Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen Falconer of Irvine was the best Lady Angler and Lee Moland , also from Irvine , was the best junior . |
| 2 | MARION Catt of Cadnam was the guest of the Alresford Flower Club , at a meeting in the Methodist Hall last week . |
| 3 | So they might well have had convenient discussions with the N R A as late as Friday even though their letter preem the Inspectorate 's letter was written on the eighth of September and Friday of course was the day after this letter had been released to us on our request and was was two days after the Selby committee had met on Wednesday . |
| 4 | Indeed , thought Anne wryly , to hear the queen-dowager talk , one would imagine Richard of Gloucester was the Devil incarnate — and he her deceased lord 's brother ! |
| 5 | Richard of Anstey was the nephew of William de Sackville . |
| 6 | The magnificent Palacio de los Depostes in Madrid was the setting for the 1986 European Indoor Championships . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the Docklands Airport did not accept private flights , so Biggin Hill in Kent was the nearest alternative . |
| 8 | Sandown in Surrey was the venue for the two new Red rock ads that are part of a new £2 million Taunton campaign . |
| 9 | And in a third Writers House auction , Blake sold a novel and a volume of short stories by Bruce Sterling to Deborah Beale for Orion 's Millennium imprint ; Ravi Mirchandani at Penguin was the underbidder . |
| 10 | In October , three days before the wedding , Abbot Kenneth of Iona was the first to arrive , followed by ship after ship bearing not just the heads of the Maclean households from Colonsay to Loch Eil , but their wives and children , cousins and friends . |
| 11 | Charles IV of France had died leaving no male heir , and the contest opened between two rival claimants , Philip VI of Valois , Charles 's cousin , and Edward , whose mother Isabella of France was the daughter of Philip III . |
| 12 | Archbishop Hugh of Lyons was the outstanding advocate and example of this policy in the last quarter of the eleventh century , and whatever influence he may have had on Anselm 's later political vocabulary , he had none at all in this matter . |
| 13 | Uniform provinces and municipalities were the programme of radical liberalism in the Cortes of Cadiz ; the final redrafting of the political geography of Spain into provinces was the work of Javier de Burgos , admirer alike of Napoleonic administrative techniques and the enlightened servants of Charles III . |
| 14 | The performance of Mark Bosnich in Spain on Tuesday was the highlight of a supreme team display . |
| 15 | J B Graham of Maidstone was the lucky discoverer at an antiques fair of an exceptional piece of World War Imperial Austrian Air Force memorabilia . |
| 16 | The turnpike from Salisbury towards Romsey was the best and earned high praise for the trustees , whose management he judged responsible , for he had met with other roads whose materials were as fine but " never with any that were so firmly united , and kept so totally free from loose stones , ruts and water " . |
| 17 | Young Richard Duncan of Ards was the pick of the 10–11 year-old boys as he notched his sixth title of the championships with a fine performance in the 100 metre freestyle . |
| 18 | Fifty year old Alexander Blackwood from Edinburgh was the company secretary at Omni International Management Limited which went into liquidation earlier this month . |
| 19 | Philip of Valois was the Count of Hainault 's brother-in-law , and it was probably the Valois family who prompted the betrothal of Prince Edward to the count 's daughter Philippa . |
| 20 | Thomas Bewick of Newcastle was the pioneer and perhaps the greatest exponent of this art ; his History of British Birds of 1797–1804 was a splendid example of what could be done , although his text was of no scientific significance . |
| 21 | A mid-week meeting with a member of Diana 's circle in the incongruous circumstances of a working men 's cafe in North Ruislip outside London was the turning point . |
| 22 | Another plant to reach Chelsea from Stanwick was the North American Ascyrum crux-andrae , St Andrews Cross — a plant of little beauty , Miller said , and seldom cultivated , but one grown in botanical gardens for the sake of variety . |
| 23 | Brian George from Henley in Oxfordshire was the man who thought up the idea of the fraud . |
| 24 | Tufnell was also adjudged leg before , his decision perhaps harsh , and a couple of sixes by last man Devon Malcolm off Muralitharan was the sum total of England 's late order resistance . |
| 25 | Tufnell was also adjudged lbw in the next over and a couple of clogged sixes by Devon Malcolm off Muralidharan was the sum total of England 's eight-order resistance . |
| 26 | Eric of Mallion was the first champion to be born in this country , but not the first to gain this title because he did not actually become a champion until he was seven years old . |
| 27 | Derek Green from Wantage was the third runner to finish … |
| 28 | The first announcement made by Miss Cackle at assembly was the ghastly news that Miss Hardbroom had changed places with Miss Gimlett , and would now be accompanying her old form into their second year . |
| 29 | Charles of Blois was the candidate favoured by Philip VI , and Edward accordingly supported Montfort , offering him not only military assistance but also the earldom of Richmond , with which the Breton ducal family had a connection going back to the Norman Conquest . |
| 30 | The Caesar in question was the almost forgotten Flavius the Noseless . |