Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A feted and fashionable artist in his own lifetime , the pictures of Anders Zorn rose to extraordinary prominence in the Scandinavian art boom of the late 1980s : in August 1989 ‘ Naked under the Trees ’ sold for £1,424,554 , having made £20,000 in 1976 . |
| 2 | and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 3 | I do not seek to deride the intelligence or all undergraduates , but with one side of the argument apparently lacking , how can target readers of Von Daniken come to any firm , reasoned conclusions ? |
| 4 | I began to wonder how much of our knowledge of Roman Britain depended on such figments of the imagination — a depressing thought ! |
| 5 | Last month a thirty-foot stretch of the walls of Urbino actually did fall down , provoking a ritual wailing and breast-beating in the Italian press last heard when the bell tower of Pavia cathedral collapsed in 1989 , killing three bystanders . |
| 6 | This appeal with leave of the judge , from a judgment of Morland J. given on 15 March 1991 , raises for the first time in the Court of Appeal the question whether a local authority which is a body corporate can sue for libel under the law of England and Wales . |
| 7 | In a profile of Denis Law written in 1962 the late great Scottish journalist John Rafferty summarised the '60s in a few short condemnatory words . |
| 8 | A further indication of the growing strength of Hispano-Axis relations came on 20 October , when the German police chief , Heinrich Himmler , arrived in Madrid for talks on police collaboration between Spain and Germany . |
| 9 | David Grindley 's bid for a European Cup 400 metres place ahead of Roger Black met with limited success . |
| 10 | David Grindley 's bid for a European Cup 400 metres place ahead of Roger Black met with limited success . |
| 11 | By May 1990 more than 3,000 evacuees from the destroyed EL Chorillo district of Panama City remained in temporary accommodation in two aircraft hangars , waiting to be rehoused . |
| 12 | Also , enhanced TCP/IP software improves the ability of OpenVMS systems to communicate with Unix-based systems or any system running TCP/IP . |
| 13 | The internal divisions which seemingly threatened , but actually assisted , the political survival of General Franco continued into 1942 . |
| 14 | APPEAL ( No. 6 of 1991 ) with leave of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda by the plaintiff , Horace Brenton Kelly , from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda ( Blair-Kerr P. , Roberts and Henry JJ.A. ) given on 30 November 1989 allowing an appeal by the defendants , Margot Cooper and Helen Cooper ( trading as Cooper Associates , a firm ) from the judgment of Hull J. delivered on 14 November 1988 in the Supreme Court of Bermuda ( Civil Jurisdiction ) , whereby he awarded the plaintiff $200,000 damages for breach of contract and made a declaration that the defendants were not entitled to commission on the sale of the plaintiff 's property , and the defendants ' counterclaim for commission was dismissed . |
| 15 | Zimbabwe became independent in April 1980 as a republic within the Commonwealth , after a 15-year period of unilaterally declared independence under the government of Ian Smith ended in 1979 with the Lancaster House agreement on the Constitution [ see p. 30165 ] . |
| 16 | In both directions — south towards the Grand Parade and Patrick Street , and north to the quays — other horse-drawn vehicles threaded their way , wheels screaming , drivers cursing and cracking whips , the while throngs of Friday shoppers darted from one side of the unpaved road to the other , dodging between carts and traps and under horses ' necks as if they were n't there at all . |
| 17 | The auction ring of Ayr cattle market on 14th December , 1911 , was arranged for the ‘ high noon ’ of the dispute . |
| 18 | The trial of Justine Moritz began at eleven . |
| 19 | The inner door stood open and through it she caught sight of Eleanor Shergold sitting in one of the pews . |
| 20 | APPEAL ( No. 10 of 1992 ) with leave of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong , and with special leave , by the applicant , George Tan Soon Gin , from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong ( Yang C.J. , Silke V.-P. and Bewley J. ) given on 29 November 1991 , whereby they held that they had no jurisdiction to hear the applicant 's appeal from the judgment of Barnett J. delivered on 13 May 1991 in the High Court [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 400 refusing the applicant 's application for judicial review of the decision of the first respondent , Judge Cameron , in the district court dated 4 December 1990 , refusing to stay the criminal proceedings by the second respondent , the Attorney-General of Hong Kong , against the applicant in the district court relating to West L.B. ( Asia ) Ltd. and Barclays ( Asia ) Ltd . |
| 21 | ‘ A key factor to the defeat of Raybestos Manhattan lay in convincing workers of the dangers to their lives from their working conditions . |
| 22 | Appointed KCB when his governorship of Vancouver Island ended in 1863 , he retired from his British Columbia post in the following year , citing the state of his health . |
| 23 | The research aims to provide information about the expanding area of Saturday job working by young people , 16-18 years , who are in full- time education . |
| 24 | In the twenty years between 1960 and 1980 , the tenancy of Downing Street changed between Labour and Conservative four times , an average occupancy of only five years : the Great and Good were trying to produce policies which would be durable enough to survive the swings . |
| 25 | Sammlung Goetz will show changing selections from the permanent collection in a handsome new building close to the south side of the of Englischer Garten designed by Basel-based architects Herzog and du Meuron in conjunction with their partner in Munich Josef Meier-Scupin . |
| 26 | The EMSA of extracts of COS cells transfected with this deletion mutant ( Figure 3b , plasmid V ) showed that the protein in the lower complex ( N-Oct 5B ) was expressed at high levels and that in the upper complex at low levels ( N-Oct 5A ) , which is also the pattern seen in brain extracts ( Figure 3a , lane 7 and 1 ) . |
| 27 | At the end of February news filtered in that no peasants were willing to join the military ranks , and there were quite a few desertions . |
| 28 | Instead we have to introduce a set of Reynolds numbers relating to different events in the transition process . |
| 29 | There are a few markets , notably , Eire , where there is also a substantial intake of Stoddard carpet used in residential location . |
| 30 | It is no secret that the governor of Brixton prison knew on 4 February 1991 that a breakout from the prison was being actively contemplated by IRA terrorists in the prison , yet they were not split up or moved . |