Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in 1613 he ‘ went beyond the seas without licence ’ and settled first at Brussels , then at Antwerp , he was in personal contact with another expatriate , Peter Philips , and with the Amsterdam organist Sweelinck , both of whom figure in the Fitzwilliam Book . |
| 2 | We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary . |
| 3 | It should acknowledge that there are conflicts between critical approaches , and should make the students ' confrontation of them part of the pedagogic process . |
| 4 | Pimlico was shown to be comparatively resistant to clamping , as were Mayfair , Soho and Knightsbridge , all of them part of the original clamping area . |
| 5 | You could argue that some of them work outside the home because they have to , for financial reasons , but I think it 's indisputable that a ever-growing number want to work outside the home and I think it 's very important that they should be allowed the scope to do so . |
| 6 | Like one of them girls on the adverts ! |
| 7 | Thus he incorporates a disposable debate between Dickens , Chatterton , Wilde and T. S. Eliot , all of them members of the Ackroyd stable . |
| 8 | In Marrakesh there were work stoppages by post office and junior government clerks , many of them members of the islamic Youth Movement , Wall posters denounced Hassan with a clever play on words : " LE CHIEN RECOIT LE CHAT " ( The dog welcomes the cat-chat sounding very like Shah ) . |
| 9 | El-Jorr was Hurley 's principal link to a network of DEA informants/CIA ‘ assets ’ in Lebanon , many of them members of the warring clans of the pro-Syrian Kabbaras and the anti-Syrian Jafaars in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 10 | As a consequence , the exhibition programme has expanded considerably and 9000 visitors — about 20 per cent of them members of the public — visited the Santiago Calatrava exhibition in the Autumn . |
| 11 | Among those detained in a wave of arrests , according to reports on Nov. 13 , were three former ministers in the Mahdi government [ see p. 36418 ] , Salah Abd al-Salam al-Khalifa , Omar Nour el-Daim and Bakri Ahmed Adil , all of them members of the Umma party whose fundamentalist wing was still represented in the Bashir regime . |
| 12 | At the May 22 press conference Interior Minister Abdullah Kallal said that almost 300 people — about 100 of them members of the armed forces — had been arrested over recent weeks in connection with a coup plot directed by Ghannouchi . |
| 13 | Seven hundred boys , almost a third of them sons of the clergy , lived their ‘ ultra-Spartan ’ lives in an institution which combined frequently brutal discipline with a consistently meagre diet . |
| 14 | The largest of them lives in the rivers of Japan . |
| 15 | With this the two of them wall up the entrance until only a tiny slot is left open . |
| 16 | Most of the guns , however , were at least 40 years old , some of them relics from the Boer War . |
| 17 | But MPs take it very seriously when one of them lies in the Commons . |
| 18 | ‘ They lives in one of them cottages with the straw rooves . |
| 19 | Rainbow locks the taxi , and the pair of them head round the back of the Palace towards the pond . |
| 20 | I made a number of valuable contacts , and was able to renew my acquaintance with seven graduates of the M.A. course at Lancaster ( four of them teachers at the CIEFL ) . |
| 21 | One of them things for the plant or for the |
| 22 | Beethoven ( Sonata Op12 No3 ) , Schumann ( Romances Op94 , Sonata Op105 No1 ) , Stravinsky ( Suite Italienne ) 4pm Barbican £5-£12.50 Bach Vespers Cantata 38 ( Aus tiefer Not ) , plus Vivaldi ( Double Violin Concerto ) in context of Lutheran service 7pm St Anne 's , Gresham St , The City NORWICH FESTIVAL Dorothy Tutin joins the Endymion Ensemble for Saint- Saens 's Carnival of the Animals and Poulenc 's Babar the Elephant , plus Ibert , Milhaud 3pm St Andrew 's Hall £2-£8. l TUESDAY Verdi Requiem ECO and Tallis Chamber Choir with soloists Jo Ann Pickens , Sarah Walker , Jeffrey Talbot , Gwynne Howell 7.30pm Royal Naval College Chapel , King William Walk , Greenwich SE10 £5.50-£9 ( 317 8687 ) Olli Mustonen The brilliant young Finnish pianist-composer joins fellow Finn Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia for a Grand Gala in aid of the Council for the Protection of Rural England : Ravel 's breezy G major Piano Concerto is framed by aptly Green pieces by Vaughan Williams ( Greensleeves Fantasia ) and Stravinsky ( Le Sacre du Printemps ) 7.30pm RFH £18 incl donation ; £35-£125 incl reception and private view of Legacy exhibition ( 12 photographers ' views of Britain 's countryside ) NORWICH FESTIVAL The Field of Cloth of Gold : A musical celebration of the 1520 meeting between Henry VIII and Francois I of France , played on period instruments by Musica Antiqua of London 7.30pm Cathedral £2.50-£7.50 ( 0603-618499 ) LES PARISIENNES Pianist Diana Ambache and her Ambache Chamber Orchestra offer musical portraits of four femmes de Paris — two of them composers , two of them inspirations for the compositions of others . |
| 23 | For long hauls the rivers still remained more important than roads in NEP , despite the fact that many of them flow to the Arctic and are frozen for long periods . |
| 24 | Dacourt estimated we had killed scores of our assailants but only three corpses were dragged in , all of them casualties of the ladder which had been pushed away from the outer wall . |
| 25 | I mean , in a much more , erm , a le a less severe example , but we 're having a Road Safety Week , at school , this week , erm , and it was my class 's turn , yesterday afternoon , so I was just there keeping a watching brief with my my children while the , road safety representative was talking to them , and she put them us through the usual hoops of erm , did any of them play on the roadside un unattended . |
| 26 | Closer to Sharpe and Harper , around the crossroads of Quatre Bras , more men had gathered ; all of them Dutch-Belgians of the Prince of Orange 's Corps . |
| 27 | After fifteen years some may have emigrated died … would all of them spring to the colours when called ? ’ |
| 28 | Israeli security forces carried out a series of raids in the West Bank on Jan. 22 resulting in the arrest of at least 60 Palestinians , most of them supporters of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) . |
| 29 | The RCD won 3,750 council seats while the remaining 34 went to independents , most of them defectors from the RCD . |
| 30 | In the 1850s maps of Scotland began to be published , on the scale of 6 inches to one mile , the first of them being of the Lothians area . |