Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-two year old Gerald Bagshall from Barton Village Road in Oxford has been jailed for two years for possession and supply of drugs . |
| 2 | In 1798 , General Humbert of France came over and won a battle near there , but he took so long that the nearby towns had time to refortify . |
| 3 | It is therefore very pleasing to see appearing in the Ian Allan At War series , Jonathan Falconer 's Stirling At War . |
| 4 | All your designs will bear the label ‘ Lisa Howell for G.W. Fashions ’ . ’ |
| 5 | The Conservatives were critical of the appointment of William Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury in April 1942 . |
| 6 | Successive kings had no reason to grumble , cathedral chapters were happy to elect , and the Church of England was given good leaders — William Temple of York and George Bell of Chichester among them . |
| 7 | He expected William Temple to back Henson and was grieved to find that his hero was weak because he refused to stand up and fight . |
| 8 | He was chairman of the Venice Biennale from 1974 to 1979 and served on the board of La Scala of Milan . |
| 9 | He vigorously defended against all comers the enormous expense of bringing La Scala to Scotland . |
| 10 | But this is turning into grand opera , dear , rehearsals at La Scala for Götterdämmerung … |
| 11 | I was 45 before I spoke with Toscanini and then he attacked me for doing Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala in French . |
| 12 | A directive was , however , considered by the European Court to have direct effect , such as to confer rights upon the plaintiff in Van Duyn v. Home Office ( No. 2 ) [ 1975 ] 3 All ER 190 , although the United Kingdom Parliament had not implemented the directive by means of delegated legislation . |
| 13 | Prime Minister : Mesut Yilmaz replaced Yildirim Akbulut on June 17 , 1991 . |
| 14 | Local golfer Colin Carnson from Helen 's Bay Golf Club receives his trophy from Irial Finan of Coca Cola for scoring the best net at the Coca Cola Open Youth Team Tournament at Donaghadee Golf Club . |
| 15 | When in the eighth century the Saxon saint Guthlac penetrated the heart of the Fens to found Crowland Abbey , he was described by the monk Felix of Crowland as encountering demons in the wilderness , which ‘ came with such immoderate noises and immense horror , that it seemed to him that all between heaven and earth resounded with their dreadful cries ’ . |
| 16 | The OED was first planned ( as a ‘ New English Dictionary ’ , a title it bore until 1928 ) by the Philological Society in 1858 , but the real work began with the appointment of J.A.H. Murray as Editor in 1879 . |
| 17 | THE winner of Computer Guardian 's Compaq Competition is Allan Kelly of Slough , Bucks , whose card was first out of the hat . |
| 18 | Behind them is a combination of speed in Northern Transvaal flier Johan Visagie and Roland Beck of second division Currie Cup side Boland , and power — centre Johan Van Deventer at 6ft 3ins and 16st 4 lb is a human battering ram . |
| 19 | Bonington will be on view until May 17 ; a major exhibition devoted to the 18th-century French sculptor Clodion will be at the Louvre until June 29 ; and the superbly renovated Jeu de Paume ( now one of the most delightful exhibition spaces in Paris ) is exhibiting works by the American painter Ellsworth Kelly until May 24 . |
| 20 | The architect Clough Williams-Ellis of Port Meirion fame published his influential England and the octopus in 1928 — ‘ an angry book , written by an angry young man ’ as the author confessed in a Preface added to a 1975 edition . |
| 21 | When Bilal Shebib and Samir Medina came to Stoke Mandeville for treatment in 1987 , their severe spinal injuries meant they could n't even sit up . |
| 22 | The tiny station at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire is run by just two people , and both are dedicated to keeping the long suffering rail traveller happy . |
| 23 | King Doniert , or Dungarth , whose stone still stands , was supposedly a son of King Caradoc of Cornwall who held court at Liskeard . |
| 24 | Walking along Rue de la Régence to Notre Dame du Sablon , a shadowy fifteen-century church with stained glass in vivid tones of red and blue . |
| 25 | But , as Roger Lawson of Southampton University has pointed out , more efforts have been made to counter this localism by the Money Advice Association ( founded in 1984 ) and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 26 | Philip Miller used the east coast sea route to send seeds , shrubs and trees to Patrick Blair in Boston , Lincolnshire , loading them at Cotton 's Wharf , and also to Alston in Edinburgh , though in 1757 he queried the safety of this method during the war with the French . |
| 27 | An estimated 465,000 watched Manchester City play Chelsea on Sky Sports on Sunday — with a satellite dish costing between £350 and £400 installed , plus £5.99 monthly subscription . |
| 28 | DEPTH CHARGE : ‘ Bounty Killers Part II — Lee Van The Man ’ tribute to spaghetti western villain Lee Van Cleef from reggae , hip-hop and Chinese B-movie influenced Londoner — out now |
| 29 | To conservatives Mr Magaziner is the archetypical know-it-all , a Beatrice Webb with flow charts ; and his behemoth task force , with its appetite for paper and addiction to jargon , is just a foretaste of what is to come , when the rednecks are subjected to the rule of the pointyheads . |
| 30 | ‘ It is imperative that the government responds positively to the report or else it will be psychologically damaging to research , ’ said Dr Jim Howe of Edinburgh University 's Artificial Intelligence Department . |