Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] in [noun prp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is just that after much brainwork in Rome I have thought to give myself a little holiday on this famous Capri Island . ’ |
| 2 | After much ceremony in Accra he was buried in his birth-place , Nkroful . |
| 3 | After brief schooling in York he was educated privately by George Walker FRS ( 1734 ? –1807 , q.v. ) in Nottingham and George Cadogan Morgan [ q.v. ] in Southgate , Middlesex , two Nonconformist ministers selected by his mother . |
| 4 | Inevitably , I saw the prison through the eyes of a western visitor , but after three months in India I had acquired at least a superficial understanding of the country and its penal philosophy . |
| 5 | After 5 days in Rotorua we went south to Taupo , a disappointing touristy place except for a lovely walk to the Huka Falls beside the crystal-clear , swirling waters of the Waikato River , and a visit to Cherry Island ( in the river ) where you are warmly greeted by numerous tame animals and birds as you roam around . |
| 6 | After visiting Herzen in London he accused him of substituting passion for reason . |
| 7 | After five years in Yorkshire he was transferred to Manchester City for £56,000 and a year later made the fateful move to Torino . |
| 8 | After five years in Vienna he taught in Trieste , Greece and Moldavia before studying philosophy in Halle . |
| 9 | After several days in Nairobi he took the train to Mombasa where he caught a ship to England ; there , soon after my brother Dermot was born , he rejoined my mother . |
| 10 | After two weeks in Czechoslovakia he was climbing in a style usually reserved for winter . |
| 11 | Given the predominance of feudal relations in Russia it was impossible for the men of the 1860s and 70s to see that capitalism was already spreading and inevitably must do so . |
| 12 | Well three sort of top professors in America they |
| 13 | It may be sufficient to remark that when the instrument was demonstrated to an assembly of interested parties in Oxford it met with great approval . |
| 14 | The economic casualties of capitalist society in America he explains away as ‘ the legacy of a pre-liberal past ’ , and appears to make no connection between Western prosperity and the victim economies of the third world , still regrettably ‘ mired in history ’ . |
| 15 | When Watkins put forward his observations regarding remnants of prehistoric alignments in Britain he ran head-on into official archaeological thinking which still believed in the Piltdown Man . |
| 16 | At a recent conference of educational psychologists in Scotland I was foolish enough ( again ) to be arguing for the practical importance of such grand-sounding notions as idealism and commitment . |
| 17 | In comparison with the constitutions of other countries in Europe it is difficult in Britain to substantiate the charge of excessive domination of the executive over a legislature . |
| 18 | It is reflected throughout Europe , and in Tervoort 's extensive study of 20 countries in Europe we can see the move toward the incorporation of signing in educational methodology : ‘ There is no change in favour of oralism and there is an atmosphere of change in the other direction all over Europe ’ ( 1983 : 143 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I expect you prefer someone like that man in London you told us about — the one with all the medicines . ’ |
| 20 | Childhood should be a happy time and for many children in Britain it is . |
| 21 | Losses of soil through erosion vary greatly : under closed forest it may be 2.55 t per ha per annum in Trinidad , less than a tonne in Java or 0.41 in French Guyana , while under secondary forest in Madagascar it was nil , but up to 9 t when cleared and cultivated . |
| 22 | When the CIA and MI6 approached Gehlen with the idea of tapping into Russian communications in Berlin he responded warmly and at once started to prepare a list of suitable sites where the zones ran close together , and offering opportunities for driving tunnels from one to another . |
| 23 | Yeah but they 're , but they 're not they 're gon na do it in some time in June I think that 's the target . |
| 24 | In some places in Kent he was known as a Borsholder , and was elected by the parish , in most cases reluctantly . |
| 25 | In one bookshop in Kent you might have imagined for a moment that you were actually in a teacher-training college library . |
| 26 | During five weeks in Greece I met four other walkers , all British , two of them women . |
| 27 | It is also conceded that many viewers will want to see the match and that ITV were in a tricky position because on that weekend in February they are planning to screen a Littlewoods Cup semi-final . |
| 28 | On this occasion in Dunvegan he repeated his earlier assertion that Burke never made a good joke . |
| 29 | Over many years in California they had acquired the know-how required to exploit a weak party situation . |
| 30 | Whether or not this happened to any extent in Britain we can not know , but any hint of it would undoubtedly have started wild rumours , fired by imagination which always accompanies sexual matters . |