Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He also attended classes at the Actors Studio , before replacing Ben Gazzara in the leading role of the junkie in A Hatful of Rain on Broadway in 1956 . |
2 | NIGEL Short was today launching his fight to wrest the world chess crown from champion Garry Kasparov in the regal setting of the newly-refurbished Savoy Theatre in London . |
3 | LIVERPOOL Trojans scored an easy 17–1 victory at Sheffield Bladerunners in the Northern Conference Baseball League . |
4 | Hitchcock could be the man to help them achieve that , despite a threat from Russian keeper , Dimitri Kharin , due to arrive from CSKA Moscow in the near future . |
5 | Roger Lonsdale in The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse ( 1984 ) included three of Leapor 's poems , ‘ An Essay on Woman ’ , ‘ Mira 's Will ’ , and ‘ An Epistle to a Lady ’ [ ECV , 408–12 ] . |
6 | Espana , the WBC international champion and leading WBA contender , challenges WBA welterweight king Meldrick Taylor in a mandatory defence on the Lennox Lewis-Razor Ruddock bill . |
7 | Fighting erupted in Beirut yesterday shortly after President Elias Hrawi was quoted as saying that Syrian troops would leave parts of Lebanon as soon as he had overcome the resistance of troops of General Michel Aoun in the Christian enclave . |
8 | Between Salvian in the fifth century A.D. and our friend Henri-Irenee Marrou in the twentieth century very few names of French intellectuals can be connected with Marseilles . |
9 | There will still be a strong North-East contingent , however , including Edwards in the triple jump , Colin Walker in the 5,000 metres and Tony Morrell in the 1500 metres . |
10 | PRINCESS Margaret 's son , Viscount Linley , is to marry wealthy Irish aristocrat 's daughter Serena Stanhope in the New Year , friends said last night . |
11 | For example , on his first appearance in the 2nd Division for us , against Blackpool at The Nest on 22 October 1921 , he hit the single goal that gave a weakened Palace side victory , he got another one the following week in an excellent 3–1 win at Blackpool which was our first away from home in the higher division , then returned to Selhurst the next Saturday and headed the goal that disposed of Clapton Orient in a rugged London derby . |
12 | Guerra was shown the red card for a foul on Erik Meijer in the 58th minute and Ronald de Boer converted a penalty ten minutes later . |
13 | She flew up the drive and suddenly she saw Miss Honey in the front garden , standing in the middle of a bed of roses doing something with a pair of clippers . |
14 | As Daleks and Mechonoids fight a mutual battle of annihilation , the humans escape down a rope to the jungle below , apparently losing Steven Taylor in the hasty retreat . |
15 | We are delighted that Scottish Opera have cast Jean Rigby in the leading role — she is one of the very best exponents in the world today of that extraordinarily demanding role . |
16 | Forest created a succession of chances after the break as Tottenham struggled to contain Keane , who shot wide after being put through by Neil Webb in the 50th minute . |
17 | Almost immediately , however , the General was able to reassert his position by confirming his ‘ special relationship ’ with Konrad Adenauer in a Franco-German treaty of co-operation . |
18 | Even such a sensitive cultural critic as Steven Marcus in The Other Victorians relies on a Freudian explanation , which by and large distorts rather than clarifies . |
19 | And the master plan is for Lewis to make a third defence of his title against American Tommy Morrison in Las Vegas in the third week of February . |
20 | Smith , comprise English Place Name Elements which appeared in 1970 , and Cornish Place Name Elements by O.J. Padel in the same series , published in 1985 . |
21 | A koka down against East Germany 's Torsten Brechot , who threw Neil Adams in the 1988 Olympics , he gained a yuko ( five points ) with a rolling sacrifice throw three seconds from time . |
22 | After losing to Richard Krajicek in the fourth round in Key Biscayne , McEnroe outlined how he would try to do for American tennis what he has seen Yannick Noah achieve for France . |
23 | As well as proving to Anthea he meant business , it would put one over that nauseating Toby Latimer in no mean fashion . |
24 | Juha Kankkunen recaptured the lead from compatriot Ari Vatanen in a hard-fought finish to yesterday 's second leg of the three-day 1,000 Lakes Rally in Finland . |
25 | MILLWALL boss Mick McCarthy was angry with the sending off of teenager Andy Roberts in the 1–0 defeat at Bristol Rovers . |
26 | As regards the philosophical concept of time , according to Needham , the Mohist school ( followers of the philosopher Mo Ti in the fifth century BC ) was inclined to temporal atomicity , although the hypothesis of material atomism never played any significant role in Chinese thought , which was wedded to the idea of the continuum . |
27 | David Downes in The Delinquent Solution refers to a study of Chicago gangs carried out thirty years previously for support on this point . |
28 | Fantasy is also an important component in the work of other writers who occasionally employ a postmodernist idiom : Brian Aldiss in his Joycean Barefoot in the Head ( 1969 ) or the nouveau roman , Report on Probability A ( 1968 ) ; J. G. Ballard in The Unlimited Dream Company ( 1979 ) ; Christopher Priest in The Affirmation ( 1981 ) ; even D. M. Thomas in The White Hotel ( 1981 ) . |
29 | He subsequently came briefly into the national spotlight when , fighting Bexley for Labour in the 1966 General Election , he gained only 2,333 votes fewer than Conservative leader Edward Heath in a 54,826 poll . |
30 | In non-fiction the wonderful Nick Danziger is back with Danziger 's Adventures ( Flamingo ) ; Desert Orchid 's biography is told by Richard Burridge in The Grey Horse ( Signet ) ; and Brian Blessed climbs The Turquoise mountain ( Pocket ) . |