Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Following the defeat of Napoleon in Russia the Russian Army laid siege to Danzig for over 10 months . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The close proximity of the entrance of the vagina to the anus makes the anus a particular threat to the vagina as a source of candida and provides the bacteria to infect the bladder in cases of cystitis . |
| 7 | The vagina ( in Latin , a sheath or scabbard ) is about four inches long and lies between the urethra and bladder in front and the rectum behind . |
| 8 | They obviously do n't teach you manners in Somerset . |
| 9 | Can strong habituall custome Work with such Magick on the mind , and manners In spight of sex and nature ? ( ii.ii. 140 — 2 ) |
| 10 | ‘ I have just received your Portfolio of MS drawings quite safely , ’ wrote the former to the latter in January 1844 ; ‘ I quite agree with you that they are not to be compared in finish with Lear 's , though generally accurate , but then Lear was a Man both for manners in Society & Skill in his Profession not to be easily found or replaced . ’ |
| 11 | The boss of Massingham 's had superb manners in company , Leith had to give him that , for as they reached his table he rose to his feet . |
| 12 | Then , his manners in company nothing if not impeccable , Ven switched to English and introduced Lubor Ondrus . |
| 13 | As far back as the 1690s , with the establishment of the Society for the Reformation of Manners in London and the provinces , moral transgressors , including violators of the Sabbath , profane swearers , prostitutes , keepers of bawdy houses , actors in indecent plays and buggers , had been subject to sustained efforts at moral control , while public officials in the royal court encouraged the societies as an important contribution to the woefully inadequate police . |
| 14 | Robert had read the chapter on lavatories in Morals and Manners in Islam by Dr Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi of the University of Yarmouk . |
| 15 | Morals and Manners in Islam was the only book on the subject he had been able to find in Wimbledon public Library . |
| 16 | But , then , his entire stock of knowledge about Islam was derived from Morals and Manners in Islam by Dr Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi . |
| 17 | For myself , I can not think that , for instance , the portrait of provincial manners in Madame Bovary is lacking in some particular aspect which would have been remedied had its author clinked tankards of cider every evening with some gouty Norman bergère . |
| 18 | But I still appreciate good manners in men . |
| 19 | The greatest disorders occurred on the night of 1-2 March , as crowds chanting " High Church and Sacheverell " proceeded to demolish a number of large meeting-houses in London 's West End . |
| 20 | In the eighteenth century the Wentworths of Hembury in Dorset inherited Trerice , and it was let to tenants . |
| 21 | There are several reasons for this ‘ regression towards the mean ’ ; it could be based on a genetic process , or it could be because a father ( mother ) who is above the mean in ability marries on average someone who is less able than he ( she ) , and so the child , reflecting the ability of both parents , is less able than the father ( mother ) . |
| 22 | The Wallabies , whose arrival at Twickenham sparked a 55,000 sell-out three months ago , face one of the most exciting Baa-Baas line-ups in history . |
| 23 | It is ‘ a sociological phenomenon of Cambodia ’ says Vandy Kaon , a dissident intellectual in Phnom Penh . |
| 24 | Nothing illustrates more dramatically the extent to which Nizan 's work fired the imagination than the spectacle of Sartre himself publicly criticising traditional " institutionalised " intellectuals for their lack of imagination , publicly insulting Raymond Aron for his failure to take note of the significance of the May events , and extolling by implication Nizan the youthful iconoclast , an exemplary dissident intellectual in tune with the spirit of the times . |
| 25 | To understand Nizan it is necessary , finally and perhaps most importantly , to recognise the fact that Nizan was an intellectual in search of moral integrity . |
| 26 | [ Mark Levene , ‘ Anglo-Jewish Foreign Policy in Crisis — Lucien Wolf , the Conjoint Committee and the War , 1914–18 ’ , Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England , vol. xxx , 1987–8 ; Chimen Abramsky , ‘ Lucien Wolf 's Efforts for the Jewish Communities in Central and Eastern Europe ’ , ibid. , vol. xxix , 1982–6 ; Josef Fraenkel , ‘ Lucien Wolf and Theodor Herzl ’ , ibid. , vol. xx , 1959–61 ; Max Beloff , ‘ Lucien Wolf and the Anglo-Russian Entente 1907–1914 ’ in The Intellectual in Politics and the Other Essays , 1970 . ] |
| 27 | The Russians cheered and joined the hussars in pursuit . |
| 28 | Jan , a divorced mother of a 12 year old son , is regarded as one of the best showbiz talent spotters in Australia . |
| 29 | He has a great many euphorbias : E. characias with its giant yellow bottle-brush heads and brown bracts is allowed to lounge about in large clumps in corners ; E. palustris , a smaller yellow one , came originally from the Chelsea Physic Garden . |
| 30 | Tony Wedd gave the example of an alignment of Scots pine clumps in Kent between Lyewood Common and Kent Hatch . |