Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [conj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is a satisfying blend of Bonington retrospective and survey of landscape painting in the 1820s . |
| 2 | It is of course possible that structures of the second kind , the equivalences of category , can be found in equal quantity in non-poetic language ; all that may be required , it has been argued ( Culler 1975 : 62 ) is a sufficiently flexible system of categorization . |
| 3 | But he could n't quite get the mouth right and traces of the leer still showed through . |
| 4 | Pride of Derby and Derbyshire Angling Association Ltd. and Earl of Harrington v. British Celanese Ltd. [ 1952 ] 1 All E.R. |
| 5 | In support of aggregation , Mr. Widdicombe referred me to Thorpe v. Brumfitt ( 1873 ) L.R. 8 Ch.App. 650 ; Lambton v. Mellish [ 1894 ] 3 Ch. 163 and Pride of Derby and Derbyshire Angling Association Ltd. and Earl of Harrington v. British Celanese Ltd. [ 1952 ] 1 All E.R. |
| 6 | A police spokesperson declared on Jan. 10 that allegations of police support for the so-called vigilantes was a " blatant lie " . |
| 7 | Sutherland , a United States national and dean of Agriculture at the American University in Beirut ( AUB ) , had been kidnapped on June 9 , 1985 [ see p. 34133 ] . |
| 8 | For this he relied upon Reg. v. Apicella ( 1985 ) 82 Cr.App.R. 295 and Director of Public Prosecutions v. Marshall [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 9 | In the series of sermons for Lent , you will be thinking about a variety of people , who are described in Hebrews chapter 11 as heroes of faith , and are presented there as examples for Christians to follow . |
| 10 | The same type of modification is seen on shrews ( it will be seen in Chapter 3 that evidence of digestion occurs earlier on vole teeth than on mice or shrews ) , and flaking and penetration of limb bones is also common ( Fig. 1.13 G-H ) . |
| 11 | During the period of his personal government , however , Henry III was compelled by shortage of money to follow the practice of Richard I and John of selling charters of disafforestment . |
| 12 | In the karst region of Yugoslavia there are pure limestones up to 4000m thick and part of the area is more than 2000 m above sea level . |
| 13 | The Consolidated Profit and Loss Account thus does not comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 1985 and statement of earnings per share is not in accordance with SSAP3 . ’ |
| 14 | Just three hours after being sworn in to his new job on January 1st as governor of Rhode Island , the gravelly-voiced Mr Sundlun ordered the closure of 45 small banks and credit unions . |
| 15 | During January courts set in motion the process of liquidating the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) , which had been closed in July 1991 after evidence of massive fraud was revealed [ see pp. 38355 ; 38545 ] . |
| 16 | These are the Comyns and the Bruces who can both reckon amongst their members males of the royal blood , for each claim the throne by descent from David , Earl of Huntingdon , great-uncle of Alexander III and grandson of a former king . |
| 17 | Other sources include the Yellow Pages of the telephone directory and of the Hollis Annual and groups of photographers such as that organised by Bill Hennessy Associates , Universal Pictorial Press and Picture Agency and Norman Edward Associates . |
| 18 | Michael Forsyth was dismissed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sept. 7 as chair of the Scottish Conservative Party and at the same time was promoted from Under-Secretary of State to Minister of State at the Scottish Office . |
| 19 | He admitted theft of 320 kgs of feed on February 10 and theft of 1.79 tonnes of feed before his arrest . |
| 20 | The US ambassador in Belgrade asserted on May 21 that Secretary of State James Baker could still revoke the decision , especially if the presidency issue was resolved quickly . |
| 21 | William 's attempt to achieve a pacification of the Highlands turned into a disastrous tragedy , when the dreadful massacre at Glencoe was carried out in February 1692 because MacDonald of Glencoe accidentally missed the deadline imposed by the government for swearing the oath of allegiance to William by five days . |
| 22 | A goal scoring England international and chairman of the Darlington based Carpenter 's home decorating chain , he continues to make waves at 34 . |
| 23 | Robert Hill ( 26 ) , of Malvern Close , was charged with the attempted murder of two men on May 17 and possession of a rifle on the same date . |
| 24 | He became a canon of Exeter Cathedral in May 1274 and archdeacon of Exeter in December , obtaining also the rectory of Tawstock , diocese of Exeter , in 1275 . |
| 25 | During the year , the group acquired 32% of the equity capital of Model Type Ltd and 100% of the capital of Model Layout Ltd and of Model Manufacturing Ltd . |
| 26 | Boris Yeltsin , the leading radical populist and one of President Mikhail Gorbachev 's fiercest critics , was elected on May 29 as Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet , making him de facto President of the Russian Federation , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic . |
| 27 | Spared the indignity of being questioned in person , it was reported on Sept. 25 that lawyers of the veteran power broker had delivered a written statement to the Public Prosecutor 's Office in which their client acknowledged breaching the Political Funds Control Law through the receipt of 500 million yen ( US$1.00=121.928 yen as at Oct. 26 , 1992 ) from Sagawa Kyubin . |
| 28 | Tanzania 's President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was elected on Aug. 16 as chair of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ) party , with 1,846 out of 1,851 votes cast , in succession to the " elder statesman " leader Julius Nyerere , who had held on to the party chairmanship for five years since stepping down as state President in 1985 . |
| 29 | A spokesman for the IAEA said on May 23 that stocks of enriched uranium had survived the Gulf war virtually intact , but were still recoverable . |
| 30 | Some 7,000 doctors ended a 12-week strike in the week ending Aug. 9 and leaders of 32,000 teachers stated that their current 14-week strike would cease by the end of the month following settlements with the government . |