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 | Across the Mersey , Wirral 's civic heads congregated in Wallasey for the wreath-laying ceremony . |
| 3 | By an editor 's mistake we described ( March 17th ) the drug baron Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha as the Colombian government 's main surviving enemy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I still regard ITN as the premier television news operation in this country . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In Turkestan , the issues were at their most stark , for the province was cut off from Moscow during the Civil War . |
| 8 | There 's only one fresh face at Kingsholm for the new season … but that 's the all important one … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Clearchus wrote a dialogue on sleep , in which he introduced his master Aristotle as the main speaker . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A massive product , occupying some 18Mb plus of hard disk space , with the whole of 15th Century Germany as the playing area . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Soon Vickers at Barrow was building the Hercules for the Argentinian navy and then , under licence , helping it to build the Santisima Trinidad at Rio Santiago . |
| 18 | Pakistani officials , including Prime Minister Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif , organized meetings in Peshawar between the various mujaheddin groups and other regional powers . |
| 19 | President Jorge Serranno Elías on Dec. 6 named Gen. José Domingo García Samayoa as the new Defence Minister replacing Gen. Luis Enrique Mendoza Garcia . |
| 20 | Seven months before , while Castile was — in his intemperate view — still dithering , he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla , at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus . |
| 21 | With Rudi Bryson challenging Richard Snell for the dubious honour of joining Hugh Page , Fanie de Villiers , Steve Jefferies and Corrie van Zyl among the ranks of ineffectual South African pace imports , Joey Benjamin 's recent burst of form has also been instrumental in Surrey 's surge from the Britannic basement . |
| 22 | I just wan na cut the picture of Kim Basinger off the front page . |
| 23 | Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ? |
| 24 | Roger McCarthy for the local authority . |
| 25 | ‘ When you went to see Mr Penver about the day-to-day running of the business , what did he tell you ? ’ |
| 26 | I believe that George killed Lennie as the ultimate act of friendship . |
| 27 | Phaidon has signed an agreement with Chronicle of San Francisco for the exclusive distribution of Phaidon titles in the US . |
| 28 | If he does , he will join former England man John Dean as the only person to ever win the award twice . |
| 29 | Certainly Chester , which was the successor to the Diocese of Lichfield as the ecclesiastical authority for Stockport , offered great opportunities . |
| 30 | A more informative example is that of samian pottery , produced mainly in factories in France and Germany during the Roman period and exported all over the Roman Empire . |