Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 2 | The Art Master , Mr. J.T. Stanley , had led archaeological digs to Bakewell for the Sixth Form and organized his first foreign visit to the Pyrenees . |
| 3 | Across the Mersey , Wirral 's civic heads congregated in Wallasey for the wreath-laying ceremony . |
| 4 | TUESDAY , November 3 , was an historic day for the Diocese when Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Crowley as the Sixth Bishop of Middlesbrough Diocese . |
| 5 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 6 | By an editor 's mistake we described ( March 17th ) the drug baron Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha as the Colombian government 's main surviving enemy . |
| 7 | Murray slip : Britain 's athletics selectors were left with red faces again today after picking world indoor champion Yvonne Murray for the wrong event at the European Cup . |
| 8 | I still regard ITN as the premier television news operation in this country . |
| 9 | Inspection of this helical pattern , together with the distribution in December 1953 of a report by Franklin of her work , gave crucial information to Watson and Francis Crick for the final building of their DNA model in February–March 1953 . |
| 10 | In Turkestan , the issues were at their most stark , for the province was cut off from Moscow during the Civil War . |
| 11 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 12 | There 's only one fresh face at Kingsholm for the new season … but that 's the all important one … |
| 13 | At the same time as the appointment on July 10 , 1989 , of Gen. Isidro Cáceres as the new Army Chief of Staff [ see p. 36810 ] , Rear-Adml . |
| 14 | But while international and long-distance tariffs have been reduced especially in the USA and Britain — the gap between costs and prices remains massive ; the price charged by Intelsat for the transocean telephone call from Paris or London to New York is multiplied by something like ten times when the customer is billed . |
| 15 | He was joined by Richard Van Allan as the Grand Inquisitor , and these two bass-baritones supplied the power and nobility which had been wanting . |
| 16 | Clearchus wrote a dialogue on sleep , in which he introduced his master Aristotle as the main speaker . |
| 17 | The following morning , after dropping Iris at Les Châtaigniers for the second day of her course , Melissa returned to the auberge and telephoned Antoinette Gebrec . |
| 18 | Commenting on its figures ( see page five ) , Eschborn , Germany-based Linotype AG says its 1992 domestic orders fell by 6% but the company enjoyed solid gains in key foreign markets , with the US up 18% , Japan up 24% and the Middle and Far East showing gains of between 15% and 49% ; the US market surpassed Germany for the first time , and exports at the computerised printing systems and equipment company accounted for 72.1% of overall business in 1992 after 69.1% a year earlier . |
| 19 | Clearly , we have made great progress in bringing inflation under control and we shall soon have a lower rate of inflation than Germany for the first time in a generation . |
| 20 | Kohl , in eastern Germany for the first time since the December 1990 general election , was jeered and pelted with eggs by several hundred protesters on April 7 in Erfurt ( where enthusiastic crowds of over 100,000 had greeted him on his last visit in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) . |
| 21 | And yesterday it emerged that Britain 's inflation rate of 4.1pc had fallen below that of Germany for the first time in 25 years . |
| 22 | The Russian army team will earn more in the four-day trip to Germany for the European Cup crunch than they would in a month back home . |
| 23 | In 1967 too the Warsaw Pact states declared that West Germany should recognise East Germany as the first step to meaningful détente but Brandt could not yet go so far : most West Germans still hoped for the reunification of Germany . |
| 24 | Of these countries , West Germany as the highest consumption of spirits at about 8 litres a year , Portugal the lowest at 2 litres . |
| 25 | The USA overtook Germany as the leading exporter of merchandise , with a 7.5 per cent rise in exports , and the USA was also the world 's biggest merchandise importer , with Germany second and Japan third in both categories . |
| 26 | A massive product , occupying some 18Mb plus of hard disk space , with the whole of 15th Century Germany as the playing area . |
| 27 | On Oct. 1 Kebby Musokotwane , hitherto secretary-general of the previously ruling United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) , was elected party president at an extraordinary congress , succeeding former President Kenneth Kaunda who had resigned the party leadership in January ; others elected to party posts included Patrick Luvunga as vice-president , Gen. Malimba Masheke as chair and Gen. Benjamin Mibenge as the new secretary-general . |
| 28 | Burco Ltd produces and sells two products : X and Y. During the last year 700 labour hours were worked and the operating results were as follows : |
| 29 | In it he arrived , among many other discoveries , at the law of inertia later used by Isaac Newton as the first law of motion , at the parabola as the path of a projectile , at the relationships between distance and velocity and between distance and time , and at the continuity of acceleration . |
| 30 | Orwell 's point can be extended , since these writers recognized not only the dissolution of public or social values but also the bankruptcy of private ones : it ought to be remembered that the notion of " personality " reached its apogee in Oscar Wilde during the same period of scientific and social optimism . |