Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the countries in southern Africa , Angola is one with the greatest potential . ’ |
| 2 | By the middle of the century Arkesilas was himself on the run , fleeing from Cyrene via Euesperides to the west , where he was assassinated . |
| 3 | Well George Roper is there on the twenty eighth of March . |
| 4 | Ludens was himself in the same situation . |
| 5 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 6 | The critical distinction drawn by Lord Bridge of Harwich was one between the decision making functions of the local authority and its executive functions , by which I take Lord Bridge to mean the administrative acts to be performed in giving effect to the relevant decision . |
| 7 | Oxford are one off the bottom in Conference A with only eight wins from 27 games . |
| 8 | What we do learn , however , from the article and the use of it by Hildyard and Olson is something of the ideological nature of recent claims for the consequences of literacy . |
| 9 | Southend are one off the bottom … but they 've given some of the top teams a run for their money this season … |
| 10 | Clare were you in the past |
| 11 | Clare were you in the past |
| 12 | Moreover the style faithfully mirrors the puerility of the content : to think that the barons who faced King John at Runnymede were anything like the Cokes or Hampdens who challenged the royal prerogative of the Stuarts in the seventeenth century , or that these in turn had much or anything in common with Sam and John Adams or Tom Paine , is to adopt the notorious ‘ Whig interpretation ’ of English history in a sort of parody version for grade school . |
| 13 | Following his ill-fated collaboration with Crystal Gayle on the soundtrack to Coppola 's One From the Heart , Waits released the brilliantly eclectic Swordfishtrombones , the first instalment of a trilogy that would continue through 1985 's Rain Dogs and conclude with 1987 's Franks Wild Years . |
| 14 | The Sahara was theirs from the southern outskirts of Ajdabiya to the Egyptian border , to Wainat and Sudan , and then to the French conquests in Chad . |