Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | There is a famous story of Nilsson arriving at a rehearsal of his Metropolitan Ring as Brünnhilde with a miner 's lamp on her head : the conductor was well spotlit , but no one could see what was happening on stage . |
2 | MARK ROBSON , the winger signed by Tottenham from Exeter for £50,000 in July 1987 , has signed for Watford on a month 's loan with a view to a permanent transfer . |
3 | It 's Jenny for Andy in the afternoon 's pass it on , and stay right where you are until five o'clock . |
4 | It includes the following calendars : Roman ; all possible dates for Easter ; for England in the year AD1752 ( in which eleven dates were dropped ) ; and a chronological table for Easter Days AD500-2000 . |
5 | It was on ‘ evidence ’ such as this that a Gloucestershire jury on 22 May 1300 reduced the Forest of Dean to the king 's demesne lands and woods . |
6 | Besides my kind luncheon host and hostess , I met the Marquess and Marchioness of Abergavenny , he succeeded the late Duke of Norfolk as the Queen 's Representative at Ascot , a role he carried out most effectively for ten years , during which time he suggested many improvements that her Majesty agreed should be carried out . |
7 | Some subordinate foresters appointed by the king were paid wages : in 1228 Hubert de Burgh , as warden of Windsor Forest , was paying 6d. a day to Osbert and Robert , King 's serjeants , for keeping the forest of Odiham , and in 1233 2d. a day to each of six serjeants on foot for keeping the forest of Windsor by the king 's command . |
8 | ( Two years later , the tender of Samuel Foster Limited of Kempston for the nurses ' recreation room in the sum of £10,295 was accepted , despite an amendment which was put forward to postpone this project for three years , but which was lost on a show of hands . ) |
9 | In April 1244 he was elected Bishop of Chichester on the king 's nomination , but Boniface of Savoy , the Archbishop of Canterbury , rejected him as ignorant , and declared his election void ; his rejection was confirmed by Innocent IV . |
10 | W.D. ( Bill Wickson , who died suddenly on April 15 , aged 77 , had been elected President of Surrey at the club 's AGM only two days previously . |
11 | ‘ You 'll still be King of Ruritania in a year 's time . ’ |
12 | He detected an inscription of Kleomenes on the figure 's clothing , obscured by a dense network of incisions . |
13 | THURSDAY : Sail north through the straits between the mainland and the east coast of Lefkas to the island 's capital . |
14 | The Moselle winds through some 160 miles of tranquil countryside from the city of Koblenz at the Moselle 's junction with the Rhine , to old city of Trier which has its roots in Roman times . |
15 | As late as the 1180s , St Hugh of Lincoln dared to tease Henry II of England about the tanner 's blood in his veins . |
16 | But of course the nexus of any government in this country is No. 10 and the Treasury , with the Bank of England as the Treasury 's appendage , which unfortunately it is . |
17 | Matthew Casson , 14 , was chosen as one of only six finalists in the North of England in the Sainsbury 's Future Cooks Awards after his winning recipes impressed judges . |
18 | According to legend , Gorbad tore the crown of Solland from the Count 's head and placed it upon his own , and wore it thereafter as a token of his victory . |
19 | Responsibility for commodity negotiations was entrusted to Guy-Alain Gauze , formerly delegate to the International Coffee Organization in London , with the rank of Minister-Delegate in the President 's Office . |
20 | Arab diplomats compared the future role of Tunis with that of Geneva as the UN 's " alternative " centre . |
21 | Rasbora espei the Slim Harlequin is shipped out of Thailand to the world 's fishkeepers . |
22 | The exaltation of Jesus to the Father 's right hand is not only God 's vindication of his spreading from Jerusalem person and his achievement ; it is the precondition of the coming of his Spirit upon the witnesses who are to carry on his mission ( Acts 2:32f ) . |
23 | They started from the position , in my judgment incorrectly , that the references in Thomas v. University of Bradford to the visitor 's jurisdiction being exclusive meant simply that the court did not have concurrent jurisdiction with him . |
24 | The picture of God at a man 's mercy is surely one derived from the story 's primitive origins , and no longer to be taken seriously . |
25 | At the closing session of the congress it was announced that Do Muoi , 74 , Chairman of the Council of Ministers , had been elected to replace Linh , 75 , as CPV general secretary [ see p. 35068 for election of Linh at the party 's sixth congress in 1986 ] . |
26 | Gail , 25 who works in Human Resources at risley and hubby Mark will be enjoying the £250 , two-night holiday at one of Lancaster 's top hotels , Lancaster House , plus tickets to the outdoor performance of the wizard of Oz by the Duke 's Theatre company . |
27 | Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni , elected to succeed President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt as the organization 's Chairman for the coming year , said after the summit that Africa should be allowed to develop its own response to pressure for political change . |
28 | Lord Milton , for example , came close to doing that while he was attempting to strengthen the position of Sir James Campbell of Ardkinglas as the Administration 's candidate for the representation of Stirlingshire . |
29 | When you had obtained a divorce a mensa et toro , you would have had to appear by counsel before the House of Lords for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii . |
30 | Suspected Sikh terrorists killed 19 Hindu students visiting the town of Patiala for a students ' festival on Nov. 10 as they slept in dormitories . |