Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes his Malcolm Wilson prepared Ford Sapphire Cosworth 4x4 to Scotland where he faces tough opposition , notably from Murray Grierson in a Metro 6R4 . |
| 2 | Bob is advising Clinton how to cope when he leaves Stoke Mandeville in a couple of months time and has to fend for himself in his own home : |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Riddick Bowe , the WBA and IBF world heavyweight champion , could meet Evander Holyfield in a re-match in June . |
| 4 | It should be Bowe 's last defence until November when he is expected to fight Evander Holyfield in a rematch . |
| 5 | In 1744 , he engaged William Warburton in a controversy over the Book of Job , conducting his argument with logic and civility . |
| 6 | Damage was done to the playing surface by the Maltese team who played Scotland last month , and next week the ravages of time , climate and fixture congestion will worsen when Andy Roxburgh 's side play Germany in a friendly . |
| 7 | On this it is worth quoting the comments of Lord Justice Lawton in a letter to The Times . |
| 8 | SIMON McCRACKEN , a 21-year-old fullback , has made the jump from fourth division Blackwood to first division Newport in a style which stamps him as a player to watch . |
| 9 | The mood was caught by Welford Beaton in a November 1930 report : |
| 10 | Jonsson wins RALLYING : SWEDISH Toyota driver Mats Jonsson led the field throughout the final day of the Swedish motor rally on Sunday to finish 39 seconds clear of his main rival , Briton Colin McRae in a Subaru . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a situation I have seen happen but I am grateful never to have been in that position myself ! ’ says Susan , who lives with actor-turned-writer Andy de la Tour in a house they have just bought in London . |
| 12 | Twelfth seed Ros Nideffer went out 4–6 6–2 10–8 to US qualifier Katrina Adams in a second round match resumed after being halted overnight at 5–5 in the final set . |
| 13 | ‘ New Years Day 1870 ’ recorded solicitor G. Manley Wetherfield in A Manual of Bankruptcy and Imprisonment for Debt under the Bankruptcy and Debtors Act 1869 ( 1870 ) , . |
| 14 | They saw Miss Lavant in a suit with buttercups on it , strolling about among the stalls , her downcast eyes occasionally glancing up . |
| 15 | Eight new ministers were appointed by President Didier Ratsiraka in a Cabinet reshuffle on Aug. 17 , 1989 . |
| 16 | ‘ People who cobble together magazines on anyone famous turn it into a sandbag affair , ’ said PWL managing director David Howells in an interview with Australia 's Business Review Weekly in January 1989 . |
| 17 | ANDY TOWNSEND last night refused to back down after going wild over an X-rated tackle that left Dennis Wise in a heap . |
| 18 | In an article in Figaro in 1978 Jean-Pierre Dujardin collected together the best-researched estimates of lives lost under communism : it was based on studies such as Robert Conquest 's classic analysis of Stalin 's purges The Great Terror , Professor Kuganov 's seminal study of liquidations based on a detailed demographic survey of Russia 's population between 1939 and 1959 and the detailed work done by Professor Richard Walker in a report commissioned by the U S Senate and published in 1971 . |
| 19 | ’ It is already possible to apply ( gene analysis ) methods for the early foetal diagnosis of these disorders ( haemophilia and other anaemias ) , and over the next few years it may even be possible to replace defective genes ’ , wrote the geneticist David Weatherall in an article on the new Institute for Molecular Medicine in Oxford . |
| 20 | I mean , Kylie Minogue in a wheelchair would not be Kylie Minogue , because if she went on ‘ Top of the Pops ’ it would be : ‘ Here 's tragic Kylie , here 's a scene from her hospital bed ’ , then she 'd sink into never-never land — bye-bye . |
| 21 | More than 7,000 jobs were moved in 1989 and almost 20,000 more are due over the next two years with the government in the van , say researchers Jones Lang Wootton in a survey published yesterday . |
| 22 | The Liverpool and Kirkby Knowsley teams plan to meet at Penny Lane in a Merseyside Under-15 Cup game , seven days before the next round of the national trophy . |
| 23 | Movie director Michael Winner 's card — Lia Williams in a sequence from his new film , Dirty Weekend — displays his twin passions of movies and younger women . |
| 24 | ‘ Other uniformed officer and plain clothed detectives rushed from the station in Edward Street in an effort to close off the roads and usher passers-by away from the van . ’ |
| 25 | The following Monday we met at Downing Street in an attempt to sort it all out . |
| 26 | At any rate , this line of thought was explored in the eighteenth century , notably by David Hume in A Treatise of Human Nature ( first published in 1739 ) and has come to be termed empiricism . |
| 27 | Richard Bayne in an introduction to the Laws early in the twentieth century declared that Hooker was ‘ sincerely and deeply an Evangelical , a Catholic and a rationalist . |
| 28 | Here is an example cited by Richard Cecil in an address to the pupils of the school attached to his church in Bedford Road , London ; he is recounting the death of one of their school-fellows , aged twelve , as narrated by the boy 's father : |
| 29 | Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with the Williams team also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |
| 30 | Ligier team-mate Martin Brundle 's had a luckless 100th grand prix and was forced to retire and Damon Hill 's challenge in his first race with Williams also ended early as he collided with Italian Alessandro Zanardi in a Lotus after 16 laps . |