Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also from Chicago is promised High Renaissance Art in St Peter 's and the Vatican : an interpretive guide by George Hersey in which the papal commissions from such artists as Michelangelo , Raphael and Bramante are placed in their historical context ( £45.50 , $57 ) . |
| 2 | An interesting example is the Count of Nordland who is the Prince of Marienburg from which the ruling Burgomeisters have forbidden him to return upon pain of death , Marienburg having seceded from the Empire . |
| 3 | And Jane , this is Jane to me the other day , throw your kitten off my floor and see if it lands on its feet . |
| 4 | Such negotiations would have to be handled delicately to avoid jeopardising the sale of mackerel and herring to Russia on which the Scottish pelagic fleet is dependent . |
| 5 | He had talked to Apthorp about her the previous afternoon , and it was clear she had exaggerated his anxiety about her health . |
| 6 | But enough carousing and photographing … would I mind , my Tasmanian countrymen asked , taking the World Cup back to Sydney for them the following morning ? |
| 7 | Alan 's already had initial discussions with a few of us and with Graham about what the next stage should be erm but that 's really not been finalized yet . |
| 8 | The support staff is tiny in comparison with that of a Cabinet Minister or US President — about eighty staffworking in Downing Street of whom the great majority ( about sixty ) are clerical and secretarial staff , messengers , clerks , or administrators of the machine . |
| 9 | if you do n't want it all did I see Robert with you the other day ? |
| 10 | 18 The barracks at Weedon in the Midlands to which the Royal Family would have retreated in the event of a successful French invasion , pictured 50 years , in 1859 . |
| 11 | The Volkskammer will meet in emergency session on Monday at which the Prime Minister-designate , Mr Hans Modrow , and the new East German government will be confirmed . |
| 12 | The Doctor , still mistaken for Pettulian , learns of a conspiracy against Nero in which the murdered lyre player was to play a major part . |
| 13 | The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has asked the FAA to require inspection of fuel injector lines on Lycoming engines to ensure the lines remain attached , following the fatal crash last summer of a Piper Saratoga in which the stainless steel fuel injector line between the fuel manifold and No. 1 cylinder nozzle had separated . |
| 14 | It was far worse for the Arabs whose homes lay in that part of Palestine in which the United Nations had decided to locate the new state of Israel . |
| 15 | These ideas are no better illustrated than by Massine in his The Three-Cornered Hat . |
| 16 | Also in 1908 audiences could have seen Unemployed and Unemployable in which the central character begins by haranguing a crowd ; he is dragged off by his wife and given a whole range of domestic tasks all of which he makes a mess of ; he accidentally acquires stolen goods and is arrested ; the film ends with this ‘ lounger ’ working at last but in the cells . |
| 17 | The family was far from being the poorest of the peasants , but Nasser nonetheless had first-hand experience of the poverty-stricken conditions of the rural Egyptians , crammed in along the banks of the Nile on which the whole country depended . |
| 18 | It serves as a dual purpose : it performs a musicological service by presenting us with an intelligently planned selection of the kind of harpsichord music current in the Germany in which the young Bach grew up , and it also lets us hear several composers of outstanding merit in their own right . |
| 19 | Four years later Agate was surprised that the film version of J. M. Barrie 's A kiss for Cinderella was so good and in particular that the acting of the American star Betty Bronson had equalled the stage performance of Miss Hilda Trevelyan for what the latter had done with her voice ‘ this little screen actress does with her eyes , which are the windows of as lovable a soul as was ever born into the world of make-believe . |
| 20 | After the church service , a reception was held at the Lesser Town Hall , Airdrie after which the one week honeymoon was spent touring Scotland . |
| 21 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 22 | ‘ Speaking the truth in love , we are to grow up in every way into him who is the Head , into Christ from whom the whole body , joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied , when each part is working properly , makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love ’ ( Eph. 4.15–16 ) . |
| 23 | It 's an income redistribution to make up for 12 years of Reagan and Bush in which the rich got richer and the poor got poorer . |
| 24 | The move ended a struggle between Bond and a banking syndicate led by the Hong Kong Bank of Australia in which the latter claimed that Bond was liable for a personal loan worth US$194,600,000 . |
| 25 | Amitha : Then the Union Working Party on EOP in which the three of us were involved came up with a very well worked-out response to the EOP Code of Practice on Recruitment and Selection Procedures . |
| 26 | In these circumstances successful balancing can be achieved through a modification due to Hay in which the parallel combination of variable resistance and capacitance is replaced by a series combination of variable resistance and capacitance . |
| 27 | ( This should be remembered when we read Thucydides and Aristotle on what the latter called the ‘ childish ’ Spartan way of taking decisions , ‘ by shouting not voting ’ . ) |
| 28 | Loans of paintings by Watteau , Lancret and Pater and the painter-architects Knobelsdorff , von Graff and Roslin have come from the Potsdam castles , Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin , Burg Hohenzollern ( the seat of the uncle of Prinz Georg ) and Schloss Doorn in the Netherlands to which the last Kaiser was exiled in 1918 . |
| 29 | On March 8 Ovlyakuli Khojakov Minister of Agriculture , announced an agricultural agreement with Iran under which the two countries agreed to exchange experts and students . |
| 30 | May 12 Baker and Bessmertnykh meet over a working dinner in Cairo in what the Financial Times describes as an " against-the-odds attempt to " kick start " the … peace process " . |