Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK Secretary of State for Defence , Tom King , made a four-day visit to the Falkland Islands at the beginning of March 1990 . |
| 2 | On March 14 , 1989 , the Indiana I , a Bahamian-registered vessel which had begun an irregular ferry service from the Falkland Islands to the South American mainland in January , was intercepted by a Brazilian naval vessel and prevented from docking at Rio Grande in southern Brazil . |
| 3 | IN 1982 , a naval task force was despatched to the Falkland Islands under the same authority . |
| 4 | And even over a period as long as 15 years we would be paying a lot less ( £184 millions ) than the £684 millions that will go next year to safeguard the Falkland Islands from the Argentinians — a matter which many ecologists see as a fight between two bald men over the possession of a comb . |
| 5 | This was the Falkland Islands in the distant southern Atlantic , where Callaghan managed to deter , or dissuade , the Argentine military junta from taking naval action in the vicinity of the Falklands or occupying South Georgia . |
| 6 | I personally do believe that it would have been much better if ministers had had a number of discussions about the Falkland Islands in the period preceding the invasion of the Falklands by the Argentinians . |
| 7 | Desperate from the Crook O'Dea to the Earls Eye with many dry nets . |
| 8 | Scottish international Lynn Harding , preparing for the Stockholm Marathon at the end of the month , set a course record when she won the women 's race by over four minutes from Durham City veteran Julie Coleby . |
| 9 | In its reef or reef-like facies , the Tithonian continues round the Alps , the Carpathians , the Balkan Mountains to the Caucasus . |
| 10 | At the mouth of the Patuxent River on the bay 's western shore , there is a dollop of land called Solomons that is known for its commercial fishing community — the bay 's watermen ’ . |
| 11 | C. Farries Public Relations and Publicity Awards competition , resulting in the National Library being given a special award for this promotion ; and the SSL was also short-listed for The Scotsman Computer-User of the Year Award . |
| 12 | Denis King , her husband , had been on stage with his brothers , Mike and Tony , as The King Brothers from the age of twelve . |
| 13 | David had moved from The King Bees to The Manish Boys and released a single , ‘ I Pity The Fool ’ , and having supported Gerry and the Pacemakers , The Kinks and Gene Pitney on tour , joined up with a group called The Lower Third , consisting of Graham Rivens , Phil Lancaster and Denis Taylor . |
| 14 | Like it or not , high-tech communications have arrived in the Soviet Union , and the King Canutes of the interior ministry have become an absurdity . |
| 15 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |
| 16 | The long-distance trade in slaves across the Indian Ocean in the |
| 17 | Stretching across the Indian Ocean from the south of India to the equator are the 1,200 tiny coral islands in a patch of deep blue forming the Maldives . |
| 18 | The Persian Gulf proposals were an outgrowth of the sponsorship of a zone of peace in the Indian Ocean by the Non-Aligned , while the Mediterranean proposals were similar to ideas developed by the Mediterranean non-aligned states . |
| 19 | Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal . |
| 20 | Go along the Stadhaus Quai to the right , to Quai bridge , and one of Zurich 's most invigorating views awaits . |
| 21 | Immediately to the west of the col is the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , then , to the left of that , the granite mass if of Néouvielle , with beyond it the rim of the Cirque de Gavarnie , and the Monte Perdido on the Spanish side ; and so on round to the south-east , in a wonderfully three dimensional arrangement of crests and hollows . |
| 22 | However , had there been a shrine to this cult in the Cambridgeshire Fens on the edge of the Nene Valley one could consider a connection with pottery scenes . |
| 23 | They continued through the Temple Gates into the alleyway which would lead them into Fleet Street and a new cook shop . |
| 24 | Park and Ride facilities will be available from the Victoria Embankment to the Tennis Centre . |
| 25 | Once again our site managers have won numerous awards in the NHBC Pride in the Job competition . |
| 26 | But the significance of the new plant , a £190 million refit of a factory last used to build the Vauxhall Chevette in the early '80s , goes further than just the V6 . |
| 27 | Maybe there will one day be a novel from Amis which portrays the Patrick Standish of the Eighties — more baleful , no doubt , on certain subjects , nicer to his cat , surrounded by the monuments of the New Right and by the debris of the swinging past to which he had once been a contributor . |
| 28 | Treatment with IFN-γ profound by induced the expressionof HLA-DR on the surface of colo 205 . |
| 29 | Do you remind them of Angela Williams , the first person to be prosecuted for smoking on the tube or of Paul Deiring , the first person to be jailed for smoking on the tube ( he could n't pay his £25 fine ) or do you make like Eric Butler , the Bernard Goetz of the Victoria Line , who , in 1987 , mocked and taunted by drunken youths , retaliated with a sword-stick and was punished in the courts for his efforts . |
| 30 | We tend to think of most Central American countries as somehow linked by the Caribbean Sea to the Caribbean islands and cultures ; but all the republics have Pacific coastlines — and so Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras ( with a scant 45 miles of Pacific shoreline along the Gulf of Fonseca ) , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and of course Panama can rightly ( if pedantically ) be thought of as Pacific nations . |