Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rex was employed as a toy importer but had also been in wine importation before he joined Khai Eng full-time towards the end of the first year . |
| 2 | Dale Gordon and Pieter Huistra , who both missed the midweek victory over CSKA Moscow due to the restriction on foreign players , are back in contention . |
| 3 | We can read Hansard ( House of Lords ) of 19 March 1980 on the subject . |
| 4 | President Ramiz Alia signed a decree on Feb. 11 which dissolved the People 's Assembly and set March 22 as the date for a general election . |
| 5 | The object of these letters was to bring Vial 's plan of 18 March 1790 to the notice of the influential readers of The Gentleman 's Magazine . |
| 6 | His appointment by the Prime Minister was announced on 1 March 1985 by the Home Secretary in the following terms : |
| 7 | Turin is launching its own fair ‘ Antica ‘ 93 ’ from 26 February to 7 March 1993 in the prestige premises of the Fiat-owned former factory , the Lingotto , famous for its roof-top race-track . |
| 8 | It is perhaps surprising to find that Jacques married for the first time on 31 March 1728 at the age of 55 . |
| 9 | Buffeted by the raging winds Indraugnir carried the dying Phoenix King high above the battlefield . |
| 10 | But small and choice corners of the town , like the Place Sainte-Eugeńie ( a different Eugénie this from the empress ) and the nearby Place de l'Atalaya , have kept a lot of the older . |
| 11 | The reassurance implied by Kohl 's proposal of Feb. 28 , that the West and East German parliaments should give a joint commitment guaranteeing the border after March 18 [ see p. 37260 ] , was undermined by a statement made on March 2 by the Chancellor 's Office in Bonn , indicating that such a commitment " would have to make it clear that the Polish government 's declaration of Aug. 23 , 1953 , waiving any claims to reparations from Germany [ see p. 15271 ] , remains valid , and that the rights of the Germans as agreed by Chancellor Kohl and [ Polish ] Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki in the joint declaration of Nov. 14 , 1989 [ see pp. 37048-49 ] , will be regulated by a treaty " . |
| 12 | The Festival will continue with the Western theme on Tuesday , March 30 in the guise of ‘ Calamity Jane ’ . |
| 13 | It was pointed out in Slovakia that the first documents issued in the name of the state at its inception in 1918 had used the hyphenated form , and thousands of Slovaks demonstrated in Bratislava , the Slovak capital , on March 30 against the omission of the hyphen . |
| 14 | Shock alone , since the older woman was physically far more powerful , rendered Hester helpless in the girl 's grip . |
| 15 | And to ensure you get there in style we 'll lend you the Volvo 460 for the weekend ! |
| 16 | On Aug. 16 Rabbani , who was forced to postpone foreign visits to Iran and Pakistan due to the crisis , dismissed Prime Minister Abdul Sabur Fareed as the most senior Hezb-i-Islami member in the government and Hekmatyar 's personal nominee for the post . |
| 17 | ARGENTINA beat England 10–5 and the United States beat Mexico 13–8 in the World Championships ( Limited Handiap ) yesterday at the San Cristobal Polo Club , Chile . |
| 18 | It caught de Raimes low in the body , slicing across and downwards . |
| 19 | Dr J Majo Cruzate , Advisor , Director General , DG XIII at the Commission of European Communities , after outlined the history of the European Single Market initiative up to Maastricht and ( probably ) beyond , and went on to extol the virtues of creating a single market for IT in Europe , with the European Commission 's roll seen as harmonising standards efforts and funding research . |
| 20 | The first withdrawal of US troops began on Jan. 2 with the return of about 300 troops to the USA , and as of Jan. 7 a total of 3,300 troops had returned home , out of a total of 26,000 who had been in Panama . |
| 21 | I dignify it with titles stolen from tidy strips of paint samples , one ambling shopping-Sunday : Rembrandt brown for the autumn and brownstone brown , nighthawk brown , toasted spice , redcurrant , jasper , romany , marmalade . |
| 22 | He stepped on to the busy road and dragged badly injured Scott clear of the traffic . |
| 23 | I must add here that I do not use any ready-made greens as I prefer to mix my own colours : azo yellow light , cadmium yellow medium , and titanium white mixed with my blues for this , with the addition of burnt sienna , yellow ochre and Vandyke brown for the earth colours . |
| 24 | The US-Soviet strategic arms reduction talks ( START — see p. 37223 ) resumed in Geneva on Jan. 22 with the signing of a new agreement allowing both sides for the first time to inspect each other 's nuclear warheads . |
| 25 | Mario Buracchia , the commander of Italian naval forces in the Gulf , resigned on Jan. 30 after the magazine Famiglia Cristiana quoted him as saying that war could have been avoided " with a little more wisdom " and the continuation of the economic embargo . |
| 26 | After the coup which established Edward III on the throne in 1330 he once again became an active royal agent , serving as envoy to France in 1331 and fighting in the Scottish campaigns of the mid-1330s . |
| 27 | Among those receiving liveries of robes from Edward III for the winter of 1330 , at least seventeen Gascon knights and esquires are recorded as members of his household . |
| 28 | The Military Council , which in 1990 had stripped Moshoeshoe of his powers and installed his son Letsie III on the throne [ see pp. 37238 ; 37306 ; 37843 ] , had made it clear , however , that it was not prepared to countenance the return of Moshoeshoe as king . |
| 29 | The young American girls who surprised cynical men-about-town in the Paris of Napoleon III by the freedom with which they were allowed by their parents to go about alone and in the company of young American men are as strong evidence about sexual morals as journalistic exposés of haunts of vice in mid-Victorian London : probably stronger . |
| 30 | However , some 300 members of the National Peasants ' Party staged a march on Jan. 7 through the centre of Bucharest in memory of those killed by the Securitate during the revolution and to protest against the NSF decision to stand in the elections . |