Example sentences of "[art] [det] [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He won 16 consecutive international caps , the most famous occasion being the All Blacks match of 1936 , remembered for two thrilling tries by Alex Obolensky , the Russian prince .
2 er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house
3 well it could be as many as that I mean sit and count it , but there 's a lot of variation , there 's a lot to catch your eye , I mean the more things contrast with each other , the more you notice them , is n't that true .
4 The Roker manager had planned to watch the former Spurs midfielder in action last week , but ran a check instead on Sheffield Wednesday 's Danny Wilson .
5 The pensioners ' organization threatened to defend the former pensions law through the courts .
6 Sir Terence Lewis , 63 , the former police commissioner of Queensland , was sentenced to 14 years ' imprisonment on Aug. 5 , after being convicted on 15 counts of corruption .
7 Ken Lawrence , the former sports editor of the Daily and Sunday Express , is the TCCB 's new media-relations manager , succeeding the late Peter Smith .
8 One lesson that we learnt from the transition from domestic rates to the community charge was the injustice of the former rates system to the single-person household .
9 J. Stasiak ( HAS March 21 ) needs reminding that the community charge was introduced after a lawful groundswell of protest about the former rates system with which many Labour councils played fast and loose .
10 One of the most remarkable guide-posts is Dunston Pillar on the former heathlands south-east of Lincoln .
11 But conventionalism differs from law as integrity precisely because the former rejects consistency in principle as a source of legal rights .
12 The former Jurys property in Ballsbridge was previously an Inter-Continental Hotel , not Holiday Inn .
13 The former Ironworks pub at Coulson Street , Spennymoor , is to be converted to a car repair garage .
14 I bet its no coincidence that during our Glory Days we had the same players year in year out .
15 Certain that it was the only true begetter of G&S , indifferent to new theatrical styles , D'Oyly Carte presented the same productions year after year , turning them into a rather dreary ritual .
16 I mean when you 're working for a week at a time with the same blokes week in week out I mean you get to know them really well .
17 Do n't write the same letters month after month and year after year .
18 Despite these dangers many birds find their way back to the same spots year after year .
19 ‘ I was getting bored doing the same jokes night after night , ’ he says .
20 The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey .
21 This too is a technique pioneered by Neighbours , where it works best at the beginning and end of each episode , and in the poignant identification of the tragedy of Paul and Gail , who do and say the same things day after day , but wear different clothes .
22 The withdrawal from the world , the silence , the disciplines of community and the deliberate cult of monotony in a system where everybody wears the same clothes and does the same things day after day have been found to support the mystic during his frequently lonely journey , to earth him in reality and to wean him away from an excitement and drama that is inimical to the mystical experience .
23 ‘ They came from all over to stay with us , and when they came once , they 'd always come back , the same families year after year .
24 the they do n't do the same sweets week in week out , I mean the they erm they vary them a on a possibly on a on an eight week basis so it all depends which week you go
25 More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course .
26 ‘ We face the same risks day in day out for years on end . ’
27 I 'll be talking in a few moments time about aviation travel and the risks and , indeed , the trends that are being reflected at the present time , but erm before we move to that let's just think about those of us who perhaps have decided we wo n't go abroad .
28 I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor .
29 Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium .
30 By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times .
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