Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Espana , the WBC international champion and leading WBA contender , challenges WBA welterweight king Meldrick Taylor in a mandatory defence on the Lennox Lewis-Razor Ruddock bill . |
| 2 | For example , on his first appearance in the 2nd Division for us , against Blackpool at The Nest on 22 October 1921 , he hit the single goal that gave a weakened Palace side victory , he got another one the following week in an excellent 3–1 win at Blackpool which was our first away from home in the higher division , then returned to Selhurst the next Saturday and headed the goal that disposed of Clapton Orient in a rugged London derby . |
| 3 | Almost immediately , however , the General was able to reassert his position by confirming his ‘ special relationship ’ with Konrad Adenauer in a Franco-German treaty of co-operation . |
| 4 | Juha Kankkunen recaptured the lead from compatriot Ari Vatanen in a hard-fought finish to yesterday 's second leg of the three-day 1,000 Lakes Rally in Finland . |
| 5 | Martin Kemp is the handsome human and redeemable Reggie , goaded out of his shred of decency by his mad brother , who watches him murder McVitie in a terrifying frenzy of anger and brotherly affection , stabbing the inert body long after life has left it . |
| 6 | He subsequently came briefly into the national spotlight when , fighting Bexley for Labour in the 1966 General Election , he gained only 2,333 votes fewer than Conservative leader Edward Heath in a 54,826 poll . |
| 7 | All these , with some other stray pieces of verse , were first collected by F. G. Kitton in a small volume published 1903 , and subsequently included in MP . |
| 8 | Finally , Ann Sherman in an interesting journal article entitled ‘ Questions that those concerned with non-sexist art education should ask ’ , provides a very good example of just such a re-evaluation designed for use by art teachers . |
| 9 | Harry Burrows rode round his house on Midsummer Eve in a white sheet pretending to be a ghost , we nearly died laughing when he told us — ’ |
| 10 | The Kempton feature is also the target for Martin Pipe 's Granville Again , who was well below his best when beaten by Morley Street in a muddling race at Cheltenham last month . |
| 11 | The entire contents of Château Saint-Paul de Cornillon , the Loire valley home of Paris antique dealer Bernard Baruch Steinitz , are to be auctioned in the castle itself by Jacques Tajan of Ader Tajan in a four day sale from 28 to 31 May . |
| 12 | Diane Edwards made a long run for home to defeat Ann Williams in a modest 4min 19.46sec with Cahill just unable to get back on terms . |
| 13 | On Saturday night at Manchester 's G-Mex Centre , Eubank , who modestly styles himself ‘ Simply the Best ’ , faces his 10th world title fight in two years when he tackles Juan Carlos Gimenez in a fourth defence of his WBO super-middleweight title since February and one he can not afford to lose . |
| 14 | The statement , agreed by the two men , was issued by a Downing Street official almost immediately after Mr Delors swept through the gates at the end of Downing Street in an official car . |
| 15 | Thus , for instance , Jeremy Lever QC in a recent article referred to ‘ the lack of recitals to United Kingdom legislation and the rule that reports of parliamentary debates are inadmissible as aids to construction , in consequence of which there may be no way in which the objects of United Kingdom legislation can be readily ascertained by our courts . ’ |
| 16 | On 13 May 1991 Barnett J. in a reasoned judgment refused relief . |
| 17 | The following year he beat both Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez in a 4–1 victory over Spain at Telford and said : ‘ I made a good start in the Cup so the first few matches will always stick in my mind . ’ |
| 18 | Skid Row are ninth row division Guns N'Roses wannabes , and this turgid slab of rotting , flyblown rock ratmeat is about as sexy , young and wild as the corpse of David Mellor in a bulging G-string . |
| 19 | Instead a meeting was proposed by the Utah University President Chase Peterson in a long phone call with the Provost of Brigham Young University during Friday 3 March . |
| 20 | DAVID BOWIE is to play it for laughs alongside funnyman Griff Rhys Jones in a new £1.5 million telly show . |
| 21 | Big Jack has an alternative — to include Ronnie Whelan in a five man midfield with Quinn the lone striker and Houghton and Staunton pushing up in support . |
| 22 | ‘ You look just like Gregory Peck in an old pirate movie . ’ |
| 23 | She might have been the headmistress of a certain type of girls ' school , now almost extinct , or a Mother Superior in an enclosed order . |
| 24 | Chatting up Eleanor Darcy in a flash restaurant . |
| 25 | He was Alec Scrimgeour , an elderly and successful stockbroker , who lived with his sister Ethel in a fine house near Chichester . |
| 26 | Uncover the fascinating history of the Presely Hills in a nine mile walk to the source of the Stonehenge Bluestones . |
| 27 | Yesterday Derek met Darlington Labour candidate Alan Milburn in a well-publicised meeting to help press home Labour 's attack on Conservative jobs policies . |
| 28 | I went down in the lift with Dr Jones in a blazing silence . |
| 29 | Her crew were all rescued , but it was discovered that the Delima was not , in fact , a water-carrier , as had originally been claimed , but a support ship for a massive fleet of between 60 and 130 Taiwanese drift-net vessels , fishing for albacore tuna along an area of oceanic upwelling known as the Subtropical Convergence Zone , stretching across the South Pacific in a narrow 300-km ( 200-mile ) band from south of the Cook Islands to south of French Polynesia . |
| 30 | LENNOX LEWIS is fighting his own manager Frank Maloney in a desperate bid to accept an ‘ insulting ’ $3 million to fight world heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe . |