Example sentences of "[noun prp] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the little Auberge La Provençale in the rue Chabran is quite quiet and you can enjoy a good little dinner — nothing spectacular , but genuine and decently cooked food well served — and go to bed early . |
| 2 | But no amount of passive resistance and bureaucratic delay could halt the process set in train by Ceauşescu in the spring of 1988 . |
| 3 | The beginnings of this idea emerge well from a passage in The Lord of the Rings which has been singled out for especially ferocious criticism : the parting of Treebeard from Celeborn and Galadriel in The Return of the King , p. 259 : |
| 4 | During the American War of Independence General James Grant of Ballindalloch , the member of parliament for Sutherland , found the attractions of a military life to be a great help to his political interest , asserting to a correspondent that ‘ if this business continues I could provide for all the Sutherlands in the country . |
| 5 | Biarritz spreads amply out from its heart , at the Place Clemenceau , but its attractions lie by the sea , above all around the small , domesticated promontory that juts out into the froth and swirl of the Bay of Biscay between the Grande Plage in the centre of the town and the rather humbler Plage de la Cote tea Basques to the south . |
| 6 | Aveling and Porter steam roller No. 10997 Phoenix in the yard at Toddington |
| 7 | There is a parallel here between Devlin 's argument and that used by Durkheim in The Division of Labour in Society . |
| 8 | Got that , Professor Plumb in the study with a spanner |
| 9 | There are three main natural regions in Switzerland , the Jura in the north with an average altitude of 750 metres and a swathe of coniferous forest ; the Swiss Plateau which averages 580 metres , holds most of the Swiss population and its cities and extends from Switzerland 's largest lake , Geneva , to Lake Constance in the East ; then there is the Swiss Alps which cover 60% of the country 's land area , have an average altitude of 1,700 metres with more than 100 summits topping the 4,000 metre mark . |
| 10 | We 'll spend the night there , and then , if she 's recovered , we 'll go on in the morning through Lima to Tacna in the south of Peru . |
| 11 | The next day we got a ride back to Bahriyah in the back of a pick-up truck . |
| 12 | I always go out with Jeff in the afternoon . ’ |
| 13 | If it 's , if there 's not any frost we could go to Sainsburys in the morning . |
| 14 | And here was Catriona in the crowd , watching the last of the twilight in York Place . |
| 15 | However were we going to get to Pitton in the blackout ? |
| 16 | At the time of going to press , behind-the-scenes negotiations were taking place between the National Gallery and the Marquess of Cholmondeley in the hope that a last-ditch solution could be found . |
| 17 | After 27 years at Sywell Airport , the Barnstormers Flying Circus have packed their tent and moved to a new home at Spanhoe Airfield , near RAF Wittering in the north of Northamptonshire . |
| 18 | No sooner was Neil in the air than the left gun panel in the upper wing surface came loose and stuck up in the air . |
| 19 | ‘ I was with Neil in the misery of a defeat that was far greater than we had expected . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , on less poppy and more overtly naive-political tracks like ‘ Rubb In The Cream ’ and ‘ Let Our Roots Breathe ’ , the order of the day is a kind of diet dub , which only gets overbearingly Brockwell Park on the rather trad ‘ Sunshine ’ . |
| 21 | One of the Inverkeithing officers , the tide waiter , was ‘ threatened to be removed or broke ’ if he joined Provost Cunningham in the burgh elections , a sad state of affairs , when , as Cunningham complained , ‘ your Lordship knows what I do is from no other view than to serve the D[uke] of A[rgyl]e & your lordship 's interest , and have his grace 's order for doing so ’ . |
| 22 | It was true , then : for reasons of her own , Heather had kept Cunningham in the dark . |
| 23 | I am not sure , though , that for her latest caper , ‘ The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous ( Bantam Press ) , she deserved the full , donnish , heavyweight treatment that she got from Valentine Cunningham in the Observer . |
| 24 | Skipper Patrick Tabarly , brother of Eric , was yesterday trying to enlist the help of the French Embassy in Montevideo in the hope of preventing his yacht being impounded should the bills remain unpaid . |
| 25 | ‘ Prickles in the grass . |
| 26 | ‘ In a speech described as brusque and arrogant by West German sources , ’ reported Anna Tomforde in the Guardian , ‘ British representative Dr Martin Holdgate , the chief scientist at the Department of the Environment ’ said , ‘ We see no point in making heroic efforts at great cost , to control one out of many factors unless there is a reasonable expectation that such control will lead to real improvement in the environment . ’ |
| 27 | It 's fair to say , however , that he put himself about rather more in the red and white of Sunderland than he did on Tuesday in the orange of the Liberal Democrats . |
| 28 | Mm yeah Thursday and it , it says Tuesday in the paper and it 's Thursday . |
| 29 | Facing Totnes , ‘ City of Truro ’ entered service on Saturday , June 13 after clearance trials on Tuesday in the week . |
| 30 | David Nicholson from Condicote near Stow-on-the-Wold was saddling Waterloo Boy , with another local man , Richard Dunwoody in the driving seat . |