Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward III always recognised the importance of noble support in his wars , and , both in his reign and in that of his grandson , Richard II who succeeded him in 1377 , the nobility led from the front . |
| 2 | It seems that Napoleon III briefly entertained the idea of being crowned by the pope , as his uncle had been , but Pius IX showed little enthusiasm for this scheme . |
| 3 | Although Richard III later reversed the settlement , he apparently did so only as part of his dismantling of Woodville influence and not out of any sense that the disposal of the lands had been inequitable . |
| 4 | Although Richard III later reversed the settlement , he apparently did so only as part of his dismantling of Woodville influence and not out of any sense that the disposal of the lands had been inequitable . |
| 5 | Edward IV now gave the girls ' wardship to the Stanleys , a family powerful enough to resist the Harringtons ' claims . |
| 6 | Edward IV now gave the girls ' wardship to the Stanleys , a family powerful enough to resist the Harringtons ' claims . |
| 7 | Ivan IV then began the practice of temporarily halting any movement at all during a number of ‘ forbidden years ’ . |
| 8 | The overlords at Citroen say it 's just a show car , but with Peugeot and Citroen able endlessly to vary the mix of 605s and XMs that come off the shared line at Sochoux , a third model , an XM coupe , is not an impossibility . |
| 9 | Following the United States invasion of Panama on Dec. 20 to remove Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega from power [ see pp. 37112-13 ] , Noriega on Jan. 3 voluntarily left the papal nunciature , where he had sought refuge , and gave himself up to the US authorities after being persuaded by the papal nuncio , Mgr José Sebastián Laboa , that asylum in a third country was not a viable option . |
| 10 | Canada on Jan. 1 formally joined the OAS as its 33rd member , having held observer status since 1972 . |
| 11 | The LSX 5000s also get the multi-processing version of Unix which currently runs on the LSX 6500 line , as well as Unix System Lab 's Tuxedo transaction processing monitor which it uses up there . |
| 12 | July 1971 also marked the retirement of Mr. W.E . |
| 13 | Signifying that the Vatican had accepted the basilica in return for a government undertaking to spend more on health and education , the Pope on Sept. 10 also blessed the foundation stones of a hospital and a Catholic university . |
| 14 | The Guardia Civil routinely checks the yacht register and notes the names of incoming yachts . |
| 15 | Dr Beeching 's famous report of January 1963 then opened the floodgates to closure proposals , battles by campaigners and , invariably , consent by the Conservative Government which , after all , was the architect behind Dr Beeching 's appointment as Chairman charged with reducing losses . |
| 16 | The fires of May 1862 only confirmed the authorities in their antipathy to students . |
| 17 | Mubarak 's private talks with UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on May 17 reportedly covered the breakdown in the Middle East peace process , Soviet Jewish emigration , and the current state of relations between Iraq and the UK [ see p. 37332 ] . |
| 18 | Without waiting for a decision by the USSR Supreme Soviet , the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet on Sept. 11 overwhelmingly adopted the Shatalin programme ( itself a revision of a programme originated by the Russian Federation government ) for the republican economy . |
| 19 | Following an increase in violence during 1989 , President Vinicio Cerezo on Sept. 18 publicly blamed the extreme right which he said was trying to destabilize his government . |
| 20 | Leaders of the Serbian minority in Croatia issued a statement on July 25 publicly proclaiming the sovereignty and autonomy of all Croatian Serbs , as well as their right " to determine with whom and under what regime their people will live , and how they will integrate with the other nations in Yugoslavia " . |
| 21 | In a speech on Sept. 3 formally accepting the constitutional changes , President Joseph Momoh said that a date for the registration of new political parties would be announced shortly . |
| 22 | The Moslem Brotherhood movement in Cairo on May 8 strongly condemned the killings along with " similar outbreaks in recent years " . |
| 23 | An English memorandum of May 1311 also attributed the difficulties of governance in Aquitaine to the ‘ arrogant presumption of the nobles and magnates [ potentium ] of the land ’ which engendered frivolous appeals to the court of France . |
| 24 | The British and French recognition of the Franco regime in late February 1939 merely underlined the hopelessness of the Republic 's diplomatic position . |
| 25 | For example , Slade J in Greig v Insole [ 1978 ] 3 All ER 449 charmingly described the public interest in that case as the " public pleasure " in watching cricket played by talented cricketers , and described the Football Association and the Football League in Eastham v Newcastle Football Club Ltd [ 1964 ] Ch 413 as being " custodians of the public interest " . |
| 26 | President Jorge Serrano Elias on May 20 publicly dismissed the possibility of a military coup , rumours of which had been widely circulating in recent weeks . |
| 27 | The US Congress at the end of March 1988 allocated humanitarian aid to the contras which enabled them to continue as a force , but Nicaragua from May 1988 unilaterally extended the Sapoá ceasefire on a monthly basis throughout 1988 and for most of 1989 [ see pp. 36421-22 ; 36681 ; see also below ] . |
| 28 | John 's sudden death on 23 November 1258 thus deprived the new regime of one of its bastions . |
| 29 | November 28 also sees the close of Michael Biberstein 's exhibition of recent landscape paintings at the Montenay . |
| 30 | Louis IX apparently thought the issue of homage highly significant . |