Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 This is a part of Yorkshire where the tradition of personal service thrives
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The Laws family ran a bakery in Northgate hence the nickname Teacakes .
6 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 .
7 Well it 's a place in Italy where the Germans tried to take it .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Opposite Passengers crowd onto a train in India where the steam trains are legendary and still the dream of travellers .
11 ( 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 .
12 This campaign reached a peak in November when the Ministry of Labour was occupied .
13 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 .
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