Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Robson was ruled out after a week-long struggle to overcome a niggling calf injury in the hope of helping United put right their Wembley disappointment in last year 's final , when they surprisingly succumbed to Second Division Sheffield Wednesday . |
2 | By coincidence , Redcar Tory candidate Robert Goodwill a farmer near Helmsley was defending his localness in last night 's Evening Gazette . |
3 | The UK could find itself in greatest difficulty with exemptions granted for pesticides in Southern Water 's area , namely for the herbicides Atrazine , Simazine and Propazine , where a treatment facility is not planned until 1997 or 1998 . |
4 | A high point of their explosive live set ( huge tour itinerary in last week 's issue ) , ‘ Perfect Motion ’ is released on October 5 featuring the superb ‘ Boys Own Mix ’ and Leftfield 's ‘ Vocal Mix ’ , followed a week later ( October 12 , diary fans ) with the band 's own ‘ Perfect Chaos ’ version . |
5 | There was about the seamen — every nerve in Blind Hugh 's body , which tended to vibrate in the presence of even a small amount of impure gold at fifty paces , screamed into his brain — the air of one anticipating imminent enrichment . |
6 | Perhaps it could also be blamed on having flicked past hundreds of dull photos of them in The Scots Magazine over the years , showing old men with their shirt sleeves rolled up , pointing at some rolling , lumpy , big hills with the caption reading , ‘ The mighty Cairngorms are a sight for sore eyes in any rambler 's book ’ . |
7 | Yorkshire are determined to avenge their defeat in last season 's final at Twickenham , and are hoping Atkins ' clubmate Guy Easterby , making his county debut at scrum half , will rise to the occasion in front of a 14,000 capacity crowd . |
8 | It should have been no surprise : Johnson scored two of the goals in last season 's play-off final against Brighton and was booed every time he touched the ball by home fans with good memories . |
9 | Loughlin 's try and seven goals in last season 's Premiership semi-final against Castleford — today 's rivals in a televised Regal Trophy quarter-final — helped Saints win 30-14 . |
10 | A year later , the Government restored the 5 per cent abatement in that year 's uprating of benefits , conceding that it was experiencing considerable difficulties in making invalidity benefit liable to taxation by the following year . |
11 | Finalists in last year 's Quality Quest competition , Macmillan College , Middlesbrough and Dowdales School in Dalton in Furness are staging a rematch in Newcastle , where they are among five schools battling it out in the Northern Development Company 's competition . |
12 | Parrott will hand over a cue , which has been autographed by the quarter finalists in this year 's world snooker championships , to be auctioned . |
13 | I hope he ai n't le left the card in bloody Lee 's car . |
14 | A woman co-accused with Winnie Mandela in last year 's kidnap and assault trial was said to have disappeared mysteriously yesterday from her Soweto home . |
15 | Also standing is Green Mike Woodin who grabbed almost a quarter of the vote in last year 's council elections . |
16 | If none of those grab your fancy , there are plenty of other stomping good walks in this month 's issue of Outdoor Action . |
17 | Agents blocking the release or effects of ROM , for example , xanthine oxidase inhibitors , superoxide dismutase or its mimetic WR 2721 , catalase , the glutathione peroxidase mimetic PZ 51 , dimethyl sulphoxide , and desferrioxamine ( Figure ) , all decrease inflammation in animal or intestinal cell culture models of colitis , and uncontrolled studies show promise for the use of allopurinol in pouchitis and superoxide dismutase injections in refractory Crohn 's disease . |
18 | ANDY ROXBURGH may have tried manfully to build a protective shield against hype around Duncan Ferguson yesterday but Dundee United 's forward will play for Scotland against Portugal in next month 's World Cup qualifying tie for one simple reason — there is no-one better . |
19 | He said afterwards he had not read the newly-written rule in this year 's tournament regulations . |
20 | Entries in this year 's competition , ( closing date October 26 ) are due to be judged at the beginning of November . |
21 | ‘ An original design , particularly for the most special ring in any woman 's life , is an intensely personal thing . ’ |
22 | RUNNING Magazine has joined forces with the National Fun Run to create a new award in recognition of the best club team performances in this year 's race . |
23 | Finally , in lighter vein , modern scientists would have no difficulty in exposing the falsity of an entry in honest Kepler 's notebook , following observations through a Galilean , telescope , which reads , ‘ Mars is square and intensely coloured ’ . |
24 | Please find enclosed the following invoices for items supplied and work done in connection with Nether Wyresdale 's entry in this year 's competition . |
25 | A host of celebrities from music and showbusiness put their names to an advert in last Saturday 's Guardian , launching a campaign to publicise abuses of power on our doorstep . |
26 | As the banner headline in last month 's JFIT News proclaimed , IT Division has a new Director . |
27 | I noted the considerable glee in one commentator 's voice on reporting John Cook 's trouble at the 9th when he went out-of-bounds . |
28 | THE appearance of the former Wolves defender Derek Jefferson in last week 's column prompted a golden memory of 1975/76 from Iain Woods of Great Barr , Birmingham . |
29 | Gunnell , who took silver in last year 's world championships in Tokyo , was timed at 53.23 seconds , the sixth fastest in history . |
30 | Gunnell , who took silver in last year 's world championships in Tokyo , was timed at 53.23 seconds , the sixth fastest in history . |