Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most beautiful things about Ballycollton is its setting ; runners follow a route along country lane with the sea as a backdrop/ The sounds just perfect , unless it rains ! |
| 2 | As a route into Europe the Danube valley has been a funnel for migrating peoples since before history . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ We were the most exposed vessels going ahead to clear a route into fire support areas for the American ships . |
| 4 | The shadow transport spokesman , John Prescott , described a route through Dartford , Thurrock and Swanscombe , saying it would come within 300 yards of a Gravesend housing estate . |
| 5 | They descended a flight of steps , entered a classroom block by a side-door and began to thread a route through corridors and passages busy with bustling knots of purple-blazered schoolboys . |
| 6 | Tweed 's finger traced a route through Liège to the east and then down through the Ardennes , a remote hilly district . |
| 7 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
| 8 | When my right hon. and learned Friend meets the chairman of London Transport to discuss improvements , will he draw to his attention the importance of providing for south-east London , which is so ill-served by the underground system , and of driving a route through Camberwell , Dulwich and onwards to Crystal Palace ? |
| 9 | If you wrote up a route between September 1990 and April 1991 it would be helpful if you repeated the description in the new book . |
| 10 | There is , for instance , a route between Tokyo and Honolulu — known , because it is not fixed in cement , as it were , as the TYO-HNL Flexible Track System — which carries millions upon millions of Japanese to and from honeymoons and shopping expeditions ; there are routes now between Honolulu and San Francisco , between Honolulu and Nadi ( in Fiji , and pronounced Nandi ) , Nadi and Tokyo , and Nadi and Sydney , between Los Angeles and points south-west . |
| 11 | This beeline may be reversed and used as a route of ascent from Horton but until a clear path has been formed by foot-traffic over the rough higher ground , it is not a way to be preferred to other more pleasant routes of ascent : apart from an exciting interlude midway , the climb becomes tedious . |
| 12 | This may be your principal guide in choosing a route of re-entry . |
| 13 | Some nurses are very enthusiastic about the bank as a route of re-entry , as it enables you to sample different wards and departments and introduces you to new people . |
| 14 | In southern and eastern Europe uncooked meat , as dried or cured spiced sausage , is commonly eaten and may be a route of infection . |
| 15 | We worked out a route of cafés , all the way down the Boulevard St. Michel to the river , velvet in the dark , and then up the Rue Saint Jacques to our home ground near the Pantheon . |
| 16 | What we need is , firstly , a more specific indication of what is meant by a route to chaos and , secondly , some ideas on which we can draw in Sections 24.5 and 24.7 . |
| 17 | Nor is sharing or giving help a route to dominance ; it is merely what is expected , part of the minimal definition of what it is to be a member of a Semai community ( see Robarchek 1986a ; see Dentan 1968 : 134 for a discussion of implications of the distinction between reciprocity and sharing ) . |
| 18 | But , as at Pittodrie a fortnight ago , the Kilmarnock defence held firm , and even on the rare occasions when Rangers did find a route to goal , veteran goalkeeper Bobby Geddes was on hand to snuff out any danger . |
| 19 | The men of the Old World were determined mariners and eventually some of their ships found a route to Ulthuan . |
| 20 | But at the same time , they 're absolutely clear-eyed about what men can ‘ deliver ’ : namely , a route to children , a bit of sex and some social security . |
| 21 | It offended the religious , because it seemed to make God out to be untruthful or deceitful ; in the scientific age , science was after all a route to truth , and only the Devil was the father of lies . |
| 22 | This can represent a route to technology evaluation at low risk to the user and there are many examples of useful ventures which have been developed in this way . |
| 23 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 24 | So long as there is the prospect that a majority Labour government can be elected to a position of absolute power at Westminster then our unionist wing is content not to question the democratic credentials of such a route to power . |
| 25 | Madonna has often talked of her Ten Year Plan , a route to megastardom designed to keep her in the manner to which she has quickly become accustomed for years to come too . |
| 26 | Accepting help thus does not entail an accumulation of debt nor does it imply subordination , and is not a route to subjugation . |
| 27 | ‘ But they are cowards at heart and hang back until they are sure they are safe , even then leaving themselves a route for escape . |
| 28 | We crossed several large meadows before working along steep , loose flanks , rich with flowers but not a route for mules , wherever they were — they had taken a different line . |
| 29 | Shortly after anaesthesia an intravenous infusion may be commenced to provide a route for fluid replacement . |
| 30 | Groups can monopolise a route for hours like this , or , worse still , drop someone on your head while you 're trying to lead it ! |