Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A USSR Supreme Soviet resolution on Feb. 20 gave the Georgian leadership three days to extend a state of emergency throughout South Ossetia , to disarm paramilitary gangs and to restore electricity and food supplies , or face having those measures imposed ( the existing state of emergency covered only Tskhinvali and the Dzhava district ) . |
| 2 | The Phantom 's is obviously ebony but the Teardrop 's looks more like rosewood . |
| 3 | The abuse heaped upon Labour 's devolution proposals by the SNP during the general election is a recent-enough reminder that the SNP is a party of no compromise . |
| 4 | The ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ was mythical , but fifteenth-century Atlantic charts suggest that belief in lands across the ocean was not uncommon , and there is more than just possibility that the Bristol men had heard of some landfall in them before 1480 , perhaps when ships had been blown off course by abnormal wind conditions . |
| 5 | It was now possible — and also politically essential — to give serious thought to the defence of continental Europe , and to ways in which a Soviet offensive might be halted no further west than the Rhine . |
| 6 | Postmarks were for the most part no further north than the Midlands . |
| 7 | Jerry Brown , the Democrats ' dark horse in the presidential primaries , is settled in a worn armchair , cradling a 10-month-old baby called Peter , whose eyes are vacant because he was born with both cocaine and the HIV virus in his veins . |
| 8 | Bioremediation is being evaluated by both industry and the US-EPA as one technology for cleaning up hazardous waste sites . |
| 9 | Gavin Laird , veteran general secretary of the AEU , said : ‘ Both Labour and the TUC have learned many lessons . |
| 10 | Both Panic and the FRY Internal Affairs Minister Pavle Bulatovic were out of the capital . |
| 11 | Jakobson 's name has already been mentioned under the headings of both Formalism and the Prague School . |
| 12 | Both shaman and the Savage Orc Boyz have a save of 5 or 6 from their protective tattoos when a shaman is with the unit . |
| 13 | The criticisms of both marginality and the Turner thesis have suggested that the problems of spontaneous housing can not be fully understood without some reference to the wider society . |
| 14 | This time both Congress and the White House are in agreement over tax policy . |
| 15 | The ‘ Land of Dreams ’ of the title is both childhood and the US — and in both cases the quote marks are very deliberate . |
| 16 | Significant levels of trading went on outside this inner area , and scattered finds of Minoan products have been made as far west as the Lipari Islands off the coast of Italy , as far north as Troy ( stone lamps ) , and as far east as Egypt and Syria , where Minoan vases made of precious metal have been found . |
| 17 | Pleistocene fossils ascribed to N. lapillus are widely distributed on both sides of the Atlantic , as far south as the Canary Islands ( Talavera , Kardas and Richards , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | From 1316 when Lancaster 's power was at its height , until 1323 , when Edward once again had full control of the government and the thirteen-year truce was concluded , Scottish forces ravaged northern England almost as far south as the Humber , plundering and impoverishing the clergy no less than the laity of that region . |
| 19 | Hudson Bay , much of the Labrador Sea and the St Lawrence estuary , invests the coasts of Labrador , Greenland , Svalbard , western Alaska and eastern Siberia , closing the northern Bering Sea and filling the Sea of Okhotsk as far south as the Kuril Islands and northern Japan . |
| 20 | As they adapted themselves to reindeer-herding and continued to expand towards the north-east , the Yakuts absorbed the original Yukagir inhabitants of the tundra as far east as the Kolyma river . |
| 21 | The large geographical database held in the system covers Europe as far east as the Urals . |
| 22 | In fifth-century sources their territory is described as stretching as far east as the Elbe . |
| 23 | He currently lives and teaches in Bogota , but his schooling took him as far north as the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale . |
| 24 | In the fairly recent zoological past , around 2500 BC , the range of the Asian elephant reached from the Tigris-Euphrates basin to China , at least as far north as the River Yangtze . |
| 25 | It is found throughout the Amazon and Orinoco basins , and as far north as the Atlantic coast of Central America . |
| 26 | Or would it resist even time and the North Sea and still be standing when the final darkness fell over the planet ? |
| 27 | This is specifically for this kind of file , which is accessed by a machine without reference to either DOS or the BIOS . |
| 28 | Moroccans opposed to the monarch , or to Hassans tilts away from either fundamentalism or the PLO , began to protest . |