Example sentences of "the [noun prp] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Tivoli are the remains of a number of temples , among which are the Temple of Vesta c. 27 B.C. , Corinthian in design and the Temple of the Sybils of the first century B.C. The latter has a circular cella and a peristyle of 18 columns , 24 feet high . |
| 2 | Studies in the Coinages of the Eleventh Century ( 1981 ) , pp. 211ff ( a die chain between imitative coins with different mint names ) ; R. Reece , Coinage in Roman Britain ( 1987 ) ( the study of site finds ) ; T. R. Volk in G. Depeyrot , T. Hackens and G. Moucharte ( eds . ) , |
| 3 | Kirkman saw Nkrumah as ‘ the Rousseau of the African revolution … |
| 4 | Oscar , I said , let me take you to Coney Island , it 's like Brighton , I think , the Brighton of the New World . |
| 5 | The station was described by Koebel as the Waterloo of the southern hemisphere , handling more passengers than all the other Buenos Aires terminals together . |
| 6 | It is perhaps the best example on the Bodensee of the successful marriage between the demands of a growing holiday trade and a carefully guarded past . |
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| 8 | The South does n't stand out in the resulting map ( figure 5.2 ) , although none of the States of the former Confederacy falls in the top 40 per cent on their ranking , except Florida whose population character and structure has changed very substantially in recent decades as a result of immigration , especially of the elderly . |
| 9 | The States of the Northern Tier |
| 10 | Similarly , as the discount houses take up Treasury bills from the tender on the Friday of the previous week , net payment will be made to the Bank from the rest of the banking system . |
| 11 | The tribal customs of Wimbledon were , in Henry 's view , as worthy of study as the totems and taboos of the Aborigines of the Northern Territory . |
| 12 | By the Tuesday of the first week , Cassie knew that she could not stay at Rose Cottage any longer . |
| 13 | Taiwan suffered one of its periodic earthquakes early on the Tuesday of the following week , mercifully less severe than many and leaving Taipei itself badly rocked but suffering only superficial damage and few casualties . |
| 14 | One Pack were dressed up as Robin Hood and His Merry Men , another as the Knights of the Round Table , pulling along a dragon in chains ; a third represented characters from Alice in Wonderland . |
| 15 | April 5 1975 His latest album was ‘ The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table ’ . |
| 16 | She collected a book from her father 's library containing all the Arthurian legends , a copy of Malory 's Arthur of Britain and the Knights of the Round Table . ’ |
| 17 | It was like going to the Holy Land , or being the Knights of the Round Table , Sir Perceval I think it was , and your dad suddenly said he was going to take you to see the Holy Grail . |
| 18 | The whole thing had been influenced by Himmler 's obsession with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table , with a liberal dose of occultism thrown in . |
| 19 | Under the starboard wing slowly moved Lake Peipus , scene of Alexander Nevsky 's great battle when the Knights of the Teutonic Order probed too far eastwards and went , complete with horses and heavy armour , through the ice crust and into the deep black water . |
| 20 | The three largest and most influential Orders are the Knights Panther , the Knights of the White Wolf , and the Knights of the Blazing Sun . |
| 21 | The Knights of the Blazing Sun were created after the Battle of Magritta in 1457 during the crusades which eventually freed the land of Estalia from the Arabian invaders . |
| 22 | Your army may include one regiment of the Knights of the Blazing Sun . |
| 23 | EQUIPMENT : The Knights of the Blazing Sun wear heavy armour and carry a shield , and ride barded Warhorses . |
| 24 | OPTIONS : The Knights of the Blazing Sun may carry a Magic Standard . |
| 25 | The battle was a great victory for the Knights of the Old World , made all the remarkable by a strange and prophetic occurrence . |
| 26 | The lithistid sponge Pemmatites arcticus from the Permian of the arctic island of Spitzbergen ( left ) . |
| 27 | On Jan. 5 the government ordered the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) ambassador and two other embassy staff to leave , after the expulsion from the UAE of the Sudanese ambassador and six other diplomats . |
| 28 | Lastly , all that Louis IX abandoned in favour of Henry III — his fiefs and domains in Limousin , Quercy , and Périgord ( the so-called ‘ three dioceses ’ ) and all that remained to the Plantagenets of the ancient duchy of Aquitaine — was to be held by the king of England as an hereditary fief . |
| 29 | Dolomites from the Jurassic of the Middle East and Miocene of the Bahamas were also analysed . |
| 30 | He 'd planned this summit carefully , and now the Zen of the entire thing had gone crazy , because just as Dad opened his mouth to start talking blood had started to drip into my lap from my nose as a result of Charlie chucking me into his drum-kit . |