Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 2 | In addition to their port duties , Lerwick staff had to cover controls at Sumburgh Airport which was thirty miles south of Lerwick over a bumpy switchback road . |
| 3 | The CDU , which has been weakened steadily in state elections since the December 1990 general election , now only rules the east German state of Saxony with an absolute majority and is in the minority in Bonn 's Bundesrat , or upper legislature . |
| 4 | During his reign he added vast territories to the Frankish kingdom that he had inherited ; Lombardy ( the traditional enemy of both Franks and papacy ) , parts of Spain , all of Saxony over a prolonged period of campaigning , and Slavonic regions of the Drave and Elbe . |
| 5 | At an earlier stage in my career I was transferred from one division of ICI to a new one . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal reserved judgment on the challenge by auctioneers Messenger May Baverstock of Guildford to a High Court ruling that they had been negligent in selling for £840 two oil paintings that soon fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's as works of George Stubbs . |
| 7 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 8 | The hills fall to the sea in gentle contours , exactly as they should ; there is woodland and cliff , and part of the outline of Euboea across a blue strait . |
| 9 | It is ironic that , after the National majority had been safely won , and shown itself , as might have been predicted , protectionist , Snowden reverted to the role of stubborn free trader , and gave currency to the view of MacDonald as a feeble halfwit , without principles or dignity , Yet MacDonald , although no doctrinaire free trader , had fought harder to reach a formula that the Liberals , Snowden 's free trade allies , could accept than Snowden himself had done . |
| 10 | We eventually left the outback by way of some tiny townships , widely spaced , and came down onto the Queensland coast at the busy city of Townsville with a modern cylindrical building surmounted by a silvery roof feature . |
| 11 | Leaving the blockade of Pavia to a smaller force , Charles marched directly against Lombard the heir Adelchis , taking Verona , Brescia and Bergamo . |
| 12 | He thought more than once of Antwerp as a possible bolt-hole . |
| 13 | ‘ The golden century ’ aims to provide an overview of Flemish baroque painting while also focusing on the importance of Antwerp as a major centre for trade and artistic patronage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , when it was still part of the Hapsburg Empire . |
| 14 | What do you reckon of Strach as a future Leeds manager ? |
| 15 | The result was a reaffirmation of the status of MCC as a senior committee with respect to MMRC ; a recognition that changes in Course regulations must receive approval by MCC before appearing in course documents ; and restoration of the original frequency of MCC meetings . |
| 16 | Dr Malcolm Chase , who is conducting the day school , highlighted the importance of Middlesbrough as an industrial area . |
| 17 | All but one member of this versatile group are from the parish , helped along by Matt Harpham of Sheffield with an impressive performance as lead vocalist and on keyboard . |
| 18 | The main Commonwealth case from a country with a common law jurisdiction is Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 , a decision of the Supreme Court of Victoria in an appellate capacity which has since been accepted by other appellate courts in Australia as a correct statement of the law , that is to say the common law of Australia . |
| 19 | Similarly , of 16 species of Chitonomyces on an aquatic beetle ( gyrinid beetles ) six were seen only on males and nine were limited to females . |
| 20 | Friends of his knew of Fleischmann as an eminent electrochemist . |
| 21 | The devotion of the people of Dijon to an obscure tomb in one of the cemetries outside the town was frowned on by the local bishop , Gregory of Langres , who regarded it as an act of pagan superstition . |
| 22 | An attempt could be made to reverse this by increasing the dietary intake of vitamin C , but we have shown in a region of Venezuela with a high incidence of gastric cancer that oral vitamin C supplementation alone is insufficient to increase gastric juice ascorbate concentrations in the presence of H pylori infection . |
| 23 | Thus by 1814 Bolivar was driven out of Venezuela by a savage backlands revolt , accidentally royalist , led by Boves , a smuggler and sergeant of the Spanish marines , who established a brutal domination over the mounted herdsmen of the plains . |
| 24 | Hewlett-Packard Co has beaten both the incumbent mainframe supplies , IBM Corp and Unisys Corp to a contract with Televerket of Stockholm to an initial $4.6m contract that could grow to $100m by 1996 . |
| 25 | HP has beaten incumbent mainframe suppliers , IBM and Unisys to a contract with Televerket of Stockholm worth an initial $4.6m , which could grow to $100m by 1996 . |
| 26 | At the least , the clergy provided the kings , ealdermen and thegns of Sussex with a literate group available for the limited use of their services Saxon society required : drawing up charters , promulgating laws and formulating tax demands . |
| 27 | What the Saxon invasion did primarily was to reorganise most of Sussex as a distinct political unit , firmly independent for the first time since the Regni . |
| 28 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council decided to take out membership of CPRE as a local organisation . |
| 29 | In the great high hall there is an enormous and glamorous portrait of Webb on a black charger , by Wooton . |
| 30 | I believe that the Minister will soon come to the London borough of Newham on an official visit to hear about our arts policy . |