Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun prp] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TNC has been strongly attacked for taking a very narrow and old fashioned view of the curriculum as a collection of subjects ; and it is certainly true that the more sophisticated thinking of HMI on these matters appears to have been disregarded . |
| 2 | The harbour at this time was formed on the bed of the ‘ Water to Leith ’ , a small stream with its source in the Pentland Hills and flowing for thirteen miles or so through Edinburgh and Leith into the Firth of Forth at this point . |
| 3 | No one at the banquet could possibly have crossed the Firth of Forth in such weather with such speed and he knew from his own spies that only the King had crossed the Forth that night . |
| 4 | There is no mention of Stamford in these letters and the tale must have been created by Hardyng to fit in with his earlier mythology . |
| 5 | From his study of Lawrence at that time , Paul Delany concludes that the writer had ‘ strong homosexual impulses which he felt morally bound to repress ’ ( Nightmare , 50 ) . |
| 6 | Like the ‘ bogeyman ’ used by mother to frighten her recalcitrant children into better behaviour , syphilis or ‘ the pox ’ is used by scaremongering educators to put the fear of God into those people they think might be at risk of catching VD . |
| 7 | In recent months Mr Adams and the more pragmatic elements in Sinn Fein have been trying to distance themselves from IRA violence , and during the campaign they called for talks about the future of Ireland with all parties to the conflict . |
| 8 | Further , although Marseilles was under the rule of Childebert by this time , the latter 's governor Rathar , arrested Theodore and sent him to Guntram . |
| 9 | Equally dull rhetoric appears in : ( " Never during his life time though he were a hundred miles the other side of Rome in any circumstances would I take a mortal man to be my mate … " ) |
| 10 | We know a fair amount about what was happening on the east coast of Scotland at that date , but not nearly so much about the west . |
| 11 | He was put in charge of a huge gun protecting the South coast of England from any invasion . |
| 12 | YOU continue to have the pleasure of Saturn in this area for another year . |
| 13 | Among the courses I took were Old English , Middle English , Old Norse , English Philology , and Phonetics ( this last course was taught by and , who were among the senior teachers in the Phonetics Department of U.C.L. at that time ) . |
| 14 | Alcuin was also critical of the new Northumbrian king , Eardwulf , but when Eardwulf was driven out of his kingdom in 806 he was restored two years later through the intervention of Charlemagne and the pope ( see above , p. 157 ) , a clear enough demonstration of the continued maintenance of Northumbria at this time as a Carolingian sphere of influence . |
| 15 | And he has appointed Mr Gergen , a long-time Renaissance man who gave a fine speech on the fragmentation of America at this year 's Hilton Head weekend , to a key position . |
| 16 | The meeting decided that the missionaries should move to Upper Burma , for at that time we fully believed the government 's assurance that we should be able to hold part of Burma at any rate . |
| 17 | It was not ‘ otium cum indignitate , ’ for who should have an even smaller room over mine , known as the horse boxes , but Mr William Gilliat , who later became the royal gynaecologist , and brought the Prince of Wales into this world . |
| 18 | It remains to be seen whether interaction occurs between DRP and glycoproteins in tissues other than muscle and whether such interaction is important to the function of DRP in these tissues . |
| 19 | To summarise therefore , the teaching of Jesus on this subject is intimately bound up with his establishment of the Kingdom : it is not a condemnation of wealth as such but a much-needed perspective on the material world in an age of materialism . |
| 20 | Diodorus ' narrative of Sicily at this time is in a way superior to that of Thucydides , who in his introduction to the Athenian expedition against Sicily in 415–413 undertakes to explain his view that Athens was biting off more than she could chew . |
| 21 | Sole at the heart of Scotland for many years to come Robert Armstrong on the consummate skills of the new national captain . |
| 22 | Church planting is , I sense , so much at the heart of God for this country at this moment . |
| 23 | There was also an emotional speech in support of Bush from former President Ronald Reagan . |
| 24 | 1992–93 will be remembered as a good year for the University of Stirling for many reasons . |
| 25 | He says : ‘ I have worked very closely with the University of Bristol for many years . |
| 26 | I shall look at the case of Nigeria in more detail below , in the section on the transnational capitalist class . |
| 27 | The alliances did not survive the overthrow of Eadwine for any length of time . |
| 28 | It was unfortunate that the Arab-Israeli war broke out at the same time and some overseas commentators took the presence of Canberras in this guise as proof of British participation in the war ! |
| 29 | It is a work of deep inwardness , where the presence of God in all creatures makes external worship and scriptural authority superfluous : ‘ God is in all Creatures , Man and Beast , Fish and Fowle , and every green thing , from the highest Cedar to the Ivey on the wall ; and that God is the life and being of them all . ’ |
| 30 | The identification of CTL to several epitopes in P. falciparum antigens indicates that natural exposure to malaria leads to processing of pre-erythrocytic antigens for HLA class I presentation . |