Example sentences of "of [noun prp] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 2 | Allowable losses for CGT purposes from a previous year of tax assessment may be brought forward to diminish the value of gains for calculation of CGT in the current year of assessment . |
| 3 | Considerations such as these provided the rationale for the formal creation of IIAs in the 1978 Act ( DoE , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | It is said that the original Shorthorn ( as a British type rather than as a general term for short horned cattle ) was being bred by the Dukes of Northumberland in the sixteenth century and was probably descended from a mixture of red Anglo-Saxon cattle with red and white Dutch ‘ Hollanders ’ and ‘ Zeelands ’ that are typified in the Paul Potter painting , The Young Bull . |
| 5 | Not long afterwards the Liberal Party invited this undergraduate in his second year to be the party 's candidate for the county of Cambridgeshire in the next election . |
| 6 | The Sword Masters are guardians of the Tower of Hoeth in the mysterious land of Saphery , warrior-ascetics who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of wisdom and learning carefully controlled violence . |
| 7 | The Sword Masters are guardians of the Tower of Hoeth in the mysterious land of Saphery . |
| 8 | Like the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century , nobody quite knew what all its decrees meant until they started putting them into practice , and a lot of them , and I suspect a lot of Vatican Twos , need to be interpreted . |
| 9 | The Schlosspark at Donaueschingen was laid out for the princes of Fürstenberg in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | It was an artistic and cultural centre as well as a commercial one and retained its importance until the rise of Moscow in the fifteenth century . |
| 11 | The unification of Italy and of Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century was a belated achievement by the bourgeoisie in those countries of a large , efficiently organized modern state , essential for the rapid development of capitalist production , such as already existed in most of Western Europe and in the US . |
| 12 | Henry was one of the most remarkable princes of Germany in the twelfth century . |
| 13 | Another great missionary , St Anskar , had to engage in similar arguments when he preached ( under the sponsorship of Louis the Pious ) to the Swedes at the prosperous port of Birka in the ninth century . |
| 14 | The strategy , in evidence in the display of Auerbach 's work , effectively refuses the notion , which in Britain has had particularly powerful influence as a result of the writings of Carlyle in the last century , underpins the labelling of portraits in exhibitions ( such as The Swagger Portrait , Tate Gallery 1992 ) and in institutions like the National Portrait Gallery . |
| 15 | It expects to have early silicon of UltraSparc-I in the fourth quarter of next year . |
| 16 | It expects to have early silicon of UltraSparc-I in the fourth quarter of next year . |
| 17 | The major reason for this is the poor growth of VZV in the available tissue culture systems which produce predominantly cell associated virus with low titer stocks . |
| 18 | On land the Company was not really strong enough for such antics , but its naval superiority gave it a place in the third or fourth rank of powers in India , beneath the Emperor at the top and great rulers like the Nawab of Bengal in the second rank . |
| 19 | Ancient History 1 surveys the whole of Greek and Roman history from the Mycenaean period to the foundation of Constantinople in the fourth century AD . |
| 20 | Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands , who visited Japan on Oct. 20-26 , received a formal apology on Oct. 23 from Kaifu for the " unbearable suffering " inflicted by Japanese soldiers on Dutch internees during the occupation of Indonesia in the Second World War . |
| 21 | They went to a floodlit performance of Mireille in the Roman arena in Nîmes . |
| 22 | He sat for his home town of Stafford in the second Protectorate Parliament of 1656–8 , but is recorded as a more active speaker in the 1659 Parliament of Richard Cromwell [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | The second daughter had died in childhood ; the fifth and sixth princesses , still children , were virtual prisoners of Horemheb in the royal palace of the Southern Capital , together with their aunt Nezemmut , Nefertiti 's younger sister ; and though treated with all the deference their rank demanded , they were never allowed anywhere unattended by a corps of Horemheb 's own men . |
| 24 | But as the days stretched into tedious weeks Creggan found strange comfort in the silent presence of Slorne in the adjacent cage . |
| 25 | One might add Ælfwine of Elmham , a monk of Ely in the nearby diocese of Dorchester . |
| 26 | Adam of Eynsham , the biographer of St Hugh of Lincoln , gives us a revealing description of Richard in the last summer of his life . |
| 27 | Heka-ib was governor of Elephantine in the sixth Dynasty and was buried in a rock tomb at Kubbet el-Hawa at Aswan . |
| 28 | Cyngen ap Cadell , king of Powys in the mid-ninth century , erected a monument , Eliseg 's Pillar , to his great-grandfather , Eliseg , who is said to have annexed the inheritance of Powys from the power of the Angles . |
| 29 | Rabbit recently announced a range of IBM SNA communications products for the Univel UnixWare operating system , initial shipments of which are scheduled to coincide with the launch of UnixWare in the third quarter this year . |
| 30 | On our way to the oasis of Bahriyah in the western desert I had a misadventure with my hat . |