Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also throws away too many key phrases : ‘ This Triton of the minnows ’ is a magnificent epithet for Sicinius but it here gets lost and although in the great banishment-speech Mr Dance 's body-language is good ( as he hurls his coat to the ground in fine disdain ) it is significant that the directors resort to an echo-chamber effect on ‘ There is a world elsewhere . ’ |
| 2 | i ‘ … this Triton of the minnows ’ , DS 46 . |
| 3 | ( And some of those romances were set in medieval Aquitaine of the troubadours — which certainly constitutes one common interest that drew Pound and Hewlett together . ) |
| 4 | For this reason , the announcement this Thursday of the recommendations of the Murray committee for the future structure of county cricket from 1993 onwards will be keenly awaited by all in the game . |
| 5 | Barbaric England of the scientists , the military men , and the politicians : let us turn away and contemplate the past before all is lost to the vandals . |
| 6 | That is the lesson Abraham learnt in polytheistic Ur of the Chaldees . |
| 7 | Before the First World War there were two major types : the reds of West Flanders including the pure Cassel ( without Durham blood ) ; and the ancient Furnes-Ambacht of the Polders , heavily crossed with Durham and Dutch and either black-and-white pied or red . |
| 8 | This understanding went on to form the basis for his ensuing therapy , involving both visualization and counselling , which proved highly successful and relieved poor Barry of the symptoms from which he had been suffering . |
| 9 | The Foreign Office issued a warning to Hitler on 28 September of the consequences if he attacked Czechoslovakia , and the following day the Fleet was mobilised . |
| 10 | Which is a pity , because one would have liked particularly to hear more of the ebullient Gumede , a sort of Mad Max of the townships . |