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

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31 One or two other questions , of a routine kind about the house in Mouncy Street , more to keep her talking , open her up , than anything else .
32 The District Council endorsed these opinions and Jacques wrote to National Secretary Harry Nutt the following week to tell him so — adding that the Council had also supported the plea for an increase in Ministry grant-aid to 90% of teaching costs , which was of course in keeping with National WEA policy .
33 The difficulty for the Company in England was that establishing someone who had crossed to North America took an initial investment equal to about a year 's wages , so the investors had to keep on providing supplies without seeing any sign of how the colony would repay them .
34 An additional difficulty for the archivist in UK government is the lack of a sense of history .
35 This makes it important to select the right measure for the purpose in view .
36 Delivering the Drew lecture on ‘ Government and the Arts ’ at the Central London Polytechnic , Mr Fisher pointed out that when Mr Luce announced three-year funding for the arts in November 1987 , he had said the figure could not be reviewed ‘ unless the situation changes substantially in ways that can not be foreseen today ’ .
37 This liability is owed to the third party in tort by the party in default , and the terms of the contract between the party in default and the innocent party can have no effect on it .
38 I 've never met Sir Brian or Sir Oliver and have only met Sir Bernard a few times , but I instinctively feel that all six would lay down their lives without hesitation for a damsel in distress .
39 In accounts of women 's struggle for the vote in Britain , Scottish women active in England are subsumed amongst their English colleagues while those active in Scotland remain unknown ; Scottish cities are treated as provincial English cities .
40 The English were well informed about the manoeuvres that had made him Emperor , and Charles II 's Poet Laureate , John Dryden , wrote a play about the struggle for the succession in Delhi .
41 Zborowski did have a buyer for the drawings in Lucien Descaves , the brother of the Police Commissioner who bought them up by the batch .
42 There may be deadlock and paralysis , but the government that will eventually take office will emerge after protracted bargaining between the parties in Parliament after a general election and without any reference to the electors and their wishes .
43 He took it upon himself to promote the idea of having a noble building for an Institute in Glasgow , and in this he was ably supported by brothers James and Edwin Docharty , sons of a famous Scottish painter , and a number of other deaf people of exceptional ability .
44 In February Aquino became the first President of the Philippines to appear in court as she took the stand as a witness in support of her libel case against a newspaper columnist , Luis Beltran .
45 The normal course of trials is likely to be different as the court will often direct that a witness statement stand as the evidence in chief , or at least part of the evidence in chief , of its maker and , in any event , a witness statement may put to the maker in cross-examination .
46 Few buildings can be as symbolic of the Roman Empire as the mighty Colosseum in Rome , few sights as good a record of renaissance ingenuity as the cathedral in Florence .
47 Indeed he makes a most ravishing , alluring sound on his ‘ Mackenzie ’ Stradivarius ( believe me , a Strad in the wrong [ even experienced ] hands can be absolutely appalling ) , plays with commendably secure intonation , and communicates an evident enthusiasm for the music in hand , well matched by the sensitive support he receives from Devos .
48 A comparison of turn-lengths reveals a marked contrast between the weariness he implicates here and his uncontainable enthusiasm for the subject in scene four .
49 There is no link between the cases in goats and sheep .
50 The Secretary of State is aware that had the Government not broken the link between the rise in pensions and the rise in earnings , the single pensioner would be receiving £14 more a week and a couple £24 more a week .
51 In favour of the marginal cost argument , it is submitted by the taxpayer that there has to be a causal link between the benefit in kind taxed under section 61(1) and its ‘ cash equivalent : ’ section 63(1) defines the cash equivalent of the benefit as being an amount equal to the cost of the benefit .
52 They give nothing away , and it 's Jensen in his rock-solid role as ball-winner and organiser who is providing a base for the ones in front of him to play .
53 In the sixth issue- and what was to be the most famous Australian Oz — the magazine reprinted a Lennie Bruce feature from the Realist , providing a print debut for the comedian in Sydney .
54 We make camp for the night in earshot of Crystal Rapid , which in recent years has flipped more boats , taken more lives , and humbled more boatmen than any other on the river .
55 West Germany was also believed to have cited the case of US support for a ruling in July 1989 [ see p. 37021 ] which lifted controls on the export to eastern Europe of 16-bit microcomputers , a product where the USA was more competitive than the European countries .
56 The controversial move , which is effective from April , has angered Labour MPs , who claim there is no support for the measure in Scotland .
57 But none the less the community is expressing support for the FDR-FMLN in ways which it is really surprising to see .
58 The DES accompanied the report with Circular 11/77 , ‘ The Training of Teachers for Further Education ’ , in which it declared the Secretary of State 's support for the proposals in principle , together with the hope that an early start would be made on their implementation , ‘ so far as this is possible within existing resources ’ .
59 In May 1843 Gould was given the opportunity to repay Sturt for his generosity towards him while he was in Australia when Sturt appealed for help in generating support for the project in England .
60 The auditors say the department withdrew support for the project in March after ‘ a series of delays in design , development , and preparation for installation ’ of a loop to test the reactor .
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