Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] of [noun prp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A WOMAN died while swimming with Fungy the TV dolphin off the West Coast of Ireland yesterday . |
| 2 | Compare this rendering of Herakles carrying off the Kerkopes ( mischievous goblins who had annoyed him ) with the same scene on a metope from a building at Foce del Sele on the west coast of Italy not far from Paestum , a sanctuary of Hera . |
| 3 | THE newest submarine for the Royal Navy had to make an emergency ascent during trials off the west coast of Scotland yesterday after fears of contamination to her air supplies . |
| 4 | WITH saviours like the European Community 's bureaucrats , the electronics industry of Europe hardly needs enemies . |
| 5 | The Royal Agricultural Society of England has set up a working party , under the chairmanship of Sir Derek Barber , following the challenge laid down by HRH Prince of Wales earlier this year at the society 's annual lecture . |
| 6 | As many as 800 Irish supporters are expected in the Albanian capital Tirana for the match , despite advice from the Football Association of Ireland not to make the trip because of lack of facilities there . |
| 7 | It was built in the fourteenth century and shows Italian influence , being designed by craftsmen from Kotor ( Cattaro ) on the coast south of Dubrovnik where there is further Byzantine work . |
| 8 | On the night of May 5-6 the village of Voskepar , in the north-east corner of Armenia close to the border with Azerbaijan , was razed by Azerbaijani and Soviet troops . |
| 9 | One of the last of these for which permission was formally given took place in Assam , the north-east province of India where there is still a reasonable elephant population . |
| 10 | It is said that if you visit the Mermaid Pool of Derbyshire just before dawn , you will see them swimming gracefully in the dark waters below . |
| 11 | Even fate appeared to be on our side : when the review copy of Madstock finally turned up on the morning of the interview , your hack managed to catch a full five seconds of guitarist Chris Foreman wandering across the park before the VHS started eating the tape . |
| 12 | His nearest shops are at the sleepy hilltop village of Saignon yet just a handful of people are aware the celebrity is a neighbour . |
| 13 | But he might expect you to trust your estuary lands more than you should , and give him battle west of Dunedin where he would have you between his ships and his army . |
| 14 | I am a former management employee of Dorman Long 's Bridge and Constructional Works , Middlesbrough , who actually built this bridge and recall talking in the 1930s to men who had worked on it . |
| 15 | The white marble figure of Bacchus now in the ilex walk at Ham House in Richmond , for example , is almost certainly that mentioned in a 1672 inventory — ‘ For 1 Pedastall for ye figure Bacchus ’ . |
| 16 | On his return to Britain he entered the congregational ministry in the bleak Lancashire mill town of Colne where he was deeply affected by the social and economic conditions which industrial society imposed upon his flock . |
| 17 | In one of yesterday 's attack on blacks , a member of the white ultra-rightwing Wit Wolwe ( White Wolves ) shot a five-year-old black girl in the mining town of Nigel yesterday in what a Wit Wolwe spokesman said was a revenge attack for APLA 's killings of whites . |
| 18 | Author Kevin Wilkins once worked in a factory near his home town of Barrow-in-Furness where he tested the quality of toilet tissue . |
| 19 | Author Kevin Wilkins once worked in a factory near his home town of Barrow-in-Furness where he tested the quality of toilet tissue . |
| 20 | The fourth centenary of the birth of the great seventeenth-century printmaker and draughtsman Jacques Callot was celebrated in his home town of Nancy earlier this year while a selection of his prints was also shown at the National Gallery of Washington . |
| 21 | He appeared in his home town of Bratislava yesterday to attend the staged trial of Mr Jan Czarnogursky for anti-state activities and was greeted by thousands outside the courthouse . |
| 22 | He appeared in his home town of Bratislava yesterday to attend the staged trial of Mr Jan Czarnogursky for anti-state activities and was greeted by thousands who stood outside the courthouse . |
| 23 | HENRY Wharton happily goes into the unknown in his home town of York tonight . |
| 24 | They 're escaping the fog and frost of Britain for the winter warmth of California where conditions are almost ideal for free fall training . |
| 25 | Police in Downpatrick believe the latest attack happened in the Crabtree area of Ballynahinch sometime between Sunday evening and yesterday afternoon . |
| 26 | This was in the mining valleys of Glamorgan where I was born and brought up . |
| 27 | In 1879 he was sent to England to oversee the European side of the business , and settled in Cheshire within easy reach of the textile mills of Lancashire where he placed a lot of business . |
| 28 | Magee 's name was issued after armed police raided four houses in the Peartree area of Derby early yesterday , including his sister 's terrace home . |
| 29 | KRISANNA Collins , 18 , of Brighton , won the panto role of Cinderella opposite Carry On star Barbara Windsor after a karaoke turn . |
| 30 | Carrying the ‘ large logo ’ livery is acquired in 1986 , 47401 stands at its home depot of Immingham along with 47374 and 37285 on the 3.3.90 . |