Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] st [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is curious nevertheless how poor the primary sources sometimes are for debates at BAAS meetings : the famous clash between Wilberforce and Huxley in 1860 at Oxford , in the new museum there , has scarcely more contemporary accounts than that between St George and the dragon , so that it is impossible to know exactly what happened . |
| 2 | At the 18th Sandy was in the semi-rough again , this time on the right-hand , with the fairway having yet another of St Georges ' hog 's backs on the way in . |
| 3 | Everything is held in like this with St John . |
| 4 | Nothing wrong with St Bostick 's ? |
| 5 | He could let us have some from St Anthony 's . ’ |
| 6 | He died 13 August 1867 in St Helens . |
| 7 | Joe Hind in St Peter 's Square |
| 8 | Roland was not very interested in St Etheldreda . |
| 9 | Naturally he was interested in St John Rivers , my cousin . |
| 10 | While the first were certainly corrupt , Bacon claimed to be as innocent of these ‘ as any born upon St Innocent 's Day ’ . |
| 11 | The fact of the matter is , carp are an endangered species , and everyone knows that the only diet they will accept if the winter has been especially harsh and the spring turns wet before St Oursin 's Day is that of young minced Wolf Cub . |
| 12 | A legation was set up in Berlin in 1837 and another in St Petersburg twenty years later . |
| 13 | In mathematics he was clearly one year ahead , and was immediately awarded a Founder 's scholarship and two small exhibitions — and this at St John 's College which was noted at this time for its academic distinction . |
| 14 | For all the choice of possible brides he may have had , William picked one very near home indeed : when he married in 1872 at St James , Clerkenwell , it was to his own cousin , Mary Ann Keziah Parkes , daughter of James Parkes , brass-rule maker — himself the brother of William 's mother Elizabeth . |
| 15 | Orme was married on 22 June 1802 at St George 's Hanover Square to Hester ( ‘ Etty ’ ) Edmonds . |
| 16 | Excitement is high at St Michael 's School , Billingham , at the prospect of Jamie Pollock and Sean Gregan turning up to launch the school 's 1992 year book . |
| 17 | , Edward ( 1790–1870 ) , architect , was baptized 20 September 1790 at St Chad 's church , Shrewsbury , the second of the three sons of John Hiram Haycock , architect and builder of Shrewsbury , and his wife Elizabeth , daughter of William Trevitt of Newport . |
| 18 | The auction is planned for May 30 at St Cuthbert 's Church Hall , Marton , Middlesbrough . |
| 19 | Yes , Aunt Florence was , and still is , an ‘ Angel , ’ She had begun her training at eighteen years old at St James ' Hospital , Balham , SW . |
| 20 | 12th – 13th March , 1993 at St Vincent 's Centre , Langbank . |
| 21 | Thank you for your enquiry yesterday regarding a representative from the Social Work Department being present at the Tenants ' Association meeting on Monday 30 August 1993 at St John Vianney School . |
| 22 | Today it is probably extinct , although there might still be a few around St Brieuc . |
| 23 | Similar soviets had emerged in other cities earlier in the year , but that of St Petersburg took on unique importance . |
| 24 | They took over the Gothic Domenican Church of St Salvator and that of St Clement around the corner , and gradually accumulated a huge parcel of land here . |
| 25 | All Saints Church had been erected in 1876–8 , but after being damaged during World War II , it was demolished and most of its parish was combined with that of St Barnabas so that the latter church was renamed All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 26 | The Reverend Whickens ended up with a smart little house whose roof was as high as that of St Peter 's and which comprised a hall , a small parlour and a large parlour , a study , kitchen , dairy and brewhouse , four bedchambers and two small rooms in the garret . |
| 27 | Pownall 's suggestion exemplified an approach to the problem of international peace which , from the 1770s onwards , increasingly supplanted schemes of the essentially traditional sort typified by that of St Pierre . |
| 28 | Shoppers approaching what LET have named The Galleries from New Street and High Street will be channeled along a brand new street flanked by granite and stone-clad pseudo-Classical shops and offices , entering the new mall under a vast glazed dome , second in diameter only to that of St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 29 | For a town of this rank it seems almost incredible until we recall that Walsingham enjoyed a lucrative tourist trade as far and away the most popular resort of pilgrimage , the shrine alone deriving an income of £250 a year from the pious offerings of the faithful , compared with the meagre £36 to which that of St Thomas at Canterbury had by then shrunk . |
| 30 | At the same time , although he much liked Maritain as a person ( as who could not ? ) , he felt that the French post-Bergsonian intellectual approach , even if called ‘ Neo-scholastique ’ , differed markedly from that of St Thomas himself : it was the difference between a hovering darting kestrel and a ‘ dumb ox ’ pawing the ground . |