Example sentences of "of london [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly , LA has only about half the police force of London for a city of ten million . |
| 2 | He says they are moving Steiner from the Tower of London to a place called St Mary 's Priory . ’ |
| 3 | As the wood is an 8,000-year-old oak wood only eight miles from the centre of London on a site of special scientific interest , could not the Department have done more to insist that the important new road going close to my constituency was cut-and-cover ? |
| 4 | As a result they were all imprisoned in the Tower of London on a charge of ‘ seditious libel ’ . |
| 5 | There is something very sweet about strolling through the streets of London with a fellow-countryman , and in the privacy afforded by their shining armour of courtesy and concern , to frankly recognize the difficult truth : that they are better than the people around them . |
| 6 | The exception was the City of London with a population of less than 5,000 ( Herbert 1960:233 — 6 ) . |
| 7 | The Privy Council is then found referring to arbitration a dispute between two foreigners , hearing the submission and apology of a merchant for speaking offensively about the Queen , instructing sheriffs to send up a note of the number of prisoners in their gaols , ordering mayors of seaports to prepare private ships to serve in the navy against the expected Spanish invasion , telling its agents at the Hague to arrange for the purchase of matches for guns , sending off various warrants , organizing the acquisition of copper for the Queen 's service , delegating the decision in a legal action to the J.P.s of Bedfordshire , permitting the taking of a collection on behalf of a Cornish village despoiled by Spaniards , and writing to the Lord Mayor of London about a complaint against his predecessor . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the size and wealth of London as a centre for consuming the products of the new industries was important . |
| 9 | Further , in June 1347 Charles de Blois , the French candidate to the duchy of Brittany , was taken in battle by Sir Thomas Dagworth ; like David II he , too , was sent to the Tower of London as a prisoner . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the Government has stepped in to underwrite the cost of bomb damage to shore up confidence in the British insurance industry and the reputation of the City of London as a world financial centre although that , ironically , may encourage just as much as it may discourage the IRA . |
| 11 | To use such language under Cromwell 's government was to court persecution , and Taylor spent some time in the Tower of London as a result . |
| 12 | City of London during a power failure . |
| 13 | The trophy was designed by an artist , Edmund Cotterill , and made by Garrard of London at a cost of £1,775 . |
| 14 | Early in the eighteenth century , Charles Whittingham moved his printing press from the City of London into a house on Chiswick Mall — as that river front became known — called ‘ High House ’ , and The Chiswick Press was established . |
| 15 | It was all part of the defence of London in an emergency . |
| 16 | A sale in the City of London by a member of the public to a shopkeeper would not satisfy this requirement and nor would a sale which took place in a private part of the shop , Hargreave v. Spink ( 1892 Q.B. ) . |
| 17 | 4 I had a terrible dream — I was being chased round the Tower of London by a gyre frabjous. 5 Seventeen whiffling Jabberwocks burbled at the vorpal dagger brandished under the Tumtum tree by our brave hero . |