Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These range from determining exactly where in Europe the lord of an English medieval manor was at a certain date ( for the more senior magnates were often crusaders , pilgrims , legates and diplomatists ) to ascertaining precisely when an eighteenth-century trading agreement with a French merchant was concluded . |
| 2 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | All the members of the EC except Britain and Denmark have voted to ratify the treaty ( although in Germany the president 's signature has been held up by challenges in the constitutional court ) . |
| 4 | They were a group of twelve , mainly Icelandic , but with two Norwegians and a Canadian , and now joined by an English cyclist who pretended , when convenient , to be Welsh , The intended route was up the south-west side of the Öræfajökull , the glacier being climbed during the night , although in June the sun only barely dips below the northern horizon at midnight . |
| 5 | Lesley Cranna , SNH area officer for Skye and Lochalsh , said : ‘ The islands offer a last refuge , although on Skye the population has dipped from about 30 pairs in 1988 to an estimated 16 pairs last year . |
| 6 | According to the National Statistics Office , the inflation rate in December rose to 14.1 per cent , the highest rate since Aquino came to power , although by January the rate had fallen back to 13.1 per cent , compared with 12.8 per cent for November 1989 . |
| 7 | By the end of the sixteenth century , however , this rigid distinction between astronomy and natural philosophy was beginning to collapse , until with Kepler the quest for physical causes had become part of the astronomer 's task . |
| 8 | It is almost as if in Ichthus the word evangelism is synonymous with church planting . |
| 9 | If in Japan the railway symbolized the country 's rapid response to Western power and influence , Chinese resistance to the West was characterized by an often violent antipathy to railways . |
| 10 | Because of Thomas the Tank Engine . |
| 11 | We tend not to notice this because in TNC the curriculum proposals came before the discussion of testing and assessment . |
| 12 | This is because in Canada the view that rape is less a crime of sex and more a crime of violence has been pursued with particular fervour . |
| 13 | For the next six hours — or a little less , because at Battersea the flood lasts five and a half hours , and the ebb six and a half — they would be living not on land , but on water . |
| 14 | Both systems called for increased management participation ; while with PPB the approach was top-down , with ZBB the approach was bottom-up ; whereas PPB stressed horizontal equity , ZBB stressed vertical equity . |
| 15 | This study compares the experience of Britain and Italy because whereas in Britain the expansion of higher education has been relatively tightly controlled and graduate unemployment has rarely if ever reached serious proportions , Italy is regarded as the classic case of uncontrolled enrolments leading to chronic overproduction of graduates even in the most vocational subjects . |
| 16 | The researchers said the Japanese growth in wealth seemed to have been accompanied by a narrowing in the difference in incomes between the richest and poorest , whereas in Britain the gap had widened . |
| 17 | In 1980 , UK bank-lending to industry was only around 22% of GDP , whereas in France the figure was 30% , in West Germany almost 34% and in Japan around 51% . |
| 18 | Eliot 's Waste Land that ‘ in England it was treated chiefly with indignation or contempt ’ , whereas in America The Dial had awarded the author its annual prize of $2,000 . |
| 19 | In Ireland , the offence was missed by the referee but spotted by the touch judge , whereas in Scotland the offence appeared to be missed by all three officials . |
| 20 | The problem we in Europe face is that Japanese companies have been active in scaling up production for some years , whereas in Europe the emphasis has been on high-quality research , which has only been significantly exploited in the area of basic liquid crystal materials . |
| 21 | In Malone , the Court was asked to recognize a limited common-law right to privacy whereas in Kennedy the Court was asked to take the much bolder step and apply in this sensitive area an implied constitutional right to privacy which was not to be found in the Constitution . |
| 22 | These differences led to differing perceptions of their role by the two development officers — in Ipswich the development officer was a little unsure of how she was going to ‘ work in with the existing multi-disciplinary team ’ , whereas in Newham the development officer said she felt she was probably going to spend a good deal of her time negotiating between the different services and ‘ getting them to talk to each other ’ . |
| 23 | Whereas in Egypt the pharaoh symbolized the triumph of an invincible divine order over the forces of chaos , in Mesopotamia kingship represented the struggle of a human order with all its anxieties and hazards to integrate itself with the universe . |
| 24 | Whereas in Yorkshire the penetration and usage is very low perhaps the lowest in the country erm where there is still very much a heritage of , Well what 's wrong with what 's in t' tap lad ? |
| 25 | Whereas in Northamptonshire the tutor-organiser saw himself as a professional liaising with other professionals in areas where voluntary participation was barely appropriate , his colleague in Essex was apparently expected to spend a lot of time in routine organising work which voluntary members could readily take over when she eventually resigned . |
| 26 | Wordsworth took the materialist philosophy of Locke and Hartley which had sufficed the eighteenth century , and changed round the terms , writing in positive instead of negative signs Instead of a dead universe described in terms of machines from which the Creator had departed , he proposed a living universe called ‘ Nature ’ described in terms of growth and organic life , which was being continuously created by a God who was inextricably involved in all its parts Whereas in Locke the mind at birth was ‘ a white paper ’ , with no innate ideas , in Wordsworth the mind retains in early childhood some consciousness of a pre-existent state ; in Locke the mind passively receives impressions from the senses , but in but in Wordsworth the mind actively perceives and a creative power within the mind organizes the multitude of chaotic sense impressions into a partial picture of the world . |
| 27 | English planning authorities are already given policy advice on coastal issues , whereas in Wales the work of the Coastal Strategic Working Group is emphasised . |
| 28 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 29 | Bitter drinkers in the NorthEast can expect to pay between 95p and £1.35 a pint while in London the price soars to as much as £1.72 . |
| 30 | About 40,000 brokerage accounts were transferred to Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. in the USA , while in London the Bank of England and city institutions stepped in to deal with the consequences of the collapse on the foreign exchange . |