Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Only a week ago , she had stood in their butcher 's shop and-completely demolished the reputation of young Carrie Davidson for the same thing : having to get married . |
3 | ON THE RIGHT BERNARD DURING THE SAME VISIT . |
4 | He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) . |
5 | He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) . |
6 | The Joint Transport Operation ( with Oxfam ) which was formerly located in Desse , capital of the region of Walo in the north of the country , was relocated in Addis Ababba during the latter stages of the civil war . |
7 | One of the refugees who arrived from Hungary about the same time as Reichmann was Emmanuel Hollander , who would become his partner in numerous business ventures . |
8 | The South does n't stand out in the resulting map ( figure 5.2 ) , although none of the States of the former Confederacy falls in the top 40 per cent on their ranking , except Florida whose population character and structure has changed very substantially in recent decades as a result of immigration , especially of the elderly . |
9 | These covered most of the ‘ North & West ’ area , including Sutton — Croydon — Crystal Palace of the former SouthmeT . |
10 | Users will be able to travel as far afield as Andorra , France and Portugal with the same pager . |
11 | It was n't easy , having David under the same roof . |
12 | Smith , comprise English Place Name Elements which appeared in 1970 , and Cornish Place Name Elements by O.J. Padel in the same series , published in 1985 . |
13 | The Cussons business moves into GGT from Lowe Howard-Spink in the same week that North-Western Electricity Board has appointed GGT subsidiary Bowden Dyble Hayes to handle its £6m account . |
14 | The plane is based on a wooden frame , exactly as a model replica built by neighbour Bill Vinton from the same plans , and then covered in cloth and painted . |
15 | Although lacking orthodox faith , I have my impossible-to-define It , which is an amalgam of childhood Biblical stories and the Nature I see all around me , best personified in the trumpet of a daffodil , the Dorset coast or the rings and mounds of Hambledon Hill in the same county . |
16 | The government is intending to convert Drax power station in Yorkshire , and perhaps Ferrybridge in the same county , with FGD . |
17 | Cool Ground , set to carry top-weight of 12st , would be attempting to become the first since Burrough Hill Lad in 1984 to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Hennessy in the same year . |
18 | These taboos are interpreted by Freud in the same way as neurotic prohibitions and obsessive acts , that is , they appear to be performed out of deference and respect , or even positive love and care , but unconsciously they are produced by motives of hostility . |
19 | It 's just come out with Networker for 80386 machines supporting SCO Unix and DOS and will include UnixWare in the same ClientPak II down the road . |
20 | It has just come out with Networker for 80386 machines supporting Santa Cruz Unix and MS-DOS and will include UnixWare in the same ClientPak II later . |
21 | Such patients could be matched with similar HCWs in the same area . |
22 | Sometimes the public distancing of Romania from its Warsaw Pact allies , especially Big Brother in Moscow , was done in a quite insulting fashion : Ceauşescu could even implicitly put the Kremlin in the same category as the White House : ‘ The small and medium-sized states refuse to play the role of pawn in the service of the interests of big imperialist powers any longer . ’ |
23 | Euro-rebel Bryan Gould — who has quit the shadow cabinet — was voted off the NEC in the same section , with his support halved . |
24 | However , I managed a League Cup match in 1990 ( QPR 3–0 after 20 mins — we murdered them ) , and the debacle at Watford in the same competition last year ( 1–2 ) . |
25 | In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) . |
26 | Gorbachev on the same day described Iraq 's invasion as treacherous and a blatant violation of international law , calling for a political solution and warning of a possible " chain reaction endangering the whole world community " . |
27 | Michael freed the children from the evil hand of Dr Adams at the same time as reuniting the children and himself with their true families . |
28 | She carved up Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch at the same time as the bacon . |
29 | The seven-strong French diplomatic contingent left Kuwait at the same time , thus reducing the Western diplomatic corps there to two British and 10 US staff . |
30 | Thus Mrs Ramsay at her dinner table , thinking her thoughts , ‘ dissociated from the moment ’ , plotting a match between Lily Briscoe and William Bankes , while Lily Briscoe at the same table is thinking wistfully of quite another man . |