Example sentences of "[noun prp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kincardine and Deeside in Scotland and Langbaurgh in Teeside completed the Tory by-election débâcle last autumn . |
| 2 | The second case concerns the planting of 2,000 acres of conifers in Deeside in Scotland . |
| 3 | Mark Twain , for example , who went to see the Great Exhibition of 1867 , wrote : ‘ ( I saw ) Napoleon in military uniform — long-bodied , short-legged man , fiercely moustached , old , wrinkled , with eyes half-closed and such a deep crafty scheming expression about them . ’ |
| 4 | They remained popular in the West throughout the Middle Ages and even continued to be used by the supreme tribunal of the Holy Roman Empire until its abolition by Napoleon in 1806 . |
| 5 | Following the defeat of Napoleon in Russia the Russian Army laid siege to Danzig for over 10 months . |
| 6 | This , however , gives rise to two legends : firstly that it was paid for by Napoleon in gold louis to Mr Veitch , who later buried the coins under the foundation stone of the English church ; and secondly that the wine was never drunk by Napoleon but returned to Madeira after his death to be bottled in 1840 by Blandy 's . |
| 7 | I was recently listening to a tape of a ten-year-old radio talk by literary critic Christopher Ricks , called Bob Dylan and the Language That He Used ( I should say that this is a reference to the lines , ‘ You used to be so amused/At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used ’ in Dylan 's classic song , Like a Rolling Stone ) . |
| 8 | Saxe-Weimar 's men were mostly German troops in Dutch service who had fought for Napoleon in the previous wars , and not even Saxe-Weimar himself was certain whether they would now fight against their old comrades . |
| 9 | He emerged as president of France as Prince Louis Napoleon in eighteen forty eight and he er he erm achieves power by coup d'etat and becomes emperor in eighteen fifty two . |
| 10 | The international pre-eminence the country had enjoyed since defeating Napoleon in 1812 was brought to an abrupt end by the Crimean War ( 1853–56 ) . |
| 11 | It was this group which brought Murat round to the idea of a new constitution and who co-operated with Napoleon in that masterpiece of enlightened despotism , the Constitution of Bayonne . |
| 12 | Poljica 's independence was suppressed by Napoleon in 1806 , and its incorporation first into the Illyrian Provinces and later into the Austrian province of Dalmatia assisted the spread of the Latin script , which by this time had become common throughout Dalmatia . |
| 13 | From then until the dissolution of the Empire by Napoleon in 1806 the Imperial crown was effectively the hereditary possession of the Habsburg family . |
| 14 | These frontiers held with minor changes until the republic was abolished by Napoleon in 1808 . |
| 15 | The Ragusan republic fell to Napoleon in 1806 and was incorporated into the Illyrian Provinces between 1808 and 1814 . |
| 16 | There are no obvious geographical barriers along this frontier and a series of invasions , from the Poles in the seventeenth century to Napoleon in the early nineteenth , have borne witness to its vulnerability . |
| 17 | Just as Napoleon in 1804 , Henry VI might well in time have had Europe at his feet . |
| 18 | His humiliation was smaller than that to which the country had been subjected on being invaded by Napoleon in 1812 , but so was the likelihood that Russia would be able to reverse her defeat in the near future . |
| 19 | In the midst of doing both the Round The Horne radio series and a couple of ‘ Carry Ons ’ , Ken was cast as Napoleon in a BBC TV version of the Anouilh play French Cricket , with Robert Helpmann playing Fouche , the Chief of Police . |
| 20 | Smith , comprise English Place Name Elements which appeared in 1970 , and Cornish Place Name Elements by O.J. Padel in the same series , published in 1985 . |
| 21 | In the eighteenth century the Wentworths of Hembury in Dorset inherited Trerice , and it was let to tenants . |
| 22 | But the little Auberge La Provençale in the rue Chabran is quite quiet and you can enjoy a good little dinner — nothing spectacular , but genuine and decently cooked food well served — and go to bed early . |
| 23 | The elevation of their leaders ' wives to positions of political power in their own right happened more and more often by the 1970s , but it was not well regarded even in countries where the wife was not like Elena Ceauşescu in combining arrogance , brutality , stupidity and self-confidence . |
| 24 | This debt helps to explain Carter 's willingness to receive Ceauşescu in April 1978 . |
| 25 | From the coming into dominance or Ceauşescu in the later 1960s onwards , the abortion law in Romania became increasingly restrictive . |
| 26 | But no amount of passive resistance and bureaucratic delay could halt the process set in train by Ceauşescu in the spring of 1988 . |
| 27 | Elena Ceauşescu in particular was surprisingly superstitious for a scientist . |
| 28 | The frost-bitten Weston brothers were waiting just off the Bath Road near Maidenhead in Berkshire . |
| 29 | LEON Butterfield , of Colchester and District Fencing Club , took first place at Maidenhead in the Leon Paul Junior Sabre Series Tournament , where there was a large field . |
| 30 | It was therefore tempting , and usually easy , to import excessive quantities of goods and then resell them at a profit to local merchants , " from whom " , wrote Callières in 1697 , " they receive a tribute , for lending their names to defraud the Sovereign of his dues " . |