Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1798 , General Humbert of France came over and won a battle near there , but he took so long that the nearby towns had time to refortify . |
| 2 | My bus next morning set out for Ballina , westward to County Mayo , to the place where General Humbert of revolutionary France had landed with his soldiers to help drive the English out of Ireland , in 1798 . |
| 3 | Successive kings had no reason to grumble , cathedral chapters were happy to elect , and the Church of England was given good leaders — William Temple of York and George Bell of Chichester among them . |
| 4 | He was chairman of the Venice Biennale from 1974 to 1979 and served on the board of La Scala of Milan . |
| 5 | When in the eighth century the Saxon saint Guthlac penetrated the heart of the Fens to found Crowland Abbey , he was described by the monk Felix of Crowland as encountering demons in the wilderness , which ‘ came with such immoderate noises and immense horror , that it seemed to him that all between heaven and earth resounded with their dreadful cries ’ . |
| 6 | THE winner of Computer Guardian 's Compaq Competition is Allan Kelly of Slough , Bucks , whose card was first out of the hat . |
| 7 | JIM RENWICK OF THE SCOTTISH STARSHIP ENTERPRISE |
| 8 | The architect Clough Williams-Ellis of Port Meirion fame published his influential England and the octopus in 1928 — ‘ an angry book , written by an angry young man ’ as the author confessed in a Preface added to a 1975 edition . |
| 9 | King Doniert , or Dungarth , whose stone still stands , was supposedly a son of King Caradoc of Cornwall who held court at Liskeard . |
| 10 | But , as Roger Lawson of Southampton University has pointed out , more efforts have been made to counter this localism by the Money Advice Association ( founded in 1984 ) and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 11 | ‘ It is imperative that the government responds positively to the report or else it will be psychologically damaging to research , ’ said Dr Jim Howe of Edinburgh University 's Artificial Intelligence Department . |
| 12 | Conservative group leader Tony Richmond accused finance committee chair Jan Taylor of saying the council would have set a higher budget if it were not for government spending constraints . |
| 13 | According to Marcus Colchester of the World Rainforest Movement , the industry " is stealing the food from the very mouths of tribal landowners " . |
| 14 | Senhor Jose Cutileiro of Portugal , EC special envoy , arrived in Sarajevo yesterday to reconvene talks between the warring parties . |
| 15 | Signor Jose Cutileiro of Portugal said the deal called for the removal of heavy artillery from towns and villages , the suspension of mass mobilisation , the disbanding of all paramilitary groups and the resumption of talks on the republic 's political and constitutional order . |
| 16 | William Yu of Islington |
| 17 | , Sir John , first baronet ( 1615–1680 ) , merchant , financier , and MP , was baptized 10 January 1615 , the son of William Robinson , DD , archdeacon of Nottingham in 1635–42 , of Long Whatton , Leicestershire , and his wife Sarah , daughter of William Bainbridge of Lockington , their third , but second surviving son . |
| 18 | The hearing into the application by Maj William Trotter of the Deanery , Staindrop , to divert the path through his land near Cleatlam , will be held at the Staindrop village hall at 10am . |
| 19 | His key agent in the region , Sir James Tyrell of Gipping , was an outsider , as were at least two more of his officials : his constable of Ogmore , William Houghton of Birtsmorton ( Worcs. ) , and his constable of Caerphilly , Nicholas Spicer of Bristol , who was to become one of Richard 's leading administrators in Wales after 1483 . |
| 20 | His key agent in the region , Sir James Tyrell of Gipping , was an outsider , as were at least two more of his officials : his constable of Ogmore , William Houghton of Birtsmorton ( Worcs. ) , and his constable of Caerphilly , Nicholas Spicer of Bristol , who was to become one of Richard 's leading administrators in Wales after 1483 . |
| 21 | Wicking of the T-H-R agency and by Colonel Younger of the United States Cavalry , and those bio-implanted replacement lungs are winging their way to a viewer in Phoenix who has asked us , for reasons we fully understand , not to reveal his name . |
| 22 | Phil Taylor beat Phil Bolton to keep Northumberland 's hopes alive but Caldy 's Ray Hughes and Jan Higginbotham of Bramhall both won and Jamie Curtis of Didsbury got a half to clinch it for Cheshire . |
| 23 | The attorney they instructed to draw up a sales contract was William Repton of Aylsham , the third son of Humphry Repton , the famous landscape architect . |
| 24 | There was so much spoil from this Avar stronghold that Charles used it as gifts , and it was some of of this booty that reached the distant King Offa of Mercia , in central Britain . |
| 25 | He in his turn signed : ‘ William Stewart of Garth ’ . |
| 26 | The ‘ seminar ’ included Denis Healey , Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Harold Lever , Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; Gordon Richardson , Governor of the Bank of England ; Sir Douglas Wass , Permanent Secretary to the Treasury ; Sir Kenneth Berrill of the CPRS ; Sir John Hunt , Cabinet Secretary ; Kenneth Stowe , Callaghan 's Principal Private Secretary ; plus a supporting cast from the Treasury and the Bank of England . |
| 27 | 2–9 William Allan of Sunderland , a poet of no mean rank , had written a drama " Ian Vor " the chief incidents of which are made to occur at Dunyveg in Islay in 1807 . |
| 28 | The European he was said to be the most fond of as Princess Maria Gabriella de Savoia , but her father , the former King Umberto of Italy , would have insisted on a Catholic wedding . |
| 29 | The Colonel Commandant of the regiment listed more than 50 errors — ranging from incorrect uniforms to the wrong ammunition . |
| 30 | ( c. 645–685 ) , king of Northumbria , was the elder son of Oswiu , king of Northumbria [ q.v. ] , by his marriage to Eanfled [ q.v. ] , daughter of King Edwin of Northumbria [ q.v . ] . |