Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Plato in a marvellous metaphor ( Republic 488 ) Demos was a huge , deaf old sea-captain , drugged and overpowered by ignorant riff-raff who take over the wheel themselves — true , except for the word ‘ ignorant ’ . |
| 2 | More than 70 people died during March in a fresh wave of violence in parts of Punjab . |
| 3 | He went for Ward in a crouching run , and Ward just stood there , as though transfixed . |
| 4 | The cDNA clone for C/EBPδ in an eukaryotic expression vector , under the control of the murine sarcoma virus long terminal repeat , was a generous gift from Dr. McKnight . |
| 5 | On Page 3 , Chris Greentree describes his goal for LASMO in a special message to all employees . |
| 6 | It had seemed a good idea , but how could she ask for Dana in a strange shop ? |
| 7 | Lunch was served in the Cathedral Hall after Mass in a relaxed atmosphere ; followed by the Centenary annual meeting . |
| 8 | Ray Stephen scored for Nancy in a 5–2 defeat in Marseille 's Velodrome Stadium last season . |
| 9 | Souness , who won more than 50 caps for Scotland in a playing career that saw him become the driving force in Liverpool 's domination of Europe , was fined £100 by the Scottish FA in January 1989 for comments to a referee after a Premier Division game at Aberdeen . |
| 10 | Although Home Rule for Scotland in a federated Britain was part of that policy , it rarely got seriously discussed . |
| 11 | John Ainsworth and Barry Moore each netted twice for Octel in a 5-2 win over Wirral Athletic and a Carl Walker hat-trick gained Vauxhalls a 5-0 second division success over AES Sutton Way . |
| 12 | The gang told the woman they were heading towards Widnes in a blue car . |
| 13 | The main Commonwealth case from a country with a common law jurisdiction is Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 , a decision of the Supreme Court of Victoria in an appellate capacity which has since been accepted by other appellate courts in Australia as a correct statement of the law , that is to say the common law of Australia . |
| 14 | Then Buddie had slapped his thighs and bellowed with laughter as the biggest bin overturned and its slimy contents rushed towards Frankie in an oozing wave . |
| 15 | We passed the Colossi of Memnon in a stony field , their shins covered with the graffiti of Greek and Roman tourists . |
| 16 | She is also rumoured to have turned her attention to acting , and is reportedly starring as Joan of Arc in a new film about the dangers involved when you get tied to a wooden stake with lots of sticks around it which is then deliberately set on fire by your political opponents . |
| 17 | One in three Peruvian children is stunted by malnutrition , said the Worldwatch Institute of Washington in a 1989 report , Poverty and the Environment : Reversing the Downward Spiral . |
| 18 | Some were descended from refugees who had fled before the advancing Turks in the fifteenth century ; others had forebears who were led out by the Patriarch Arsenije of Peć in a mass migration of an estimated 100,000 Serbs in 1691 . |
| 19 | APPROACHING SOME of the more forbidding coasts of Scotland in a modern vessel , one must surely marvel at the temerity of those prehistoric voyagers who crossed the sea in flimsy boats and refused to be deterred by lowering cliffs or storm-lashed , perilous rocks . |
| 20 | 3 ) Considerable interest is being shown by the Church of Scotland in a joint venture with Christian Aid . |
| 21 | What , after all , had she expected in the Church of England in a provincial town a hundred miles from London and the Midland conurbations ? |
| 22 | All this was particularly noticeable in the summer of 1992 when billions of pounds ( some say as much as £20 billion ) of foreign reserves ( £7.2 billion of which had been especially borrowed for the purpose ) were spent by the Bank of England in a vain attempt to prop up the exchange value of sterling . |
| 23 | MPs put the governor of the Bank of England in a tight spot over Harrods bank . |
| 24 | And how can he commit treason against the King of England in a foreign country , if he is not English ? |
| 25 | A new urgency came when the depressed labourers exploded into protest in the autumn of 1830 , part of troubles that swept much of England in a few months . |
| 26 | To have involved the whole North of England in a continuing search for knowledge , with hypothesis and verification conducted in the best Popperian manner , would be a signal development in community maturity . |
| 27 | He passed the Bishop 's examination and was ordained a Deacon in the Church of England in an interesting ceremony at the Parish Church of Farnham , Surrey , in 1885 . |
| 28 | With the Anglo-Irish Agreement at Hillsborough in 1985 , it has sought to lay aside that veto , and establish in principle its political right to modify the structure of power and control in Ulster by involving the Republic of Ireland in a common policy on security . |
| 29 | Midfield player Graham Kavanagh will represent the Republic of Ireland in an under-19 match in Dublin on March 31 . |
| 30 | North-East drivers who were fined £100 and ordered to pay £20 costs for crossing the weight restricted bridge were : Brian Robinson , 54 , of Spennymoor , who had a ten tonne truck ; Terence Cuthbertson , 49 , of Chester-leStreet , 17 tonne truck ; Anthony Jennings , 48 , of Middlesbrough , 16 tonne truck ; Geoffrey Storey , 49 , of Spennymoor , 16 tonne truck ; George Agar , 32 , of Malton , 38 tonne truck ; John Layton , 36 , of Langley Park , 17 tonne truck ; Raymond Brown , 46 , of Redcar , 17 tonne truck ; Bernard Hagen , 56 , of Gateshead 17 tonne truck ; Neil Wall , 37 , of Bowburn , 11 tonne truck and William Davison of Choppington in a 16 tonne truck . |