Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er my first job I had at Lyness was working for William on the tanks outside , tarmacadam under the tanks . |
| 2 | A spokesman for Upjohn said that the writs were the result of allegations that the company was lying and had deliberately withheld information about Halcion from the authorities . |
| 3 | His success at Brisbane and in the fifth Test , followed by a century for Victoria against the Englishmen , sealed his reputation . |
| 4 | There is in fact a detailed expression of Plan B , which we may as well call Plan C. It was put out earlier this week as a joint reconstruction programme for LA by the Bloods and Crips , the LA gangs whose truce in fact began before the riots began . |
| 5 | Downstream again and known as Lentia by the Romans is Linz , a picturesque and painstakingly restored historic city . |
| 6 | The question remained unanswered , for Counsel for the applicants accepted that any cause of action based on the treaty would not be justiciable in the English courts . |
| 7 | 1803 " From a statement to this Meeting of the Desertion of the Militia men or non appearance ; which they consider as Disgracefull to the Inhabitants of Islay . |
| 8 | And then Francis Ford Coppola cast him as Sodapop in The Outsiders , the movie which launched a whole schoolroom of teenagers into proper stardom — Tom Cruise , Emilio Estevez , Matt Dillon and Lowe among them . |
| 9 | ‘ I fought in the Holy Land for the Cross , and in England for Edward against the rebels ; I have founded monasteries , supported Holy Mother Church so God would exalt my family . |
| 10 | As the future shape of local government and the issue of water privatisation threaten to bring big political problems for Lang in the months ahead , he can at least breath a sigh of relief that the long-running saga of the poll tax is about to draw to a close . |
| 11 | Eros was known as Cupid to the Romans . |
| 12 | She was the daughter of Harmsworth and Morag Stove , my half-uncle and half-aunt by my father 's first marriage ; they were the couple who had looked after Eric between the ages of three and five . |
| 13 | Oscar , I tried again , after engaging in a critique of American culture in speech after speech , will you fail to visit the spot where Walt Whitman had been known to read Homer after Shakespeare to the waves ? |
| 14 | Our charge against the Government is that they have next to no positive proposals for Maastricht on the subjects that I have mentioned or on any other subjects . |
| 15 | ‘ There was often something about Simon in the papers , not only in the tabloids , in The Times . |
| 16 | The god of fertility , wine and drunkenness in Greek mythology , Dionysius was known as Bacchus to the Romans . |
| 17 | I 'm 16 years old and into any music from All About Eve to The Adventures . |
| 18 | She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne . |
| 19 | Only Anne Gibson has won a singles medal for Scotland in the championships — a bronze in 1987 — and McEwan , just 17 , has an outside chance of repeating that . |
| 20 | Neither Andy Forshaw nor Martin Langston stood out in the HDM event , so Clark , for so long on the fringe of national selection , could get his chance for England in the Buttermen Indoor tournament at Crystal Palace on December 29-30 . |
| 21 | The story of Bloxham through the centuries . |
| 22 | The most significant sites in North Shields are Chirton Industrial Estate , originally comprising 110 acres , which was acquired by the council and transferred to North East Trading Estates , and Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate , comprising 132 acres bought from the Duke of Northumberland in the mid-1960s by Property Security Investment Trust Ltd . |
| 23 | Another American , Malivai Washington , overcame Keil 's resistance in the third round and the stubborn efforts of Fitzgerald in the quarters before bowing out in just 73 minutes in the semi-final to Edberg . |
| 24 | ( Two years later , the tender of Samuel Foster Limited of Kempston for the nurses ' recreation room in the sum of £10,295 was accepted , despite an amendment which was put forward to postpone this project for three years , but which was lost on a show of hands . ) |
| 25 | ‘ The people of Amantani after the Incas . ’ |
| 26 | Lurching into it , with one part lumbered with unlovely council tower blocks up the hill , while nearer the river the developers had arrived , and where once had been a network of tiny streets harbouring some of the most professional criminal families in South London , there were now several expensive blocks of flats : expensive because they faced the river and looked sideways to the old Royal Palace of Greenwich with the trees and slopes of the park behind . |
| 27 | The great bulk of population movement occurred independently of Moscow in the years 1917–22 , but after the end of NEP it was to be strictly enforced , and took place on a vast scale again . |
| 28 | When the philosopher and historian Thomas Garrigue Masaryk became the first President of the new republic of Czechoslovakia between the wars , there flew above his residence in Prague Castle a flag bearing the words Truth Prevails , and it 's hardly a coincidence that the central theme of Havel 's political writings has been ‘ To live in truth ’ . |
| 29 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 30 | Mrs Frogatt and Mr Boulton have both handed over their complaints to the Charity Commissioners who are conducting a joint investigation of Brit-Pol with the police . |