Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun prp] in [pron] " in BNC.

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1 However , even a century ago the Breton type was being crossed with the Friesian , though the pure Breton was regarded as the ‘ Ayrshire of France in its role as a good yielder on poor grazing .
2 Possibly the earliest mention of what are probably Anglo-Saxon graves is that by the thirteenth-century chronicler Roger of Wendover in his Flores Historiarum where he describes the excavation by monks of St Albans in 1178 of ten human skeletons at Redbourne , Hertfordshire , believing some of them to be the bones of St Amphibalus ( Hewlett 1886 , 115 ) .
3 But she seemed to accept the Glaswegian accent and his story of having left Scotland for London in his teens .
4 The explosions were attributed to the Basque separatist group Euzkadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA ) , as were three others in Spain during July in which three people were killed and 20 injured .
5 In 764 Heahberht , who had witnessed Sigered 's grant of land to Rochester in 762 , appears as king of Kent in the company of Offa and members of the Mercian nobility in Canterbury when Offa granted land to the bishop of Rochester in Kent in his own name ( CS 195 : S 105 ) , the first occasion on which a Mercian king is known to have done so , and the same land which had only recently been granted to Rochester by Sigered and Eanmund .
6 Tonight , he is at hooker for Wales against England at Swansea in what could be one of his last 13-a-side appearances .
7 Then came the terrible accident to the Turkish Airlines DC-10 in the forest of Ermenonville near Paris in which 346 people lost their lives .
8 The outbreak of the Hundred Years War itself was not unconnected with intrigues on behalf of men such as Robert of Artois in which northern Frenchmen had important vested interests .
9 Meanwhile , QPR and Tottenham could both face an FA inquiry after a stormy match at Loftus Road on Saturday in which referee Gurnan Singh booked five players and sent off QPR 's Northern Ireland international defender Alan McDonald .
10 THREE years ago to the day , England last did battle with Argentina at Willesden in their second game in the World Cup .
11 Once the crab had been shown by J. V. Thompson in his Zoological Researches ( 1828–34 ) to begin life as a little shrimp-like creature , and the barnacle perhaps more surprisingly to do the same before settling down in middle age , then the unity of plan in the group became more evident .
12 There can be little doubt that Picasso was excited by the work that Braque brought back to Paris from l'Estaque in which he was drawing such original answers from the questions he had been putting to Cézanne 's art .
13 JAPAN 'S Katsuya Onizuka retained his World Boxing Association junior bantamweight title when he outpointed Armando Castro of Mexico in their scheduled 12-round title bout in Tokyo last night .
14 Some of these issues were tested in the case of Moss v. McLachlan in which a group of picketing miners travelling in convoy were stopped by a police cordon on the M1 motorway and requested to turn back .
15 ‘ But I do have a first-class ticket from Cardiff to London in my fist .
16 The whole of Solland and Wissenland were plundered and burned after the defeat of another army led by Count Eldred of Solland in what came to be known in the Empire as the Battle of Solland 's Crown .
17 He referred to the citation of article 1 by Lord Brandon of Oakbrook in his speech in In re H. ( Minors ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 476 , 494 :
18 The perceived lack of a positive response from the United Kingdom and United States governments in particular to the release of hostages in April 1990 led to a statement by President Rafsanjani of Iran on May in which he said that Iran would halt all efforts to gain hostage releases if the USA failed to respond to its " goodwill gestures " .
19 The win secured Portadown 's place in the next stage of the competition and they are expected to see off Ballymena on Saturday in their final section game .
20 I was very pleased to see your interview with Nick Bollettieri about Andre in your December/January issue , and I would also like to say that I agree totally with what the other people who wrote to you said about Andre .
21 The museum preserves , among many other industrial monuments , the famous Iron Bridge ( q.v. ) ; the Old Furnace at Coalbrookdale in which Darby ( q.v. ) successfully used coke for smelting ; the Hay Incline which was built in 1793 to raise tub boats 207 feet from one canal level to another ; a pair of double-beam blast-furnace blowing engines known as David and Sampson ( sic ) ; the former Great Warehouse of the Coalbrookdale Company ; the china works at Coalport ( q.v. ) ; the so-called Bedlam Furnaces built especially for coke smelting in 1757–8 ; and the pithead winding gear of Blists Hill mine .
22 The difference is still more striking when it occurs in the same work , e.g. Arnold von Bruck 's ‘ O du armer Judas ’ ( published by Hans Ott of Nuremberg in his collection of 121 newe Lieder , 1534 ) which ends with a Kyrie :
23 An example of this sort of difficulty in English law is Launchbury v. Morgans in which the House of Lords declined to extend the vicarious liability of the owner of a car for negligence of its driver because it lacked information about the impact this would have on the insurance industry .
24 Hull , with three successive defeats behind them and 12th in the First Division , face Hull KR on Friday and Castleford on Monday in their final two games which will determine whether they continue their 13-year run in the division .
25 In this month 's issue , by way of illustration , The Face conducts an interview with Bono of U2 in which the rock star strips naked in the middle of a restaurant , while other members of the band are photographed in drag .
26 For a moment , he reminded Melissa of Lou in his haste to defend a loved one , but she had seen how his knuckles whitened on hearing the story and guessed what he must be thinking .
27 Gough has , because of injury and suspension , not played since Scotland lost to Switzerland in Berne in their opening Group I tie .
28 She comes back and tells the others her dad has found a nice man who has agreed to fly him and Paul and John to Florida in his plane .
29 King Juan Carlos of Spain flies from Madrid to Mallorca in his own private jet for most weekends during the summer .
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