Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicolas Pereira of Venezuela won the only other match beating American Alex O'Brien in three sets by 6–7 , 6–3 , 7–6 . |
| 2 | The other side of Kelling has the same outward-slanting wings , shielding a terrace from which the garden slopes gently away to the wide Norfolk view . |
| 3 | The town of Caerleon-on-Usk overlies the Roman military base of Isca , the fortress of the second Augustan Legion . |
| 4 | The Gordon Bennett races made way for the first Grand Prix in 1906 when Szisz of Romania won the inaugural French Grand Prix at Le Mans . |
| 5 | A similar exchange opened in 1880 in Ipswich , and in 1891 the Borough of Chelsea launched the first municipal exchange . |
| 6 | Slick sophistication is only too evident in the glittering Nevada oasis of Las Vegas , while the dry desertland of Arizona houses the gargantuan Grand Canyon , where the Colorado River winds its perilous way through the sheer plunging walls of rock . |
| 7 | The chilly wind of February brought the annual self-denial appeal . |
| 8 | However , when the USSR Supreme Soviet convened for its third session on Feb. 14 , the Presidium unexpectedly failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority for a proposal to call the Congress of People 's Deputies into emergency session by the end of February to make the necessary constitutional changes . |
| 9 | ‘ The statistics also show that property in the North of Scotland fetched the highest average prices during the year . ’ |
| 10 | The British Vacuum Council ( of which the RSC is a member ) will provide bursaries ( up to £250 ) for postgraduate students in the UK and Republic of Ireland attending the XII international Vacuum congress to be held in the Hague , the Netherlands , from 12 to 16 October 1992 . |
| 11 | The prophets of Israel reformed the old tribal religion of the Hebrews , brought them a more transcendent conception of God and a deeper morality . |
| 12 | The succession to the Empire was soon re-established in the Habsburg line and the link with Hungary came again after the battle of Mohács in 1526 , when Ferdinand I of Austria succeeded the last Jagellonian King of Hungary and Bohemia , Ludovic , who was drowned while fleeing from the battlefield . |
| 13 | Why should the people of Liverpool have to pay for the self-inflicted deficits of their local council , and why should the people of Lothian suffer the same dismal experience ? |
| 14 | Purslow Brothers of Clapham submitted the lowest tender — for about £633.15s.0d — and this was accepted . |
| 15 | Thereafter Bobby Locke of South Africa and Peter Thomson of Australia dominated the British professional game alongside American entrants for the Open for twenty years after the Second World War . |
| 16 | Cuts in capital budgets , use of the land dispersal register , and the mere threat of UDCs achieve the same political goals without incurring the political problems and contradictions of UDCs . |
| 17 | The scandal broke on April 6 when the government of Colombia informed the Antiguan Prime Minister that a shipment of Israeli arms , allegedly intended for Antigua , had been discovered on the property of the late Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha , a leading member of the notorious Medellín cocaine cartel . |
| 18 | Insects in the forests of Malaysia visiting the elegant white flowers of an orchid , may walk straight into trouble . |
| 19 | Page 23 Lawson silent : Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , made no mention of Britain joining the European Monetary System in his speech to the Conservative Party conference yesterday . |
| 20 | Boccara/Boucherit of France had the next fastest time but they were seen to be wash hanging , not for the first time at this level , and a protest was upheld , posing the question why the umpires Riccardo Guala and Glyde Brytt had given white flags . |
| 21 | Although along the coast and in towns their numbers and wealth were less secure , substantial numbers of Goyigamas entered the new urban élite . |
| 22 | It also raised doubts concerning the ability of the East German government to ensure the passage of a state treaty on the terms for unification , since without the support of SPD votes the requisite two-thirds majority was unlikely to be obtained in the Volkskammer . |
| 23 | So Bernard L. Cohen of the University of Pittsburgh told the American Physical Society this week . |
| 24 | These two , shorn to some extent of their settler and pro-Federation image , grew in circulation and , for a while , the Times of Zambia remained the sole daily paper . |
| 25 | One of their tasks , it emerged , was to support a breakaway movement in the mineral-rich province of Katanga producing the main Belgian investment . |
| 26 | Whose could even forget the sight of Clark steering the famous green Lotus to the Grand Prix success time and time again . |
| 27 | Table 6 from their ‘ 1989 Based Population Projections for the Counties and District Health Authorities of Wales shows the projected net population change for this period split into various phases . |
| 28 | UNFORTUNATELY , I was unable to be present at the luncheon at a London hotel on Tuesday when the Duke of Gloucester presented the first English Tourist Board car park awards . |