Example sentences of "the [noun prp] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And later he was cruel , a wife-beating drunkard , after he had destroyed the Highlands in a storm of hailstones and fire . ’ |
| 2 | There was she , a horse loving woman , bumping through the Siq in a Land Rover , wearing a skirt and hat . |
| 3 | ‘ During that interim period Doctor Who just took off with the Daleks in a way that none of us could have imagined , and after that there was no more discussion about it coming off the air . |
| 4 | That month UMNO won a seat in the Sabah state assembly for the first time , defeating the PBS in a by-election . |
| 5 | Presenting the CS in a test context that lacks those associative links could have several consequences . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Lancashire County Council announced it was to send representatives to the Netherlands in a bid to rescue the Leyland truck plant and the Chorley parts warehouse , where together more than 900 jobs were lost on Friday . |
| 7 | The second study is being set up by the EPA in a Georgia town which was one of a large number that volunteered to be followed while it switched to a pay-to-throw scheme . |
| 8 | He was probably the first to include the Gauls in a history of Italy , though Fabius Pictor who fought against them in 225 B.C. was bound to have said something about their characteristics . |
| 9 | A weird island , they found as they walked the last half mile — after leaving the Mercedes in a car park with Dillon seated in the rear . |
| 10 | In energy , as opposed to environmental , terms the most serious potential consequence of acid rain could be on coal as a power station fuel , a fact which led the IEA in a study published in November 1983 to recommend governments to increase basic research on acid rain pollution . |
| 11 | Military sources said the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge guerrilla group had joined the KPNLF in a pincer attack on Sisophon . |
| 12 | Eventually Finn escapes , meets a runaway nigger , and together they escape down the Mississippi in a raft . |
| 13 | Then their Emperor collided with the Warlord in a teeth-jarring , bone-shaking impact of metallic mountains . |
| 14 | The Free Democrats ( FDP ) and the conservative German Party , based in Hanover , joined the CDU in a coalition , easily outmatching the SPD . |
| 15 | Working for Patients aims to further introduce market forces into the NHS in an attempt to achieve its stated objectives of better healthcare and choice for patients and greater satisfaction and rewards for those who successfully respond to local needs and preferences . |
| 16 | The 44th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) , held in Glasgow , Scotland , on June 29-July 3 , was marked by accusations from pro-whaling member countries that anti-whaling countries were distorting the charter of the IWC in an effort to outlaw whaling on ethical grounds . |
| 17 | In the second half of the month Turkish troops entered Iraq in a large-scale air and ground operation concentrated on two fronts , with the objective of trapping the PKK in a pincer between hostile Iraqi and Turkish forces . |
| 18 | An unpublished but widely quoted UN International Civil Aviation Organization report of May 1989 referred to the involvement of the Vincennes in a series of provocative incidents in the Gulf before and after the Iranian incident . |
| 19 | Immediately after the War , Paul was sent to London , where he studied the Talmud in a yeshiva in Stamford Hill for five years . |
| 20 | In the great tradition of British travel writers , he has already sailed the Atlantic in a leather boat trying to prove that Irish monks could have reached America 1,000 years before Columbus . |
| 21 | LONE yachtsman Tom McNally launched his mission yesterday to sail the Atlantic in a boat six inches shorter than him . |
| 22 | ‘ There is no reason why we should n't finish , ’ said the affable driving instructor from Magdeburg , who is trying to cross the Atlantic in a rowing boat and the Statue of Liberty is not far off . |
| 23 | He will lay an order in the Commons in a fortnight , immediately after the summer recess , to impose a new contract on GPs . |
| 24 | as if life at Westminster were not strain enough , the House of Lords took on the Commons in a tug o' war contest this week . |
| 25 | He found both her and the Shah in a state of shock , quite confused and uncertain what to do . |
| 26 | The EC is joining with countries bordering the Rhine in a plan to reintroduce salmon to the river , six years after it was declared ecologically-dead as a result of the Sandoz chemical plant . |
| 27 | Zachary Wong of the liberal political group Meeting Point was returned to the Legco in a Dec. 8 by-election . |
| 28 | The comparison will not show British progress in a very nattering light , for although Traffic in Towns was a hugely influential report in its day , nothing of significance has been added to it in the UK in a quarter of a century . |
| 29 | Bonds issued and/or traded in the UK in a currency other than sterling are known as eurobonds . |
| 30 | The couple won a trip to the UK in a contest run by Wedgwood Canada which included a visit to the company headquarters . |