Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
| 2 | Rose Clough , nee Machin , lived on the outskirts of Oswaldston on a spick and span , jerry-built private estate . |
| 3 | HDUR representatives also declared that the Hungarian population were loyal supporters of Romania as a sovereign and unitary state . |
| 4 | He responded by explaining to the chairman of the committee , the fashionable playwright and military man John Burgoyne , how he had entered Murshidabad the capital of Bengal as a conqueror and how bankers and jewellers had rushed forward to thrust presents on him ; and , he concluded , as he thought back to the moment of triumph , ‘ By God , Mr. Chairman , I stand amazed at my own moderation . ’ |
| 5 | The venue is ideally suited to importers and exporters for product and new vehicle launches and answers the immediate community need of Larne for a conference and exhibition centre . |
| 6 | Julius drove out of Warwick at a speed that was highly illegal , and Jessamy sat tensely beside him , still not understanding why the day had suddenly gone so dangerously wrong . |
| 7 | The Persons who inhabit the Cottages are chiefly poor Labouring People , who are induced to seek Habitations in the Forest for the Advantages of living Rent free , and having the Benefit of Pasturage for a Cow or a few Sheep , and of keeping Pigs in the Woods ; but many Encroachments have been made by People of Substance . |
| 8 | The tactic plays to a public perception of Washington as a place that has sold out ordinary citizens . |
| 9 | ‘ These will re-emphasise the identity of AEA as a science and engineering services business and give people a second chance to respond , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Bill O'Reilly has told me how he got to know Jardine in later tours of England as a cricketer and writer . |
| 11 | Inner London has less than a third of the level of nursing home provision of England as a whole and this adds to the blocking of acute beds in hospitals . |
| 12 | First , the use of Stratford as a motorail and park-and-ride terminal will necessitate increased road capacity from the west . |
| 13 | Patten told the House of Commons in a statement that government finance for local authorities ( grant and business rate allocation ) would rise by 12.8 per cent from £23,100 million to £26,000 million in 1991-92 . |
| 14 | The England players ' early view of Sidhu as a slogger and Kambli as a chancer is a wretched reflection of the typical English professional 's attitude that time and experience must precede promotion . |
| 15 | HAVE YOU EVER DRUNK A PINT OF Guinness in a pub or club and been disappointed by its quality ? |
| 16 | We can at least begin to understand the human life and affection and anger and doubts and suffering and death of God in a way that we could not possibly begin to understand what it means for him to be God . |
| 17 | And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod , they departed into their own country another way . |
| 18 | The Authorized Version of the Magi 's dream , recounted in St Matthew , chapter 2 , verse 12 : And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod , they departed into their own country another way . |
| 19 | ‘ The gatepiers without replacement gates detract significantly from the special architectural and historic interest of Kentwell as a whole and its setting , ’ he says . |
| 20 | ‘ I have always been an admirer of Dalglish as a player and a manager . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is not possible to produce Peter Shaffer 's 1964 play about the conquest of Peru in a way that is informed by our subsequently increased awareness of how such representation works . |
| 22 | We tended to think of Sandy as a liability because he had been so over the past years . |
| 23 | At the height of the rush hour , when the streets were at their very busiest , two terrorist bombs exploded bringing the city of Manchester to a standstill and injuring 64 innocent people . |
| 24 | Spenser depicts Artegall 's rescue of Eirena as a triumph and return of civilisation to Ireland . |
| 25 | It was an attitude of mind which had existed long before the sixteenth century ; the great change was that an attitude which could be found in a number of separate societies was suddenly turned by the expansion of Europe into a force that altered the way that the whole world ran its affairs . |
| 26 | But since the ECSC had been created , the faltering Fourth French Republic had collapsed in 1958 , and France was then governed by President de Gaulle , determined to raise the status of France as a state and nation : it was a foretaste of the French attitude that was to affect integration in the next decade . |
| 27 | Hearing that Peggy van Praagh was going to the south of France with a friend and had a spare seat in her car , he asked if he might come too . |
| 28 | As he finished speaking , he held the feather in front of Mungo like a sword and said : ‘ Blow on it . ’ |
| 29 | Japan , it was said , sought the benefit of Asia as a whole and had a national mission to lead and coordinate the nations of Asia in resistance to the West . |
| 30 | Jesse Birdsall escapes the heat of Eldorado for an appearance and Specials beauty Kim Vitani appears in a bitter sweet story of a pregnant Asian girl who wo n't come out of the loo . |