Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 2 | Some of its canons were concerned with the veneration of images , but the chief problem was the position of Photius as patriarch of Constantinople . |
| 3 | This is a subject being addressed by all parts of ICI at present . |
| 4 | Earlier this year , in my capacity as chairman of the Thirties Society , I asked Caithness 's successor , Virginia Bottomley , to reconsider English Heritage 's recommendation of Bankside for listing . |
| 5 | Voters on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba on Oct. 21 elected Salmin Amour , a former minister , as President of Zanzibar in succession to Idris Abdul-Wakil , who was not seeking re-election . |
| 6 | Wood fun : The people of Loftus in East Cleveland hold a fun day in Espiners Wood tomorrow between 2pm and 6pm . |
| 7 | The most interesting aspect of Roger Rabbit is the ambiguity about whether the Toons are better or worse than humans — much like the unresolved dilemma of Deckard in Blade Runner . |
| 8 | The present results provide direct evidence for the existence of a visceral-specific isoform of MHC in rabbit smooth muscle cells . |
| 9 | There are , however , no metropolitan areas in Wales and three other differences from the position in England deserve some comment : the small population of many of the Welsh authorities ; the exceptional dominance of Cardiff in South Glamorgan ; and the role of community councils . |
| 10 | Recently he moved to the neighbouring village of Griesbeckerzell with wife Gisela and their year-old son , Stefan . |
| 11 | Relating the story of the future Duke of Wellington in Self-Help , Samuel Smiles commented that the general had no intention of acting grandly or nobly , ‘ merely regarding the punctual payment of his debts as the best and most honourable mode of conducting his business . ’ |
| 12 | Minutes of the meeting are available from the end of March on application to the Assistant Secretary , 36 Queen Anne 's Gate , London SW1H 9AS . |
| 13 | DAVID ANDERSON David Anderson joined the Company at the end of March as Product Technician in the Development Laboratory of the Design Studio . |
| 14 | CTC is a feedstock for CFCs and the plant was due to close end of March in line with C&P 's policy to phase out CFC production by 1995 . |
| 15 | The return of Churchill to office threatened to make matters worse . |
| 16 | Resignation of Lin from DPP |
| 17 | Despite his elevation of Pamela from maid to lady , a solecism that Jane Austen would never have committed , Richardson makes a much clearer distinction than she does between the genuine landed family and aspirants to that status from the middle class . |
| 18 | Ron Morris tells how Roseberry 's first project involved residents in the Langridge Crescent area of Middlesbrough in planning and building homes to suit their need for both housing and employment . |
| 19 | THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD in collaboration with THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER |
| 20 | This is a return train to Leeds in 1987 , hauled past the remnants of Victoria by class 31 No. 31445 . |
| 21 | Normally only one loco comes west of Shrewsbury on revenue earning services in the week — the Wednesday Stanlow to Aberystwyth tanks which , in the last week of August , turned up on the Thursday to cope with a shortage of fuel in Celtic Oils . |
| 22 | It also suspended the Democratic Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) of Panama from membership for accepting the annulment of the general election in that country the previous month [ see p. 36645 ] . |
| 23 | After his triumph Edward appointed the elder Despenser as justice of the Forest south of Trent for life , repealed the Ordinances , but republished the Ordinance of the Forest of 1306 . |
| 24 | Ramsey was one of four masons on a commission to survey the Tower of London in 1335 , and on 1 June 1336 he received a patent as chief mason at the Tower and chief surveyor of the king 's works south of Trent for life , at one shilling a day and a robe every year . |
| 25 | The next day he motored to four miles south of Hereford to lunch with an old cousin , and the day after that he attended two funerals , both of ‘ old Worcestershire friends who died on Christmas Day ’ . |
| 26 | stated that the present Meeting needed to appoint a Deputy Director of TEFS in place of the late . |
| 27 | The first is that being spread over a period of time which began before the Armada , included the civil war and Commonwealth , and finished only after the accession of William of Orange , they are an unrivalled source of information on the changing status of many local families . |
| 28 | 8 The landing of William of Orange in Torbay , 1688 |
| 29 | In 1688 some of them marched with the invading army of William of Orange to Salisbury where one of them decided to stay on as a small shopkeeper . |
| 30 | Eventually in 1858 Earl Stanhope moved in the House of Lords that the Queen should be petitioned by Parliament to remove from the Prayer Book the services which commemorated not only the death of Charles I but also the accession of Charles II in 1660 , the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 , and the landing of William of Orange in 1688 . |