Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down on Sunset Strip , some weird friends of Dean cashed in on his death and began holding court , relating tales of the Jimmy they knew . |
| 2 | Now one of the Russian physiotherapists has come to their home in Lydbrook in the Forest of Dean to work intensively with Stephen . |
| 3 | And there is a third story of Beatrice passing provocatively by Modigliani 's table at the Rotonde . |
| 4 | Wednesday morning , 16 April 1746 , rained , it was chilly , and the citizens of Inverness came out from the town to view this spectator sport . |
| 5 | A. B. Chalmers of Inverness started out like the shopkeepers in Inveraray with a delivery barrow , graduating to a pony and trap for outlying districts and in 1907 introducing the first steam lorry to the Highlands . |
| 6 | I turn to see Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare standing theatrically on the mezzanine above , barking into a mobile phone . |
| 7 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 8 | LEFT Images of Uranus built up from information sent back in 1986 by Voyager 2 ; the image on the right is in false colour and extreme contrast enhancement to show details of Uranus 's polar regions . |
| 9 | The audit of Halcion claims along with some 3000 Ativan ( lorazepam ) claims already served , is due to be completed shortly . |
| 10 | In his concern to endow his sons adequately , Edward behaved in much the same way as other members of landowning society , and although he exploited the marriage market for the benefit of his own family he did not monopolize it : both the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of March gained substantially from the king 's bestowal upon them of wealthy heiresses . |
| 11 | ‘ The concept of TQM dates back to the postwar period when a tried to persuade corporate heads that business should become service driven . ’ |
| 12 | The castle may cast its shadow , but the character of Arbon formed equally by the half-timbered houses . |
| 13 | The towers of Manhattan seemed almost to be touching the cold grey sky . |
| 14 | For years it was assumed that the bear of Croisset broke out of his bearishness solely with Louise Colet — ‘ the only sentimental episode of any importance in the life of Flaubert , ’ Emile Faguet declared . |
| 15 | So , when a group of setts near Brighton was to be partly destroyed by a new road , Dr Tim Roper and colleagues David Fee and Sean Christian at the University of Sussex got together with Dr Alex Tait of East Sussex County Council to carry out a ‘ rescue excavation ’ . |
| 16 | With the land round Selsey and Chichester as an administrative base , the authority of the early kings of Sussex spread westwards into Hampshire and only partially east of the Ouse . |
| 17 | The following day he ruled out , however , the idea of Baker going on to Baghdad as suggested by Iraq , apparently because of his belief that a series of meetings would only serve as a pretext for Iraq to delay any withdrawal from Kuwait . |
| 18 | The military defeat of Taylor appeared increasingly to be the only option for an end to the conflict . |
| 19 | Mindful of the desire of the people in both parts of Germany to live together in peace and freedom in a democratic and social federal state governed by the rule of law , |
| 20 | The primary reason for this was the large increase er in the population of Germany arising out of the reunification of country . |
| 21 | In the sixteenth century , St Teresa of Avila complained bitterly of the perils of the parlour in her fashionable convent , where the nuns practically ran a salon ! |
| 22 | This resembles the account by O'Connor ( 1984 ) of state expenditures , but Of Fe goes further by considering the role of the state in relation to crisis management . |
| 23 | There was a fair deal of Oxbridge waffle around about history being ‘ a training of the mind ’ , a means of understanding the other chap 's point of view . |
| 24 | The lights of Rialto slid by on the right . |
| 25 | Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south . |
| 26 | The fourteenth-century Franciscan William of Ockham went further in declaring it probable that God could make a better world than this . |
| 27 | THE breakaway Yugoslavian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina sank deeper into bloodshed and turmoil yesterday as it prepared to receive recognition as an independent state by the European Community . |
| 28 | The vineyards of Bergères-les-Vertus are largely an extension of the lower slopes of Vertus reaching down to the southern tip of the Côte des Blancs . |
| 29 | As Glisseuse emerged from the Swale channel at the Queenborough end , she was picked up by Vigilant and followed to the upper reaches of the Medway while Venturous made all speed round the outside of Sheppey to catch up on the operation which was now well under control . |
| 30 | The island of Angistri went up in flames within minutes of being declared a wildlife refuge . |