Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports in late January spoke of a stalemate in the autonomy talks and of the effectiveness of the government 's economic blockade of Kurdistan [ see pp. 38458 ; 38598 ] which was enforced by a heavily fortified military line across north-eastern Iraq , running from Qasr-e-Shirin on the Iranian border east of Kirkuk and south of Arbil to the Turkish border west of Zhako . |
| 2 | Before the start of the conference , the UK Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , announced that industrial dumping would be phased out in the UK by 1992 , except in the case of ICI and Sterling Organics ( responsible for 78 per cent of all industrial waste dumped in the North Sea ) which would be licensed to dump until 1993 . |
| 3 | When Coenred went to Rome he went in the company of Offa , son of Sigehere and king of the eastern Saxons , who abdicated at the same time ( HE V , 19 ) , and the harmony which appears to have prevailed between Coenred and Offa is another salutary warning not to describe relations between overlords and their royal dependants in this period as one of constant hostility . |
| 4 | This idea was at the heart of the movement , and in accordance with this scheme the right-angled Swastika was employed ; the symbol of Siva and metamorphosis ; the purpose — evolution . |
| 5 | A distinctively ‘ conciliar ’ feature of the commissions is the number headed by leading Yorkist bureaucrats , notably John Russell , bishop of Lincoln and keeper of the privy seal , and John Alcock , bishop of Worcester and president of the council in the march of Wales . |
| 6 | A distinctively ‘ conciliar ’ feature of the commissions is the number headed by leading Yorkist bureaucrats , notably John Russell , bishop of Lincoln and keeper of the privy seal , and John Alcock , bishop of Worcester and president of the council in the march of Wales . |
| 7 | goddess of Thebes , consort of Amun and mother of Khonsu . |
| 8 | A new breed of drama advisers , trained teachers , interested in the work of Slade and Way were appointed from the mid-1960s onwards . |
| 9 | Kedourie ( 1966 ) , for example , finds the principal source of European nationalism in the philosophy of Kant and Fichte which made self-determination a supreme good , and the incursion of this style of philosophical thought into German ( and then European ) politics following the breakdown of traditional ways of life and stable communities . |
| 10 | Every week they were out on the streets of Highgate or Chalk Farm preaching , and Eva belonged to the cadet 's singing brigade . |
| 11 | Here they expanded their activities into general building work , John Green turning his attention to the architectural side of the business ; but c .1820 he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne , from where he established his extensive professional practice in the area of Northumberland and county Durham . |
| 12 | second son of the Duke of Northumberland and commander of the Northumberland militia in London during the Gordon riots ( see GORDON , LORD GEORGE ) . |
| 13 | I saw £3 million stolen from my local authorities of Cardiff and South Glamorgan when the Government introduced retrospective legislation to change the rules that they had set and which those councils had followed carefully and obediently . |
| 14 | Large tracts of Norfolk and north Essex would have been ceded to the Board and which , perhaps of immediate significance at that time , would have effectively prevented Hampden Jackson and Douglas-Smith from organising their growing number of WEA Chapter III courses and establishing branches in both counties . |
| 15 | At first the colour of the East Anglian breeds was not fixed : there were black-and-white sheeted Earsham Polled cattle on the Norfolk/Suffolk borders , for example , but in general blood red was preferred in the cattle of Norfolk and dun was favoured in Suffolk . |
| 16 | The last election ( unopposed ) of Vieira as President , and the last indirect elections for the National Assembly were held in June 1989 [ see pp. 36727-28 ] . |
| 17 | Although , with the elimination of Barbe and Celor from the leadership in August 1931 , and with the increasing prominence given by Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos in 1932 to a popular front approach , the ferocity of sectarian politics abated somewhat between 1931 and 1933 , nevertheless the period from 1927 to 1933 , during which Nizan was initiated into communist party politics , was characterised above all by what is perhaps most accurately described as " sectarian simplicity " . |
| 18 | With the removal of Barbe and Celor from the PCF leadership in August 1931 , the days of sectarian politics were numbered . |
| 19 | The removal of Barbe and Celor from the leadership in August 1931 , and the growing stature of Thorez within the party , conspired to create a situation in which a final decision on cultural policy was left in abeyance . |
| 20 | The present Mayor of Antwerp and promoter of the city as cultural capital , Mr Cools , was formerly responsible for Antwerp 's cultural heritage , and one of his projects then was to turn the Jacob Jordaens House into a museum , much like the Rubenshuis . |
| 21 | The roof should be on the main building by the end of March and installation of the main process equipment will begin immediately after Easter . |
| 22 | In the event the union of Foix and Béarn in 1290 effectively solved one aspect of the controversy — Roger-Bernard III , count of Foix and vicomté of Béarn , now embodied the claims of both houses to Bigorre . |
| 23 | Concentrations of 5-ASA and Ac-5-ASA in human ileocolonic biopsy homogenates after oral 5-ASA preparations |
| 24 | The mean ( SEM ) concentrations of 5-ASA and Ac-5-ASA in biopsy homogenates from different sites of the ileum and colorectum after drug intake are given in Tables I and II . |
| 25 | The serum concentration-time curves of 5-ASA and Ac-5-ASA after a single dose of the different preparations in healthy volunteers are given in the figure . |
| 26 | With the exception of Blitzer and Block Breaker , both of which I can do without , this is a decent little time wasting package . |
| 27 | One can enjoy its contribution to the story of Librium or chlordiazepoxide , the first of the benzodiazepines . |
| 28 | A sliver of Parmesan or pecorino cheese , and there is a perfect pudding of its own . |
| 29 | The security of TOSG and ABTA is your protection against disappointment . |
| 30 | Other people have sworn by the virtues of Figi or Scorpion skis ( only around 65cm long ) but these sink too much at slow speeds , though they 're great fun for the occasional skirmish . |