Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glaucous gulls and any other northern stragglers such as Iceland and perhaps ivory gulls will drift off towards their Arctic breeding-grounds . |
| 2 | Magnus Magnusson , TV presenter , president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , chair of the Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland and currently chair of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland , will be taking on the most demanding environmental job in Scotland as the first chair of the new agency . |
| 3 | Thanks to Bob Payton , formerly of JWT and now proprietor of a popular restaurant chain , agency creative people are far more aware of the value of music , in this pop-dominated world , in talking to specific generations . |
| 4 | Randy Sandone , formerly executive vice-president of Addamax and now president of the new 16-man firm , Argus Systems Group Inc , said that Addamax was finding it impossible to do business because of the lawsuit . |
| 5 | Randy Sandone , formerly executive vice president of Addamax and now president of the new 16-man firm , Argus Systems Group Inc , said that Addamax was finding it impossible to do business because of the lawsuit . |
| 6 | The guest speaker is Jack Charlton , formerly of England and currently manager of Eire , and the guest of honour is Sir Stanley Matthews . |
| 7 | It is the witches prophecy to Macbeth that he will be Thane of Cawdor and then king ( Act 1 Scene 3 ) that show to the reader that Macbeth has got ambition in him , as shown by his demand of them to speak more before they vanish . |
| 8 | Mr Klaus Gotte , former finance chief of Allianz and now boss of a Munich-based engineering group , MAN , is supervisory board chairman of the Hypo . |
| 9 | We often enjoy a good spell in Britain at the start of October but then autumn rainstorms usually take over . |
| 10 | During the confession Anubis , using a balance scale , weighed the heart of the deceased against a feather , the symbol of Maat and therefore truth and order . |
| 11 | Brihtheah , the nephew of Archbishop Wulfstan , was abbot of Pershore and later bishop of Worcester , while Bishop Brihtwine of Sherborne was succeeded by his brother , and Brihtwold of Cornwall was the uncle of Lyfing , abbot of Tavistock and subsequently bishop of Crediton , Cornwall and Worcester . |
| 12 | In passages which have become well known , the medieval woman mystic Julian of Norwich speaks of God as both Father and Mother and of the trinity as exemplifying fatherhood and motherhood . |
| 13 | Ciriaco De Mita , a former prime minister of Italy and once leader of the Christian Democrats , was declared to be under investigation for alleged extortion as probes into corruption continue . |
| 14 | ‘ And send us violent political messages about freeing Sardinia from Italian rule , while investing their ransom money in land and building speculation in the south of France and even South America . ’ |
| 15 | Are the above observations clues to the cause of IBS or merely epiphenomena ? |
| 16 | The chairman is Michael Cottrell , former managing director of Courage and presently chairman of Taunton Cider . |
| 17 | It emphasised that he was not only far west of London but far south as well on a latitude with Sicily and southern Spain . |
| 18 | Ramsey asked the pointed question whether William Temple would have been able to write if he had been Bishop of London and not Archbishop of York . |
| 19 | While researching a book on the history of Arabia he was struck by the lack of early material , and while searching for place names of non-Arabic origin in a gazetteer recently produced in Riyadh , he found that nearly all the Biblical place names from the patriarchal period were concentrated in a small area of the Red Sea north of Yemen and far south of the traditional sites in Palestine . |
| 20 | After the unit was commissioned and turned over to Sabah Electric , TES was contacted by Dr Jamaludin Bin Dato Jarjis , managing director of Time-Epe and also member of the Malaysian parliament , to voice his extreme satisfaction with the entire project . |
| 21 | Gina was writing stories to be like Eleanor and also poetry , in imitation of Nigel 's youthful ambitions . |
| 22 | The possibility of a bid from an unwelcome quarter ( notably the Canadian Carling magnate E. P. Taylor and his United Breweries , later merged with Charrington and subsequently part of Bass ) was often enough to persuade the directors to approach a more acceptable company for protection . |
| 23 | The evenings will be hosted by David English , a cricketer ( formerly with Middlesex and now captain of the Eric Clapton XI ) ; journalist ( on the London Evening News ) ; actor ( Lisztomania , the stiff-upper-lip Captain Andrew in A Bridge Too Far ) ; scriptwriter ( the Timothy Dalton vehicle Hawks ) ; and author ( of The Legend , an animated book on the Bee-Gees , and of the children 's Bunbury Tales ) . |
| 24 | Oh we watched In Bed with Madonna as well mum |
| 25 | I told him about Hirondelle and how Deacon Billingsley had lied about the yacht 's fate , and I confessed that though there was nothing I could do about a corrupt policeman , nor about what I strongly suspected had been the murder of a yacht 's crew , I was still curious about the island . |
| 26 | Establishing ourselves as a credible force in Germany and further east is not a simple task , but I am confident that we are gradually putting the team in place who will achieve this objective . |
| 27 | Meri , Foreign Minister until March and subsequently ambassador to Finland [ see pp. 38879-80 ] , was the principal Estonian nationalist candidate , supported by the Isamaa coalition ; Parek was chair of the Estonian National Independence Party and a former political prisoner . |
| 28 | That includes two seasons as Scottish Schools ' stand-off out of Galashiels Academy ( he was captain in all four games last season ) , each of the national youth grades in Scotland , U21 and Scottish Students , Scotland ‘ B ’ appearances against Ireland ‘ B ’ and France ‘ B ’ , a Scottish trial in January and now selection for Scotland 's tour to Australia in May and June . |
| 29 | When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled . |
| 30 | It was early evening in May but already darkness was closing over the landscape . |