Example sentences of "of [noun] [adj] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith was on course to cross ahead of Steinlager 2 's track , the 84 foot ketch which won the first leg having slowed noticeably in the past two days . |
| 2 | He supervised the transport and erection of a pair of colossal statues of the king of Karnak and of the two colossal statues , known as the Colossi of Memnon , which were placed at the entrance of Amenophis III 's mortuary temple in western Thebes . |
| 3 | Chapter 3 of the Constitution on the Church , spelling out the doctrine of collegiality , was theologically and dogmatically at the very heart of Vatican II 's debate and contribution to Catholic self-understanding . |
| 4 | In July 1318 , pope John XXII wrote to philip V of France informing him that although the king 's court had conferred tutelage of Gaston I 's children on Jeanne , Margaret of Béarn already had Gaston II in her keeping and was in any case to be preferred as guardian of the young count . |
| 5 | The move follows the closure of Ferranti International 's metrology systems division at Dalkeith in January last year . |
| 6 | It was late that evening that the torpedo from one of Ark Royal 's Swordfish planes smashed Bismarck 's rudder , thus ensuring her destruction by the British fleet . |
| 7 | Most neo-Classical houses in Ireland date from 1730 onwards ; Stackallan , however , was built around 1714 for Gustavus Hamilton , one of William III 's generals , who raised six regiments for the King , including the Inniskillings , and was made Viscount Boyne by George I. |
| 8 | Thus many of the elements of the familiar Victorian pub were already in place at the time of William IV 's death in 1837 . |
| 9 | He combed the records and learnt that two of Suite 1723 's former occupants had died in office and another ( like Orton , a Utah man ) was driven from Washington by scandal . |
| 10 | ParcPlace Systems Inc has appointed Richard Dym , formerly general manager of Autodesk Inc 's Multimedia Division , marketing vice-president . |
| 11 | During the minority of Roger-Bernard III 's grandson , Gaston II ( 1315–23 ) , custody of the comté of Foix was granted to Bernard Jourdain de L'Isle until the count reached the age of fourteen . |
| 12 | ‘ The show 's taking the piss , really , ’ says Normski , in the green room of DEF II 's Manchester studio set . |
| 13 | R 2 will often be given a ‘ territory ’ , although this will not normally mean that R 2 makes all sales of M 1 's product inside the territory . |
| 14 | Their human authors played the same role as genes programming bodies ( think of Chapter 4 's computer chess and the Andromeda computer ) . |
| 15 | Convinced , and quite rightly , that nothing had or would come of Napoleon III 's attempts to drum up an alliance with Italy or Austria-Hungary , dismissing such a possibility as ‘ idle gossip ’ , the Prussian Chancellor prepared to spring his trap . |
| 16 | It is possible for you to gain the former ( knowledge of Napoleon III 's rule , for instance ) and not the latter ( appreciating the various factors in his rise to power , the expansionist nature of his economic policy and the paternalism of his social policy , etc . |
| 17 | The question was of some importance , for if Louis-Napoleon was not the son of Napoleon I 's brother Louis , who became King of Holland during the period of the satellite Bonaparte Kingdoms , then all his pretensions to the Imperial inheritance were null and void . |
| 18 | The unexpected death of his elder brother in 1831 , followed by the death in Vienna in 1832 of Napoleon I 's son , known since 1815 as the Duke de Reichstadt , changed dramatically the position of Louis-Napoleon in the Bonaparte family . |
| 19 | In an attempt to control some of the more wayward members , such as Prince Pierre Bonaparte and Marie Letitia , descendants of Napoleon I 's brother Lucien , the Emperor forbade them the Court . |
| 20 | Due to the diversity of Club 18–30 's programme it is not , unfortunately , possible to give information on each of the countries featured in this brochure . |
| 21 | Where be these bloody thieves ? ’ ( that still has something of Richard III 's panache ) , and protests that ‘ Here 's Cassio hurt by villains ’ ( V.i.62ff. ) — namely himself and Roderigo — while offering Cassio hypocritical sympathy . |
| 22 | The performance of Richard Meredith-Hardy 's Chaser S , for example , was impressive , covering 300 miles on one filling of the 23-litre tank and 1,800 miles and five days without missing a beat . |
| 23 | Dudo also says that one of Richard I 's enemies acknowledged that the English were subject to him . |
| 24 | While the earliest sources give no clue to the date of Molla Fenari 's appointment to the Muftilik but simply state that he was Mufti , later Turkish tradition has asserted that the Muftilik was created in the time of Murad II ; and as it is almost universally held that Molla Fenari was the first Mufti , his appointment , if the tradition is to be believed , must have occurred after 824/1421 , the year of Murad II 's accession . |
| 25 | A strong indication that the Muftilik was in existence by at least the middle of Murad II 's reign , however , is given in the words of the fifteenth-century Burgundian courtier Bertrandon de la Broquière . |
| 26 | Husameddin uses this statement to link Molla Fenari with the turbulent political scene toward the end of Mehmed I 's reign , writing that because of his predilection for mysticism ( with particular mention of the " [ Molla Fenari ] attracted the attention of the ulema and men of state , since there were those [ of them ] who saw the statements of Molla Fenari as influencing the actions and feelings of the Melamis and Hurufis who were making their appearance in the regions of Rumeli and Anadolu . " |
| 27 | The campaign was reminiscent of those of Edward I 's reign : the armies reached Perth without meeting serious resistance , and Edward obtained the submissions of a number of David II 's supporters . |
| 28 | It is a measure of Edward II 's loss of control of his family that a matter as important as his heir 's marriage could be arranged without his prior knowledge or consent . |
| 29 | Men from Ponthieu were also prominent among those who played a part in the worsening of English relations with the French monarchy in the latter part of Edward II 's reign and the early part of Edward III's . |
| 30 | Although the new burgesses then exceeded the re-elected ones , by the first parliament of Edward II 's reign , at Michaelmas 1307 , the reverse was true . |