Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The problem was Ron Dennis and in a way , this clash between the two men is a microcosm of life in FI and deserves a brief aside .
2 NATO decided to go ahead with the cruise missiles before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and against a background of Soviet-American agreement in the Salt 11 talks on strategic weapons .
3 Voting was also held for all State Assembly seats in Haryana and West Bengal and for a number of State Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh .
4 The sisters and their assailants , who went to McDonalds and for a walk through the city together , had also exchanged addresses .
5 They were linked by blood to Charles II , the Dukes of Marlborough , Devonshire and Abercorn and through a quirk of history to seven American presidents , including Franklin D. Roosevelt , and to the actor Humphrey Bogart and , it is said , the gangster Al Capone .
6 With reference to starting points , Wyre is the name of a Borough Council covering a large area of the North Fylde but there is no town or village of Wyre and as a starting point ‘ Wyre ’ does not make sense .
7 I would be employed also by the WEA and as a Trade Union lecturer ( which , as far as I know , I still am ) .
8 It had provided that the deal could be varied in writing only and had to be signed by Mr Gillespie and by a director of the purchasing company acting with the authorisation of its board .
9 My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not .
10 Feisal , for instance , was not welcomed by the French in Syria and as a result was installed king of another emergent country — Iraq .
11 The other branch runs south-eastwards through New Guinea and the New Hebrides and through a scatter of small Melanesian islands , before making an abrupt dog 's leg northwards to the Samoan islands to join the Tonga-Kermadec chain which extends southwards again into New Zealand .
12 There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush .
13 Anne Seaton taught at a SKFA ‘ associated movement ’ course in Glasgow in February and at a WLHB charity rally in Ayr in March ( specification — tow identical half-hour sessions , each for 100 people , using balls and clubs ) ; Anne was also invited for the second year to help judge a heat in the Movement and Recreative Dance section of SKFA 's Open National Championship .
14 The strike began on the morning of Wednesday 15 May and within a week was bringing Ulster close to a standstill .
15 My office was subsequently informed by telephone on 10 May and by a letter dated 13 May from the deputy manager of the unemployment benefit office that Mr. Docherty 's case had been allowed by the adjudication officer , and that he was therefore entitled to arrears of benefit .
16 I I obviously Cornwall is a special case which we obviously as our Celtic cousins it is the only non-Anglo Saxon county in England and as a result we feel a very , very strong erm er almost a kind of Uncle erm Nephew relationship to Cornwall , whereas the Cornish are certainly not Welsh but they 're certainly not Anglo Saxon English either .
17 In addition , due to the efforts of Woodhouse , Babbage , Herschel and Peacock from 1803 onwards , Leibniz " notation and methods in the calculus had gradually replaced Newton 's in England and as a consequence much of continental analysis had become available to the English .
18 He was a South African like Albert , but eventually settled in England and after a period at York City became a postman .
19 It is tea and scones — and where else can you get a good cup of tea or a decent scone , or real beer , as the hero of one of C. S. Lewis 's space-fictions reflects as he returns to earth and finds himself — miraculously and blissfully — in England and in a country village .
20 Huxley as a popularizer of Darwin and as a teacher of biology emphasized rather different aspects of science .
21 In talks with Borja and during a speech to the Ecuadorean Congress , Fujimori reiterated his proposal , made in November 1991 [ see p. 38673 ] , that Ecuador be offered navigation rights on the northern Peruvian Amazon and that the border dispute be settled on the basis of the 1942 Rio de Janeiro protocol , which fixed the border after a war between the two countries .
22 That 's where Sonic Youth got a lot of ideas from , because their guitarist Lee Renaldo actually used to play with Glenn Branca and in a way it 's Sonic Youth that took that drone style into pop music . ’
23 Exploitation of the alluvial deposits of the Altai still further east allowed Russia to displace Brazil and for a time to be the world 's leading producer of gold .
24 Crone found that the yellow spots on the leaves and pebbles were pollen from the tropical or subtropical bush of the genus Rapanea and of a tree of the genus Harpullia , common to rainforests .
25 She played Mrs Thatcher in Anyone for Denis and in a television comedy .
26 He also thanked all employees for the tremendous efforts involved in building the new Johnson Matthey and on a day when South Africa was celebrating National Peace Day , he expressed hope that this may be a new beginning in a much broader sense .
27 Prior to participation in a CU and with a tariff rate upon supply from the potential partner and the rest of the world , the lowest priced source of import supply is the rest of the world Pw Sw .
28 Is it not the case that although the wage increases of British workers have come down the benefits of that have been dissipated , and that due to the recession induced by the Government productivity has gone down although it has gone up in Germany and as a result unit labour costs in the year to the second quarter of 1991 went up by 3 per cent .
29 Since then it has been offered on a limited basis in Germany and as a routine service in Lyons , France , and Antwerp , Belgium .
30 A Greek presence is attested by the altars to Astarte and Hercules and by a gold betrothal ring inscribed in Greek to Aemilia .
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