Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] in the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | PRINCESS Margaret 's son , Viscount Linley , is to marry wealthy Irish aristocrat 's daughter Serena Stanhope in the New Year , friends said last night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | MILLWALL boss Mick McCarthy was angry with the sending off of teenager Andy Roberts in the 1–0 defeat at Bristol Rovers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | David Downes in The Delinquent Solution refers to a study of Chicago gangs carried out thirty years previously for support on this point . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | JIMMY McCRAE , of Scotland , won the 2,200-mile round-Britain Autoglass Tour by 22 minutes at Brands Hatch yesterday when he finished second to Wales 's David Llewellin in the final stage . |
| 21 | So now you want to unload her on to the wretched Miss Plimsoll in the top form where she will cause even more chaos ? ’ |
| 22 | Connors faces old foe Ivan Lendl in the second round today . |
| 23 | If this be the right view of Dixon J. 's judgment [ at pp. 683–685 ] , then it is clear that it does not help Mrs. Perry in the present case . |
| 24 | Soccer David Lacey in the Eternal City on the hopes , fears and ephemera surrounding this afternoon 's World Cup lucky dip . |
| 25 | Further , ‘ A pronoune hath thre persons ’ : These are the traditional grammatical definitions of the pronoun , as first made by Dionysius Thrax in the second century BC , and systematized further by Priscian ( c . |
| 26 | At Cheltenham this afternoon , CRUISING ALTITUDE ( 1.20 ) should be more at home on the ground than the champion hurdler Beech Road in the Bula Hurdle , while his Newbury victim , MORLEY STREET ( 2.30 ) looks good in the Mercury Communications hurdle . |
| 27 | The young midfielder was booked for a foul on Jean Karlen in the 28th minute . |
| 28 | This stream was part of the system installed by Alderman Hussey in the previous century and apparently all sorts of things used to float past . |
| 29 | Crawford , who needed treatment twice in the early stages after picking up an injury was eventually replaced by Ronnie McCullough in the 26th minute . |
| 30 | A truckload of dynamite and detonators exploded in the village of Thung Maproa in the southern province of Phang-nga on Feb. 15 , killing at least 180 people . |