Example sentences of "[prep] london [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ‘ servants of God ’ should be concentrated in the counties nearest London as a militia to protect the regime from Catholic subversion . |
| 2 | This time he ran back towards London for a while . |
| 3 | Surprisingly , LA has only about half the police force of London for a city of ten million . |
| 4 | He says they are moving Steiner from the Tower of London to a place called St Mary 's Priory . ’ |
| 5 | As the wood is an 8,000-year-old oak wood only eight miles from the centre of London on a site of special scientific interest , could not the Department have done more to insist that the important new road going close to my constituency was cut-and-cover ? |
| 6 | As a result they were all imprisoned in the Tower of London on a charge of ‘ seditious libel ’ . |
| 7 | There is something very sweet about strolling through the streets of London with a fellow-countryman , and in the privacy afforded by their shining armour of courtesy and concern , to frankly recognize the difficult truth : that they are better than the people around them . |
| 8 | The exception was the City of London with a population of less than 5,000 ( Herbert 1960:233 — 6 ) . |
| 9 | The Privy Council is then found referring to arbitration a dispute between two foreigners , hearing the submission and apology of a merchant for speaking offensively about the Queen , instructing sheriffs to send up a note of the number of prisoners in their gaols , ordering mayors of seaports to prepare private ships to serve in the navy against the expected Spanish invasion , telling its agents at the Hague to arrange for the purchase of matches for guns , sending off various warrants , organizing the acquisition of copper for the Queen 's service , delegating the decision in a legal action to the J.P.s of Bedfordshire , permitting the taking of a collection on behalf of a Cornish village despoiled by Spaniards , and writing to the Lord Mayor of London about a complaint against his predecessor . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the size and wealth of London as a centre for consuming the products of the new industries was important . |
| 11 | Further , in June 1347 Charles de Blois , the French candidate to the duchy of Brittany , was taken in battle by Sir Thomas Dagworth ; like David II he , too , was sent to the Tower of London as a prisoner . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the Government has stepped in to underwrite the cost of bomb damage to shore up confidence in the British insurance industry and the reputation of the City of London as a world financial centre although that , ironically , may encourage just as much as it may discourage the IRA . |
| 13 | To use such language under Cromwell 's government was to court persecution , and Taylor spent some time in the Tower of London as a result . |
| 14 | City of London during a power failure . |
| 15 | The trophy was designed by an artist , Edmund Cotterill , and made by Garrard of London at a cost of £1,775 . |
| 16 | Early in the eighteenth century , Charles Whittingham moved his printing press from the City of London into a house on Chiswick Mall — as that river front became known — called ‘ High House ’ , and The Chiswick Press was established . |
| 17 | It was all part of the defence of London in an emergency . |
| 18 | A sale in the City of London by a member of the public to a shopkeeper would not satisfy this requirement and nor would a sale which took place in a private part of the shop , Hargreave v. Spink ( 1892 Q.B. ) . |
| 19 | 4 I had a terrible dream — I was being chased round the Tower of London by a gyre frabjous. 5 Seventeen whiffling Jabberwocks burbled at the vorpal dagger brandished under the Tumtum tree by our brave hero . |
| 20 | They made the changeover and came back into London on a District Line train from Richmond . |
| 21 | There were better things in life , for a young man like him , than plodding round London after a pick-pocket . |
| 22 | Woman who moved from London to a Suffolk village , talking about the inhabitants . |
| 23 | The 106 entrants in the gruelling marathon set off from London on a route which took them through Europe to Turkey in classic cars ranging from a Ford Cortina to a Russian Moskvitch , all at least 25 years old . |
| 24 | Fly from London on a Saturday two week holiday to give a real taste of the countryside pleasures of Tuscany and Umbria . |
| 25 | Mar was a 40-year-old former Secretary of State for Scotland who , dropped from office by George I , had turned Jacobite , making his house in London a centre of the anti-Hanoverian conspiracy before , in August 1715 , sailing from London on a collier to Newcastle and thence to Elie in Fife . |
| 26 | worked with people in the Hungerford massacres , and Elizabeth Howell is on the line from London from a London group called Exploring Parenthood , which organizes workshops to help parents in schools cope with children 's feelings about the war . |
| 27 | Giles Aplin did not return to Burford from London until a week after the wedding . |
| 28 | Many Scottish freeholders were involved in colonial trade and the plantation economy of the West Indies and , as might be expected , they saw their member of parliament 's influence in London as a route to obtaining the advantages which they desired in the colonies . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , he was honest enough to give credit where it was due : he had great respect for Johann Christian Bach ( son of Johann Sebastian ) , whom he met in London as a child ; Joseph Haydn , whom he revered above all other contemporaries ; and a few others less well known today . |
| 30 | Sir Daniel Macnee , Scotland 's leading portrait painter of his day and President of the Royal Scottish Academy , painted boxes at Cumnock as a young man , and William Leighton Leitch who worked first in Cumnock and then for the Smith brothers , later found fame in London as a water-colourist and for over 20 years visited Buckingham Palace and other royal residences where he taught painting to Queen Victoria and her family . |