Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [adv] [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | W. R. Hamilton was appointed Astronomer Royal for Ireland and a Professor while still an undergraduate in 1827 . |
| 2 | During the few moments in which she paused in her ascent to the church she reflected that now she was looking at the view the other way round ; now she was in one of the overcrowded little alleys visible from San Martino as merely a crack in a vast expanse of roof tiles and crumbling masonry and noticeable from that lofty vantage point because of the fluttering of the washing hung out on poles over the street to dry . |
| 3 | Indeed , his view of this independent sovereign as purely a pawn in the French political game was never more clearly seen than in 1556 , when he contemplated marrying her to the English nobleman Edward lord Courtenay , in response to the threat that Philip of Spain , then married to Mary Tudor , would give her sister Elizabeth as a bride to Ferdinand of Austria . |
| 4 | For David Marquand 's main mistake is to see the policy review as merely an exercise in junking outmoded policies . |
| 5 | They turned into Candlewick , now thronged with carts , pack horses and wagons as virtually every tradesman in the city seized the opportunity afforded by the break in the weather . |
| 6 | Yes , but again this can not be the whole story because sometimes the food in question is identical to the previous meal , which was consumed greedily . |
| 7 | Certainly , on the union side , the central trade union body ( the LO ) attained much greater power and authority than either the TUC in Britain or the AFL-CIO in the United States and the Swedish Employers ' Confederation ( SAF ) had tightly controlled powers over its affiliates since its inception . |
| 8 | With risers of nor more than a foot , it will put more interest into the garden than twice the planting in the plain . |
| 9 | Matiba , a former Cabinet minister , had left Kenya after almost a year in detention [ see p. 37603 for his arrest in July 1990 ] . |