Example sentences of "[noun prp] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also at the E end is a fine Calvary of the early 15C and sedilia of the Gothic period . |
| 2 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 3 | Find the H.C.F. of the following : |
| 4 | Find the H.C.F. of the following sets of numbers : |
| 5 | Goran Persson of the Swedish Environment Protection Board says such ‘ acidification … was not even considered conceivable ’ in the 1970s . |
| 6 | This field either contains the PSN of the last entry in this bundle assigned on that basis ( restricting the range of the search ) or contains a negative value indicating that there are no more entries of the kind in this bundle . |
| 7 | The young woman pursed her lips and , for a few brief seconds , smiled sweetly , reminding Corbett of the pious , beautiful , young nun he once knew . |
| 8 | More than that , the Donny of the '90s is sufficiently mature and ( deep voice ) masculine to cause Tom Jones sleepless nights worrying about his own sexuality . |
| 9 | But now Dr David Taylor-Robinson of the Medical Research Council 's Clinical Research Centre in Harrow believes he has isolated a hitherto unknown species of mycoplasma , which he has called Mycoplasma genitalium ( see figure ) . |
| 10 | He was always more conscious than Picasso of the actual surface quality of his work , and moreover more consistently conscious of the need for respecting the demands of the picture plane . |
| 11 | After winning a small chase at Ludlow he took the Hennessy Gold Cup for the second time — highly appropriately , as he was owned by Madame Kilian Hennessy of the sponsoring brandy company — and then , after a warm-up victory at Kempton Park , had beaten Fortria by a length in the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 12 | Congratulations goes to Paddy Summers of the Sixmilewater league who has been elected assistant team manager to Russell Morrow , Ballymena . |
| 13 | The tribal customs of Wimbledon were , in Henry 's view , as worthy of study as the totems and taboos of the Aborigines of the Northern Territory . |
| 14 | Stephen Lippard and John Caradonna of Columbia University , New York , working with Michael Crait and Mohinder Singh of the Medical Research Council 's Molecular Biology Laboratory at Cambridge , have shown that cis- DDP can bond to a double stranded chain of DNA as well ( Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 104 , p 5793 ) . |
| 15 | Jorge del Castillo of the main opposition American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( APRA , whose secretary-general Alan García Pérez had gone to ground following the April presidential coup — see p. 38846 ) , announced on May 15 that the party would not participate in the municipal elections , still scheduled to take place in November 1992 . |
| 16 | On 30 September Mountbatten had listened to an exposition of the situation by Captain J.P.H. Perks of the Dutch navy who informed Supremo that : ‘ The Indonesian forces were not organised , that … all resistance would collapse as soon as the Allied forces appeared . |
| 17 | Oberhuber also defended the traditional attribution to Mantegna of the miniature-like ‘ Judith with the Head of Holofernes ’ from Washington , marked down in the catalogue as ‘ After Mantegna ’ ; an alternative suggestion is the young Giulio Campagnola , recently proposed by David Landau . |
| 18 | In his two-volume Mexico of the Twentieth Century ( 1907 ) Martin moved on to examine British investment and influence in that country . |
| 19 | The decision by Nicaragua to open diplomatic relations with Taiwan in November meant that only Mexico of the Central American countries maintained ties exclusively with the mainland . |
| 20 | The article is written by Dr Rafael Roncagliolo of the Latin American Institute ( IPAL ) in Peru , and follows up on some of the convictions expressed at a meeting of Latin American communicators which was organised by IPAL and WACC last year . |
| 21 | This latter item was of special importance to the Castells of the early 1980s . |
| 22 | Rev Bernhardur Gudmundson of the National Church of Iceland joins the staff of the Lutheran World Federation in October as Secretary for Communication Consultancy in the Department for Mission and Development . |
| 23 | Davy McCall of the promoting club was third at this stage in 9.54 while 4th fastest was Scott Hamilton ( Banbridge ) in 10.00 leading the juniors . |
| 24 | Davy McCall of the promoting club was third at this stage in 9.54 , while fourth fastest was Scott Hamilton ( Banbridge ) in 10.00 , leading the juniors . |
| 25 | Davy McCall of the promoting club was third at this stage in 9.54 , while fourth fastest was Scott Hamilton ( Banbridge ) in 10.00 , leading the juniors . |
| 26 | Other notable absentees included Presidents Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaïre and Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo as well as André Kolingba of the Central African Republic and Cameroon 's Paul Biya , both of whom were conducting election campaigns . |
| 27 | In fact the USSR 's oil production did not peak in 1980 and a production level higher than the Jeremiahs of the late seventies predicted , was achieved . |
| 28 | In a report of an International conference on Frontiers in Education , it was announced that Mr Michael Macdonald-Ross of the Open University was doing research into the efficacy of the printed word : " a field where very little research had been done . " |
| 29 | Finally , it has been postulated by Charles Betz of the European consultancy organisation Carré Orban and Paul Ray International that each European country will adopt a particular expertise as follows : |
| 30 | The maimed Sylvie of the post-war years , receding ever further into a life he could n't penetrate . |