Example sentences of "of [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Braydon Forest , for example , the free tenants and village representatives showed reluctance to attend , and in the Forest of Dean the attachment court , by now called the ‘ speech court ’ , was ineffective in the face of large-scale destruction of the vert by the ironmasters . |
| 2 | In the Forest of Dean the warden levied cheminage , not only on loads of wood , but also on sea coal and iron ore carried ‘ through the forest towards Gloucester ’ . |
| 3 | The palace of Anurion the Green , for example , is surrounded by terraced gardens containing many strange and exotic plants , some carnivorous , some sentient , some both . |
| 4 | In the example of ICI the ratio was 9.8 and so we may assume that investors were willing to pay 9.8p for 1p of earnings . |
| 5 | I hope that as chairman of ICI the contribution that I can make is to be looked upon by people on all levels as someone whose experience they can call on at any time . |
| 6 | During the years of World War N and for some time afterwards there had been a heavy demand for commercial and military explosives but by 1960 when Haslam was made personnel director of the Nobel Division of ICI the demand , particularly for military explosives , had dropped dramatically . |
| 7 | Bronze easting of Thor the thunder God who was worshipped extensively in northern Europe at the time of Charlemagne 's enforced military evangelism . |
| 8 | North of Kessingland the route follows the cliff path to Pakefield , then on the promenade to Lowestoft . |
| 9 | At the beginning of March the company rolled out the new Vanguard — a Trident submarine for the Royal Navy . |
| 10 | At the end of March the rouble current account had a deficit of 184,000,000 roubles compared with a surplus of 414,000,000 roubles 12 months previously . |
| 11 | By the end of March the bulk of our winter visitors have departed . |
| 12 | After the one-day strikes a small number of pits in the Donbass and Kuzbass had remained on indefinite strike , but in the course of March the action had snowballed , especially after the breakdown on March 9 of talks between strike committee leaders and government representatives in Moscow and Kiev . |
| 13 | By the end of March the list had still not been published , although more people came forward voluntarily almost every day . |
| 14 | As of the end of March the Security Council had yet to agree on a further resolution to establish definitive ceasefire conditions . |
| 15 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
| 16 | ( " Paul Nizan : Novel Communist " ) ( 2 ) Is it possible to reconcile an ideological commitment to the French communist party with the literary integrity of Nizan the writer ? |
| 17 | The centrepiece of this delightful sleepy village on the outskirts of Middlesbrough the winner of a ‘ Britain in Bloom ’ award , is the Parish Church where James Cook Senior and Grace Pace , Cook 's parents , were married in 1725 . |
| 18 | He held the audience spellbound for over two hours with his own work and his interpretation of the classics of Van the Man , Bob Dylan et al . |
| 19 | In the Christmas issue of NME the Record News section mentioned a new single by RESPECT with PHILIP OAKEY called ‘ What Comes After Goodbye ’ which was to be released by Chrysalis . |
| 20 | SOME OF the 17ft thick walls of Bristol Castle 's keep , built circa 1135 by the illegitimate grandson of William the Conqueror , Robert of Gloucester , are being revealed by an archaeological dig , writes David Keys . |
| 21 | Elizabeth II is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror . |
| 22 | The face is dished , like that of the Jersey , and it probably has some Jersey blood from the nineteenth century , while the brindling probably comes from the old Normandy Isigny variety , a good butter producer and big enough to be used as a draught ox on Alderney and Guernsey , whither it was taken by monks in the time of William the Conqueror . |
| 23 | Originally Salcey was part of the chain of Royal Hunting Forests that stretched from Stanford to Oxford and dated back to the days of William the Conqueror ( 1066 ) . |
| 24 | Above the Old Town , on the West Hill , lies Hasting 's most important monument to her famous past : the ruins of William the Conqueror 's first castle . |
| 25 | Peer back to the time of William the Conqueror who gave the Isle of Holderness to a knight ‘ well tried in feats of arms ’ , Drogo de Bevere . |
| 26 | This beautiful priory of St. Leonard 's , originally belonging to the Holy Isle of Lindisfarne , was later destroyed by marauding Danes and was only rebuilt in 1082 with the co-operation of William the Conqueror . |
| 27 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 28 | For any moment of weakness in the fortunes of a great house — the minority of William the Conqueror , the early years of Fulk le Réchin — provided the perfect opportunity for castellans to establish their hereditary rights , or to exercise for their own benefit prerogatives which had hitherto brought profit to the princes . |
| 29 | The household of William the Conqueror was the nerve-centre from which his military victories were planned , from which his duchy and the kingdom of England were held in subordination ; its lay members held themselves always ready for battle . |
| 30 | The Abbey of St Mary at Kirkstead was in fact founded in 1139 by Hugo Brito , the son of Eudo who was a companion of William the Conqueror . |