Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Year 's Eve mauling of Ben Silcock by the lions at London Zoo sparked calls for the introduction of compulsory supervision of mentally ill people in the community . |
| 2 | In the nervous systems of arthropods , for example — including insects and crustacea — the head ganglion — the brain — may be important , but is so only in the sense of King John amongst the barons ; there are many other ganglia distributed throughout the arthropod body , each with a considerable degree of autonomy . |
| 3 | Coffin went back to his office , where the death of William Egan at the hands , as they believed , of his son-in-law Terry Place , was still being investigated . |
| 4 | In the middle , humping up the roof like an ungainly pillar , stood the death of William Egan at the hands of Terry Place ; at one end , like a bearing wall , was the whole dead Pitt family , and then at the other end there sprouted , surprisingly , as a kind of ante chapel , the death of the student , Malcolm Kincaid . |
| 5 | Two years ago , he took charge of the Elliott Sports Jets side who won the women 's trophy for the first time and , on Sunday , he will be plotting the downfall of Su Ragazzi in the men 's final . |
| 6 | Roberts , who now needs just three winners to reach 150 for the season , is 22 ahead of Pat Eddery in the jockeys ' title race . |
| 7 | They found the body of Lucy Chamberlain in the grounds . |
| 8 | Further acrimony was prevented by the arrival of Monsieur Gauthier with the liqueurs . |
| 9 | Albert Tarr was lying half on top of Mrs. Thomas between the rails . |
| 10 | You were just a junior , a sort of Girl Friday with no qualifications , hoping to learn the ropes . ’ |
| 11 | But Kennedy took much the same view of the area as his predecessor , accepting a domino theory and remaining absolutely determined to prevent the fall of South Vietnam to the Communists . |
| 12 | If not , his brown eyes wore an expression as helpless and martyred as those of Saint Sebastian in the paintings Molly had always admired . |
| 13 | That the District not merely survived but flourished is unquestionably attributable to the considerable skilled judgment , shrewd diplomacy and unswerving commitment of Frank Jacques to the principles of the WEA and its social purpose in the best tradition of a disciple of Tawney . |
| 14 | The opening up of North America by the railways made American wheat available to Europe . |
| 15 | Dr J. C. Sherlock of the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food addressed a joint meeting of the Chilterns and Middlesex Section and the Students Chemical Society of the Polytechnic of North London on the advantages and limitations of Irradiation of food . |
| 16 | Tavrov compared the achievements of North Korea with the failures in South Korea , remarking that the American imperialists had made strenuous efforts to handicap the independent , democratic spirit of the Korean people : |
| 17 | The 23-year-old who lives at Sychdyn , near Mold , graduated this year from the University College of North Wales with an honours degree in geological oceanography . |
| 18 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 19 | And he has compared her situation to that of Princess Diana in the months before the announcement of the Wales 's separation . |
| 20 | The Honourable Alexander Augustus had already made a favourable impression by raising an eyebrow at the antics and constructions of Mr Pocklington on the islands of Derwent Water . |
| 21 | Lord Tebbit said : ‘ That is pretty silly of Mr Heath considering the years he spent trying to persuade people to vote against Lady Thatcher . |
| 22 | John had been alerted to the possibility of profit and so he sentenced the Honourable Alexander Augustus to a stiff course of Lake Tourism into the Jaws of Borrowdale . |
| 23 | At the head of Gunnerside Gill beyond the ruins of Blakethwaite Mine are the ruined dams of Blakethwaite , and it was here that we stopped for our lunch . |
| 24 | The release of East Germany from the chains and barbed wire of communism heralded the beginnings of a new Europe . |
| 25 | Losing his life in the crash of Avro York in the foothills of the Alps late in 1944 , there is no doubt that despite the controversy that still surrounds the Big Wing theory , the RAF lost one of its most brilliant commanders . |
| 26 | The text opens with the words of St Paul to the Ephesians ( 4:1 ) videte vocacionem vestram ; the copy in the manuscript belonging to the Yorkshire man , Robert Thornton , renders this vividly as " seese callynge " [ seese : take possession of ] . |
| 27 | Whitaker was a vestryman of St Giles in the Fields ( 1622 ) and supported a fund for building a new church . |
| 28 | As a result , the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes was established to deal with recalcitrant clergy , its first act being to suspend Henry Compton from his bishopric for refusing to discipline John Sharp , Dean of Norwich and rector of St Giles in the Fields , for preaching against popery . |
| 29 | Academy of St Martin in the Fields . |
| 30 | Although they knew they would never forget Jennie , the Girls wanted her to have a permanent memorial so they had a collection and made a most practical and fitting choice : a marble floor for the church of St Stephen on the Cliffs , Blackpool . |