Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dempsey defended his title only six times in as many years and constantly snubbed black challenges , one interesting one appearing in the pages of the New York Times from a certain Prince Mohammed Ali Ibrahim of Egypt whose special weapon was a ‘ pyramid punch ’ ( 4 March 1924 , p. 14 ) . |
| 2 | If Franco thought that these gestures would be sufficient to change the policies towards Spain of governments whose democratic principles he despised and violated , he was shortly disabused of the notion . |
| 3 | A £50,000 appeal has been launched to carry out vital restoration work on the parish church of St John the Baptist at Cayton near Scarborough which this year celebrates its 800th anniversary . |
| 4 | JOHN BARNES , the England winger struggling with a hamstring injury , stayed in Liverpool yesterday as Bobby Robson 's squad met up in Buckinghamshire to fine-tune their final plans for next Wednesday 's World Cup qualifying game in Poland . |
| 5 | As shadow secretary , he has a duty in the House of Commons to cross-question his opposite number and to turn a relentless searchlight on his public pronouncements . |
| 6 | Clearly the subtle substructure of theological argument in the negative tradition which underlies the experiential theology of the Cloud-author distinguishes him from Julian of Norwich whose vibrant sense of the reality of the being of God at work in human nature was born out of her visionary meditative experience focused on Christ 's Passion . |
| 7 | McCool was omitted from the afternoon singles along with National champion Eavan Higgins so that Hazel Kavanagh of Grange could be given her first match in the tournament and Barbara Hackett from Castletroy her second outing . |
| 8 | The Samaritans — or at least those of them who were not entirely Hellenized — had built up a religious centre of their own on Mount Garizim in circumstances which contradictory legends have rendered unrecognizable . |
| 9 | When we moved from Durham to Bristol our youngest daughter was ten . |
| 10 | When , indeed : but practical measures were the immediate need ; and it was in the absence in America of Owen himself that Owenism emerged as a response to that need and Owenites as those who formulated the response . |
| 11 | This story involves a youth hostel in the town of Ramsey in the Isle of Man whose narrow-gauge railway has brought pleasure and fascination to many people either as holiday makers or railway enthusiasts since the 1870s . |
| 12 | From 2 May until 3 June at Fawbush her latest wax and papier-mâché pieces are on view . |