Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir : France deals with libel in a simple , cheap and civilised way , illustrated by a case in July where a paper investigated corruption among local authorities . |
| 2 | ‘ He did n't like rehearsing and I remember a Salome in Munich where the Jokanaan was very uncertain in his part . |
| 3 | This is a part of Yorkshire where the tradition of personal service thrives |
| 4 | This fact is recorded on a building in Eastgate where a plaque marks the exact point of the Greenwich Meridian . |
| 5 | Philip Brooks was director of Holy Trinity church in Philadelphia , erm on , and he was in the Holy Land on Christmas Eve in eighteen sixty five , and he stood in a field outside Bethlehem where the shepherds were supposed to have received the annunciation , and thought of the beginning of O Little Town of Bethlehem . |
| 6 | Dr Scorgie 's late father was a GP in Birmingham where the young Richard grew up , moving to Darlington after his father 's death in 1961 . |
| 7 | A series of new Isle of Man stamps featuring lifeboats was launched with a splash in February when the Douglas lifeboat Sir William Hillary was launched into the harbour with the Lieutenant Governor of the Island , Sir Laurence Jones , aboard . |
| 8 | The Laws family ran a bakery in Northgate hence the nickname Teacakes . |
| 9 | Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier . |
| 10 | Keith Evans , chairman of the council 's public services committee , attended a ceremony in London where the 1993 Seaside Awards to local authorities were made . |
| 11 | Well it 's a place in Italy where the Germans tried to take it . |
| 12 | One day a trunk-load of winter woollens turned up , a gift from Johannesburg where a news item in the local paper had inspired a ladies ' circle to start knitting . |
| 13 | But there was a setback on Saturday when the French National League 's ( FNL ) disciplinary committee failed to make any ruling at a nine-hour meeting in Paris because they said they did not have enough evidence . |
| 14 | The family feud came to a head on Monday when the 26-year-old issued a High Court writ , suing the former builder for more than £1 million . |
| 15 | Opposite Passengers crowd onto a train in India where the steam trains are legendary and still the dream of travellers . |
| 16 | ‘ He gets a remittance from England once every three months . |
| 17 | The wood finally landed on a beach in Hornsea where a man picked it up and drove off with it . |
| 18 | ( At the time I thought the idea was ridiculous until many years later when I attended a church in Holborn where the vicar , giving a fearsome sermon , abruptly burst into flames . |
| 19 | This campaign reached a peak in November when the Ministry of Labour was occupied . |
| 20 | In Stephen 's company he attended a synod in London where a sermon preached by Gilbert Foliot [ q.v. ] , bishop of London , provided the inspiration for his first work of scholarship , the massive Pantheologus , completed in 1189 . |
| 21 | The story that she has no artistic taste was shown to be a lie in January when a collection of her old-master paintings sold well at Christie 's in New York . |
| 22 | There was an earlier fatal accident during an attempted forced landing by a Tomahowk near Walthomstow where an identical unit failed , resulting in severe smoke from the epoxy resin used in the encapsulated unit . |
| 23 | One of the reasons for Dupleix 's failure was simply that he was operating in a region of India where the profits from trade were not large enough to justify or even to support heavy military expenditure . |
| 24 | I have always been careful to leave no stone unturned , ever since a time in Philadelphia when a particularly uncomfortable sofa turned out to be hiding a pair of magnificent George III sideboard dishes , subsequently sold for $66,000 . |