Example sentences of "of the [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was good to see and touch the Inca stones again ; to remind myself of the depth this city had : the dignity beyond the constant assault of the hustlers . |
| 2 | On 26 July the rebels defeated part of the royalist forces at Edgecote and in the aftermath of the battle several of the king 's allies were captured and executed , among them Devon and Pembroke and two of the queen 's family , her father earl Rivers and her brother John . |
| 3 | On 26 July the rebels defeated part of the royalist forces at Edgecote and in the aftermath of the battle several of the king 's allies were captured and executed , among them Devon and Pembroke and two of the queen 's family , her father earl Rivers and her brother John . |
| 4 | Suddenly at the height of the battle this purple and now orange mushroom bursts across the entire screen , devouring both armies in its path . |
| 5 | Erm there 's an article in one of the papers this morning , and er it was I think it 's an absolute disgrace ! |
| 6 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 7 | Kuhn 's direction has accuracy and breadth on its side , and also just speeds , but something of the incandescence this score calls for is missing . |
| 8 | For the duration of the evaluation this space remained undeveloped , and although minimally used as a work area by some children , its main function was that of storage for an embryonic collection of newspaper cuttings . |
| 9 | The massacre of country stations which accompanied the dismembering of the British railway network in the 1960s permanently diminished the lives of the villages these stations had served . |
| 10 | The Speaker , Betty Boothroyd , should order an immediate inquiry into the activities of the Whips that night . |
| 11 | In the long history of the Church this is usually how change has come about . |
| 12 | Many of the more senior academics have left university employment and the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has spoken of the threat this poses to academic leadership . |
| 13 | It was in the context of the threat these problems posed to the pre-eminence of London among international stock exchanges that Taurus was conceived . |
| 14 | And er we so we 'll we 'll pull that in over the year , over this next year and that 's one of the projects that |
| 15 | At every stage , therefore , members of the hierarchy were involved in the process of deposing an anointed king : some were coerced by understandable fear ; others , as events unfolded , reluctantly despaired of a peaceful resolution of the conflict any other way than by deposition ; and a few were eager promoters of Isabella 's plans . |
| 16 | Under TA 1988 , s677(10) there shall be treated as a capital sum paid to the settlor by the trustees of the settlement any sum which is paid by them to a third party at the settlor 's direction or by virtue of the assignment by him of his right to receive it or is otherwise paid or applied by the trustees for the benefit of the settlor and which would not otherwise be treated as a capital sum paid to the settlor . |
| 17 | Guests included Bridget Ogilvie of the Wellcome Foundation , Sir Rex Richards of the Leverhulme Trust , Professor Gordon McVie of the Cancer Research Campaign and Dr Renny Leach of Action Research , together with old friends of the Faculty such as Bob Woodward , George Poste , Bob Baxter and Arnold Denman . |
| 18 | And it was but a tiny fraction of the Armageddon that was the front line … |
| 19 | The behaviour of the buffaloes , the kakar , of Jim Corbett himself , and the hunting plans of the tigress all tell us this in no uncertain terms . |
| 20 | The originator may alter the contents of the DC any number of times while in this state . |
| 21 | The originator may alter the contents of the DC any number of times while in this state . |
| 22 | The originator may alter the contents of the DC any number of times while in this state . |
| 23 | All the teams have won their division of the Sundrige this season , and six will be doing battle in the top flight of their respective regions next year . |
| 24 | The swan will keep just ahead of the Gruncher all the time , driving him crazy with my smell , and in the end the swan will fly straight over the big deep lake and the Gruncher , now travelling at terrific speed , will follow right behind . |
| 25 | Yet in the final version of the order this exclusion was omitted . |
| 26 | Lack of space was not one of the problems that affected Deer Forest . |
| 27 | Two books in the recent past ( Pope and Weiner 1981 and Thackrah 1985 ) both contain veiled indications of the problems these civil service academics encounter when they write about the police . |
| 28 | But I think it s very important top management should get to know some of the problems those people have too , because if they 're not doing it right , the company could be in trouble . |
| 29 | A good example of the problems this can create was Pearson 's ( 1976 ) study of ‘ Paki-bashing ’ by working-class youths in Accrington . |
| 30 | The judges of the court all hope that it will be possible to refine and extend their use . |