Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Nizan the moral strength afforded the writer by revolutionary ideology eliminates the need for self-justification within the ethos of his work , eliminates the need to apologise for failing to conform not only to the conventions of bourgeois political structures , but also to the conventions of bourgeois literary structures . |
| 2 | However , after a further round of talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 28 , he left for Moscow the following day , his only apparent success being the Iraqi agreement to allow the return in the coming weeks of some 1,000 Soviet nationals who had been working in Iraq . |
| 3 | During March the armed forces , which had seized power in a military coup on Feb. 23 [ see pp. 38003-04 ] , established a timetable for a return to civilian rule . |
| 4 | I left Valladolid for Salamanca the next day . |
| 5 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |
| 6 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |
| 7 | The reception was held at the Mansion House in Harrow Weald , where the couple spent a romantic wedding night , leaving for Mexico the next morning . |
| 8 | The death of a husband would almost certainly have resurrected for Jean the complicated feelings associated with her earlier bereavement . |
| 9 | And that was the Fox Report for Tuesday the twenty-fifth September , nineteen ninety . |
| 10 | MICHELSON 'S FOR HARRODS The polka-dot standard in monochrome . |
| 11 | On the whole , George Milton is a good , honest man who has a difficult life to lead , looking after Lennie the simple giant . |
| 12 | Immediately after Culloden the British government resumed the policy of trying to tame the Highlands with brick and rubble . |
| 13 | Before the Suez débâcle in the autumn of 1956 , British governments had felt themselves able to dictate the pace at which the colonial Empire would be transformed into a cohesive Commonwealth of Nations : after Suez the imperial ethos was shattered , and our run down to middle-power status was no longer resisted . |
| 14 | After Jericho the next city to be attacked is Ai , but here the Israelite troops are routed , and the people of God have a taste of the fear they have hitherto inspired in others . |
| 15 | He had been prosperous after the seige of Arcot ; after Plassey the new Nawab gave him £234,000 in cash and the right to land rents of £27,000 a year , which made him as rich as a great territorial magnate like the Duke of Newcastle . |
| 16 | During January the federal banking authorities faced a renewed spate of failures among the 10,000 small banking institutions which conducted the bulk of America 's retail banking activity . |
| 17 | For Lenin the principal lesson of Marxism on the task of the proletariat in relation to the state during a revolution was that it should ‘ break up the bureaucratic and military machinery ’ ( Lenin 1918 , p. 33 ) . |
| 18 | During December the Interior Ministry processed applications to register as political parties by eight groups , of which three were rejected and five accepted . |
| 19 | During December the European Communities ( EC ) agreed in principle on recognizing the independence of the Yugoslav republics , and the UN Security Council decided to send UN monitors to Yugoslavia , as a preliminary stage to the possible introduction of a peacekeeping force . |
| 20 | During December the Indonesian government reported the surrender of large groups of East Timorese rebels in response to a government offer of clemency . |
| 21 | During December the military authorities annulled the status of at least 25 NLD members elected to the People 's Assembly in May 1990 . |
| 22 | Mid-way through May the main rebel group , the Khmers Rouges , made it clear that it would no longer observe the ceasefire if the Jakarta talks collapsed without an agreement on the UN plan . |
| 23 | During July the spacious rooms on Kurfürstendamm remain closed . |
| 24 | Now began the long-drawn-out tragedy of the Congo which , according to General H.T. Alexander , ‘ produced a fundamental change in Ghana 's position vis-à-vis the West ’ , while Basil Davidson observes ‘ experience in the Congo … seems to have formed for Nkrumah the final demonstration that policies of ‘ tact ’ , of ‘ continuity ’ , of conformity with Western wishes had nothing more to offer . ’ |
| 25 | Not for Lexandro the dubious privilege of being surgically altered so that he could operate a lathe more speedily ! |
| 26 | During February the Libyan government said that it would supply food , medicines and blankets to Iraq [ see also above ] and blood donation programmes for Iraq were oversubscribed in Morocco and Tunisia . |
| 27 | Mind you , mind you I went er through Newark the other day and I had to go round the mountains to get back on that road out to Lincoln . |
| 28 | Although for Scotland the main deficiency was only in the lack of HMIs with primary school experience , the Select Committee was concerned about the overall balance in England and Wales . |
| 29 | In fact at the moment we 're just about getting to the longest er night the what 's called the equ er sorry the solstice that occurs on about December the twenty second . |
| 30 | Consequently their influence on the Left of the Labour Party was greatly diminished and for several years after the departure of MacDonald the Labour Left was mainly represented by small groups based on defectors from the ILP and , to a lesser extent , from the Communist Party . |