Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story of Bloxham through the centuries . |
| 2 | The most significant sites in North Shields are Chirton Industrial Estate , originally comprising 110 acres , which was acquired by the council and transferred to North East Trading Estates , and Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate , comprising 132 acres bought from the Duke of Northumberland in the mid-1960s by Property Security Investment Trust Ltd . |
| 3 | Another American , Malivai Washington , overcame Keil 's resistance in the third round and the stubborn efforts of Fitzgerald in the quarters before bowing out in just 73 minutes in the semi-final to Edberg . |
| 4 | ( Two years later , the tender of Samuel Foster Limited of Kempston for the nurses ' recreation room in the sum of £10,295 was accepted , despite an amendment which was put forward to postpone this project for three years , but which was lost on a show of hands . ) |
| 5 | ‘ The people of Amantani after the Incas . ’ |
| 6 | Lurching into it , with one part lumbered with unlovely council tower blocks up the hill , while nearer the river the developers had arrived , and where once had been a network of tiny streets harbouring some of the most professional criminal families in South London , there were now several expensive blocks of flats : expensive because they faced the river and looked sideways to the old Royal Palace of Greenwich with the trees and slopes of the park behind . |
| 7 | The great bulk of population movement occurred independently of Moscow in the years 1917–22 , but after the end of NEP it was to be strictly enforced , and took place on a vast scale again . |
| 8 | When the philosopher and historian Thomas Garrigue Masaryk became the first President of the new republic of Czechoslovakia between the wars , there flew above his residence in Prague Castle a flag bearing the words Truth Prevails , and it 's hardly a coincidence that the central theme of Havel 's political writings has been ‘ To live in truth ’ . |
| 9 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 10 | Mrs Frogatt and Mr Boulton have both handed over their complaints to the Charity Commissioners who are conducting a joint investigation of Brit-Pol with the police . |
| 11 | Kafka-esque is inevitably the word that will be employed to describe the image-battering confusion and dark horror of this picture of the collapsed state , as much moral as political , of Germany in the weeks immediately following the end of the war . |
| 12 | On the issue of Germany in the years before 1914 Quelch was not as xenophobic as Hyndman , but he supported the idea of a ‘ citizen ’ army and an ‘ adequate ’ navy to counter German expansionist aims . |
| 13 | It was invoked against Henry IV of Germany by the Saxons and the southern dukes ; and it was to be invoked against the English King John long after our period closed . |
| 14 | Local authorities will continue to be responsible for adult education provision , both vocational and leisure/cultural activities , but all courses for 16–19 years will be the responsibility of FEFCs through the colleges . |
| 15 | Scarlet 's mother had moved in the Bohemian world of Chelsea in the years immediately post-war and had acquired the air of insouciant , amoral aristocracy combined with a certain self-righteousness arising from the consciousness of being both aesthetically and ( at base ) morally correct which had characterized that society at that time . |
| 16 | There is no further mention of Ambrosia in the records , and possibly she is to be identified with the ‘ Dame Ambroise de Saint-Joire ’ named in 1288 among the first entrants to the Carthusian nunnery of Melan ( Haute-Savoie ) founded in 1282 by Beatrice de Faucigny . |
| 17 | Chub also at top end of Utley near the Ellpots , maggot favoured . |
| 18 | His fellows include those who brought bananas from the Indian Ocean coast to the highlands of east Africa , those who brought cassava from the Atlantic coast of Angola to the forests of Zaire , and those who first trekked the hump-backed Zebu cattle down the valley of the Nile . |
| 19 | After the ( assumed ) conquest of Crete by the Myceneans , large quantities of Minoan artworks may have been transported to the mainland . |
| 20 | But she stood up as eager as Joan of Arc before the judges at her infamous trial . |
| 21 | Still , if Brahms knew his Rheinberger , what this CD makes clear is how well Rheinberger knew his Brahms , who stands over theses String Quartets , as Beethoven did over the young Brahms himself , only much more obviously : there are echoes of Brahms in the textures , the themes , the passage-work , the construction . |
| 22 | Mouse.com was supplied but not Mouse.sys and there is no mention of Mouse.sys in the manuals . |
| 23 | This paper concerns an investigation of mature students at the University of Warwick between the years 1963–1971 . |
| 24 | Suddenly , just as we rounded the bend and were able to glimpse the gables and turrets of Templecombe above the trees , one of the soldiers came riding back so fast his horse , slithering and clattering on the path , almost crashed into Mandeville 's mount . |
| 25 | This represented a quite remarkable compromise which required the co-operation of Aethelred , king of the Mercians , who restored Wilfrid 's Mercian possessions , and Aelfflaed , abbess of Whitby , whose influence with King Aldfrith is likely to have been considerable ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) , but it may have been a manifestation of the insecurity of Aldfrith in the years immediately following his accession . |
| 26 | Eden Hall was the family seat of the Cumbrian family of Musgrave since the days of King Henry VI ; the ‘ Luck ’ is an heirloom , a beautifully enamelled and engraved glass goblet with Moorish-style decorative work on its surfaces . |
| 27 | The linking of the national President of Mexico with the workers through clientelist relationships can be seen in the pattern of strikes over the years . |
| 28 | If Mr Hussein had the wit to get out of Kuwait before the Americans and their allies can push him out , the war would have lost its overriding purpose — and the coalition might at last have lost its cohesiveness . |
| 29 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 30 | The commission solicited proposals from North American museums and received three positive responses : the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York reaffirmed interest in becoming a full collaborator ( it was the Guggenheim 's current director , Thomas Krens , who conceived of MASSMoCA in the mid-1980s while director of the nearby Williams College Art Museum ; he has since dissociated himself to avoid conflict of interest ) ; the ICA Boston proposed developing shared programs , mainly exhibitions ; and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto offered to place a single large installation on long-term loan . |