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

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1 The implication ( 33 ) 5 , that the day of speaking is other than Wednesday or Thursday , is also due to deixis ( explained in Chapter z ) , for the word Thursday in utterance ( iii ) is used in a deictic way that invokes pragmatic parameters ( there are other usages that do not , e.g. Pay day is Thursday ) .
2 Originally scheduled for the United States in October , the switch has been made because of the current state of anarchy in American offshore politics , particularly in the eyes of championship promoter , Mario Revenna , of Italy .
3 Larkin 's humiliating defeat did not prevent his becoming president of the Irish Trades Union Congress , and he had their blessing when he left for the United States in October 1914 , hoping to retrieve his union 's fortunes .
4 from New York University 's Institute of Fine Arts , has been appointed Assistant Curator in the museum 's Medieval Department , while Daniel Kletke , who is writing a dissertation on liturgical combs in ivory for the Frei Universität in Berlin , has been appointed Curatorial Assistant at the Cloisters .
5 Assuming he could not afford the luxury of a high-speed post-chaise , William Charles may have taken one of the coaches which left the George in Frome for the Bell Sauvage in Ludgate Hill on Sundays , Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3 o'clock in the afternoon .
6 About 300 were built , of which two 3ft gauge examples for the Portstewart Tramway in Northern Ireland have survived ( one in Belfast and one in Hull ) , and a third is at Ferrymead Museum , Christchurch , New Zealand .
7 Although Denmark retains responsibility for the Faroe Islands in respect of foreign affairs , defence , the judiciary and the monetary system , the islands have their own government ( Landsstyret or Landsstryrid ) which is responsible for internal affairs , including fisheries .
8 A flood warning has been issued for the River Wye in Herefordshire , where farm crops are already threatened by drought .
9 A further five programmes , including one for the River Darent in Kent , are under consideration .
10 To support his views on results-oriented activity , Ryan quotes the work carried out by the Marketing Store for the supermarket Asda in building traffic and customer loyalty .
11 His career as a virtuoso dancer came to an end in the 1960s , when he suffered an injury , but he continued to take on character parts , notably as the widow Simone in Ashton 's Fille , and remained with the company until 1989 .
12 There is still a breed known as the Milking Devon in Massachusetts which is very close to the original seventeenth-century type and a valuable reserve of the old genes .
13 Orang-utan reserves have been established , such as the Gunung Leuser in Sumatra , as well as four more in Sarawak , Sabah and Borneo .
14 He was there on a Kodak sponsorship to cover a gruelling four-day Super Marathon through the Hoggar Mountains in Algeria , but he found himself constantly distracted by the staggering terrain that surrounded him .
15 From there we set sail with sixteen fierce Bugis tribesmen on a 2,500-mile voyage through the Spice Islands in search of the Greater Bird of Paradise .
16 The company is based in a mews off the Cromwell Road in London , impeccably furnished with black leather , dark wood and framed posters from Puttnam 's films .
17 Presented in excellent condition throughout , this three bedroom , four year old mid terrace property is located in a good residential area off the Eynsham Road in west Oxford .
18 One of Karajan 's simplest musico-dramatic experiments was his staging of the Callas Lucia in Milan in 1954 .
19 We look forward in the knowledge that in its native western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in California , it can grow at least a foot a year .
20 The Department of the Environment provided just such a draft when they invited the Prince , as the United Kingdom 's patron of the European Year of the Environment , to open the Second International Conference on the protection of the North Sea in November 1987 .
21 It is significant that Halliday discusses The Inheritors against the background of the theory of foregrounding , and that Golding 's Lok-language in its opacity bears some resemblance to the language of the child Stephen in Joyce 's portrait , as quoted in [ 10 ] .
22 Four days later the Duce , from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia in Rome , proclaimed Italy an Empire and the King its Emperor .
23 Successive chancellors found it easier to borrow the ready-made currency in the possession of the Gens Redburna in return for Imperial Notes of Hand ; interest was paid on the loans .
24 Trompf also cites examples of reenactment in Hebrew historiography , such as the crossing of the Jordan in Joshua , which was consciously likened to the traversing of the Red Sea in Exodus , and the similarity of the Babylonian exile to the earlier Egyptian bondage .
25 The temporary but lengthy closure of most of the Galleria Borghese in Rome has allowed the restoration department of the Palazzo Barberini to undertake some much needed cleaning of some of the paintings .
26 The southern boundary of the District was accordingly modified from the mouth of the Blackwater River in Essex westwards to the Buckinghamshire county boundary .
27 The proposed siting of a waste tip near the bank of the river Dee in north Wales will produce poisonous liquids which will threaten the drinking water supply of two million people , according to the local MP , Martyn Jones .
28 He relates an incident of the explorer Stanley in Africa in the nineteenth century .
29 The cave site is exposed in a limestone quarry on the southern flanks of the Mendip Hills in Somerset , England at between 213 and 244 m OD ( Fig. 1.1 ) .
30 Students who have performed well in Year II of the BTEC HND in Mathematics , Statistics and Computing ( code JN 1111 ) ( see page 168 ) may proceed to the second year of the honours degree course .
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