Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELFAST solicitor , Bernard Turkington , has been appointed by the Independent Commission for Police Complaints , to direct the investigation into the killing of Gerald Maginn at the weekend . |
| 2 | The accession of Gerald Ford to the presidency in 1974 was a relief for many Americans . |
| 3 | The researches of Frances Yates into the relationship between science and what is loosely called magic at the end of the 16th century are enlightening . |
| 4 | Earlier , on July 30 , a KPRP communiqué had announced the expulsion of Ung Phan from the party central committee " due to his betrayal " , and the retirement of Chheng Phon for health reasons . |
| 5 | The Lions were delighted with the choice of Ben Clarke on the blind-side of the scrum . |
| 6 | The whole sequence , therefore , appears to be concerned with rescripts of Marcus Aurelius on the subject of trusts for public building . |
| 7 | As a brave pilot who does n't flinch in the face of adversity ( ie three episodes of Coronation Street on the trot ) , you 're on your way to meet the enemy troops . |
| 8 | Apart from the Arthurian legend , Morgan was the name of a Celtic sea-fairy ; an echo of this belief is last seen when Morgan le Fay is one of the four fairy queens who spirit the body of King Arthur across the water to the Isle of Avalon . |
| 9 | He had married , probably in 660 , Æthelthryth , daughter of King Anna of the East Angles and widow of Tunberht , princeps of the South Gyrwe . |
| 10 | But on 30 October the regents once more affirmed the rights of the Crown : they ordered Hugh de Neville , the Chief Justice of the Forest , to cause the royal forests to be kept by the same metes and bounds as they had been in the time of King John before the war between him and his barons . |
| 11 | Unless such a distinction is to be found , as the defendants say that it is , in the public nature of a local authority , which has governmental powers under statute and of which the policy and activities are decided by elected councillors , I agree with that view of Morland J. In the South Hetton Coal Co. case Lopes L.J . |
| 12 | On the other hand , in Joseph Hone 's W.B. Yeats , 1865–1939 ( 1942 , p.367 ) we read that the Yeatses went to Sicily in November 1924 and stayed for two months , ‘ the attraction there being , besides the sunlight , the presence of Ezra Pound on the island , and the Byzantine mosaics of Monreale and the Capella Palatina at Palermo ’ . |
| 13 | I have just read the letter in the September issue of Todays Horse and have to say that I agree with the comments of Lisa Robillard on the point of using ‘ he ’ instead of ‘ she ’ . |
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| 15 | Leeming also suggests that the increased incidence of sandstorms in Beijing are another result of poor land management that is creating desertification in northwestern Hebei and the adjacent areas of Inner Mongolia by the clearance of woodland and pastureland for arable crops . |
| 16 | EPRDF forces moving in from the west began to reach the suburbs of Addis Ababa on the weekend of May 25-26 . |
| 17 | A better memorial to him is the statue of Cardinal Wolsey over the gate to Christ Church College , Oxford , which he caused to be erected and underneath which he is named in a Latin inscription . |
| 18 | The authorities ' earlier identification of Lembarek Boumaraaf as the assassin [ see p. 38981 ] was endorsed ; the commission confirmed that he had previously been known to be an Islamist sympathizer , but rejected as improbable the suggestion that he had acted alone . |
| 19 | James was aware of Sarah Byrne from the moment she came into the dining room carrying the soup tureen . |
| 20 | Led by old Count William of Angoulême and his step-son Aimar of Limoges they left on 7 July , joining Audebert of La Marche on the road to Jerusalem . |
| 21 | The influence of Cézanne becomes very apparent in the landscapes of La Ciotat of the summer of 1907 , which show Braque 's work hanging in the balance between Fauvism and a much more structural kind of painting . |
| 22 | It was a stunning sight , and as I lay idly in the boulders that are reputed to have fallen 1600 metres and half a mile from the South Face of La Meije to the Chatelleret , I thought of the climb to come and let the daylight drift over me . |
| 23 | For it was of course Thatcher from the right , and not the left , who seized the initiative in attempting to break the stalemate of class forces and carry through a radical restructuring of the British social formation . |
| 24 | Acknowledgements Our thanks to Mr. R. Flatman of W. L. Gore & Associates for supplying the information about the Gore-Text bootie and Mr. M. Redwood of Pittard Garnard for the information about the newer leathers . |
| 25 | But inspired by the experience of Jim Duffy at the back and battling Stainrod himself up front , the pattern of play changed dramatically during the final half hour , to the extent that it was the visitors who were forced to hang on , especially after Stainrod had forced goalkeeper Theo Snelders into an own-goal during the latter stages . |
| 26 | If his work needs to be considered in the context of the contemporary politics of the Communist Party , as several commentators have stressed , it also requires reference to work done in the history of the sciences , particularly that of Gaston Bachelard in the history of physics and chemistry , his pupil Georges Canguilhem in the life sciences , and Jean Cavaillès in mathematics . |
| 27 | Aberdeen 's frustrating afternoon was summed up by the loss of Gary Smith before the match with ‘ flu and his replacement David Winnie with a stomach upset in the second half . |
| 28 | Thornburgh , 58 , a former two-term Governor of Pennsylvania , was appointed Attorney General in 1988 following the resignation of Edwin Meese in the face of investigation for financial and ethical misconduct . |
| 29 | So I went out , feeling distinctly lonely , and wandered through the empty , narrow streets of lunch-time Parma until the time really came to go back to school . |
| 30 | The Churchward family had been squires of Stoke Gabriel from the end of the fifteenth century . |