Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A very early one is by Donald Munro , Dean of the Isles , who travelled through them and in 1594 published a " Description of the Western Isles " which is almost literally just that , with a full list of the small islands round the coast , but an edition by R. W. Munro in 1961 after a further manuscript had been found gives a description of Finlaggan , a photograph not previously published and a list of those who constituted the council of the Lords of the Isles . |
| 2 | A very early one is by Donald Munro , Dean of the Isles , who travelled through them and in 1594 published a " Description of the Western Isles " which is almost literally just that , with a full list of the small islands round the coast , but an edition by R. W. Munro in 1961 after a further manuscript had been found gives a description of Finlaggan , a photograph not previously published and a list of those who constituted the council of the Lords of the Isles . |
| 3 | Castles can be explored at Llansteffan and Newcastle Emlyn in particular although a fine Castle gateway and some exposed walls can be seen at Carmarthen , with Laugharne Castle currently closed for environmental works . |
| 4 | Travellers today can cross the Alps in less than a day due to the excellent highways and railroads . |
| 5 | It 's the second attack on visitors to Egypt in less than a month , the foreign office says the great majority of tourists experience no problems in Egypt , but adds . |
| 6 | ‘ It will be another Lebanon in less than a year . ’ |
| 7 | The Parliamentary Ombudsman was the first to be created in Britain in 1967 after a series of incidents highlighted how powerless people were against an abuse of power by central government . |
| 8 | The highlight of this sale of Victorian pictures , drawings and watercolours is undoubtedly ‘ Contradiction : Oberon and Titania ’ painted by Richard Dadd in 1854–1858 while a patient at Bethlem Hospital . |
| 9 | Nearly 500 jobs have been lost in the steel industry at Shotton in less than a year . |
| 10 | Brigadier Lorne Campbell of Airds , who was awarded the Victoria Cross in Tunisia in 1943 while a lieutenant-colonel in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders , died in May 1991 aged 88 . |
| 11 | The police say there 've been seven suspicious barn fires around in the Oxfordshire in less than a week . |