Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , George ( 1886–1936 ) , founder of the poppy factory , was born 7 September 1886 at the rectory in Overton , Flintshire , the youngest in the family of four sons ( the eldest of whom died in infancy ) and one daughter of George John Howson , rector of Overton and later archdeacon of Liverpool , and his wife Ethel , daughter of Thomas Dealtry , vicar of Maidstone . |
| 2 | When Charles cut down the sacred tree Irminsul , he was destroying the one central element of Saxony that all tribes seemed to look to and respect . |
| 3 | I 'm sure she will be pleased to learn about the formation of the Association for the Study of Caribbean and African Literature in French , which brings together a group of academics involved with the teaching of this literature at university level . |
| 4 | At the same time , the post-war years have provided a larger and more easily identified target for racial animosity in the new populations of Caribbean and Asian immigrants . |
| 5 | Again , there are no national figures but a number of local studies indicate a high incidence of certain physical and sensory impairments amongst black and Asian communities ; the high incidence of sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia among people of Caribbean and Mediterranean origin is also well known . |
| 6 | Writers in these countries use English , usually as a vehicle for exposure of the cultural roots of Caribbean or African people . |
| 7 | Substantial research has shown that different ethnic groups ( e.g. children of Caribbean or Asian origin ) display different ranges of attainment in the British education system . |
| 8 | She unhooked her cloak collar as we had to wait at the outer door of Marcus whilst two porters wheeled out an empty accident trolley . |
| 9 | It is not worth discussing the difference between the document of Josephus and II Maccabees over the name which the Samaritan temple was going to take : Zeus Hellenios according to one source , Zeus Xenios according to the other . |
| 10 | At the heart of the bonanza will be models made by Bandai , distributors of Nintendo and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles . |
| 11 | Runners , coaches and athletics writers the world over have puzzled at the success of Mota and 38-year-old Pedrosa . |
| 12 | Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies ( Canterbury ) Many thousands of unpublished manuscripts relating to family histories ; manorial papers thirteenth-twentieth centuries , records of armorial bearings in all Sussex churches , Canterbury Cathedral and elsewhere ; an extensive index of British arms ; transcripts of rolls of arms and heraldic treatises ; heralds ' original note books ; and hundreds of genealogical documents are held at the Institute . |
| 13 | The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies , Canterbury , has published a series of county maps showing the ancient parish boundaries and the starting dates of surviving registers , and various record offices have produced similar maps for their own area . |
| 14 | The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies , Northgate , Canterbury , have published two maps showing the registration and census districts as they were between 1837 and 1851 and between 1852 and 1946 , though they do not mark exact boundaries . |
| 15 | Then they turned on Count Élie of Périgord and laid siege to Puy-St-Front . |
| 16 | The largest owner , Pocahontas-Kentucky ( a subsidiary of Norfolk and Western Railroad ) , owns one-third of the county 's surface land and mineral rights to another 81,333 acres ( or 55 per cent of the county 's surface ) . |
| 17 | In a second division top-of-the-table clash , Thomas & Nelson drew 1-1 with Stockkman Lodge , Rocksavage won 2-1 at Duke of Wellington and third-placed Tarbock Villa maintained won 4-2 against Todds . |
| 18 | Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had been notable guests of the Duke in 1842 , and in 1844 a grand fete was organised by the Duke for the reception of the Emperor of Russia ( mentioned above ) at which the King of Saxony ; the Duke of Wellington and many representatives of the nobility of Britain attended . |
| 19 | and keep five , five erm , well , you know the Thursdays of March and two nets ? |
| 20 | The flocks disperse very rapidly in the second half of March and sizable flocks are rare after the end of this month . |
| 21 | Leave onion sets until the end of March or early April when the soil should be warmer . |
| 22 | The way to avoid this disaster is to behead gradually — we took off about a third of the top growth every 7–10 days , so that the final beheading can be completed just above the implant by the end of March or mid April . |
| 23 | Cottrell 's 82 left him in fifth place , along with Tim Paterson of Letherhead , with his Cheshire captain Phil Bailey of Caldy and another Cheshire player Gareth Bradley of Bramhall in a group on 302 . |
| 24 | Many of you will be aware of the launch of the Brecon Beacons National Park Society a few weeks ago and are perhaps wondering what effect this will have on the activities of CPRW and this branch in particular . |
| 25 | The failure of these investigations to yield practical results has frequently been explained by abstruseness in the case of Plowden and exaggerated analysis in the case of Fulton . |
| 26 | They did n't give me methadone , they just gave me I think it was 30 milligrams of Librium and two sleepers of a night time … . |
| 27 | Of course , this way of looking at things reflects my own bias as an only partially reconstructed neurochemist ; in practice the neurophysiology may well lead — indeed , in the important cases of Aplysia and long-term potentiation discussed next , has led — the biochemistry and cell biology , pointing the way towards cells whose electrical properties and therefore their biochemical properties change during memory formation . |
| 28 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend 's constituents will recognise that it is vital for the future prosperity of Swindon that those schemes be implemented as quickly as possible . |
| 30 | But as the full measure of SR and Menshevik subordination to the bourgeoisie was revealed , the overwhelming majority of workers recognized that the Bolsheviks were the true spokesmen of their interests . |