Example sentences of "[det] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 That the Inhabitants of Ballulve , Ballighiline , Moalrish .
2 That the Inhabitants of Ballulve , Ballighiline , Moalrish .
3 Last year we went to the West cork Hotel in Skibbereen , the previous year the Imperial Hotel , Cork and previous to that the Gleneagles in Killarney .
4 I was still angry , but there was no point in pursuing what was over , so I went back topsides to trim the ship , and five minutes later I saw the stateroom lights go out , and half an hour after that the lights in Ellen and Robin-Anne 's cabin were doused , leaving only a light in the forward starboard cabin to show that either Rickie or Jackson Chatterton was still awake .
5 Crowe put in that the symbolists of Van Gogh 's time had supposed there was a universal language of colour , a primary language , a divine alphabet of colours and forms .
6 Much of the fall , however , is due to the Gulf crisis , rather that the misfortunes of Vestel 's parent .
7 This is obviously not new , and is in part an expansion of the teaching of a long line of papal encyclicals on social justice beginning with Leo XIII 's Rerum Novarum and extending up to Pope John 's Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris , but there is no possible doubt that the Council , following in this the footsteps of Pope John , gave both a wider range and a new urgency to concerns of this kind as properly constitutive of a very large part of Christian living .
8 ‘ Is this the Lights of Lisbon ? ’
9 There was another political task to which anthropology was put in the work of Marx , and for this the writings of Morgan also proved particularly appropriate .
10 Traditional Burmese culture centred upon the monasteries , found in every village and town , so that in the 1920s more than half the males in Burma were literate in their mother tongue ( compared to a literacy rate of 13. 9 per cent in India ) .
11 Half the cases of NGU are caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis and another 20 per cent by infection with a mycoplasma called Ureaplasma urealyticum .
12 At this time he only ran about half the companies in Belfast .
13 Most persistent of all was the hammering of the woodpeckers , for it was as though the dying of the trees had drawn woodpeckers from half the counties of England .
14 It accounted for more than half the structures at Chalton but at Bishopstone , where the extent of erosion was even greater and the excavation not total , there is less evidence of such planning although traces of fence lines attached to buildings were located .
15 Progress in further education has been rapid , to the extent that a 1985 national survey undertaken by the National Bureau for Handicapped Students for the DES , and published as Catching Up ? , showed that more than half the colleges in England ran special courses for 16 to 19 year olds with moderate learning difficulties .
16 The place was called the Eagle like half the taverns in Germany .
17 At meetings of the European Parliament 's Human Rights Committee ( at which even the French Communists stayed silent ) , Newens compared Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish half the villages in Romania and to relocate millions of people into standardized concrete blocks with the effects of redevelopment around Kings Cross on his own constituents .
18 J. V. One night , I was on duty at the Herculaneum Dock when the high winds were blowing in November ( half the windows in Grafton Street were blown in ) .
19 By 1180 , more than half the bishops of France were again royal fideles , with the consequence that they sought royal justice against their local oppressors .
20 By 1524 , thirty-eight Frenchmen comprised almost a third of the taxpayers and well over half the labourers of Hartfield hundred .
21 He owned half the houses in Page Street as well as his flourishing transport concern .
22 And in one sense so it was , for by 1150 almost half the bishoprics in France still escaped crown control .
23 Half the patients with Crohn 's disease in this series developed fistulas after operation and three have already had their pouch removed .
24 Nearly half the songs on Lovesexy explicitly expound Prince 's nebulous ideas about salvation , and the rest of the album is limned with references to a ‘ new power ’ , a positivism that is our answer to the problems of a world that 's going to hell in a handbasket .
25 To Richard he offered half the revenues of Aquitaine and control of four castles ; similar proposals were put to Henry and Geoffrey .
26 Like his brothers Richard agreed to accept rather less than he had been offered the previous autumn : half the revenues of Aquitaine , but this time only two residences , and apparently unfortified ones .
27 Would Desmond Seymour-Strachey have honoured any agreement his mother had come to with Hilda , would he have considered himself obliged to pay half the royalties to Rose ?
28 ‘ You think they 're clever enough to trace your flat , to post watchers on two-man shifts , to bring out half the police in London to rescue them ?
29 ‘ Love of God , Claire , half the police in Ireland are lookin' for Frankie — if they ca n't find him , how can you … an' what if he 's murdered ? ’
30 Where was Arbuthnot hiding , that half the police in Ireland and the IRA could n't find him , and Claire could ?
  Next page