Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [is] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Bank of Scotland is behind the latest deal marking Michael Guthrie 's comeback into fast food catering , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 2 | The Descent of Darwin is about the present controversies , real , exaggerated , or downright lunatic fringe , it matters not what , over neo-Darwinism . |
| 3 | The Church of England is behind the Baptist Union in halting its decline : the Baptists turned the corner between 1980 and 1985 , and thereafter saw a slight growth in membership . |
| 4 | Indeed , the chief impression on viewing the Mt Sinai massif from the Gulf of Suez is of the gashed sides of this stark , mountain mass . |
| 5 | Earl , a classmate of North 's from the Naval Academy , was privy to quite a lot , including the diversion . |
| 6 | And second , the story of how Harry Messel came to create the astronomy department at the University of Sydney is in the wrong order ; in fact the tragic death of Colin Gum occurred before , not after , the department was established . |
| 7 | The civilization of China is among the oldest in the world , and China has throughout Japan 's history been the largest and most powerful of her Asian neighbours . |
| 8 | It is the Board 's conviction that the continued independence of Palatine is in the best interests of its shareholders , employees and customers . |
| 9 | As happens many times throughout , and frequently in footnotes , one sentence of Boswell 's from the after-dinner conversation contains the seeds of a novel — even , potentially , a saga : . |
| 10 | Undergraduate pupils of Jack 's throughout the middle years of the 1930s got used to passing through the outer drawing-room of his rooms at Magdalen where sat the mysterious figure of Captain Lewis , typing with two fingers on an ancient black portable . |
| 11 | This showed that the general public , school teachers and sixth form pupils all think that the University of Birmingham is in the top ten in the UK . |
| 12 | And whilst you 've heard comment from Mr last week about the County Surveyor 's view that the capacity of the radials really outside the City and also as they enter the City , the key impact within the City of York is on the inner ring road , because all the traffic tends to end up there . |