Example sentences of "the [noun prp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1980 a Soviet commentator noted that according to the admissions of the American State Department ‘ the leaders of Egypt , Oman , Somalia and Kenya have agreed to grant the Pentagon the right to use the ports and a number of military installations in their countries ’ . |
| 2 | When they reached the Manor the children who had been watching from the window ran to greet Tamar . |
| 3 | Mitterrand and Thatcher were said to be ‘ in harmony ’ over the EEC the day before France said it was opposed to flexible arrangements for the British contribution to the EEC . |
| 4 | The crucial difference , however , is that over half of this amount went on defence ( which is comparable to the USA ) whereas in the EEC the proportion was one-quarter and in Japan zero . |
| 5 | Within the EEC the commitment to the Community seemed to be less ; or at least it was rather different . |
| 6 | Britain should give the EEC the sort of leadership that France would not and West Germany could not provide . |
| 7 | It was the Office of Woods and Forests which offered the RAF the site at the head of the Whitehall Stairs on Victoria Embankment , and the Memorial Fund gratefully accepted the offer . |
| 8 | In the early stages of the war for the Caucasus the Russians concentrated their resources in the west . |
| 9 | On the Moscow Petrograd line workers reported in the middle of February that they had not been paid for all January ; in the Caucasus the backlog in August stretched back to October 1921 . |
| 10 | Of the Clubs in existence there were the Mohocles The Blasters , The Bucks , The Bloods and , most vile of all The Sons of Midnight . |
| 11 | The Head of Department is responsible for discussing and agreeing with the Dean the withdrawal of modules from the course as a result of low recruitment or resource problems . |
| 12 | For a split second Joseph looked as agitated as he had been on the Jonquil the day after the murder . |
| 13 | People boasted to journalists , it might not be at all difficult to get Tim to say exactly what had happened on the Jonquil the night Sabine Jourdain was killed . |
| 14 | If there 'd been any evidence to link the death to anyone connected with the Jonquil the police would have found it by now . |
| 15 | In Kenya , though there was relatively little pressure for further alienation of Masai land after the second Masai move , what pressure there was was resisted by the administration , and R.W. Hemsted tried repeatedly to retrieve for the Masai the land alienated to Powys Cobb , which contained streams of crucial importance to Masai stock . |
| 16 | During 1985–6 in the Caribbean the script-writer was still West Indian . |
| 17 | During the conquest of the Caribbean the Spaniards trained packs of such dogs to kill Indians and so to wipe out whole villages . |
| 18 | Similarly the FDP campaign was dominated by Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the longstanding Foreign Minister who had also played a leading role in the unification process , and FDP posters urged the electorate to " Vote for the Germany the world trusts ! " . |
| 19 | Whilst at the Slade the Moynihans had belonged to a high-spirited group which included Nicolette Macnamara and who describes Hinor in Two Flamboyant Fathers as a ‘ vivid , witty personality ’ , with red cheeks , black hair and ‘ a Mona Lisa smile ’ in which an ‘ uplift of humour ’ replaced mystery . |
| 20 | Also present were Lord Romsey , Patron of the NCH Birthday Year , and Lady Romsey , looking beautiful in a red evening dress ; the Principal of the NCH the Reverend Michael Newman , Mr John Gray the Director of Advocacy of the NCH ; and the Chairman of the evening Mr Derek Hunt . |
| 21 | An alternative introduced last year , is the Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education — the C.P.V.E. The aim of this course is to enable students to develop their general education in a broad vocational context . |
| 22 | He had never come across an electric cooker before , as in the Netherlands the cooking and heating are done by natural gas . |
| 23 | The euthanasia law was a broadly backed compromise worked out after 20 years of exhaustive public debate and has given the Netherlands the world 's most lenient policy on mercy killing . |
| 24 | This condition is a constant feature of the Apterygota , where it is a primitive character , but in the Pterygota the loss of Wings is secondary ( La Greca , 1954 ) . |
| 25 | This is seen , correctly , as potentially very rewarding for the domestic industry , and in some First World non-hegemon countries and in the NICs the supply of materials and components , for example to the automobile TNCs , has certainly been economically rewarding . |
| 26 | Furthermore , water running down the outside of the Pertex helps to draw out some of the water that penetrated through to the Parameta.a The rest stays there and evaporates in the wind or trickles down between the layers . |
| 27 | In the Jura the Tithonian can be seen in places to be a coral reef limestone , but usually the corals have been obliterated by dolomitisation and dedolomitisation as is commonly the fate of reefs . |
| 28 | Like everything else in the States the helpings are larger than life and you very soon learn to resist the temptation to start the meal with an appetiser . |
| 29 | Set in beautiful parkland 15 minutes only from Birmingham City Centre , 20 minutes from Birmingham Airport and The NEC the hotel is the perfect location for the travelling business person , easy access from M6 , M5 , M40 and M42 . |
| 30 | The defences on the Danube had been neglected , for as long as the frontier lay on the Dniester the inhabitants of Moesia believed themselves to be secure . |