Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Edinburgh side are now at full strength which is bad news for Kelburne whose international players , David Fowler and Michael Starling , have to readjust to the indoor set-up after their trip to Cairo last week with the Scottish outdoor squad . |
| 2 | The presence of the black swan in the islands only emphasised for Gould its unnatural absence from the large rivers , such as the Derwent , on mainland Tasmania where it once abounded : |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent discussions he has held with representatives of district councils and European Commission officials concerning the implementation of the RENAVAL programme ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received on the subject of Scottish government ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received about the home improvement grants scheme . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received from the Scottish steel industry . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what further representations he has received on hospitals applying for trust status . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what further action he intends to take in connection with the announced closure of Ravenscraig . |
| 9 | I knew little about him , except that when riding beside the Duke of Wellington his right knee was hit by one of the last shots fired that day . |
| 10 | Before the Treasury was rehoused at the end of Whitehall its junior clerks were scratching here at their ledgers . |
| 11 | Scottish Amicable has a clear purpose — ‘ to do the best for all our customers ’ and in the context of JRA our newest customer the dedicated administration unit is committed to doing the best for J. Rothschild Assurance . |
| 12 | It took much restoration , in the remarkably enlightened years in the middle of the last century when conservation took hold in France , to give the cathedral of Lescar its present air of authenticity . |
| 13 | Henry , it transpires , is very much the protege of Jane whose negative experiences of residential living have combined with a complex of personal problems and have generated an anger that she has tempered to a cause . |
| 14 | This story involves a youth hostel in the town of Ramsey in the Isle of Man whose narrow-gauge railway has brought pleasure and fascination to many people either as holiday makers or railway enthusiasts since the 1870s . |
| 15 | Many theologians have embraced a scepticism about the historicity of events or sayings in the life of Jesus which ancient historians have regarded as excessive when measured against their own assessments of other , secular figures in the past . |
| 16 | As the Count of Middenland he is a fervent devotee of the Cult of Ulric whose chief temple is situated in Middenheim . |
| 17 | As a true son of Ulster his dear life he gave , |
| 18 | As a true son of Ulster his dear life he gave , |
| 19 | Not particularly but I understand that er it is , you now have the whole of China which small areas erm relatively small areas , you 've now got the whole thing , I mean if you start initiating very radical reforms , as you say you do n't have the personnel or the resources to erm to prevent a , you know , a big change disruption . |
| 20 | The hotel was built in 1848 as a coaching inn by Frances Anne Vane Tempest , Marchioness of Londonderry whose great grandson , Sir Winston Churchill inherited it in 1921 . |
| 21 | When , indeed : but practical measures were the immediate need ; and it was in the absence in America of Owen himself that Owenism emerged as a response to that need and Owenites as those who formulated the response . |
| 22 | It is to have failed to give the transcendence of God its proper cash value , to have weakened it so that it means something like ‘ outside the solar system ’ or ‘ above the galaxy ’ . |
| 23 | Dempsey defended his title only six times in as many years and constantly snubbed black challenges , one interesting one appearing in the pages of the New York Times from a certain Prince Mohammed Ali Ibrahim of Egypt whose special weapon was a ‘ pyramid punch ’ ( 4 March 1924 , p. 14 ) . |
| 24 | But he does not believe the English game has fallen behind technically , simply because of the Eighties ban from club competition , saying : ‘ After six years out of Europe our national side finished in the semi-finals of the World Cup . |
| 25 | He received his first report card when he was only four years old from a boarding school in the South of France which domestic insecurities had required our attending rather early in life . |
| 26 | Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements . |
| 27 | The following month yet another 240 Squadron London ( K5911 ) showed its mettle when it ran into a formation of Heinkel He 111 bombers of KG26 near the Shetlands . |
| 28 | From 1446 to 1448 the French spared no effort to bring about the surrender of Maine which those Englishmen holding Le Mans , its capital , refused to carry out until , in March 1448 , they finally gave way . |
| 29 | The skills of boxing , fencing and riding made of Joyce what one observer called ‘ a thug of the first order ’ . |
| 30 | Clearly the subtle substructure of theological argument in the negative tradition which underlies the experiential theology of the Cloud-author distinguishes him from Julian of Norwich whose vibrant sense of the reality of the being of God at work in human nature was born out of her visionary meditative experience focused on Christ 's Passion . |