Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amicus has another new editor and I would like to welcome Derek Robertson and thank Sheila Macdonald for her part in changing the face of our staff magazine . |
| 2 | I was fortunate to be able to include in addition to my own account a lecture by the former Lord Justice Devlin in which he took the fourth Appeal Court severely to task for the illogicality of its reasoning and for usurping the functions of the jury , and a chapter by Bryan Magee about his efforts over the years to try to persuade the Home Office to reopen Cooper 's case . |
| 3 | ‘ The internal dissension in the three parties , ’ wrote Beatrice Webb in her diary , ‘ each party finding its bitterest enemies among its own members or ci-devant members , would be ludicrous if it were not a sinister symptom of the decadent disrupture of British public opinion , owing to lack of faith either in the present order or in any consistent and comprehensive principles of reconstruction . ' |
| 4 | She was banished from Massachussetts for her efforts and moved to Rhode Island with her husband an large family of children . |
| 5 | A more sophisticated analysis is presented by Kenneth Newton in his study of Birmingham . |
| 6 | THE funeral of Flight Lieutenant Stephen McNally , who was killed when the RAF Hercules on which he was travelling crashed in the Scottish Highlands , takes place next week . |
| 7 | William Macdonald in his " Sketches of Islay " I 850 writes , " Islay had also its wizards and witches , and their charms and amulets were , till of late , very much dreaded by the generality of the people . |
| 8 | William Macdonald in his " Sketches of Islay " I 850 writes , " Islay had also its wizards and witches , and their charms and amulets were , till of late , very much dreaded by the generality of the people . |
| 9 | I hope that , as soon as possible , the local government commission will spell out to local authorities and to the Secretary of State areas such as West Sussex in which no change may be preferable to radical reform . |
| 10 | Going down to the Royale Theater with his hands still lightly wrapped in gauze bandages , Dustin found out that Walter McGinn , who would have been his understudy , now had the role . |
| 11 | You may leave Devlin Parnham to me . ’ |
| 12 | Pousse-pousse ! " yelled Chuck Sherman and sprang down the steps of the Continental Palace Hotel into the Rue Catinat with his arm raised in the manner of a French colon . |
| 13 | As well as managing the township of Glen Duror , he was a leading shopkeeper in Appin , associated with smugglers , and was connected to colonial traders in Fort William by his marriage ( c .1725 ) to Margaret , sister of William Stewart , a merchant in Maryburgh . |
| 14 | It is the type of attitude you would expect from a man who cites Buck Shelford as his role model and who learned his trade in the best of all academies . |
| 15 | KENNETH Branagh in his own lusty adaptation of the bard 's comedy . |
| 16 | Significantly enough one of the very earliest uses of the term ‘ postmodern ’ , dating from the time of the Second World War , was that of Arnold Toynbee in his A Study of History . |
| 17 | The girl is lying in the Peter Pan Ward with her lower half in plaster . |
| 18 | The curriculum development work of that post has been covered by the other members of the enterprise staff and by Sheila Stewart in her capacity as a temporary Enterprise Development Officer , commencing work from March 1993 . |
| 19 | None of the Establishment lifted a finger to save William Cobbett from what they considered he well deserved . |
| 20 | The rise was disclosed by the Government 's Chief Medical Officer Dr Kenneth Calman in his annual report . |
| 21 | In the wake of their magnificent revival in the opening game of their League group against Marseille last month , they once again demonstrated their courage and conviction to overcome CSKA Moscow in their adopted home of Bochum . |
| 22 | In the mandatory pre-fight squabbling , ITN 's Stewart Purvis lambasted the swing-ometer as ‘ a two-dimensional 1970s device ’ , and Horrocks chose to home in on the opposition 's choice of untried Jon Snow as their E-night pivot . |
| 23 | It is not being wise after the event to say it was a mistake to appoint Colin Harvey on his own in the first place and it was another mistake in re-appointing Kendall . |
| 24 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
| 25 | Man U lost 2–1 to First Division Stoke City in their 1st leg of the League Cup , but it was apparently a team of fringe players like Phelan , Martin and Dublin . |
| 26 | Record crowds were the reward of RAF Abingdon , RAF St Athan , RAF Finningley and RAF Leuchars for their hard work in preparing and running their ‘ At Home ’ days . |
| 27 | On the pre-recorded show , Rebecca will chat to host Shay Healy about her experiences , and will then blow out candles on a 35th birthday cake . |
| 28 | It would pay the rent and keep the nice Mr Nassim Nassim off my back for another month . |
| 29 | Having bought West Dean with their profits from the law , the Lewkenors built up a considerable wealth from the corn trade around Chichester and then took over as M.P.s for the city . |
| 30 | Bases in Martinique and Union Island between which one way charters are available and Tortola . |