Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 2 | In addition to their port duties , Lerwick staff had to cover controls at Sumburgh Airport which was thirty miles south of Lerwick over a bumpy switchback road . |
| 3 | The new VMSclusters fully supports the use of FDDI as a network backbone interconnecting clusters nodes , and support for native FDDI adaptors as a cluster interconnect is promised . |
| 4 | In the early stages , however , Commodore believes that it needs to ensure a broad range of titles are available both to support the positioning of CDTV as a family leisure platform and to generate the initial installed base which will itself encourage the third party publishing on which the future of CDTV depends . |
| 5 | The CDU , which has been weakened steadily in state elections since the December 1990 general election , now only rules the east German state of Saxony with an absolute majority and is in the minority in Bonn 's Bundesrat , or upper legislature . |
| 6 | During his reign he added vast territories to the Frankish kingdom that he had inherited ; Lombardy ( the traditional enemy of both Franks and papacy ) , parts of Spain , all of Saxony over a prolonged period of campaigning , and Slavonic regions of the Drave and Elbe . |
| 7 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 8 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
| 9 | they 're no different from any other ICI employee — energetic , enthusiastic , ingenious and deeply committed to the future of their business and of ICI as a whole . |
| 10 | At an earlier stage in my career I was transferred from one division of ICI to a new one . |
| 11 | Non-League Woking 's reward , if they see off the challenge of Brighton in a replay , will be a home tie against another south coast team — Portsmouth . |
| 12 | The Court of Appeal reserved judgment on the challenge by auctioneers Messenger May Baverstock of Guildford to a High Court ruling that they had been negligent in selling for £840 two oil paintings that soon fetched £88,000 at Sotheby 's as works of George Stubbs . |
| 13 | The centre of both versions had the arms of Guildford on a shield within a start , enclosed in a band carrying the battalion 's title . |
| 14 | You use Top Mere Road to climb out of Kettlewell to a cairn at Cam Head before an old drove route drops you sharply into Starbotton to the inevitable pub . |
| 15 | In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford . |
| 16 | Univel Inc said its price cuts last week ( see front page ) removed one of the last barriers to the rapid adoption of Unix-on-Intel as a client/server solution . |
| 17 | Malaysia 's Prime Minister , Mahathir Mohamed , has accused Western campaigners of using the Penan people of Sarawak as a means of promoting the interests of temperate timber over tropical hardwood . |
| 18 | The hills fall to the sea in gentle contours , exactly as they should ; there is woodland and cliff , and part of the outline of Euboea across a blue strait . |
| 19 | It is ironic that , after the National majority had been safely won , and shown itself , as might have been predicted , protectionist , Snowden reverted to the role of stubborn free trader , and gave currency to the view of MacDonald as a feeble halfwit , without principles or dignity , Yet MacDonald , although no doctrinaire free trader , had fought harder to reach a formula that the Liberals , Snowden 's free trade allies , could accept than Snowden himself had done . |
| 20 | After the cinema he had tea , walked the streets for an hour , had a couple of Guinnesses in a pub to keep out the sharp evening air , and ate a biriani . |
| 21 | For example , the experimental Peckham Health Centre ( opened in 1926 in the London suburb of Peckham as a community centre dedicated to the study and maintenance of the conditions necessary for health ) found that when it re-opened after the War only about half the original members ' families remained in the area . |
| 22 | In the case of T. axei the changes induced in the gastric mucosa are similar to those of Ostertagia with an alteration in pH and an increased permeability of the mucosa . |
| 23 | The fall of Pamplona from a detail on Charlemagne 's tomb at Aachen . |
| 24 | We eventually left the outback by way of some tiny townships , widely spaced , and came down onto the Queensland coast at the busy city of Townsville with a modern cylindrical building surmounted by a silvery roof feature . |
| 25 | Leaving the blockade of Pavia to a smaller force , Charles marched directly against Lombard the heir Adelchis , taking Verona , Brescia and Bergamo . |
| 26 | In 1631 Aylesbury encouraged Warner to edit and publish Harriot 's treatise on algebra , the Artis Analyticae Praxis , and wrote on his behalf to the ninth Earl of Northumberland for a reimbursal of expenses . |
| 27 | He had two brothers , one called Robert , who was employed in the household of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland as a footman , I believe , and another called Frank who became a policeman . |
| 28 | Dr Ian Rolfe , then of the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow snapped him up as supervisor of YOPs on a Manpower Services scheme to develop fossils in rock which had been excavated in Australia in the 1960s . |
| 29 | He thought more than once of Antwerp as a possible bolt-hole . |
| 30 | ‘ The golden century ’ aims to provide an overview of Flemish baroque painting while also focusing on the importance of Antwerp as a major centre for trade and artistic patronage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , when it was still part of the Hapsburg Empire . |