Example sentences of "[noun prp] of a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France announced the sale to Pakistan of a nuclear power plant for commercial purposes during a visit by French President Mitterrand on Feb. 18-21 , 1990 . |
| 2 | He tells us that , ‘ with the reassessment of this one drawing in the British Museum ‘ Seated nude surrounded by drapery ’ once a Rembrandt but now a Raven the attribution to Rembrandt of a whole series of nude studies by the same hand collapsed ’ . |
| 3 | It reminded Lucy of a luxury hotel . |
| 4 | The military report claimed that when Georgian authorities protested to the Russian army headquarters in Gudauta , they had been told the attack had been to avenge shelling on Saturday of a Russian army unit . |
| 5 | Father died on Saturday of a coronary . |
| 6 | Despite talks with party leaders yesterday , Mr Sartzetakis failed to find a way out of the impasse created by the resignation on Saturday of a conservative-communist coalition government which was formed in July . |
| 7 | And a report that a Polish plane has conducted the first ever direct evacuation from Kuwait of a hundred refugees , have further raised hopes here . |
| 8 | The main item of business was the signature on Oct. 29 by Gorbachev and President Mitterrand of a Franco-Soviet friendship and co-operation treaty . |
| 9 | It would incapacitate German submarine bases in the west ; restore to Belgium her occupied territory , thereby depriving Germany of a prime bargaining asset at a future peace conference ; and disrupt German communications to the Western Front from their depots in the lower Rhineland . |
| 10 | For example , the Abbe de l'Epee , founder of the first public school for the deaf in Paris in 1755 , was a manualist , while Samuel Heinicke , founder in 1778 of the first school in Germany of a similar type , was an oralist . |
| 11 | He knocked one year off a full 10-year term to take account of the strain on Christie of a second hearing . |
| 12 | Rita Süssmuth , president of the Bundestag , was the subject in March of a parliamentary investigation concerning allegations that her husband had used her official Mercedes improperly . |
| 13 | Within the Delphi Centre , although it is possible to identify the employment by Roger of a distinctive strategy for resolving the demands that are made of him , it is radically different from that of Owen and the Victoria Centre . |
| 14 | These accusations were denied by the government , the BSP , and the Soviet ambassador , Viktor Sharapov , who at a press conference on Aug. 26 said that his only contacts with the government and the BSP had been official ones at which he had delivered the statement of the State Committee for the State of Emergency ( the Soviet coup leaders ) and Gorbachev 's subsequent repudiation of it , and had discussed the forthcoming visit to Moscow of a Bulgarian economic mission . |
| 15 | Convictions were obtained on charges of money laundering , cocaine manufacturing and distribution , racketeering and the building in Panama of a state-of-the-art drug laboratory . |
| 16 | Convictions were obtained on charges of money laundering , cocaine manufacturing and distribution , racketeering and the building in Panama of a state-of-the-art drug laboratory . |
| 17 | Where , in Persuasion , the younger Musgroves ' search for novelty gets them into trouble , other new ventures meet with approval , like Emma 's introduction into Hartfield of a large modern circular table , as in Fig. 7b , in place of the smaller portable Pembroke ( Fig. 41a ) on to which her father 's tea and supper have been crowded for the previous forty years . |
| 18 | Monique Javer , now 23 , was born near San Francisco of an English mother , who once played at junior Wimbledon , and an American father , who is a distinguished brain surgeon . |
| 19 | Throughout the 1340s and 1350s the king played on the commons ' fear of a French invasion of England : the threat that the French might ‘ destroy the English tongue and occupy the realm of England ’ was used more than once to persuade the commons to grant money for the war , and the discovery at the sack of Caen of a French plan for the invasion of England in 1339 was a gift to royal propaganda . |
| 20 | The court cleared Novodvorskaya of a separate charge of " insulting the honour and dignity of the USSR President " . |
| 21 | The move followed a diplomatic row precipitated by the reported abduction in May of a senior Indian diplomat based in Islamabad [ see p. 38914 ] . |
| 22 | Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait led to the abandonment by the UAE of a traditional policy of neutrality and to a welcome for the deployment of the military forces of the US-led coalition in the region . |
| 23 | Another Select Committee reported in 1875 that ‘ the continued operation of the Deer Removal Act 1851 ’ would ‘ render the rights of common existing over the New Forest worthless , and by so doing … extinguish a large class of small freeholders and tenants of whom the highest character has been given ’ ; furthermore it would ‘ destroy almost the only specimen left in England of a primeval forest , a priceless source of enjoyment to all classes of the nation ’ . |
| 24 | Late in February 1708 news reached England of a French fleet being assembled at Dunkirk to carry 12 battalions of infantry , plus artillery , to Scotland and having , like his father before him , been presented by Louis XIV with a jewelled sword as a good-luck present , on Thursday 26th ( English style ) James Edward Stuart reached that port , having issued a proclamation denouncing Queen Anne as a usurper . |
| 25 | One might think that the distance from the monastery to the great house was considerable , but Gerard , continuing , takes it in his stride : ‘ How proud we are still in England of an old family , though , God knows , ‘ t is rare to see one now . ’ |
| 26 | singled out by the Decree of an Inscrutable Providence from the midst of the Distinguished Multitude that Surrounded him , in the full pride of his Talents and the Perfection of his Usefulness , met with the Accident that Occasioned his Death ; which deprived England of an Illustrious Statesman and Liverpool of its Most Honoured Representative ; which changed a moment of the Noblest Exultation and Triumph that Science and Genius had ever achieved into one of Desolation and Mourning , and striking Terror into the Hearts of Assembled Thousands brought home into every Bosom the Forgotten Truth that ‘ In the Midst of Life we are in Death ’ . |
| 27 | The action followed widespread rumours in late January of a planned coup attempt by StB members with the help of hardline elements in the Army ; the authorities on Jan. 26 reinforced the police force with Interior Ministry troops , while denying the coup rumours . |
| 28 | On Sept. 18 a senior Russian Defence Ministry official denied US reports alleging the testing in January of a new type of Russian nerve gas . |
| 29 | The case for Taylor to vacate his position has been strengthened by the pain here in Spain of a shabby England performance after the torment and failure in the European championship finals . |
| 30 | Team Spirit 92 had been cancelled due to the improving relations between the two Korean states , but in recent months relations had deteriorated as a result of the North 's refusal to accept unscheduled inspection of its nuclear facilities , and the alleged discovery within South Korea of a huge Northern spy network [ see p. 39141 ] . |