Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aquinas himself saw no finality in the solutions offered by either Aristotle or Ptolemy to the problems of planetary motion . |
| 2 | Gaskell 's business acumen placed Nasmyth , Gaskell & Co. among the leading engineering firms in Britain , but in June 1850 ill health forced him to retire . |
| 3 | The choice was not between dependence and independence , but between dependence on Moscow or dependence on the bourgeois governments of the capitalist world . |
| 4 | Encouraged by his studies of A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads , by Nicholas Wood [ q.v. ] , he quickly realized the great potential future of steam locomotive traction and in 1837 he joined Charles Todd , who had been apprenticed to James Fenton of the locomotive builders Fenton , Murray & Jackson , and David Laird , a farmer and financier , in establishing Todd , Kitson & Laird at the Railway foundry in Leeds , manufacturers of machinery and locomotives . |
| 5 | To a very large extent , Hound Tor represents the archetypal hamlet described by Harald Uhlig as representing the original west European type of settlement — what would be called a drubbel in Germany or claehan on the Celtic fringes — a hamlet inhabited by relatives , working the land together . |
| 6 | DRAW : Aberdeen v Hamilton ; Cove or Peterhead or Montrose v Vale of Leithen or E Stirling ; Motherwell v Rangers ; Stirling v E Fife or Alloa ; Dundee Utd v Meadowbank ; Kilmarnock v Raith ; Airdrie v Clydebank ; Gala Fairydean or Arbroath v Morton ; Partick T v Cowdenbeath ; Hibernian v St Mirren ; Dundee v Dumbarton ; Clyde or Brechin v Celtic ; Dunfermline v Ayr Utd ; Falkirk v Inverness T or Berwick R ; St Johnstone v Stenhousemuir or Forfar or Albion R ; Hearts v Huntly or Queen of the South . |
| 7 | The May inquiry was told on June 15 by counsel for the Maguires that inspection of the records of the scientists involved in the forensic tests showed that a second series of tests on the hand swabs had been carried out and had proved negative . |
| 8 | Loch Scavaig in Skye , giving immediate access to the Cuillins , and the many sea lochs in the Outer Hebrides that snake into the hills of Harris are typical examples . |
| 9 | Southport scored well with four pubs The Windmill , Prince of Wales , Scarisbrick and Ship in the guide 's Lucky Dip section . |
| 10 | Wijeratne said that 35 people had been killed in attacks on July 24-25 on villages near Medawachchiya in the north and Polonnaruwa and Trincomalee in the east . |
| 11 | Desert Orchid faced eleven opponents , of whom those most likely to spoil the party were Bonanza Boy ( twice winner of the Welsh National and representative of the formidable combination of trainer Martin Pipe and jockey Peter Scudamore ) , Toby Tobias ( a highly promising young chaser trained by Jenny Pitman and ridden by her son Mark ) , Nick The Brief ( who on his last appearance had easily won the Vincent O'Brien Irish Gold Cup at Leopardstown ) and Cavvies Clown ( trained like Desert Orchid by David Elsworth and second in the Gold Cup in 1988 ) . |
| 12 | He was convenor of the fourteen-strong council of the NL and leader of the RC . |
| 13 | In a Cabinet reshuffle announced by President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali on March 3 , Ismail Khelil , the governor of the Central Bank of Tunis and architect of the current economic reform programme , was appointed as the new Foreign Minister . |
| 14 | These eruptions were those of Krakatoa in 1881 , Pelée and Soufridre in the West Indies and Santa Mana in Guatemala , all in 1902 ; Ksudach in Kamchatka in 1907 ; Novarupta in Alaska in 1912 ; and Bezymianni in Kamchatka in 1956 . |
| 15 | In Indonesia , for example , there is a government policy to encourage the migration of people from the densely populated islands of Java , Madura and Bali to the more sparsely populated outer islands of the archipelago . |
| 16 | From the vast expanse of water many islands are seen : Rum , Eigg and Muck in the north , Coll and Tiree in the west , with a distant profile of Barra and Uist in the Outer Hebrides and , much nearer , Mull closes the southern horizon . |
| 17 | I despise that dauber Antonio Saura , admirer of Picasso and supporter of the transfer of ‘ Guernica ’ to the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , but I 'm not ! ’ began Meredith and Markby at the same time exclaimed , ‘ She is n't ! ’ so that their denials chimed in unison . |
| 19 | Sir John Stuart , the sheriff-depute of Berwickshire and solicitor of the stamps in Scotland , was , in 1782 , failing in health and was unable to ‘ take his exercise on horseback , which was his life , and is deprived of his ordinary potations by his confinement ’ , reported a Berwickshire freeholder . |
| 20 | It was a lament which registered the weakening of a moderate , socially philanthropic evangelicalism in the face of the more strident and ultimately more bigoted brand associated with Irving and Drummond outside the church and the Recordites within it . |
| 21 | Cummins ' engine factory in Darlington , built by Roche and Dinkeloo in the 60s , is the solitary recent building to get a unanimous thumbs-up from all the demolition men . |
| 22 | Babenco , Argentine-born and long resident in Brazil , has shown an enduring preoccupation with the fate of powerless or politically marginalised people in films such as Pixote and Kiss of the Spider Woman . |
| 23 | There is a similar feeling in Bonn that ESA 's science programmes provide good value for money , in contrast to high-prestige projects such as the planned spaceplane Hermes and participation in the US space station . |
| 24 | There is general agreement between leaders of the LDP and business over the need to reduce state spending so that taxes can be lowered to allow private initiative to flourish . |
| 25 | Comparative analysis of primary sequences highlights regions of functional importance , including those that may mediate the localization of DRP and dystrophin in the muscle cell . |
| 26 | Zhan Videnov , 32 , a parliamentary deputy from Plovdiv and graduate of the Moscow Institute of International Relations , was elected as party leader and chairman in place of Aleksandur Lilov : a new supreme council was also elected , which in turn elected its 11-member executive bureau on Dec. 19 . |
| 27 | Very well , but then let us go right down to the south-west corner of the United States and lock at the Moenkopi and associated formations of Arizona . |
| 28 | The collections formed from the spoils of the Revolution were then augmented by bequests such as that of Jean-Baptiste Wicar , disciple of David and curator of the museum , whose collections included an outstanding group of 800 Old Master drawings , among them a number of superb sheets by Raphael , and by the bold purchasing of modern French art by the municipality in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | The Chief Minister of Sabah and president of the Parti Bersatu Sabah ( PBS ) , Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan , was arrested on Jan. 5 and charged by the federal Anti-Corruption Agency on three counts on corruption . |
| 30 | The trial of Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan , the Chief Minister of Sabah and president of the state 's ruling Parti Bersatu Sabah ( PBS ) , opened on Jan. 6 . |