Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday morning , 16 April 1746 , rained , it was chilly , and the citizens of Inverness came out from the town to view this spectator sport . |
| 2 | A. B. Chalmers of Inverness started out like the shopkeepers in Inveraray with a delivery barrow , graduating to a pony and trap for outlying districts and in 1907 introducing the first steam lorry to the Highlands . |
| 3 | ‘ The concept of TQM dates back to the postwar period when a tried to persuade corporate heads that business should become service driven . ’ |
| 4 | The primary reason for this was the large increase er in the population of Germany arising out of the reunification of country . |
| 5 | The lights of Rialto slid by on the right . |
| 6 | The vineyards of Bergères-les-Vertus are largely an extension of the lower slopes of Vertus reaching down to the southern tip of the Côte des Blancs . |
| 7 | As Glisseuse emerged from the Swale channel at the Queenborough end , she was picked up by Vigilant and followed to the upper reaches of the Medway while Venturous made all speed round the outside of Sheppey to catch up on the operation which was now well under control . |
| 8 | The Sphinx of Giza gazed down at the red velvet couch . |
| 9 | Works by followers of Caravaggio lead in to the seventeenth-century section : a ‘ Salome ’ by Cecco del Caravaggio ( Scardeoni ) ; ‘ Christ among the Elders ’ by Louis Finson ( Governale ) , and an ‘ Archimedes ’ by Dirk Van Baburen ( Visconteum ) . |
| 10 | It is a smart little tag , conjuring up images of Monie bootling off to the library . |
| 11 | That is why the people of Scotland rose up against the rating system . |
| 12 | The hamlet of Blinkbonny grew up during the late 19th and early 20th century alongside Blinkbonny Farm . |
| 13 | In the end the Chancellor and the Bank of England came up with a 70p a share safety net . |
| 14 | That benighted member of the Established Church of England ended up in a barrel on an English pier . |
| 15 | ‘ A thousand acres of good farmland was taken , thirty families evacuated leaving the nine families in Sesslagh and fifteen families of Farnsagh lopped off from the rest of the world . |
| 16 | The debate over Matthew Maynard 's appointment as vice-captain of Glamorgan rumbles on in the pubs along the banks for the Taff , Hugh Morris , who was overlooked , remains tactfully silent . |
| 17 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |
| 18 | Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Noel Weir of Rathfriland got through to the singles final with a 21-7 victory over an out-of-touch Noel O'Hara from Herbert Park . |
| 20 | She brought her hands away from her hips , which had hidden them quite well , and let a tin-opener and a tin of Whiskas drop on to the stairs . |
| 21 | A large photograph of Helen looked down on the mourners . |
| 22 | One group of Ps ends up at a very similar position to this . |
| 23 | For ‘ Rameses ’ , Memphis sponsored the restoration of the exhibition 's centrepiece the 47-ton 27 foot Colossus of Memphis carried out by the staff of the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation at a cost of $125,000 . |
| 24 | I left Reine early , when all the people who live on the outskirts of Paris pour in to the city to work . |
| 25 | In the modelled docked structure , residues 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 of CsA protrude out into the solvent , and are thought to be involved in binding the effector protein , calcineurin . |
| 26 | I had to hold the door open for a woman with a pram , and then the whole population of Chetwynd poured out in a body , and I was still holding it . |
| 27 | I no longer had to push away the picture of Saad laid out on the floor , or banish from my imagination the sound of his huge voice , louder than the roaring of the wind , dumb for ever . |
| 28 | When it comes to faith , we are left in no doubt that this is a gift of God brought about by the Holy Spirit . |
| 29 | THE PROPOSED international merger between Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Touche Ross is likely to be holed below the waterline this week when the French arm of Deloitte pulls out of the agreement . |
| 30 | This Labour is highly reminiscent of the Babylonian myth of the Garden of Eden brought back by the Hebrews from captivity and incorporated with modifica-tions into Genesis , as the apples of the Tree of Death , with Satan in the guise of the snake ( see p. 158 below ) . |