Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Scotland 's coach , Ian McGeechan , made the pertinent point that fixtures against Fiji and Romania had provided a valuable contrast of styles , expansive and then forward dominated , that were useful preparation for the Five Nations Championship .
2 Encouraged by the long minority of the new Stadtholder it helped to influence Dutch policy in a pro-French and anti-British direction during the Seven Years War ( the Orange family , now closely associated by marriage with that of Hanover , was generally pro-British in outlook ) .
3 Here is another even better function for the eight queens problem whose values are lists of numbers .
4 However one particular champion of the potato was Antoine-Augustin Parmentier a French chemist who was captured by the Germans during the Seven Years War and survived largely on a diet of potatoes .
5 Even more unusually , the team , which named itself DPRS after the four co-founders Roger Davison , Andy Pollock , Simon Rees and Amanda Shingleton , left with staff , clients and E&Y 's goodwill .
6 Lying to Manville about the 48 hours grace hardly seemed to matter , in that context .
7 COLIN Jackson was within a few inches of Olympic disaster last night in his bid for the 110 metres hurdles crown .
8 The Ulster representation in the 30 player squad is small but team leader , Eddie Limberg , Ulster Branch Chairman , has another mission in mind at Perth when he will present a bid for the 1993 Schools event to come to Ulster .
9 Kit 's success would make Rebecca 's father rich , much richer than the family had ever been since the squandering of the fortune made in the service of the Earl of Warwick during the Hundred Years War .
10 I detest the economist Ramón Tamames , who condemns the broken engagement between the two multinationals MOMA and MNCARS ; who criticises the Reina Sofía 's ‘ weird ultra-avantgarde artistic creations ’ and yearns for the musty progressive reproductions of ‘ Guernica ’ .
11 In turn this paves the way for another procedure which acts against the conceptualization of housework as work activity , and that is the confusion between the four words/roles housewife , wife , mother and woman .
12 The Holy Roman Emperors were elected by three lay and three clerical Electors plus the King of Bohemia , a title always held by the Habsburgs after the Thirty Years War .
13 Although the former heads of the two securities houses added little to their previous statements , Tabuchi admitted on Aug. 29 that Nomura 's links with Japan 's organized crime syndicates , which had been revealed in July [ see p. 38342 ] , were currently under investigation and might prove to have been more extensive than had been initially suggested .
14 It was a theme that was to be taken up by mediators between the two kingdoms until the outbreak of the Hundred Years War .
15 We have no other details of this aspect of Anglo-French relations before the outbreak of the Hundred Years War .
16 The outbreak of the Hundred Years War itself was not unconnected with intrigues on behalf of men such as Robert of Artois in which northern Frenchmen had important vested interests .
17 Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships .
18 A book with a title such as this one could have concentrated on narrative and analysis of the political , military , and diplomatic aspects of the Hundred Years War .
19 The effect of the six weeks time limit will be considered within the general context of exclusion of remedies .
20 This was reduced from eight to six years by the Court of Appeal in 1990 , but the court then ruled that his remaining two grounds of appeal could not be argued in the light of the 1984 Lords decision .
21 Winners of the 1992 Singles Competition , David Lorimer ( on right ) is presented with the Burnside Cup , BMK 's annual golf competition .
22 CONGRATULATIONS to the three winners of the 1992 Friends Christmas Quiz , who were : .
23 For instance , all four operators U , D , L and R of the eight tiles problem are reversible , but they are partial functions on the set of states and so they do not have inverses .
24 In an effort to promote sports coaching further , the National Coaching Foundation , in association with the four Sports Councils in the United Kingdom , has produced two colourful posters , ‘ Come Into Coaching ’ and ‘ Coaching Makes a Difference ’ , both of which are available free of charge .
25 Possibly the best known of these is the Mass of Reconciliation written for Coventry 25 years after the bombing ( a service which appeared on disc ) , and his association with the Three Choirs Festival which included his Te Deum in 1962 , his setting of ‘ Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ’ at the opening service in 1977 , and the Benedicite ( in memory of Cecil Adams ) in 1986 .
26 Throughout the country , mileage restrictions on operational vehicles and on essential users include the following : ’ in the north west of the County , an area 20 miles across , was patrolled by an Area car with a 40 miles allocation for an 8 hour tour of duty ; in the conurbation the panda vehicles were restricted to 28 miles for each 8 hour shift ’ .
27 Lawyers said she did not have a good relationship with the father and the prospect that he may return to the family home prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act .
28 The prospect of him returning to the family home prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act .
29 The girl is said not have a good relationship with her father and the prospect that he might return to the family home , after a period of estrangement from his wife , prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act .
30 The girl is said to have a poor relationship with her father and the prospect that he might return to the family home , after a period of estrangement from his wife , prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act .
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