Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The OED was first planned ( as a ‘ New English Dictionary ’ , a title it bore until 1928 ) by the Philological Society in 1858 , but the real work began with the appointment of J.A.H. Murray as Editor in 1879 . |
| 2 | To obtain an order form for your tickets please contact the Netherlands Board of Tourism in London ( telephone 071–630 0451 ) . |
| 3 | When Bilal Shebib and Samir Medina came to Stoke Mandeville for treatment in 1987 , their severe spinal injuries meant they could n't even sit up . |
| 4 | The first recipient of the original scholarship was Norcross Burrowes in 1880 , who went on to graduate from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1884 . |
| 5 | For a second his mind was off the ball , leaving it free for Patrick Lombard to belt in and whip it away , dribbling it for a few yards , then powering it to Mike , who , relishing his new freedom at Number Two , took it up field . |
| 6 | Among the best surviving examples of seventeenth-century monuments are Lady Elizabeth Carey 's at Stowe-Nine-Churches in Northamptonshire , Sir Thomas Lucy 's at Charlecote in Warwickshire , Edward St John 's at Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire , Sir Edward Spencer 's at Great Broughton in Northamptonshire , and Edward Marshall 's bust of William Harvey at Hempstead in Essex . |
| 7 | This is an excellent book about the defeat of the Iraqi army that was sent to capture the RAF base at Habbaniya in 1941 . |
| 8 | Furthermore , many absences from services in the post-Reformation period were occasioned not by apathy or reluctance to forgo a morning 's work or relaxation , but rather by ill-health or family commitments ; when William Kirke of Stow-cum-Quy in Cambridgeshire , for example , was hauled before the church courts for absenteeism , he informed them that at the time his wife had been ‘ lying in childbed and also his children wanted succour ’ . |
| 9 | Others were sent by servants to families ; this series was written in 1911–12 by George Comfort who seems to have been a gardener at Buscot Park in Oxfordshire in its heyday . |
| 10 | In his retirement he travelled all over the world , visiting San Francisco , Egypt , Japan , Cochin , and the Hanoi exhibition , witnessing the crash of the Orient Express at Tirnova in Bulgaria in 1894 . |
| 11 | Three years ago a group of have-nots , led by Mexico , blocked agreement on stiffer NPT rules for trade in nuclear materials because the nuclear powers would not agree to ban tests . |
| 12 | The Security Service reported in the war that the IFL was mainly subsidised by Leese 's private means and that the largest individual contribution , by a Colonel Macdonald of Brussels in the period for which cash books were found between September 1930 and August 1933 and from June 1937 to November 1938 , was only £5 per month with a special donation from him of £50 in November 1938 . |
| 13 | Reyntiens ' subjects range from classical to modern myth : the labours of Hercules , Orpheus charming the trees , Commedia dell'Arte , evocations of the Music of Berlioz and Faure , Kenneth Branagh as Quince in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , and Dame Edna Everage ! |
| 14 | Another winner is sixty-five year old Kenneth Arnold from Quedgeley in Gloucestershire . |
| 15 | RANGERS will play their European Champions ' Cup tie with CSKA Moscow at Santander in northern Spain on December 9 . |
| 16 | He has gained numerous honours and awards , most notably the Nobel Peace prize in 1989 , as well as the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award and the Lincoln Award for leadership in the service of freedom . |
| 17 | He graduated from Moscow University with degrees in psychology and political science and joined the internal security . |
| 18 | Martin Richmond from Chalford Hill near Stroud in Gloucestershire had been jailed in Kathmandu before Christmas after entering the country on forged papers . |
| 19 | Gary Lord has replaced Gary Spencer at full-back in the Leeds side to meet Wigan in tonight 's Regal Trophy quarterfinal replay at Central Park . |
| 20 | Those responsible for initial teacher training , for example , were apparently relieved that the Polytechnic , upon its merger with the Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education in 1975 , was not intending to leave them as a monotechnic island in the interdisciplinary sea of the Polytechnic , particularly when it remained possible ( as confirmed by subsequent experience elsewhere ) that isolation would mean a low ranking in whatever prioritization exercises the Polytechnic might be forced to undertake . |
| 21 | Use the Caps Lock key to type in the heading . |
| 22 | QUITE HOW it happened I 'm still not sure , but about a year ago I was shamelessly conned into driving Christie Hennessy to Cork in a rented car . |
| 23 | They are sitting on a bench now , watching Thor splash after ducks in the shallows . |
| 24 | ‘ Another way is by treating the flue gases with limestone — which we can supply from the ICI quarries at Buxton in the very large quantities required . |
| 25 | The ceremony , in the FMLN stronghold of Perquín in the north-eastern province of Morazán , was witnessed by Nicaragua 's Deputy Interior Minister and the chief of military intelligence , and by the Nicaraguan and Mexican ambassadors , whose presence had been accepted reluctantly by the Salvadorean government . |
| 26 | Doverow Avenue at Stonehouse in Gloucestershire was built for munitions workers in 1940 . |
| 27 | Swan married Frances Rudland at Sawston in 1634 ; she died in 1667 . |
| 28 | Jerry Richardson , the coach of the so-called " Mandela United Football Team " which had acted as a bodyguard to Winnie Mandela , was found guilty on May 25 of 11 charges , including the murder of a young ANC activist " Stompie " Moeketsie Seipei in Soweto in late December 1989 [ see p. 36452 ] . |
| 29 | Project Tiger , the grand campaign to save it started by Jim Corbett in India in 1969 , paid for by the World Wildlife Fund and run by the Indian government , appeared to have been successful . |
| 30 | He gained a £120 scholarship to Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge in 1943 , but had no other financial help . |