Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELFAST solicitor , Bernard Turkington , has been appointed by the Independent Commission for Police Complaints , to direct the investigation into the killing of Gerald Maginn at the weekend . |
| 2 | The accession of Gerald Ford to the presidency in 1974 was a relief for many Americans . |
| 3 | SIMON BROWN , of Rodier Hommes at The A1 Galleria : ‘ Rodier 's use of colour for menswear prompts most comment . ’ |
| 4 | The researches of Frances Yates into the relationship between science and what is loosely called magic at the end of the 16th century are enlightening . |
| 5 | Earlier , on July 30 , a KPRP communiqué had announced the expulsion of Ung Phan from the party central committee " due to his betrayal " , and the retirement of Chheng Phon for health reasons . |
| 6 | The New Year 's Eve mauling of Ben Silcock by the lions at London Zoo sparked calls for the introduction of compulsory supervision of mentally ill people in the community . |
| 7 | So when he fled in terror from the slopes of Ben Macdhui in the Cairngorms one day in 1891 , people were reluctant to dismiss his story of how he had crossed paths with the ghostly Big Grey Man — Am Fear Liath Mòr . |
| 8 | The Lions were delighted with the choice of Ben Clarke on the blind-side of the scrum . |
| 9 | From it , Glen Loy opens an inviting way into the hilly interior but the object that most excites attention is the tremendous bulk of Ben Nevis on the far side of the valley , better seen from here than from any other low viewpoint . |
| 10 | The waymarked tourist path to the summit of Ben Lomond in the recently created Loch Lomond regional park has become , in the words of the conservationists ‘ a four lane motorway ’ , which at its worst cuts a deep furrow through the peak down to bedrock . |
| 11 | The whole sequence , therefore , appears to be concerned with rescripts of Marcus Aurelius on the subject of trusts for public building . |
| 12 | After the mixed card on St Patrick 's Day we are back to an all National Hunt affair and the main race , the Sportsman Hunter Chase , may go to Bajan Blues who almost brought off the shock defeat of Matt Reid at the last meeting . |
| 13 | In the process , he illuminates the loneliness of Los Angeleans of the 90s as they try to find love and comfort in an essentially hostile environment . |
| 14 | Two students were killed on March 23 during anti-government demonstrations in the town of Merida , 600 km south-west of Caracas , and there were violent incidents in the Caracas suburb of Los Teques on the same day . |
| 15 | Although the eye-irritating smogs of Los Angeles in the 1940s received nationwide media coverage , it was not until a 1948 six-day smog in Donora , Pennsylvania , causing 6000 cases of illness and 20 deaths , that air pollution succeeded in gaining federal attention ( Schrenk et al. , 1949 ) . |
| 16 | Although Gould had wound up two of his principal publications by the time he left England — the concluding part 22 of Birds of Europe was scheduled for July 1837 , and the third and final part of the Trogons appeared on or before 14 March 1838 — Prince was charged with seeing to the publicity and the production of the plates for Darwin 's Zoology of the Beagle , and the printing and colouring of the illustrations for the second part of Icones Avium on the species of Caprimulgidae , or goatsuckers . |
| 17 | The agreement centred on the acceptance of René Théodore as the new Prime Minister . |
| 18 | This shift led to the return in 1892 of Keir Hardie as the first independent labour MP , and in 1898 of the first labour council in British electoral history . |
| 19 | As a brave pilot who does n't flinch in the face of adversity ( ie three episodes of Coronation Street on the trot ) , you 're on your way to meet the enemy troops . |
| 20 | The bomb disrupted filming of Coronation Street at the Granada studios less than a mile away . |
| 21 | As we experience Act I , Scene i , of King Lear for the first time , it may not be easy to see that Cordelia is right , the others wrong . |
| 22 | Apart from the Arthurian legend , Morgan was the name of a Celtic sea-fairy ; an echo of this belief is last seen when Morgan le Fay is one of the four fairy queens who spirit the body of King Arthur across the water to the Isle of Avalon . |
| 23 | There is reason to associate this with the Minister of King Zoser of the Third Dynasty known as Imhotep , later deified as the Father of Egyptian science . |
| 24 | He had married , probably in 660 , Æthelthryth , daughter of King Anna of the East Angles and widow of Tunberht , princeps of the South Gyrwe . |
| 25 | Among the defectors was one of Charles 's kinsmen : his cousin-once-removed , Pippin , " son of King Bernard of the Lombards ' ( Nithard identifies him very carefully at this point ) . |
| 26 | The earliest and most famous of these deified humans was Imhotep , the chief minister of King Djoser of the Third Dynasty ( about 2670 BC ) . |
| 27 | But on 30 October the regents once more affirmed the rights of the Crown : they ordered Hugh de Neville , the Chief Justice of the Forest , to cause the royal forests to be kept by the same metes and bounds as they had been in the time of King John before the war between him and his barons . |
| 28 | In the nervous systems of arthropods , for example — including insects and crustacea — the head ganglion — the brain — may be important , but is so only in the sense of King John amongst the barons ; there are many other ganglia distributed throughout the arthropod body , each with a considerable degree of autonomy . |
| 29 | But even for the Iranians the Hellenistic era meant a change in appreciation : the prophet Zoroaster took the place of King Cyrus as the most characteristic Iranian figure . |
| 30 | Under the editorship of Roman Prahl of the National Gallery of Prague , the first foreign language Czech art periodical has been launched , entitled Bulletin of the National Gallery in Prague , with articles in French , English and German . |