentiment . |
| 7 | Decisions on the administration of Korea had to be reached swiftly and the United States would be dependent on Soviet goodwill at first , since American forces were not immediately available to occupy south Korea . |
| 8 | France wanted to cancel Argentina 's tour this year , eventually compromising by reducing it to three matches only because the Argentine RU said ‘ If we ca n't come to France , you ca n't come here ’ . |
| 9 | This was long before the De Lorean affair began to cast its long shadow over Chapman 's empire , but the two incidents served to keep me on my toes . |
| 10 | A powerful Japan could work either for or against South Korea ; so long as the United States exercised a controlling influence over Japan , it would work for rather than against South Korea . |
| 11 | ‘ It was such a cold day , ’ said Ianthe , ‘ and you 're not allowed to eat in the Public Record Office , so I thought just for once … = ’ She stopped , feeling that too much attention was being drawn to her and that they ought to be getting on with their work , especially as the Ash Wednesday service had made them late coming back from lunch . |
| 12 | Addington , rather than the Younger Pitt , can therefore be regarded as the father of modern British taxation . |
| 13 | It was the City banks with mercantile connections , rather than the West End houses used by the landed classes , who moved into this relationship — less surprising than it seems , for , as Joslin pointed out , the country banks had themselves most often grown from country merchant or manufacturing activities . |
| 14 | If 58 per cent expected the USSR rather than the United States ( 21 per cent ) to be the guilty party , only 40 per cent approved of American policy and 35 per cent were critical . |
| 15 | The feel of the neck is very similar to that of an early Gibson SG , rather than the Les Paul which one might be expecting — somewhat shallower and feeling a little wider . |
| 16 | First in the world to deploy an ICBM , it took the Soviet Union ten years longer than the United States to develop a reliable guidance system ; it has also taken 25 years to develop a quiet nuclear submarine , and having set the pace with anti-satellite weapons , the USSR may already have fallen behind the United States in this field . |
| 17 | Esler Dening commented that he had always suspected that the Americans had not appreciated the full significance of what they had taken on in Korea ; it appeared that they were unwilling to accept the consequences of being located in an area of Soviet predominance and it would be regrettable in its implications elsewhere if the United States retreated . |
| 18 | It can not be argued so categorically that this was the sole source of the style in the twelfth century or that it would not soon have developed in a similar manner elsewhere if the Île de France had not then produced it . |
| 19 | In the complexes studied so far , the S-S distance is approximately , which indicates a bond order between zero and one ( a S-S single bond length is approximately and the van der Waals ' contact is between in the direction of the S-S bond and perpendicular to the S-S bond ) . |
| 20 | Weak demand for windows for homes is being offset elsewhere and the West Midlands property developments and disposals are helping to keep the leap in interest charges within bounds . |
| 21 | An anti-Fascist march soon after the Cable Street incident was the occasion for Mosley 's supporters to go on the rampage in the Mile End Road , smashing the windows of shops whose owners were Jewish and inflicting injury at random . |
| 22 | More striking still , fragments of the shell of Cassis rufa from the Grotte des Enfants near Mentone came from as far away as the Indian Ocean . |
| 23 | It is also known that the Indus Valley civilization was far more extensive than formerly realised , embracing areas as far away as the Oxus River , now called Amu Darya , in Central Asia and forming part of the Soviet Afghanistan border on its course . |
| 24 | The people had to be obedient to the ruler and not question his government , just as the Yellow River was feared and respected . |
| 25 | Just as the Red Sea parted for the Israelites , Claudia thought , not at all surprised at their easy passage . |
| 26 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 27 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |
| 28 | Billy Callender , Palace 's regular goalkeeper from 1926–32 , was thought by some of his contemporaries to have sufficient skill and character to follow his illustrious predecessor , Jack Alderson , not just as the Crystal Palace custodian but also the full England International Side itself . |
| 29 | Just as the Yarm Road scanner magnet was being installed , the future of another sophisticated scanner planned for Darlington was being decided . |
| 30 | The regime continues to feel that it has two chief enemies : Iraq locally and the United States , the Great Satan , farther off . |