Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all cases known to the indicator agencies were examined , but only those who were resident in the Borough of Wirral during the specified time period . |
| 2 | A well-known Serbian-American historian , Michael Boro Petrovich , considers that the most far-reaching effect of the Ottoman occupation was the isolation of Serbia from the main currents of western thought and western social development . |
| 3 | The Secretary of State has asked me specifically to clarify the principles which underlie the administration of ECRs within the reformed health service . |
| 4 | CARL PREAN , the English No 1 , secured four wins as England qualified for the semi-finals of the men 's team event with a 4–1 defeat of Holland at the European Championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 5 | As it happened , Kalli was soon out for 158 , but his contribution helped West Indies to a decisive first-innings lead of 261 and , ultimately , an easy seven-wicket victory — their first defeat of England in the Caribbean for 20 years . |
| 6 | Support of Amorges and its ultimate consequence , the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War , is however a story we shall resume later . |
| 7 | The great days of the Macedonian Church culminated in the creation of the patriarchate of Ohrid in 976 , during the reign of Tsar Samuel ( Samuilo ) , but the whole picture changed after the defeat of Samuel by the Byzantine emperor , Basil II , in 1014 . |
| 8 | This time Cameroun only lost one qualifier in the African group and their decisive defeat of Tunisia in the final play-off augured well for Italy . |
| 9 | Significantly he will be the first President of MCC under the new tenure of office regulations to fulfil the role over two years . |
| 10 | Salmin Amour was elected President of Zanzibar as the sole candidate following the decision in August of Idris Abdul Wakil ( President since 1985 — see pp. 34149-50 ) not to stand again . |
| 11 | Gen. Amin al-Hafiz , President of Syria during the early and mid-1960s , was also a member . |
| 12 | As the boat drifted along the Firth of Clyde towards the open sea Johnstone staggered to his feet and sang a rendition of the Rod Stewart song Sailing . |
| 13 | This devolution will take place amid bitter conflict over local electoral and citizenship laws , and an explosive argument over the very legality of the incorporation of Estonia into the Soviet Union in 1940 . |
| 14 | This pattern still persists in Finland , albeit in a much slimmed down and highly mechanised form , whereas the incorporation of Estonia into the Soviet Union in the 1940s was quickly followed by extensive collectivisation . |
| 15 | There is no mention of Knott in the new lease . |
| 16 | The full assimilation of this population to the native English and the submergence of Anglo-Norman culture within English culture took several centuries to complete , while the political separation of English and French territory was not complete until the loss of Calais to the English crown in the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 17 | In 1931 Hornby won the House of Commons seat of Everton for the Conservative party . |
| 18 | Shiona swallowed drily , her fingers clutched tightly around her glass as she continued to stare with unblinking , blurred vision at the photograph of Ryan in the big silver frame . |
| 19 | They then undertake a detailed study of Europe in the Early and Late Middle Ages , followed by an in-depth look at the Italian Renaissance and its impact on the development of European culture and society . |
| 20 | A study of Cornwall in the early 1970s revealed that average earnings in the more rural employment office areas ( in the west or the north-east of the county ) were as much as 6 per cent below the county average , while earnings in the more urban areas ( for example , near Plymouth or Camborne — Redruth ) were 6 to 7 per cent above the county average ( Cornwall County Council 1979 ) . |
| 21 | Letters formal : pleas for forgiveness/mercy requests for planning permission requests that the selfish giant let people play in his garden from the Mayor of Hamelin to the Pied Piper petitions ( for the release of the children of Hamelin ) . |
| 22 | Their father , Dr. William Shippen ( 1635–1693 ) was a native of Stockport who enjoyed a varied ecclesiastical career , returning to his home town in 1678 to become Rector : his younger brother , Edward , first Mayor of Philadelphia in the then American colonies , is perhaps better remembered as the founder of the wealthy transatlantic branch of the family . |
| 23 | The real memories and exaggerated horror stories have combined to strike the fear of God into the Serbian minority in Croatia . |
| 24 | Mathew Smithard got 1 , Mark Ford got two in a 4–0 rout of Darlington in the Northern Intermediate League . |
| 25 | The Warsaw Pact might no longer be a threat to the West , but what was the future of NATO in the new era where Allied nations sought to realise the so-called ‘ peace dividend ’ by cutting defence spending ? |
| 26 | Both Aethelburh and Eorcenwald , if not of Kentish royal extraction , had Kentish connections , for Eorcenwald was founding-abbot with the support of Ecgberht , king of Kent , of the monastery of Chertsey in the Kentish-controlled territory of Surrey ( HE IV , 6 ) ( CS 34 : S 1165 ) . |
| 27 | This policy indicated past US appreciation of France 's role in confronting the Warsaw Pact and the will to encourage the de facto readmission of France into the integrated command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) . |
| 28 | It is the landscape of the cloth industry in the neighbourhood of Halifax before the revolutionary changes brought about by the invention of power-driven machinery : |
| 29 | The demonstrators held banners demanding both the secession of Georgia from the Soviet Union and the full integration of the Abkhazian republic , which had itself been seeking to secede from Georgia and to resume the union republican status it had enjoyed from 1921 until 1931 . |
| 30 | Short of a series of studies which is designed directly to compare regional patterns , holding other variables constant , we can not be certain that any observed variations can be attributed to , say , people 's views about family responsibilities being different in the north-east of England from the prevailing norms in the south-west . |