Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His knee problems began three weeks ago , but came to a head on Wednesday when he was forced to pull out of a friendly for Juventus against Second Division side Spal , after he broke down during the warm-up . |
| 2 | Erm I have as I say one other if you like self-employed business opportunity that I have been pursuing erm which erm I shall know after Tuesday of next week . |
| 3 | The former world top ten player , who played for Aberdeen in last year 's Scottish Cup final , went out 15-12 , 15-10 , 15-10 to Danny Meddings . |
| 4 | The Candy Castle Cup offshore meeting at Carrick Sailing Club finishes tomorrow and many of the boats taking part in the event will be heading for Scotland for next weekend 's popular Scottish offshore series . |
| 5 | The field also includes Ralston 's Alastair Forsyth , last year 's beaten finalist — Alan Reid of Barassie is too old to defend his title — and Mortonhall 's David Patrick , who took four points out of six for Scotland in last week 's boys ' quadrangular tournament in Sardinia . |
| 6 | Following the record increase in Government funding of the Arts Council for 1992-93 , I am delighted that the council has decided to increase its touring budget for England for next year by over 19 per cent . |
| 7 | Er , madam deputy speaker erm er having determined the scope of the duty , er the government er published a consultation document at the beginning of March at last year . |
| 8 | My current ambitions are to become a successful writer/author , to dance the lead role of Peggy in 42nd Street , to meet my hero Jonathan Ross and to learn to type with all 10 fingers . ’ |
| 9 | ON 13th May , 1992 the Holy Father formally established a new World Day for the Sick to be observed each year on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes on 11th February . |
| 10 | The 28-year-old Scot clocked 2hr 27min 38sec to beat three-time champion Katrin Dorre of Germany into second place . |
| 11 | The integration of DRDA into third party products will also be problematic , according to Informix UK market manager , Tony Lacy-Thompson . |
| 12 | and I 'll say I have n't got one yet because I ca n't afford to buy er a non-pirate copy of WordPerfect until next month . |
| 13 | BOMB DISPOSAL specialists were yesterday called out to beaches on the south-west coast of Scotland after Second World War phosphorus canisters believed to be from an undersea dump were washed ashore . |
| 14 | Ulster youngsters Claire Curran and Zara Wolseley helped Ireland to a 3-3 draw against Wales in the under 18 event yesterday , leaving their team four points ahead of Scotland in second place . |
| 15 | The Church of England at first remained uninterested , even hostile . |
| 16 | THE Archbishop of Canterbury said he would be amazed if there was any large scale defection from the Church of England after last week 's decision to ordain women . |
| 17 | it 's the twelfth of July of last year they had one . |
| 18 | A meeting was held with the Bank of Ireland on 8th April at which IBOA emphasised the necessity to have full agreement before any cost reduction proposals are put in place . |
| 19 | The Open Software Foundation will launch the next version of its Distributed Computing Environment , DCE 1.2 , at UniForum : it also confirmed version 1.2 of OSF/1 , released last month , is X/Open Co Ltd Portability Guide 4-compliant and says it plans to launch a full-featured Mach microkernel version of OSF/1 in first quarter 1994 . |
| 20 | As promised by Palmerston during the previous session , a Select Committee was set up by the House of Commons on 28th April , 1856 to consider ‘ the best means of providing Accommodation for the various Public Departments in the Neighbourhood of Downing Street ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Operating creatively ’ on a proposal which was in effect another version of reparation , although this time to the community as a whole , Maudling echoed the sentiments of the ACPS in his speech commending the Criminal Justice Bill to the House of Commons on Second Reading . |
| 22 | When the new Clause was debated in the House of Commons on 5th December , Joan Ruddock was the only MP to attempt an amendment to delete it in its entirety . |
| 23 | The Committee had four more meetings and reported to the House of Commons on 18th July , 1856 . |
| 24 | Despite a statement by Selwyn Lloyd , the Foreign Secretary , in the House of Commons on 23rd July that there was ‘ no question of large-scale operations by British troops on the ground ’ , Army units had to be flown up to the Oman from Kenya to support the Sultan 's armed forces in crushing the rebellion . |
| 25 | It was announced in the House of Commons on 26th February 1975 that the current restrictions on agricultural rents should cease to operate from 28th May 1975 . |
| 26 | It was young and shy Nadine on duty , so I got a large portion of chicken in white wine sauce with rice ( how is it that the French can cook rice that never sticks ? ) and a bottle of Pils for next to nothing . |
| 27 | The third K2 semi had Harbold/Newton of the USA 4th 50m from the line but they made an excellent recovery to pass Angyal/Petrovics ( Hungary ) and the Olssons of Sweden for 2nd place , 0.03 secs separating the three boats . |
| 28 | Frank is driven out in the darkest darkness in Leeds , but he got a golden oppurtunity when he was selected for Drillos squad to play USA [ and Costa Rica — killers of Sweden in last WC for those who remember — my comm. ] later this month . |
| 29 | The appointment of ENs over first level nurses is a matter for local interpretation by nurse managers , for which there are really no obvious hard and fast rules . |
| 30 | Excursions : sightseeing tours of Budapest during first weekend , one-day excursion organized py Pegazus Tours on request , 2 day weekend trips — riding tours , tours to the Danube Bend , to Lake Balaton , etc. on request , and one long weekend tour of the Hungarian countryside on request . |