Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the war ended he sought me out to offer me choice of jabs ; I chose his Transport Wing in Germany , on loan to Sholto Douglas then the C-in-C Germany , to operate the air transport requirements for Germany in the early days after the end of the war , with aircraft baked in the UK . |
| 2 | Saxe-Weimar 's men were mostly German troops in Dutch service who had fought for Napoleon in the previous wars , and not even Saxe-Weimar himself was certain whether they would now fight against their old comrades . |
| 3 | Carrie had managed to cope with the twofold demands of the business and motherhood by employing a young woman to look after Rachel during the busy days . |
| 4 | He also competes for Toyota in the Japanese sports car series and earlier this year headed their team in the Le Mans 24-hour race . |
| 5 | Despite the arrival of occasional parvenus such as Speransky in the early decades of the nineteenth century , the Tsar was surrounded by military and civil advisers who were bound by the strongest bonds to the serf-owning nobility . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State for Scotland on the particular implications for The Dundee Institute of Technology and Robert Gordon Institute of Technology , arising from the White Paper Higher Education : A New Framework ; |
| 7 | For children under 5 in Lothian the number of casualties in 1991 was nearly one third greater than the 1981–85 baseline total , whereas for Scotland as a whole casualties in this age group rose by less than 5% . |
| 8 | Ireland nearly equalised in the second , but were held back and Sandra Colamartino scored her second try for Scotland in the final minutes . |
| 9 | CHEN XINHUA , the England champion from Yorkshire , played a crucial role for England at the European championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 10 | England call : Mark Reppion , a member of the Speke Gemini Boxing Club , will compete for England in the Golden Gloves tournament in Glasgow tomorrow . |
| 11 | if you think that was muddy … you ai n't seen nothing yet … because on Friday we 're off to the Forest of Dean with the Mad Dogs of Gloucestershire |
| 12 | Surely no one could think better of Jason for the quoted remarks ? |
| 13 | Thus by 1814 Bolivar was driven out of Venezuela by a savage backlands revolt , accidentally royalist , led by Boves , a smuggler and sergeant of the Spanish marines , who established a brutal domination over the mounted herdsmen of the plains . |
| 14 | On the train as we rode past the spines of Manhattan to the flat rooftops of Brooklyn , he told me something of his travels in north America , indeed , he had been much further west than Jersey City , even beyond Chicago . |
| 15 | This option offers the best of both worlds — the simplicity of DesignaKnit with the extra facilities of Deluxe Paint . |
| 16 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 17 | Bede , however , says that Wulfhere 's attack on Wight and the gift of the island to Aethelwealh occurred ‘ not long before ’ the mission of Wilfrid to the southern Saxons in the mid-680s ( HE IV , 13 ) , which suggests that Wulfhere 's actions should be placed later in the reign than 661 . |
| 18 | The issue in Gillick 's case was stated by Lord Fraser of Tullybelton in the following terms [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 165 : |
| 19 | These were the Bani Umayyah , whose head , Abu Sofian , was a particularly determined opponent of Muhammad during the early years of the propagation of his message , and the Bani Hashem , of which Muhammad was himself a member . |
| 20 | Several of these were swept up into the state National Railways of Mexico in the early years of this century . |
| 21 | This plan provided for the withdrawal of Soviet troops in exchange for ‘ guarantees of the neutrality ’ of Afghanistan by the Great Powers and its neighbours and the creation of peace-keeping forces . |
| 22 | This does not prove that there is an excess of DVT in the treated patients , but it raises a justifiable concern . |
| 23 | At the meeting er , of the Financial Resources Committee that I attended on Wednesday the first thing we discussed was the er the giving so far , up to the end of February from the various provinces and we , by the end of February er , the total was up to thirty thousand pounds less than we required er which could mean that the end of the year it could be a hundred and eighty thousand pounds less than required but er of all the |
| 24 | The Knights of the Blazing Sun were created after the Battle of Magritta in 1457 during the crusades which eventually freed the land of Estalia from the Arabian invaders . |
| 25 | Read the quest of Francis of Assisi as a young man , or the search of Ignatius of Loyola in the early years of his conversion . |
| 26 | The Fitzallan 's played leading parts in Scottish life over several generations : the third Steward , Alan 's son , was appointed Justiciary for Scotland by King Alexander II ; the fourth fought at the Battle of Largs and was a Crusader ; and the fifth was appointed a Guardian of Scotland during the troubled times before the rise of William Wallace . |
| 27 | Together these two concepts give the key to both the sculpture and the inspiration for its bold commission by The Royal Bank of Scotland through the good offices of a non-executive director , Angus Grossart . |
| 28 | Travelling from the northern tip of Scotland to the southern cliffs of England is tough enough … 1200 muscle sapping miles … but Derek Hegarty and Neil Pascoe are doing it an even harder way … they 're competing in their own marathon triathlon … which is running swimming and cycling … so far they 've run up Ben Nevis … |
| 29 | It was his strongly expressed desire to annex the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to the hereditary provinces of the monarchy which at least in part prevented the putting into force there of the constitution of 1782 . |
| 30 | When Ezra the scribe read from the law of Moses to the returned exiles in Jerusalem , the people , we are told not only " understood the reading " but alternately " wept when they heard the words of the law " and made " great rejoicing " . |