Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 2 | So far , three production companies claim to have bought the rights to subjects ranging from the ‘ Third Man ’ scandal of Kim Philby to the assassination of Leon Trotsky , the Cuban Missile Crisis and the attempted assassination of Winston Churchill during a Second World War summit in Teheran . |
| 3 | This , obviously , is the place from which to inspect the western Pyrenees for a first time or , given the summary quality of the prospect , from which to take leave of them before driving north . |
| 4 | It is likely to be introduced next Tuesday with a second reading pencilled in for 22 March . |
| 5 | If the patient reader is not surfeited by all this playing with numbers he may be entertained by a calculation of the " expenditure " of a vote originally given to Paisley with a second preference for Bill Craig and a third for some other candidate . |
| 6 | He knocked one year off a full 10-year term to take account of the strain on Christie of a second hearing . |
| 7 | The FBO was bought by Toyota as a first step in learning more about the GA business . |
| 8 | The Giants were leading the series 3-1 and wanted desperately to avoid returning to Wrigley Field for a sixth game . |
| 9 | Miandad wo n't lose sleep over the crowd 's abuse , especially if his pacemen polish England off a second time . |
| 10 | For much of their service the Perths operated from Mount Batten , flew exercises over the Irish Sea , participated in naval manoeuvres by co-operating with the British Fleet , and used Stranraer as a second base . |
| 11 | Ben Gill was re-elected for a second year as deputy , and Tony Pexton for a second year as vice-president . |
| 12 | That the IRA has chosen to play a deadly game with the civilian population in England with a second litter bin bomb attack in a month may indicate desperation or bloody mindedness , or both . |
| 13 | Former Hull boss Brian Smith has had a mystery offer to return to England with a First Division club next year . |
| 14 | Peter Burridge had captained Millwall to a 4th Division promotion in 1962 and had thereby brought himself very much to the attention of Palace 's astute managerial team of Arthur Rowe and Dick Graham , both as an inspirational skipper and as a regular scorer of important goals . |
| 15 | It was days before we managed to get in touch with Sylvia through a third party but luckily she was still fine . |
| 16 | The championships were reduced to an all-English affair when Adrian Davies , the Welsh No 1 , joined Nicol as a first day exit . |
| 17 | Some have seen the RPF as a twentieth century expression of Bonapartism — the tradition of a providential leader appealing to men and women of all classes and ideologies to unite in the interests of an orderly state and national greatness . |
| 18 | COLCHESTER United , with a host of attacking options , have decided against keeping West Ham forward Dean Martin for a third month on loan . |
| 19 | For although Piper 's manager Frank Warren thinks Benn believes he has made a big mistake in selecting Piper as a first challenger and does n't fancy the job , I suspect the opposite is true — he may think it is going to be too easy . |
| 20 | He learned that that school would shortly be closing : the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury , as the body responsible for its denominational education in Stockport , planned to build a new comprehensive secondary school in Cheadle , St. James 's , and to convert St. Michael 's on Nangreave Road into a Sixth Form College . |
| 21 | On Saturday night at Manchester 's G-Mex Centre , Eubank , who modestly styles himself ‘ Simply the Best ’ , faces his 10th world title fight in two years when he tackles Juan Carlos Gimenez in a fourth defence of his WBO super-middleweight title since February and one he can not afford to lose . |
| 22 | Alastair McIver reports from Eastbourne on a 10th title for Navratilova |
| 23 | In Lee v. York Coach and Marine ( 1977 Q.B. ) , the buyer had been supplied in March with a second hand car which was not of merchantable quality because its brakes were defective . |
| 24 | On Nov. 25 Dijoud arrived from Paris for a second visit , this time with a letter from President François Mitterrand for Gouled Aptidon . |
| 25 | A unilateral ceasefire announced by the Muslim government to coincide with the lifting of the aid boycott appeared to have reduced shelling around Sarajevo for a third day yesterday . |
| 26 | On the accession of Bayezid II , Hocazade was appointed to the Sultan medrese in Bursa for a second time , with 100 akce a day , and was also appointed mufti of Bursa . |
| 27 | THE pride of the ‘ 74 Lions are to embark on an adventurous trip that could be more hazardous than their unbeaten trek through South Africa when they hit Ulster for a 20th anniversary bash next April ( writes JIM STOKES ) . |
| 28 | On September 19 and 20 , Erich Thomsen , who runs the Redwood Valley Railway near Berkeley , California , is making a repeat visit to Ravenglass with a second loco from his line . |
| 29 | Simpkin also took Fiji to a fifth place finish in the inaugural World Cup . |
| 30 | They then received conditioning trials with the light as the CS in a third context ( C ) . |