Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 A minute later , there was almost a repeat , Norbury crossing again but Dublin shooting over from five yards .
2 Ollokot had expected to meet Howard and receive his permission to settle on the Umatilla Agency rather than Lapwai .
3 ‘ Why Ely Palace rather than Westminster ? ’
4 President Ochirbat , 48 , had held the post of Presidium Chair only since March [ see p. 37317 ] .
5 In the event , they went back to Scotland Yard so that McLeish could get to a phone and check with his secretary , and with Bruce Davidson , who was co-ordinating the evidence as it came in .
6 Last year , Sony Corp bought a licence to Apple Computer Inc 's AppleTalk network so that Macs could be networked with its News Unix workstations , and it has now taken the logical next step and its computer subsidiary will market Macs for attaching to networks of Sony workstations in Japan , with much of the business to be directed at use within the Sony group companies .
7 Guernsey granite rather than Purbeck stone brought him wealth and he retired to Swanage in 1944 leaving his nephew George Burt to look after the firm in London .
8 We may be suffering from the concept that sex was invented by the publishers of Playboy magazine rather than God , and this needs to be dealt with .
9 Mr Chairman I feel a bit like an aircraft that 's to come down to Leeds er er Bradford Airport rather than Teeside at the present moment .
10 Crowned in Holyrood abbey rather than Scone because of the rebellious atmosphere around Perth and the southern Highlands , James II was left nominally in the care of his mother .
11 She also persuaded her local council to help adapt their Manchester semi so that Norman could eventually come home .
12 It would be like the denizens of Magdalen Bridge claiming they drank VP sherry rather than Tio Pepe because they preferred the taste .
13 The North Carolina based popcore four-piece now play Liverpool Krazy House rather than Leeds Duchess Of York as previously announced .
14 Tries by Paul Leadbetter and Paul Carter were converted by Mark Taylor in the first half , Carter going on to complete his hat-trick , Leadbetter crossing again and Keith Bolland also scoring , with Taylor adding three conversions .
15 Britain 's Labour party had shown no interest in the Hague Congress however and Ernest Bevin viewed the Assembly proposal as an impractical scheme .
16 The deal was completed at a Darlington hotel yesterday and Murray added : ‘ Lenny 's strengths are his pace and his finishing .
17 It was no good pretending , his father said , it was no good having birthday celebrations in the Queen Victoria Hotel just so Stephen would n't know .
18 He would n't go to Wyvis Hall now if Adam invited him , if he went down on his bended knees .
19 York take on their arch rivals Harrogate at Clifton Park today and Pickering entertain Scarborough in the East Yorkshire Cup .
20 Miss Campbell managed to complete the manuscript in between commissions this year which have included Rod Stewart 's Epping Forest home and Wilbur Smith 's Chelsea residence .
21 Hundreds of Western tourists were again turned away at crossing points in the Berlin Wall yesterday as East Berlin remained sealed off to all but those with regular visas for the fourth day running .
22 Gregory and Gary O'Kane have been looking sharp in the Saffron jersey recently while Jim Close and Sean Paul McKillop are match-winners in their own right .
23 Mr Atkins comments come in new book — Norma : A Biography — which will be serialised exclusively in the Belfast Telegraph tomorrow and Saturday .
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