Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |
| 2 | Members of MoneySavers gain the privileges of * Priority Booking — up to two weeks in advance of public booking * The Playhouse " What 's On " brochure sent direct to you in advance of public distribution * Free membership of The Stage Door Club and most important of all * Two seats for the price of one on most Monday and Tuesday evenings in the Main House and for many first nights in the Studio Theatre . |
| 3 | Yet in July 1944 the Red Army installed a group of Moscow-trained Communists in the town of Lublin to administer the country . |
| 4 | He was aware of Marcus watching the work of transformation . |
| 5 | Amid the celebrations of Sunderland becoming the United Kingdom 's newest city , there was much talk of new investment and jobs following in the wake of the announcement . |
| 6 | The Masons failed to stage a revolution in Cadiz where rain and inefficiency kept Quiroga inactive ; Riego took his men on a round tour of Andalusia where only the mountain pueblo of Grazalema welcomed the liberator . |
| 7 | In the valley of Minas Morgul the Ringwraith sends out a command for him to put it on , but Frodo finds no response to it in his own will , feeling only ‘ the beating upon him of a great power from outside ’ . |
| 8 | Outside cowbells can be heard and in the distance a group of Masai enters the landscape driving their animals ; despite the fierce colours of their robes , completely at home in this brown and ochre world . |
| 9 | A point worth noting is that when the State of Tennessee issued the order to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School , the entire assets of the school were sold at public auction , including the land , buildings , library , stock etc , and having learned this savage lesson from experience , the land and buildings on which the new Highlander Research and Education Center is now located are owned by a separate Trust which is completely distinct from Highlander , and is now answerable for any of the activities which take place there . |
| 10 | The Duke of Northumberland purchased the Morning Post and established a new weekly , the Patriot , to popularize the idea of a conspiracy . |
| 11 | CHESTERS ROMAN FORT AND MUSEUM Set in the ancient wooded valleys of Northumberland overlooking the River North Tyne , Chesters is one of the best preserved buildings on Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 12 | At Norwich , where the local authorities had assessed no one at more than £100 , the Duke of Norfolk asked the King for a letter , ‘ commanding me … to speak roundly to all such as do not honestly … make their said certificates ’ . |
| 13 | The connection received a further boost early in 1478 , when the heiress of the last Mowbray duke of Norfolk married the king 's second son , Richard duke of York . |
| 14 | The connection received a further boost early in 1478 , when the heiress of the last Mowbray duke of Norfolk married the king 's second son , Richard duke of York . |
| 15 | The Duke of Norfolk says the Lords should be replaced by an elected chamber , and Earl Spencer — brother of the Princess of Wales — does not attend because he acknowledges that the system is undemocratic . |
| 16 | Norwich had grown up where the cornlands of Norfolk meet the wood-pasture country . |
| 17 | That threat of invasion was , however , removed , in 1805 , by the great naval victory at Trafalgar , in which Horatio Nelson destroyed the French fleet at the cost of his own life , This was followed by General Arthur Wellesley — who later became the Duke of Wellington — leading British troops into the Spanish Peninsula against Napoleon , who then began to experience considerable defeats , not the least of which was his retreat from Moscow in the winter of 1812 , and the following year saw the Duke of Wellington taking the war into France culminating in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 , which brought about the final defeat of Napoleon . |
| 18 | At ten the Duke of Wellington reached the crossroads and , content that nothing yet threatened the Dutch troops , galloped eastwards to find the Prussians . |
| 19 | About the middle of March came the Budget with proposals to raise the taxes needed to finance this spending . |
| 20 | Coventry , UK : After 19 years with Courtaulds , 13 as head of safety , is leaving at the end of March to join the Fisons group . |
| 21 | The Earl of March resigned the office of Earl Marshal , which was conferred upon Henry Percy of Alnwick . |
| 22 | There was the Bishop of Limerick defending the Easter Rising , a man who thirty years before had been speaking out against resistance to civil authority . |
| 23 | The Irish Acts of Union establish the union between Great Britain and Ireland ‘ for ever ’ . |
| 24 | In fact , in 1480 the chapter of Windsor secured the appropriated rectory of North Marston itself , presumably to control and maximize the market . |
| 25 | The ghost of the Duke of Windsor haunted the minds of the family , patently aware that the older he became the more difficult it would be to find a virginal , Protestant aristocrat to be his bride . |
| 26 | With their absorption of the vicomté of Béarn through marriage and inheritance in 1290 , the counts of Foix became the single most powerful house in the south-west . |
| 27 | The urinary output of 5-ASA reflects the fraction that is absorbed in the small intestine , and that is not therefore available for the topical effect ; the faecal concentrations represent the residual 5-ASA present in the bowel lumen . |
| 28 | The concluding section of this chapter draws upon the experience of all four sample schools and on the perceptions of DCSLs to summarise the impact of the project upon Minor award schools . |
| 29 | There is a pass in the far north in the land of Kislev called the Peak Pass , and in the far south there is a pass where the Worlds Edge Mountains and Black Mountains divide — Black Fire Pass . |
| 30 | The advantage of using d'Compress as the launch pad for other programs is that you can use the facilities of d'Compress to gather the files together , a stage that would otherwise have to be done in the DOS window . |