Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish to move a petition signed by four hundred and one people organised by the Hikehams Community Association asking the full county council to freeze its decision on of the Hikehams and Moat er merger issue . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've taken the cottage on from the Russells , have n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | Their progress down to the Angharad was slow . |
| 4 | The Moebius Strip stands on the southern bank of the Grand Canal about a kilometre along from the Baratha Arcade , between the Church of the Directed Panspermia and a crustacean restaurant . |
| 5 | You can turn off very soon to the right , and climb up to make a wonderfully airy and spectacular circuit of the very open , grassy high ground , before hair pinning down the other side on to the Valcarlos road at Arnéguy . |
| 6 | Perhaps the same thing happened to him on Weathertop , where he put the Ring on as the Ringwraiths closed in , but the words used there are ‘ temptation ’ and ‘ desire ’ — ‘ his terror was swallowed up in a sudden temptation to put on the Ring . |
| 7 | Grandfathers and coal-hewing cousins , brothers and the front row of Neath , Homeric schoolteachers and sopranos whose voices had a bell in every tooth made their entrance on to the Oxford stage , mixed in with chorus girls from Cardiff , waterfront villains from Liverpool and the twenty-two-carat glitz of the West End , where he had opened in The Druid 's Rest in January 1944 with fires in the sky at night , bombs falling from the Luftwaffe and pubs and clubs burning excitement under the blackout . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , and they 'll get a chef in from the Savoy an ’ all , I suppose . ’ |
| 9 | But there are still 9 pistols untraced following the break in at the Dunmore Shooting Centre last week . |
| 10 | But there are still 9 pistols untraced following the break in at the Dunmore Shooting Centre last week . |
| 11 | Police are investigating a break in at the Duke Street office of the Darlington Victim Support scheme . |
| 12 | By the time of King Hussein 's Aug. 13 visit to Iraq for talks with Saddam Hussein , his efforts to contain the dispute within the Arab world had failed and he was directing his efforts at constructing an effective bloc along with the PLO , Yemen , Sudan , Algeria and Tunisia . |
| 13 | The real crunch came , however , in the sketch that regularly brought the roof down at the Apollo . |
| 14 | They represent a viable spin off from the THORP project control and instrumentation activities . ’ |
| 15 | Arab intervention to halt the bloodshed resulted in the drawing up of the Taif accord for national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] , elements of which were formally written into the Lebanese Constitution in September 1990 [ see p. 37729 ] . |
| 16 | The defeat of Wilhelmine Germany in the first world war led to the setting up of the Weimar Republic in 1919 , a constitutional settlement many believe was doomed . |
| 17 | The origins of this reform of the services for deprived children seem to have been in a child care scandal , the O'Neill case , which led to the setting up of the Curtis Committee to investigate contemporary practice . |
| 18 | The first has existed since the setting up of the EC , and the second was created by the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 19 | ( It was the publicity given to a case in Egham which led to the setting up of the Arton Wilson Committee . ) |
| 20 | Terry McLaughlin , a former deputy Editor of the Irish News , is one of four journalists behind the setting up of the Down Democrat . |
| 21 | What difference to the contents of TV programmes followed from the setting up of the ITV companies , for example ? |
| 22 | Sharon Harrington is a very active member of the group who has also been influential in the setting up of the Blyth Valley Self-Advocacy Group , which she now chairs . |
| 23 | Impatience with this position , held by at least some influential members of Mining Awareness , and its lack of aggressive response coupled with the conviction that opposition was now called for ( at least in areas such as Croagh Patrick where prospecting was strongly advanced ) led to the setting up of the Mayo Environmental Group ( MEG ) early in 1989 . |
| 24 | GDA support enabled the setting up of the Robertson Institute in partnership with Glasgow University . |
| 25 | The hardest part about expanding will be finding pub stock up to the Nicholson 's standards . |
| 26 | Tracing the origins of Chinese civilisation back to the Yellow River ( Huanghe ) , the ‘ cradle ’ of the nation 's culture , a basic contradiction was noted which continued to have a profound effect on the people . |
| 27 | It was another neighbour , Dandelion , who had now brought the talk back to the Threarah and his indifference to Fiver 's fear . |
| 28 | Werder Bremen knocked the holders Napoli out of the Uefa Cup last night , 8-3 on aggregate after winning the second leg 5-1 . |
| 29 | Manchester City were just one of the clubs impressed by his aggressive style a style which helped dump the Frist Division side out of the Rumbelows League Cup and FA Cup at Ayresome Park . |
| 30 | For example , he postulated 300 million years since the Cretaceous to allow for the scooping out of the Wealden anticline in south-east England . |