Example sentences of "[noun prp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no obvious geographical barriers along this frontier and a series of invasions , from the Poles in the seventeenth century to Napoleon in the early nineteenth , have borne witness to its vulnerability . |
| 2 | Saxe-Weimar 's men were mostly German troops in Dutch service who had fought for Napoleon in the previous wars , and not even Saxe-Weimar himself was certain whether they would now fight against their old comrades . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From the coming into dominance or Ceauşescu in the later 1960s onwards , the abortion law in Romania became increasingly restrictive . |
| 5 | The programme alleged that the living conditions and communal facilities at the resort , built by Billy Butlin in the 1960s to offer a week 's holiday for a week 's pay , were ‘ so squalid and dangerous ’ that no sensible person would spend time or money on a holiday there . |
| 6 | The Cussons business moves into GGT from Lowe Howard-Spink in the same week that North-Western Electricity Board has appointed GGT subsidiary Bowden Dyble Hayes to handle its £6m account . |
| 7 | Successive away wins at Derby and Southend — beaten 1–0 on Saturday — prove they are battling to keep Crosby in the hot seat . |
| 8 | Nigel Coupe , back in action after breaking a leg in March , scored a spectacular first day victory with Crosby in the Royal Interntional Horse Show at Hickstead . |
| 9 | They went to a floodlit performance of Mireille in the Roman arena in Nîmes . |
| 10 | For most consensus theorists , the answer lies in a theory of social structure made famous by Durkheim in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and developed to such an extent by Talcott Parsons and his followers in the USA between the 1930s and 1950s that during these years it came to be seen as the sociological theory . |
| 11 | These documents refer to a spaceship that crash-landed on the island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides in the autumn of 1983 . |
| 12 | The following morning we flew to Tacna in the far south of Peru , crossed into Chile by taxi and flew on from Arica to Santiago . |
| 13 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 14 | Cooper , who saw striker John Gayle sent off after an off-the-ball clash with Daniel Delicari in the 70th minute , stormed : ‘ With a chance to qualify for the semi-finals of the competition , I thought the players would really have gone for it . |
| 15 | On our way to the oasis of Bahriyah in the western desert I had a misadventure with my hat . |
| 16 | Traoré and his wife Mariam were arrested by soldiers at a military air base near Bamako in the early hours of March 26 , apparently attempting to leave the country . |
| 17 | ‘ The problem of women is all that is marvellous and troubling in the world ’ sighed Andre Breton in the second Surrealist manifesto of 1929 ; and just as the predominantly male membership saw woman as their muse , the fueller of their fantasies and liberators of their imaginations , so they used her body as a vessel and vehicle for their wildest and often dark plumbings of the subconscious . |
| 18 | The second daughter had died in childhood ; the fifth and sixth princesses , still children , were virtual prisoners of Horemheb in the royal palace of the Southern Capital , together with their aunt Nezemmut , Nefertiti 's younger sister ; and though treated with all the deference their rank demanded , they were never allowed anywhere unattended by a corps of Horemheb 's own men . |
| 19 | McDonald 's two-over-par round of 70 at Banff , coupled with a 69 at Fraserburgh in the first round , gave him a one-over aggregate of 139 and the Uniroyal Quaich for the first time at the age of 39 . |
| 20 | ‘ She is a German woman , who was married to an American , and first met Elvis in Las Vegas in the late 1960s . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Further information can be obtained from Tony Jeffree in the Joint Network Team at RAL . |
| 24 | The strategy used to foreground rhematic elements and to create highly marked information structures in the above extract is the same as that used by Le Carré in The Little Drummer Girl example . |
| 25 | They 're competing until Tuesday in the 8th World Masters Championships at Oxford Polytechnic . |
| 26 | The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s . |
| 27 | PRINCESS Margaret 's son , Viscount Linley , is to marry wealthy Irish aristocrat 's daughter Serena Stanhope in the New Year , friends said last night . |
| 28 | The Shirleys built Wiston in the 1570s , worked effectively in raising money to support the Armada and then went broke , as did one branch of the Pelhams at Buckstepe . |
| 29 | [ Humphrey Lloyd , The Quaker Lloyds in the Industrial Revolution , 1975 ; R. S. Sayers , Lloyds Bank in the History of English Banking , 1957 . ] |
| 30 | 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 . |