Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as a Warsaw Pact leader they know him more intimately in the Kremlin than in the West . |
| 2 | The interim government , a coalition of conservative parties , was bound more by common hostility to Bhutto than by a consensus on policy . |
| 3 | They reported that there was no difference between the first three prize-winners , and so he had appointed Scott because of the genius loci . |
| 4 | Bank fishing is verboten on Strathbeg because of the importance to nesting birds of surrounding marsh-lands , privacy being essential when engaged in the serious business of propitiating species . |
| 5 | He understood what she meant about Slorne because as the days and weeks had grown into months he had found great comfort in her strange and silent presence . |
| 6 | Additionally , there is also an economically driven swing towards higher quality crudes , which will benefit LASMO because of the composition of its portfolio . |
| 7 | Liverpool 's Rob Jones expects to be fit after failing to re-appear in the second half of the 1–0 defeat against Aston Villa because of a calf injury . |
| 8 | President Alfredo Cristiani , who had threatened on Nov. 11 to break off UN-sponsored peace talks in Mexico because of the FMLN 's continuing sabotage of electricity installations , said that the government would take action to consolidate the ceasefire , and on Nov. 21 he announced that troops would suspend aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of guerrilla positions . |
| 9 | This topic is particularly important in Mexico because of the earthquake which shook the city , and because of the massive size of Mexico City , the world 's largest city . |
| 10 | The AC Milan player , who has not played since last May 's European Cup triumph over Steaua Bucharest because of a knee injury , is involved in a contract dispute with the club . |
| 11 | Gregory 's account becomes exceptional in the second decade of the sixth century with the election of Quintianus , who had fled from his see at Rodez because of the Visigoths . |
| 12 | The on-loan Millwall keeper comes into the reckoning at Southend on Saturday because of a fitness doubt over Welsh international Tony Norman . |
| 13 | French sports minister Frederique Bredin is boycotting the Springboks ' opening match in Bordeaux on Saturday because of the make-up of the squad . |
| 14 | Mr Rabin cut short a US trip on Friday because of the wave of violence . |
| 15 | In Section Two , leaders Bangor have a tough trip to Down while at the bottom , RUC have a chance to close the gap on South Antrim when they meet the Lisburn team at Newforge . |
| 16 | Punters ' money might well have drifted towards Pakistan but for the uncertainty over Javed Miandad 's fitness . |
| 17 | As indicated above , the Cuban revolution induced Soviet leaders to modify the view ( hitherto almost as firmly believed in the Kremlin as in the White House ) that the Latin American nations were destined to remain trapped in a position of subservience to the United States . |
| 18 | One reason the 1989 regulations were passed was to satisfy the United States as to the protection offered in the United Kingdom , otherwise there might have been some doubt as to whether topographies derived from the United Kingdom would have been afforded protection in the United States . |
| 19 | This is as true for a line of music by Mozart or Gershwin as for the skyline of Salisbury Cathedral of the Taj Mahal . |
| 20 | One of his most recent historical discoveries was that he was Victor Edmund on his birth certificate , and not Victor Edward as on the cover of his book ! |
| 21 | ( Did an Edwina Currie when at the MMB , by speaking out against cows being injected with a hormone that can increase yields but which , she feared , would cause consumers to feel milk was not ‘ natural ’ . |
| 22 | Talk that night was less of the glory of Gower than of the intricacies of the Aqib Affair . |
| 23 | He would also like to see the hierarchy between professors and younger scientists , stronger in Germany than in the UK and US , broken down a little . |
| 24 | Although public awareness of the Third Reich is probably greater in Germany than in the US , the organisers were right not to cut down on the documentary material . |
| 25 | If the sciences were less subordinate to theology at the time of Newton than at the time of Copernicus , had the Reformation in religion created favorable conditions for a reformation in science ? |
| 26 | and he reached a stage of heavy dependence on Lloyd George ; Birkenhead found it more congenial to work with men of ideas like Churchill than with the squires who would fill out a Unionist ministry ; Balfour had always striven to practise government by agreement . |
| 27 | By 1988 Britain was for the first time selling more to the EEC than to the rest of the world ( £47 billion out of £93.5 billion at 1991 prices ) . |
| 28 | This was a prevalent interpretation within the EEC , and one which was reinforced by the tone of the debate in the British House of Commons upon the Stockholm Convention , in which most speakers concentrated more upon the relationship with the EEC than upon the organisation and aims of EFTA . |
| 29 | In Swindon we are obviously delighted because all of the production of the equipment , all the design and the research , is all carried out at Swindon except for the software , which is provided by C S I . |
| 30 | However , since the proportion of households owning telephones is much lower in Britain and Ireland than in the United States , a telephone survey in those countries is probably not feasible . |