Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-two year old Gerald Bagshall from Barton Village Road in Oxford has been jailed for two years for possession and supply of drugs . |
| 2 | He takes his Malcolm Wilson prepared Ford Sapphire Cosworth 4x4 to Scotland where he faces tough opposition , notably from Murray Grierson in a Metro 6R4 . |
| 3 | In 1798 , General Humbert of France came over and won a battle near there , but he took so long that the nearby towns had time to refortify . |
| 4 | My bus next morning set out for Ballina , westward to County Mayo , to the place where General Humbert of revolutionary France had landed with his soldiers to help drive the English out of Ireland , in 1798 . |
| 5 | and Alison Levitt for the appellant . |
| 6 | It is therefore very pleasing to see appearing in the Ian Allan At War series , Jonathan Falconer 's Stirling At War . |
| 7 | A hardback book , entitled ‘ The West Somerset Railway ’ will also be published by Ian Allan in the Steam Portfolio series during the week . |
| 8 | All your designs will bear the label ‘ Lisa Howell for G.W. Fashions ’ . ’ |
| 9 | The Conservatives were critical of the appointment of William Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury in April 1942 . |
| 10 | He asked the opinion of William Temple about filling the chair . |
| 11 | Successive kings had no reason to grumble , cathedral chapters were happy to elect , and the Church of England was given good leaders — William Temple of York and George Bell of Chichester among them . |
| 12 | He expected William Temple to back Henson and was grieved to find that his hero was weak because he refused to stand up and fight . |
| 13 | To make the poor " sober , industrious and obedient " , asserted William Temple in 1739 , the means of idleness had to be removed , and that was high wages . |
| 14 | Pott Shrigley had the highest score of the day in the division with 171–9 at Holmes Chapel before the home side were bowled out for 86 . |
| 15 | He was chairman of the Venice Biennale from 1974 to 1979 and served on the board of La Scala of Milan . |
| 16 | Stendhal , on his return to his adopted city after an absence of two years , claimed La Scala to be the most important opera in the world , since which time no one has felt the need , or had the temerity , to fault his judgement . |
| 17 | He vigorously defended against all comers the enormous expense of bringing La Scala to Scotland . |
| 18 | The Italian diva , whose operatic performances he faithfully attended from La Scala to the Met — for four months ? |
| 19 | But this is turning into grand opera , dear , rehearsals at La Scala for Götterdämmerung … |
| 20 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 21 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 22 | Amicus has another new editor and I would like to welcome Derek Robertson and thank Sheila Macdonald for her part in changing the face of our staff magazine . |
| 23 | Alison MacDonald on the perennial problem of child care . |
| 24 | A directive was , however , considered by the European Court to have direct effect , such as to confer rights upon the plaintiff in Van Duyn v. Home Office ( No. 2 ) [ 1975 ] 3 All ER 190 , although the United Kingdom Parliament had not implemented the directive by means of delegated legislation . |
| 25 | Both justified their promotion , Kavanagh beating Julie Thomas three and two and Hackett getting the better of Lisa Dermott by two and one . |
| 26 | Prime Minister : Mesut Yilmaz replaced Yildirim Akbulut on June 17 , 1991 . |
| 27 | He also attended classes at the Actors Studio , before replacing Ben Gazzara in the leading role of the junkie in A Hatful of Rain on Broadway in 1956 . |
| 28 | Local golfer Colin Carnson from Helen 's Bay Golf Club receives his trophy from Irial Finan of Coca Cola for scoring the best net at the Coca Cola Open Youth Team Tournament at Donaghadee Golf Club . |
| 29 | When in the eighth century the Saxon saint Guthlac penetrated the heart of the Fens to found Crowland Abbey , he was described by the monk Felix of Crowland as encountering demons in the wilderness , which ‘ came with such immoderate noises and immense horror , that it seemed to him that all between heaven and earth resounded with their dreadful cries ’ . |
| 30 | The OED was first planned ( as a ‘ New English Dictionary ’ , a title it bore until 1928 ) by the Philological Society in 1858 , but the real work began with the appointment of J.A.H. Murray as Editor in 1879 . |