Example sentences of "of [noun prp] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main Commonwealth case from a country with a common law jurisdiction is Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 , a decision of the Supreme Court of Victoria in an appellate capacity which has since been accepted by other appellate courts in Australia as a correct statement of the law , that is to say the common law of Australia . |
| 2 | We passed the Colossi of Memnon in a stony field , their shins covered with the graffiti of Greek and Roman tourists . |
| 3 | She is also rumoured to have turned her attention to acting , and is reportedly starring as Joan of Arc in a new film about the dangers involved when you get tied to a wooden stake with lots of sticks around it which is then deliberately set on fire by your political opponents . |
| 4 | One in three Peruvian children is stunted by malnutrition , said the Worldwatch Institute of Washington in a 1989 report , Poverty and the Environment : Reversing the Downward Spiral . |
| 5 | Some were descended from refugees who had fled before the advancing Turks in the fifteenth century ; others had forebears who were led out by the Patriarch Arsenije of Peć in a mass migration of an estimated 100,000 Serbs in 1691 . |
| 6 | APPROACHING SOME of the more forbidding coasts of Scotland in a modern vessel , one must surely marvel at the temerity of those prehistoric voyagers who crossed the sea in flimsy boats and refused to be deterred by lowering cliffs or storm-lashed , perilous rocks . |
| 7 | 3 ) Considerable interest is being shown by the Church of Scotland in a joint venture with Christian Aid . |
| 8 | What , after all , had she expected in the Church of England in a provincial town a hundred miles from London and the Midland conurbations ? |
| 9 | All this was particularly noticeable in the summer of 1992 when billions of pounds ( some say as much as £20 billion ) of foreign reserves ( £7.2 billion of which had been especially borrowed for the purpose ) were spent by the Bank of England in a vain attempt to prop up the exchange value of sterling . |
| 10 | MPs put the governor of the Bank of England in a tight spot over Harrods bank . |
| 11 | And how can he commit treason against the King of England in a foreign country , if he is not English ? |
| 12 | A new urgency came when the depressed labourers exploded into protest in the autumn of 1830 , part of troubles that swept much of England in a few months . |
| 13 | To have involved the whole North of England in a continuing search for knowledge , with hypothesis and verification conducted in the best Popperian manner , would be a signal development in community maturity . |
| 14 | He passed the Bishop 's examination and was ordained a Deacon in the Church of England in an interesting ceremony at the Parish Church of Farnham , Surrey , in 1885 . |
| 15 | With the Anglo-Irish Agreement at Hillsborough in 1985 , it has sought to lay aside that veto , and establish in principle its political right to modify the structure of power and control in Ulster by involving the Republic of Ireland in a common policy on security . |
| 16 | Midfield player Graham Kavanagh will represent the Republic of Ireland in an under-19 match in Dublin on March 31 . |
| 17 | North-East drivers who were fined £100 and ordered to pay £20 costs for crossing the weight restricted bridge were : Brian Robinson , 54 , of Spennymoor , who had a ten tonne truck ; Terence Cuthbertson , 49 , of Chester-leStreet , 17 tonne truck ; Anthony Jennings , 48 , of Middlesbrough , 16 tonne truck ; Geoffrey Storey , 49 , of Spennymoor , 16 tonne truck ; George Agar , 32 , of Malton , 38 tonne truck ; John Layton , 36 , of Langley Park , 17 tonne truck ; Raymond Brown , 46 , of Redcar , 17 tonne truck ; Bernard Hagen , 56 , of Gateshead 17 tonne truck ; Neil Wall , 37 , of Bowburn , 11 tonne truck and William Davison of Choppington in a 16 tonne truck . |
| 18 | Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in . |
| 19 | It was decided that Margaret Thatcher would announce the dispatch of the task force next morning in the House of Commons in a special Saturday morning debate . |
| 20 | In looking at her tender and respectful image of a woman friend , forced to write to support herself and her widowed mother ‘ Portrait of Cornelia Knight ’ ( 1793 ) we see something more direct , less cluttered , and less rhetorical than the ‘ Portrait of Mary , 3rd Duchess of Richmond in a Turkish Dress ’ ( 1775 ) . |
| 21 | They had dropped in to pick up Bill , who was of necessity going without Faye this year , and the sight of Tom in a black dinner suit and a shirt so white that it was almost ultra-violet had rocked Belinda 's usual state of equilibrium where their friendship was concerned . |
| 22 | This has a threefold effect ; it is to fight a spiritual battle and to proclaim the authority of Jesus in a new area . |
| 23 | The early years of his tenure saw the creation under Ida Ward [ q.v. ] of the first department of the languages and cultures of Africa in a British university , and the successful negotiation of the school 's removal from the City of London to Bloomsbury . |
| 24 | But under the impact of historians who stress the period 's revolutionary quality , readings of Marvell 's poem as a political document celebrating the success of Cromwell in a positive frame have gained momentum . |
| 25 | But to be made a deacon was for the first time to profess before a multitude that the soul undertook the cause of God in a special ministry , and for the first time to feel sent to an apostolic work . |
| 26 | Voting took place at the end of August in a national referendum to approve the change from single-party rule to a constitution allowing for the introduction of a multiparty system [ see p. 38380 ] . |
| 27 | Koons had spotted a photograph of Cicciolina in a German magazine , and was smitten . |
| 28 | An ancestor had been to the crusades , another had captured Harry Hotspur at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388 , and a Count Montgomerie had accidentally killed King Henry II of France in a jousting contest . |
| 29 | A force of 4000 men , landing on either side of the Cowes river and marching on Newport should , he estimated , be sufficient to secure the Isle of Wight in a single day . |
| 30 | So , you can enjoy the full flavour of Nescafé in a decaffeinated form . |