Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign dependants of the Court continued to be appointed to important Forest wardenships — such as Amaury de St Amand , Steward of the Household 1233–40 , who was also warden of the Forest of Dean during the greater part of that time , and Peter Chaceporc , the able Poitevin Keeper of the Wardrobe 1241–54 , who was appointed to the same wardenship in May 1248 . |
| 2 | As explained in Chapter 2 , from September 1981 a permanent Dean replaced an elected Head of Department in the role of Dean of the Modular Course . |
| 3 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 4 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 5 | On a wet January afternoon in 1986 , Ian Paisley and James Molyneaux walked around the North Down seaside town of Bangor with the local MP and Speaker of the Assembly , James Kilfedder . |
| 6 | Allowable losses for CGT purposes from a previous year of tax assessment may be brought forward to diminish the value of gains for calculation of CGT in the current year of assessment . |
| 7 | In addition to their port duties , Lerwick staff had to cover controls at Sumburgh Airport which was thirty miles south of Lerwick over a bumpy switchback road . |
| 8 | The CDU , which has been weakened steadily in state elections since the December 1990 general election , now only rules the east German state of Saxony with an absolute majority and is in the minority in Bonn 's Bundesrat , or upper legislature . |
| 9 | During his reign he added vast territories to the Frankish kingdom that he had inherited ; Lombardy ( the traditional enemy of both Franks and papacy ) , parts of Spain , all of Saxony over a prolonged period of campaigning , and Slavonic regions of the Drave and Elbe . |
| 10 | Baghdad radio had announced on April 3 the recapture of Sulaimaniya on the Iranian border , and the Vice-Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council and deputy secretary-general of the Baath Socialist Party regional command , Izzat Ibrahim , visited that city on April 4 , reporting the " return of security and stability to northern towns and areas " . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal reserved judgment on the challenge by auctioneers Messenger May Baverstock of Guildford to a High Court ruling that they had been negligent in selling for £840 two oil paintings that soon fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's as works of George Stubbs . |
| 12 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 13 | The hills fall to the sea in gentle contours , exactly as they should ; there is woodland and cliff , and part of the outline of Euboea across a blue strait . |
| 14 | Rovers dominated the first half as Atkins hit a 25-yard drive narrowly wide , Cook blocked another from Atkins and Sellars curled a shot wide of Stowell onto the far post . |
| 15 | It is ironic that , after the National majority had been safely won , and shown itself , as might have been predicted , protectionist , Snowden reverted to the role of stubborn free trader , and gave currency to the view of MacDonald as a feeble halfwit , without principles or dignity , Yet MacDonald , although no doctrinaire free trader , had fought harder to reach a formula that the Liberals , Snowden 's free trade allies , could accept than Snowden himself had done . |
| 16 | Salmin Amour was elected President of Zanzibar as the sole candidate following the decision in August of Idris Abdul Wakil ( President since 1985 — see pp. 34149-50 ) not to stand again . |
| 17 | Considerations such as these provided the rationale for the formal creation of IIAs in the 1978 Act ( DoE , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | Letters formal : pleas for forgiveness/mercy requests for planning permission requests that the selfish giant let people play in his garden from the Mayor of Hamelin to the Pied Piper petitions ( for the release of the children of Hamelin ) . |
| 19 | Leaving the blockade of Pavia to a smaller force , Charles marched directly against Lombard the heir Adelchis , taking Verona , Brescia and Bergamo . |
| 20 | He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) . |
| 21 | He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) . |
| 22 | It is said that the original Shorthorn ( as a British type rather than as a general term for short horned cattle ) was being bred by the Dukes of Northumberland in the sixteenth century and was probably descended from a mixture of red Anglo-Saxon cattle with red and white Dutch ‘ Hollanders ’ and ‘ Zeelands ’ that are typified in the Paul Potter painting , The Young Bull . |
| 23 | The history of Austro-Hungary through the nineteenth century is one of alteration between repression and compromise in its effort to maintain the fabric of the empire against its increasingly centrifugal tendencies . |
| 24 | Not long afterwards the Liberal Party invited this undergraduate in his second year to be the party 's candidate for the county of Cambridgeshire in the next election . |
| 25 | The Monument to the Iron Duke overlooks the busy town of Wellington at the western end of the ridge , and there are small country houses and bird gardens to visit . |
| 26 | He thought more than once of Antwerp as a possible bolt-hole . |
| 27 | ‘ The golden century ’ aims to provide an overview of Flemish baroque painting while also focusing on the importance of Antwerp as a major centre for trade and artistic patronage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , when it was still part of the Hapsburg Empire . |
| 28 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Baghdad at the end of March for the first visit by a Saudi monarch since Iraq 's Baathist revolution of 1968 . |
| 29 | The republic of Karachai-Cherkessia within the Russian Federation held a referendum on March 28 on preserving the unity of the republic " in the full realization of the law " On the rehabilitation of ethnic groups affected by Stalinist purges ' " . |
| 30 | Eventually the bus load of children was dumped in the middle of Swindon at the main bus station . |