Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former seems to have written most of his Norman ducal history , the Gesta Normannorum Ducum , in the 1050s after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Duke William in 1051 – 2 , and this is doubtless why he describes Anglo-Norman relations under Æthelred and Cnut , and comments on Edward 's exile in Normandy . |
| 2 | Faraday symposium 29 on Potential energy surfaces and organic reaction paths will be held on 15–17 December 1993 in London The determination of reaction paths and the structure and nature of transition states is a fundamental problem in the study of organic reactivity . |
| 3 | Typically , in the wake of the uprisings of 1985 in Britain the government announced the advent of a new policy measure , the introduction of eight Inner City Task Forces to Moss Side ( Manchester ) , Chapeltown ( Leeds ) , Notting Hill ( London ) , North Peckham ( London ) , North Central ( Middlesbrough ) , Highfields ( Leicester ) , St Paul 's ( Bristol ) and Handsworth ( Birmingham ) . |
| 4 | This is the site of the conquest of England in 1066 by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings . |
| 5 | Underneath was a team photograph — a schoolboy cricket eleven with John the second from the right in the back row . |
| 6 | For children under 5 in Lothian the number of casualties in 1991 was nearly one third greater than the 1981–85 baseline total , whereas for Scotland as a whole casualties in this age group rose by less than 5% . |
| 7 | The orchestra finish the first half of the programme with Mendelssohn 's String Symphony No 11 in F. The Priory Singers , under their director Harry Grindle , perform some unaccompanied choral pieces before joining with the Ensemble for Schubert 's Mass in G major — perfect music for the perfect acoustic of the Elmwood Hall . |
| 8 | Dropping from the basis means deleting the edge from p to q from the tree , T , and adding I to J. The result is still a tree because , if the path from i to 1 in T is broken by dropping the edge from p to q , another path can be constructed by going instead from p to q round the cycle ( using the edge I to J ) . |
| 9 | Visitors can trace the history of medieval fortification from a stone hall-keep built within a decade of the battle of Hastings in 1066 by one of William the Conqueror 's principal lieutenants , through the gun loops of the 17th century . |
| 10 | Benedicta was waiting for them , seated before a roaring fire ; beside her on the ground , crouched like a little dog , sat Orme , one of Watkin the dung-collector 's sons . |
| 11 | At the penultimate stop , in the midst of Brick Lane , lies the site of one of Jack The Ripper 's most gruesome murders . |
| 12 | Its origins are at least as old as the appointment by St. Paulinus in 627 of James the Deacon to educate the singing boys in York . |