Example sentences of "[noun prp] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Goran Persson of the Swedish Environment Protection Board says such ‘ acidification … was not even considered conceivable ’ in the 1970s . |
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| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Congratulations goes to Paddy Summers of the Sixmilewater league who has been elected assistant team manager to Russell Morrow , Ballymena . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In his two-volume Mexico of the Twentieth Century ( 1907 ) Martin moved on to examine British investment and influence in that country . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . " |
| 18 | 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 : |
| 19 | Tony and Ann of the International Cafe and June , Jane and Paul of The Duke of Holland kept me suitably fed . |
| 20 | The analytical technique , which has been devised by A. Burmester of the Technical University of Berlin , may also provide a way of identifying repairs and additions to lacquered objects . |
| 21 | ‘ Those who lose their jobs are reckoned to stand a 50pc chance of securing new employment within three months , ’ said Ronnie Scott of the Economic Research Centre . |
| 22 | King David of the Old Testament had mighty men to enforce discipline , so did David Koresh . |
| 23 | However , the compromise had drawn a furious response on Oct. 16 from Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin , originally co-sponsor with Gorbachev of the working group which had produced the Shatalin plan . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher 's international stature also rested on the curious chemistry of her relationship with President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union , but the rigour of the Prime Minister consorted somewhat uneasily with the fluid world of perestroika , democratization throughout eastern Europe , German reunification , and moves towards international disarmament . |
| 25 | Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar , President George Bush of the United States , Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada , President Oscar Arias Chavez of Costa Rica , President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union , Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom and many other world leaders . |
| 26 | The 12th NST round opened on Sept. 28 , 1989 , and ended on Dec. 8 , when Burt and Yuri Nazarkin ( who replaced Alexei Obukhov as the Soviet delegation leader in November 1988 ) held an unprecedented joint press conference at which they reaffirmed the undertaking given at the Malta summit meeting on Dec. 2-3 between President Bush of the USA and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union ( see p. 37111 ) that they would aim to conclude a START treaty by the time of the scheduled Washington summit of June 1990 . |
| 27 | Soviet officials assembled for the Malta summit meeting between President Bush of the USA and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union on Dec. 2-3 ( see pp. 37110-12 ) confirmed on Nov. 30 that the Warsaw Pact was to be remodelled along the lines of NATO , and would become an instrument for political dialogue with the Western nations . |
| 28 | During a visit to Moscow on Feb. 11-12 by Kohl and Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the West German Foreign Minister , President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union declared that " the unity of the German nation must be decided by the Germans themselves " . |
| 29 | The summit invited President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union and representatives of the other East European countries to come to Brussels and address the North Atlantic Council , and to establish regular diplomatic liaison with NATO . |
| 30 | After talks in Stavropol ( North Caucasus , Soviet Union ) on July 15-16 Helmut Kohl , the West German Federal Chancellor , and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union reached an historic agreement on the future role of a united Germany in the international system of alliances . |