Example sentences of "[noun prp] and the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to remember that Napoleon and the literal believers in old men on clouds have got it wrong . |
| 2 | I wo n't be a beggar for him — the swine — but I will be one for Samavia and the Lost Prince . |
| 3 | The UGT , the CCOO and the Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations ( Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales — CEOE ) agreed at a meeting with Solchaga on Dec. 27 to recommence talks on a social pact which had foundered almost a year previously [ see pp. 36406 ; 36777 ] . |
| 4 | As indicated in the first chapter , there has evolved during relatively recent times a " traditional " listing of Muftis , the tradition beginning essentially with Mustakimzade and reaching perhaps definitive expression in the widely-used the equally widely-used chronological history by Danismend , and , more recently , Altunsu 's In respect at least of the origins of the institution this tradition has triumphed over another of some antiquity , advanced by Katib Celebi and followed by Hezarfen and the western authors d'Ohsson and Hammer , which names Hizir Bey ( d. 863/1459 ) , the first kadi of Istanbul , as the first Seyhulislam and which differs in several other respects from the now-accepted account of the succession of fifteenth-century Muftis . |
| 5 | International money orders , available in sterling or US dollars from Barclays , or dollars only from Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland , are the next best bet . |
| 6 | International money orders , available in sterling or US dollars from Barclays , or dollars only from Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland , are the next best bet . |
| 7 | International money orders , available in sterling or US dollars from Barclays , or dollars only from Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland , are the next best bet . |
| 8 | Turner follows Radcliffe-Brown 's classic analysis of the religion of the Andaman Islanders which was first published in 1922 and heavily influenced by Durkheim and the French school ; he sees the luxuriantly rich ritual and symbolism of the Ndembu as providing socially integrative forces compensating for the lack of a unitary political structure . |
| 9 | If , let us suppose , you were driving south from Mâcon or Bourg-en-Bresse ( I would stay chez La Mere Blanc at Vonnas ) you could drive through La-Tour-du-Pin , Saint-Rambert d'Albon , Beaurepaire d'Isère , Beaumont-les-Valence , La Garde-Adhémar , St-Paul-Trois-Chateaux — the three castles which gave their name to the Tricastin district — then down to Suze-La-Rousse and the tiny village of Donzère and its great nearby dam which is as wondrous and absorbing a spectacle in its way as any of the great Roman glories of this province through which , they claim , Hannibal marched with his Carthaginians — and presumably his elephants — two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven years ago . |
| 10 | The patrol of four Land Rovers , carrying 12 men from the Cheshires and the Royal Engineers , came under fire at around 10am on Saturday . |
| 11 | I shall respond to my hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough and the hon. Member for Western Isles on the question of force and then come to the very issue that the hon. Member for Liverpool , West Derby ( Mr. Wareing ) has raised , which I recognise is relevant . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough and the hon. Member for Wesern Isles began their respective speeches by saying , in effect , that now is not the time to introduce land forces into Yugoslavia . |
| 13 | ‘ The Lady 's Dressing Room ’ drew the fire of Mary Wortley Montagu and the unidentified Miss W … , both of whom wrote parodies of the poem Mary Leapor in an octosyllabic satire , ’ The Mistaken Lover' , responds , according to Margaret Doody , to Swift 's ‘ Strephon and Chloe ’ , a poem which describes fashionable courtship and marriage Swift 's Chloe manages to conceal perfectly all of her less attractive bodily functions : |
| 14 | For the sake of privacy he had been carried , not to his own ward in the hospital , but to the tiger house next door where Hari and the Prime Minister had been incarcerated . |
| 15 | And nodding politely to Alf , Bert and the religious maniac , he stormed out , followed by his embarrassed friend . |
| 16 | In particular they are favoured by Wood Warblers and the dwindling Sussex population of Redstarts . |
| 17 | She remembered Jeff and the deep affection and caring she had felt for him . |
| 18 | The route from Bombay 's Victoria Terminus perhaps the most impressive station in the world , and noted for its decorative friezes which are dedicated to the railways of North-East England , including Stephenson and the embryonic Stockton and Darlington Railway crosses 100 bridge spans in the first 24 miles , of which 22 were fabricated by DWEC ( 1878–1905 ) . |
| 19 | While he was increasingly regarded as a wild eccentric on the fringes of the Conservative party in Parliament , his extra-parliamentary activities included becoming in 1938 — 9 the dominant personality in two secret societies , the NL and the Right Club . |
| 20 | It led ( in concert with the superb performance of the 8th Army and of the Royal Air Force , the Royal and Merchant Navies , and all other splendid organisations which assisted the Armies ) to the fall of Tunis and the unconditional surrender of a quarter of a million of the enemy . |
| 21 | In France , bitter political divisions , fear of foreign military entanglement and deference towards Britain forced Blum and the Popular Front government to reverse their initial policy of assisting the Republic and instead embrace non-intervention in the sincere hope of persuading other powers to keep out of Spain too . |
| 22 | The atmosphere in Fontanellato and the surrounding villages was now very tense . |
| 23 | With great generosity Laclotte has allocated much of the cataloguing and , presumably , choice of exhibits , to other scholars including , in the problem areas , Giorgione and the early Titian to Alessandro Ballarin ( Padua University ) , and the drawings to Konrad Oberhuber ( Albertina , Vienna ) . |
| 24 | Konrad Oberhuber has attributed many new drawings to Giorgione in his section on the drawings and engravings by Giorgione and the young Titian , but Ballarin does not entirely share his views . |
| 25 | Mr Glennie and the other men , Phillip Hoffman , Rick Hellriegel and Jim Nalepka , were washed ashore on Saturday night , after drifting since 3 June . |
| 26 | Captain Mel Bowen , a Ministry of Transport investigator , seems to have made up his mind after interviewing Mr Glennie and the three others . |
| 27 | One Tuesday and the other Tuesday have a local history and third Tuesday have something else . |
| 28 | In the first gallery , dedicated to the artist 's origins , one can see the earliest signed work , the ‘ Flight into Egypt ’ of 1534 , and chart the development between it and the two versions of the ‘ Journey to Calvary ’ from the Fitzwilliam and the National Gallery , London , executed a decade later . |
| 29 | As the tallest building in Cairo , the ultra-modern Ramses Hilton commands a magnificent view of Cairo , the pyramids of Giza and the tranquil Nile . |
| 30 | See again Mushtaq 's lovely googly which sank Hick and the speedy Akram incutter which took out the dangerous lewis first ball : Fairbrother 's heroic counterattack , his face genuinely strained : that final catch to clinch Pakistan 's victory … off Imran 's final ball in international cricket ? |