Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | His tactic was to starve the Milanese into submission so the city was encircled by a ring of improvised castles , cutting off communications and supplies . |
2 | On the opposite side of the piazza from the church , beyond the row of elegant short pillars and the less fetching white domes erected to stop the Milanese from parking on the pavements , is Palazzo Trivulzio , a sixteenth-century building that has been remodelled and is in need of a little loving care . |
3 | The Theory-Dependence of Observation |
4 | ‘ WE HAVE decapitated him from the dictatorship , ’ said General Powell , briefing the press in the Pentagon on Sky , which comes into its own on stories like this . |
5 | Have goals will travel striker , Imre Varadi is coming to the Manor on loan from Leeds . |
6 | At least one of these is approaching the EEC for funding . |
7 | A provision for Possible funding by the EEC of pilot schemes to demonstrate to farmers the enlarged objectives of investment aid via a development plan . |
8 | Recordings of the EEC of recovery sleep have confirmed that the first night 's recovery sleep is longer than usual . |
9 | ( c ) The EEC during sleep |
10 | THE EEC IN OPERATION |
11 | It is precisely because British farmers have a competitive advantage in the production of sheepmeat , beef , cereals , dairy and other produce that it is in our interests to have a truly and genuinely single free and open common market in the EEC in agriculture produce . |
12 | ‘ We are not aiming at a local audience , but are bearing the EEC in mind , and of course all those who come to the Frankfurt Book Fair at the same time . ’ |
13 | You can , for substantially less money , buy bigger , flashier coupes which not only better the VW on interior and luggage accommodation but , thanks to more powerful engines , easily outperform it in acceleration and top speed and , marginally , in fuel economy . |
14 | When I first started to explore Scotland by train , there were long spacious carriages , first and second class , with a restaurant and buffet , a guard 's van where bikes could be carried free of charge , and a service that transported you to the Highlands through snow drifts that would bury a car . |
15 | The bridge over the river Tweed at Peebles was once an important part of the Kailzie Drove Road , a main route for cattle driven from the Highlands for sale in English markets and with side paths for transporting local woollen goods to similar markets . |
16 | Immediately after Culloden the British government resumed the policy of trying to tame the Highlands with brick and rubble . |
17 | Right : Anne in the Anta showroom with an appropriate reminder of the Highlands of home . |
18 | Two are for the Queen 's flight- to carry members of the royal family and VIPs — the rest are used by the RAF for training . |
19 | Night Flyer ( Goodall Publications , 210pp , sbk , £3.50 ) by Lewis Brandon tells of some of the exciting episodes shared by the Author and his pilot , W/C James Benson , during their partnership as one of the most successful night-fighter crews in the RAF during World War Two . |
20 | We were doing our first two weeks square bashing in the RAF as boy entrants . |
21 | Now retired , Gordon Hampton lives near Sheffield and continues to take an active interest in the RAF as President of the Sheffield branch of the RAF Association . |
22 | AIR VICE-MARSHAL Geoffrey Thomas , who has died aged 76 , served the RAF with distinction as a supply , equipment and movements specialist . |
23 | He lived on a war pension , having been invalided out of the RAF with epilepsy — the result , we think , of an explosion in a munitions factory . |
24 | Dave Thomas from Abingdon who was a cook with the RAF on Christmas Island has suffered illness all his life since that time . |
25 | It 's good to see the story of one of the lesser known aces of the RAF in print ! |
26 | Its been told in a book by aviation writer Wilf Pereira who served in the RAF in World War Two and remembers when it was a strip of grass at daily peril from German bombers . |
27 | Six of the dead were from the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and three from the Queen 's Own Highlanders attached to the Fusiliers as part of the British 4th Brigade . |
28 | In the nineteenth century Herbert 's reputation was revived by Coleridge in Britain and by Emerson in America ; Ruskin , whose influence on the British reading public was enormous , learned most of The Temple by heart . |
29 | Well , I had the whole of north Scotland from the Orkneys to Moray , and Siward has only those bits of Northumbria that Ligulf and the rest have n't written their crosses on . |
30 | At a meeting in the Bahamas the previous month President Kennedy had persuaded the British prime minister , Harold Macmillan , to agree to the MLF in return for American Polaris missiles . |