Example sentences of "hang the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the early seventeenth century , despite the central government 's efforts to attenuate , curb or eliminate the worst abuses ( to the extent of publicly hanging the first Governor of Siberia , M.P . |
| 2 | After the dislodgement by French forces of agitators who had hanged the Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews from the walls of St Andrews castle and then sustained a protracted siege , Knox served a term in the French galleys until released by the intervention of Edward VI of England , to whom he became a royal chaplain . |
| 3 | This last was named because he had hung the green flag of the Irish Free State and also the red flag of Russia in the church , but a band of reactionary students from Cambridge tore them down , and eventually they were condemned as illegal by a consistory court . |
| 4 | There is only the lower half of the hero on the sherd but he is identified by the club , an unusually thin example , and with a cross hilt one expects on a sword , on his right hangs the lower part of the lion skin , behind him on the left are two long-necked birds , identifying this Labour , although there is no evidence of the bow ( fig. 14.35 ) . |
| 5 | Amongst all this apparent severity hangs the upper arête of Chequer 's Buttress , a gauntlet thrown from the crack that just cries out to be taken up . |
| 6 | About these polarities hang the varying states of consciousness that can and do arise ( see Chapter ii ) . |
| 7 | And yet about him there hung the indefinable air of ugliness . |
| 8 | In the hall hung the amputated blade of an oar : inscribed in gold lettering on its black scoop were the names of a college eight , each of whom had been awarded such a trophy in sun-ridden pre-war days ; the item seemed impossibly exotic . |
| 9 | It did n't had n't got they did n't have four posts at this time , they hung the top part of the bed , literally hung it from cords wrapped round rafters . |