Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither Andy Forshaw nor Martin Langston stood out in the HDM event , so Clark , for so long on the fringe of national selection , could get his chance for England in the Buttermen Indoor tournament at Crystal Palace on December 29-30 . |
| 2 | The great bulk of population movement occurred independently of Moscow in the years 1917–22 , but after the end of NEP it was to be strictly enforced , and took place on a vast scale again . |
| 3 | This paper concerns an investigation of mature students at the University of Warwick between the years 1963–1971 . |
| 4 | Pioline , the 15th-seeded Frenchman who has never won a tournament , followed up on his fourth round demolition of world number one Jim Courier by beating Andrei Medvedev of Ukraine in the quarter-finals 6–3 6–1 3–6 6–2 . |
| 5 | My Old Dobbin syndrome , aided and abetted by friendship with Albert Rhys Williams , was the basic incentive for hitch-hiking about 12,000 miles to and from the interior of Russia during the holidays that summer . |
| 6 | The story opens with a brief scene-setting introduction , followed by a much fuller treatment of the social history of Combsburgh during the years 1820–60 . |
| 7 | A more recent research project by Kent looked at monographs acquired by the University of Pittsburgh during the years 1969–75 . |
| 8 | There are only three Irish players ahead of Clarke in the ratings prior to this week 's European Masters — Ronan Rafferty at 39th , David Feherty ( 66th ) and O'Connor Jnr ( 109th ) . |
| 9 | The quotation at the beginning of the book : ‘ Vengeance is mine ; I will repay ’ continues ‘ Saith the Lord ’ ( from the Epistle of Paul to the Romans 12,19 ) sums up the way in which Anna was treated . |
| 10 | A week later it is off to Dundee ( for the first time since 1924 ) for the annual three-day joust against Scotland with the wins equal at nine each in the series that started in 1888 . |
| 11 | As against Falkirk in the Tennents Scottish Cup , Hearts managed to record a crucial victory without firing on all cylinders , though , in the circumstances — Gary Mackay , Tosh McKinlay , Neil Berry and Allan Preston were out injured and Peter Van de Ven was missing through suspension — it was understandable that Joe Jordan greeted the result with a smile . |
| 12 | Francois Doumen 's seven-year-old is 4-5 with Ladbrokes for the Pounds 70,000 showpiece on Saturday following sustained support . |
| 13 | This is lower than the daily minimum temperature observed in the polar vortex in March for the years 1964–89 ( ref. 28 ) . |
| 14 | The average birth weight according to maternal age , based on all births in Hungary during the years 1956–1957 , can be described by a convex second degree curve ( Y = 2791.9 + 187.2X — 16.5x ) . |
| 15 | They are convertible into ordinary at the rate of 102 ordinary for every 100 convertible pref in May of the years 1992 to 2011 . |
| 16 | A different expression of a roughly similar tendency can be seen in the fact that the total production of books in Russia during the years 1762–1800 was about three and a half times that in the entire period from the introduction of printing down to 1761 . |
| 17 | That is to say it had been made in England between the years 1700 and 1840 . |
| 18 | The many setbacks suffered by the Wilson government , however , should not be allowed to obscure the extent to which Britain was able to exert influence in Nato in the years 1964 – 70 . |
| 19 | Power generation The University of Bath is a technological institution , and has custody of the Watkins Collection of photographs and written material on the evolution of steam power generation and the part it played in Britain in the years 1850–1914 . |
| 20 | In Europe between the wars fascist movements destroyed democracy in several countries , while in Latin America , Africa and Asia military dictatorships and other forms of authoritarian rule have been common , and continue to exist in many places . |
| 21 | The failure of IAEA safeguards , including twice-yearly inspections in Iraq for the pasts 15 years , must lead to the conclusion that the NPT has acted like a cloak of respectability to certain nations which have signed it . |
| 22 | It may not be a coincidence , therefore , that four of the five individuals who developed leukaemia at ages 5–24 in Thurso in the years 1979–88 were incomers — and also that four were born in the years 1969–74 , the birth cohort with the greatest proportion of incomers . |
| 23 | I note that you suggest buses should wait at Livingston South station , thus permitting residents of Murieston an opportunity to change from trains from Edinburgh onto the services 304/306 . |
| 24 | It says here on the six o'clock Olympics today including live coverage of Wilf Riley 's attempt to win the gold for Britain in the mens thousand short practice speed skating final it 's six o'clock |
| 25 | Police were questioning a 30-year-old man in connection with the murder of Elizabeth Page-Alucard , 41 , the counsellor who was found dead on Saturday at a drugs advisory centre in Worcester . |
| 26 | If the pressure was on McSharry from the accountants concerned about ever increasing costs , it was also coming from the environmentalists who were objecting to taxpayers funding intensive farming which they believed was damaging the environment . |
| 27 | Saunderson and singer Paris Grey are Inner City , who filled dancefloors across Europe with the hits Big Fun and Good Life . |
| 28 | Whether they did so at Magdalen in the years 1925–1929 there are few alive old enough to remember . |
| 29 | they 'll be flying around the squash court at Abingdon as the regions top players compete in the Oxfordshire championships … |
| 30 | Thanks for your 5th July letter enclosing your personal cheque in the sum of Sixty Four Pounds in favour of , being ‘ cottage contribution ’ re Arnisdale for the dates 14th-21st August inclusive . |