Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Because of the hammering the great Bugattis and the like gave Brooklands during the summer months , extensive repairs had to be carried out each winter . |
2 | The aggravation did not seem to upset Jansher yesterday as he conceded only a single point to Frank Ellis as the title holders , Pakistan , started the world team championships here yesterday with a 3-0 win over Scotland . |
3 | One of the two third prizes was awarded to Sir Anthony Milbank for the Barningham estates , County Durham , who also could not be present . |
4 | It was n't as sophisticated as the one she had worn whilst attached to IMC during the Dalek Wars , three hundred years in the future , but it brought back memories of belonging , of finally being accepted on her own terms by a group of her peers . |
5 | ESSEX raced to a stunning seven-wicket victory over Sussex as the record books were rewritten at Hove . |
6 | — Nearly 50 awards were handed out at the Erimus Quoit and Rifle Social Club , Middlesbrough for the Winter Handicaps 1991–92 . |
7 | I was billeted in Wolverton during the winter months , when the blackout was most restrictive . |
8 | Occasionally , when there had to be a drastic reassessment of public expenditure , it became evident from the leaks and rumours of resignations that something important was going on in Whitehall during the summer months , but neither backbenchers nor the House in general were able to find out what was happening or to discuss the changes being made in expenditure plans . |
9 | The office of Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests , created in the eighteenth century , has been discontinued , but ‘ Deputy Surveyors ’ manage the New Forest and the Forest of Dean for the Forestry Commissioners . |
10 | The teams will again parade through the city with a police escort back to the Albert Dock , before returning to the Blundellsands Hotel in Crosby for the evening awards party . |
11 | In Tetrapak for the machine vendors and those with who prefer this in er this environment friendly pack er package . |
12 | I went to Oslo for the Bislet Games , one of the world 's top athletics meetings with the stands always packed and the crowd highly knowledgeable — a tremendous atmosphere . |
13 | The mill is open to the public every day except Tuesday during the summer months . |
14 | Trained in Ryazan during the wartime years , he returned to Poland to rise to divisional command ( Major-General ) at the age of 33 . |
15 | Taylor refused to agree to his troops being disarmed while they remained under attack from the United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia ( ULIMO — a coalition of supporters of former President Samuel Doe , reportedly based in Sierra Leone ) , which had launched a renewed attack on the NPFL as the Geneva talks began . |
16 | He remembered the proud , fearless Sylvie of the war years , the seductive Sylvie on her many stages , feeding off her music and the eyes directed at her , and giving back amply in return . |
17 | Andrew Neil of the Sunday Times ( the one she did it with ) : Donald Trelford of the Observer ( the one she did n't do it with ) and Peregrine Worsthorne , former editor of The Sunday Telegraph ( the one who criticised the one she did it with , and who was sued for his criticisms , and lost ) . |
18 | The A.G.M. starts at 7.30 p.m. and will be followed at 8.00 p.m. by a talk entitled ‘ The Archives of the Bishop 's Castle Area ’ by Mrs Marian Halford of the County Records Office . |
19 | The Hastings £20m scheme was celebrated by a successful ‘ Gala Day ’ on 27 April when unlimited travel over the line for only £1 was available and more formally on 6 May when the Queen Mother ( Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports ) travelled over the line in the Royal Train . |
20 | Just time for a cup of coffee , she thinks , but she will have to make it herself as the office is short staffed , with the Corporal Clerk away representing the Corps at the celebrations to mark the tenth anniversary of the Queen Mother being appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports . |
21 | A man who was Commander-in-Chief , First Lord of the Treasury , Chancellor of the University of Oxford , Lord High Constable , Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports , Constable of the Tower , Commissioner of the Royal Military College and Military Asylum , Chief Ranger and Keeper of Hyde Park and St. James 's Park and , when he had a week or two free , Home Secretary , Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister , deserved a little respite when it came to correspondence . |
22 | Deal Castle was constructed by order of Henry VIII and is the largest in the network of Tudor coastal defences ; Walmer Castle , shaped like a Tudor rose , is the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports , who , at the present time , is Her Majesty the Queen Mother . |
23 | Workhouse visiting committees composed of middle class ladies tried to place unmarried mothers as domestic servants and increasingly strove to keep mother and child together , but , as Mrs Hardie of the Manchester Ladies ' Health Society commented , their task was difficult : a mistress usually feared the presence of a young woman of immoral character in her family . |
24 | The most senior candidate , Adam Matthews , 16 , of the Socialist Labour Party , said his party would abolish the Queen , generals and public schools , put the Royal Family out to work as wardens in nature parks , and prosecute Arsenal under the Trade Descriptions Act for calling themselves a football team . |
25 | The 1500 , then the 2000 and , in 1968 , the fantastic , sports car-beating 2002 provided von Kuenheim with the building blocks for the future . |
26 | The crystal structure shows that CsA binds to CypA with the side chains of MeBmt-1 , Abu-2 , Sar-3 , MeLeu-9 , MeLeu-10 and MeVal-11 of CsA making contacts of less than 4 with the CypA residues Arg 55 , Phe 60 , Met 61 , Gln 63 , Gly 72 , Ala 101 , Asn 102 , Ala 103 , Gln 111 , Phe 113 , Trp 121 , Leu 122 , His 126 ( Fig. 3 a ) . |
27 | John and Linda with the Loughlin youngsters , Rebecca , Matthew and twins Daniel ( left ) and Andrew |
28 | John and Linda with the Loughlin youngsters , Rebecca , Matthew and twins Daniel ( left ) and Andrew Picture by Martin Birchall |
29 | It was The Lost Boys , a lashing tongue-in-cheek tale of small town , rock ’ n ’ roll vampires who image-wise , at least , owed more to Guns N' Roses than Vincent Price , that brought Kiefer Sutherland into the movie worlds big league . |
30 | One of the Inverkeithing officers , the tide waiter , was ‘ threatened to be removed or broke ’ if he joined Provost Cunningham in the burgh elections , a sad state of affairs , when , as Cunningham complained , ‘ your Lordship knows what I do is from no other view than to serve the D[uke] of A[rgyl]e & your lordship 's interest , and have his grace 's order for doing so ’ . |