Example sentences of "of [noun prp] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baghdad radio had announced on April 3 the recapture of Sulaimaniya on the Iranian border , and the Vice-Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council and deputy secretary-general of the Baath Socialist Party regional command , Izzat Ibrahim , visited that city on April 4 , reporting the " return of security and stability to northern towns and areas " . |
| 2 | Carry on to get views of the village of Bontddu on the opposite bank . |
| 3 | The caves of Bétharram , a short way out of Lourdes on the main road to Pau , are not my sort of caves but I will at least mention them . |
| 4 | Sinatra stormed off of the set of Carousel on the first day of shooting because it was to be shot in both the new CinemaScope 55 format and the standard ‘ flat ’ ratio , meaning everything had to be shot twice . |
| 5 | It is an important piece of Germany on the Swiss shore of the Bodensee , overlooking the point where the Untersee joins it , but since it will inevitably be in the path of the traveller following those lakes , it had better be mentioned . |
| 6 | Another relative and rector of the Patrimony was James , son of John Odoline , a cousin , and count of Andria , who had been papal marshal and commander of Innocent 's troops in Sicily in 1200 – 1201 , to whom he granted the fortress of Ninfa on the southern border . |
| 7 | There is the work of Muthesius on the terraced house ( 1982 ) , of King on the bungalow ( 1984 ) , of Oliver et al. |
| 8 | I sent him to the north of Scotland on the nearest thing you can get to a wild goose chase — to try to see our country 's most elusive bird , the capercaillie . ’ |
| 9 | Immigration Act , Rhodesia , Gomulka , Prague , America having a national nervous breakdown , the soul of England on the ropy side . |
| 10 | Very rightly , Mr. Beloff has presented arguments to the court , which have been of considerable assistance , and which were in favour of the plaintiffs and not of the Bank of England on the main issue of principle . |
| 11 | Evans ascribed this seal to the Syro-Hittite class as he also did a specimen found at Vari , south of Athens on the Greek mainland . |
| 12 | At a meeting with the Bank of Ireland on the above date , a number of issues were discussed which included Job Sharing . |
| 13 | Operation the sixth of December on the little finger er and my other fingers swelled up |
| 14 | Oh well just south of Caernarvon on the first section erm between Caernarvon and ? |
| 15 | There were no bridges left standing between Verona and Rome and , according to Eric , who from now on was to travel this way once a week , every village south of Florence on the main road to Viterbo and Rome had been either destroyed or severely damaged . |
| 16 | She had to endure the congratulations of Jackson on the steady increase in the firm 's wealth . |
| 17 | On 19 February 1993 , Mark Fisher MP opened the debate in the House of Commons on the second reading of his private member 's ‘ Right to Know Bill ’ commenting thus : |
| 18 | After a debate in the House of Commons on the White Paper 's proposals , which were accepted without dissent , an amended scheme was announced in June which came into effect on 1 August 1964 . |
| 19 | The circular or quinary system of Swainson interested some of the more speculative minds of the next generation , including Huxley , A. R. Wallace ( who annotated his copy of Swainson on the geographical distribution of animals ) , and Darwin ( who had copies made of MacLeay 's writings in order to criticize them ) . |
| 20 | In a paper of late August 1855 P. A. Valuev , Governor of the province of Kurland on the Baltic coast , deplored the conduct of the war , asked whether the present structure of Russian government facilitated the development of the country 's strengths , lamented the paralysis of the empire 's administration , and deplored the fact that Russian government and society seemed to be at odds with one another . |
| 21 | Speculation that its soldiers would attack the town of Pailin on the Thai border has died down , as it became clear that to hold Pailin would be more of a liability than an asset . |
| 22 | The influence of Bacon on the Royal Society is frequently testified to by its members . |
| 23 | We left St Denis as darkness fell and made our way to a tavern outside one of the gateways of Paris on the main road to Calais , a warm comfortable place which had escaped the ravages of famine which still afflicted the city . |
| 24 | One of the earliest of these settlements was on the island of Torcello on the Venetian Lagoon , and nearby Venice was established later . |
| 25 | His re-creation — like the creating of Adam on the first day — had taken a little time . |
| 26 | Parler brought with him the influence of the Cologne school and , though only the choir and chapels with part of the south façade were completed at this time , it is interesting to compare , both on exterior and interior , the work of Matthias on the lower part and Parler on the upper ( 532 and 533 ) . |
| 27 | AW will offer to acquire the ordinary shares of Palatine on the following basis : and so on in proportion for any other number of ordinary shares in Palatine . |
| 28 | In an attempt to disrupt tourism , the guerrillas also blasted a huge crater in the runway of the international airport of Cartagena on the Caribbean coast . |
| 29 | This seems to chart a safe course between the extremes of Littlewoods on the one hand , and Commercial Plastics on the other . |
| 30 | His birthplace was the town castle , a stronghold of the Borromeo family that held most of the western shoreline , as well as the castle of Angera on the opposite shore . |