Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [conj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With reference to starting points , Wyre is the name of a Borough Council covering a large area of the North Fylde but there is no town or village of Wyre and as a starting point ‘ Wyre ’ does not make sense . |
| 2 | NATO decided to go ahead with the cruise missiles before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and against a background of Soviet-American agreement in the Salt 11 talks on strategic weapons . |
| 3 | I shall come into Béarn from the Soule by way of Tardets and through a small , thoroughly bucolic bit of country known as the Barétous . |
| 4 | The Netherlands views itself not only as a trader and distributor of LPG but as a major user . |
| 5 | Huxley as a popularizer of Darwin and as a teacher of biology emphasized rather different aspects of science . |
| 6 | Imran Khan , the Pakistan captain , may miss this summer 's tour of England because of a shoulder injury . |
| 7 | He repudiated the oath by which he had restored to the Holy See the ecclesiastical rights and privileges enjoyed by the emperors and the kings of Sicily and within a few months of his coronation he began to progress down into Italy . |
| 8 | A blue cloth bag contained roots of Yellow-Root ( see below ) with several kinds of Orchis and in a white bag were various Martagons . |
| 9 | Almost 400 ministers refused to conform to this imposition of Episcopacy and as a result they were debarred from their kirks , deprived of their livelihoods , and disqualified from acting as ministers . |
| 10 | After trying every aquatic shop in the area , I decided to write directly to the manager of Trilcot and within a week I was able to collect an excellent piece of wood which they sent to a nearby store . |
| 11 | She continued that support after his elevation to the House of Lords in 1970 and during his service as joint chairman of the Southern Flank of NATO and as a Deputy Lieutenant of the city of Edinburgh . |
| 12 | He directed me to a main road on the edge of Jaffa and to a small lane that ran off it to the north . |
| 13 | Therefore absolute trust , which we placed eagerly with the likes of Clarkie and as a result had our faces rubbed in the dirt , can not reasonably be expected . |
| 14 | Deafened at the age of three months as a result of a fall from his nurse 's arms , he took full advantage of his independent means by devoting his life to the service of his fellow-deaf as an honourary missioner in his native city of Liverpool and as a licensed lay reader excelling in the conduct of religious services for the deaf . |
| 15 | Whether the battle of Otford in 776 was fought in the aftermath of the death of Heahberht or as a consequence of some other matter in dispute between Ecgberht and the Mercians , after 765 there is no certain evidence that Ecgberht was for long , if at all , ‘ a mere dependant ’ of Offa . |
| 16 | For example , the historian who is studying a parish in the Sussex Weald might get more enlightenment from an analysis of the economy and social structure of a wood-pasture community in the Forest of Arden than from a comparable study of a nearby parish on the South Downs , which might offer some rewarding contrasts but few points of similarity . |
| 17 | Richard escaped the siege of Bytham and for a period of a week or two in February 1221 in the forest of Cliff , Northamptonshire , he held off a royal army . |
| 18 | But these were local efforts and as landlords , tenants and labourers were locked in a situation whose extent was only just becoming apparent , endemic poverty came to be seen less as the will of God than as a widespread indication of human failure . |
| 19 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 20 | The left fork goes on to the village of Glenelg and in a field between the two roads a gaunt ruin will be noticed : this in its eighteenth-century heyday was the barracks occupied by Hanoverian troops . |
| 21 | Then from behind the bar a hunk the size of Ludo and with a nose like a squashed pear tells them to cool it : we are n't police , he says . |
| 22 | It may interest them that within the last few months the European parliament has agreed to press for a bill of rights for the citizens of Europe and for a written constitution for Europe . |
| 23 | Luxembourg 's location at the heart of Europe and as a founder-member of the EC , has de facto constituted a potent lobbying force within the EC for free market/commercial communications policies within Europe and across national boundaries , notably in the EC/CE debate on ‘ television without frontiers ’ . |
| 24 | He has an impressive command of the literature of both art and optical science across much of Europe and over a span of four centuries . |
| 25 | This , they say , has contributed to the " ungovernability " of Britain and to a whole host of economic problems as opportunities for investment and long-run growth are " crowded out " by the reality of evermore taxation raised to finance the public services demanded by interest groups . |
| 26 | It was a perfect midsummer 's dawn on the northern border of France and for a moment , for a last heart-aching moment , the world was at peace . |
| 27 | Sir John , the seventh baronet of Redenham in Hampshire , who also has estates on the Isle of Wight and on a Scottish island , refused to discuss the matter yesterday . |
| 28 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ By this time , I 'd become the President of MainMan and for a time was Ton 's right hand man running errands for him . |
| 29 | The novel is a curious mixture of autobiography , fantasy , speculation about poetry , and Welsh legends ( modelled obliquely on the Arabian Night ) that begins as a ‘ story of Balham and of a family dwelling in Balham who were more Welsh tlian Balhamilish ’ . |
| 30 | So much evidence , relatively speaking , survives to illustrate Offa 's dealings with the men of Kent and to a lesser extent with the South Saxons and so little to illuminate his relations with the Anglian groups of eastern England that the order of importance of these areas to Offa can easily be inverted . |