Example sentences of "of the [noun] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not unexpectedly , his defence of the major-generals in the debates over the decimation bill was ‘ hot ’ . |
| 2 | Just before his own exile Sidonius described to bishop Basil of Aix-en-Provence the state of the Church in the areas under Visigothic rule : Bordeaux , Perigueux , Rodez , Limoges , Javols , Eauze , Bazas , Comminges and Auch were all without bishops , and it was impossible to enter basilicas because their doorways were overgrown with brambles . |
| 3 | Lord , we know that you guide the ways of all your servants , but we want especially to commend these people to you , that they may experience a special measure of your support and may know that the Holy Spirit is building the unity of the church in the places to which you have called them . |
| 4 | Having said that of course quite a lot of the stories in the tabloids are actually quite small . |
| 5 | Not that anyone was looking at me , post of the others in the off-worlders viewing gallery seemed important , who were occupied with looking competitively at one another . |
| 6 | The special report is meant to make sure that the Health and Safety s=Service are not the Cinderella service there should be a general principle of accountability and monitoring of the service in the regions . |
| 7 | Councillors have approved a plan to streamline operations by putting the running of the council in the hands of a chief executive , his deputy and only four directors . |
| 8 | In 1641 an attorney of the Council in the Marches , Richard Lloyd , defending that court against its enemies , claimed that ‘ it is as necessary for princes to have places of preferment to prefer servants of merit as money in their Exchequer ’ . |
| 9 | When the Earl of Pembroke , as President of the Council in the Marches , tried to reform that court , its Solicitor , John Amyas , commented : ‘ I perceive there shall few men 's estates here be unsearched . |
| 10 | The incident did no harm to his career for he went on to become a peer and Lord President of the Council in the Marches . |
| 11 | If one turns from the professional judges to the nobles and gentry who were members of the Council in the Marches , high-handedness and corruption become more apparent . |
| 12 | Much clearer signs of corruption are apparent in the officials of the Council in the Marches . |
| 13 | If you fell from the top of the ropes in the sports hall this afternoon would you go to heaven or hell ? ’ |
| 14 | The small Year Niner usually looks a bit blank — possibly because she has never considered the possibility of either heaven OR hell lying at the foot of the ropes in the sports hall — and responds with a vague , ‘ Uh ? ’ |
| 15 | Male youths experienced the idea of the camp in the Scouts too , but the boom in the commercial holiday camp in the quarter of a century after the end of World War Two was to dwarf the scale of these earlier models . |
| 16 | Firstly , modernist fiction 's most obvious and celebrated innovation lies in its focalization of the novel in the minds or private narratives of its characters . |
| 17 | The oil shocks of the 1970s , and the sharp increase in the value of the yen in the mid-1980s , encouraged some analysts to forecast the total breakdown of Japan 's economic juggernaut . |
| 18 | If the portrayal of the Sadducees in the Gospels is not without some historical justification , the portrayal of the Pharisees is often viciously distorted . |
| 19 | It is in the two books of The Scale of Perfection that Hilton develops structures to convey his understanding of the nature of contemplative life ; these two books form the most sustained analysis and illumination of the subject in the writings of the five authors here studied . |
| 20 | However , since the liabilities covered by cl 14.2 are easy to insure against , many sellers offer this clause without any of the limitations in the phrases in square brackets , as a marketing advantage over their competitors . |
| 21 | There was a reverent silence , broken only by the hissing of the gas-jets in the wall-brackets , and then Josh stood up , acknowledging his father 's prayer . |
| 22 | Many of the documents in the Archives were dated either not at all ‘ or according to an incomprehensible Emorian system invented by Richard ; and it sometimes proved impossible to link the events they recorded with events in the world beyond Emor . |
| 23 | Tufting one of the carpets in the Flirtations range which was a Brighton Award winner , is Margaret McLean on machine number ten . |
| 24 | The beige-gold colour of the liquid in the glasses reminded Lee of Hosanna 's coat when he appeared dull to her , real . |
| 25 | The structure of the degree in the Faculties last mentioned normally comprises two years of foundation courses followed either by finishing courses in the third year , for a general degree , or by two years of honours courses for an honours degree . |
| 26 | There is a profound contrast between the role of Roland 's betrothed in the Song of Roland , which is trivial , and of the ladies in the romances of Chrétien de Troyes , who control the action . |
| 27 | ‘ Not one of Rainbow 's cells , ’ I persist , ‘ remembers the cold slap of the water in the stream where you and Gittel swam , or the taste of the berries from the bush near your hut , or the names of the birds in the woods where you screamed to the old native gods . |
| 28 | Sex in Miranda 's experience was n't a matter of spectacle , but of darkness and touch , magnified by her senses ' usually exacerbated state , the extremes of the night , of smoking and drinking and hunger and tiredness , and she was a blind swimmer through walls of warm water , and knew nothing of the practice and technique of the models in the pictures crammed edge to edge in the shop . |
| 29 | but what of the head in the clouds ? |
| 30 | Then he wakes me up when he goes out of the door in the mornings . |