Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] of [noun prp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A single track divides North Uist , from north to south , built in 1845 to provide employment during the terrible potato famine that ravaged Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 2 | The largest tidal ranges are found in areas such as the Bay of Fundy ( 16 metres ) in Canada , the UK 's Severn Estuary ( 13–14 metres ) , the Rance Estuary in France ( 12 metres ) and sites in the White Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk in the USSR , the Yellow Sea in Korea and the Kambay and Kutch bays in India . |
| 3 | It was presumably from present-day Manchuria that the Tungus tribes gradually spread northwards to pervade the taiga as far as the Arctic zone , from the Sea of Okhotsk in the east to the Yenisei in the west . |
| 4 | Tunnel linings are manufactured at a specially constructed and highly automated plant on the Isle of Grain in the Thames Estuary and transported by train to Shakespeare Cliff using a branch line connected to the nearby Dover-Folkestone railway . |
| 5 | The first meeting of its Advisory Committee , from 29 September to 3 October 1980 , was therefore held at Uig , on the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles . |
| 6 | After an eventful journey to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides , off the north-west coast of Scotland , he was joined by his younger brother , aged around 23 , James Keith , who had travelled through France to Paris like a military pied Piper , collecting Jacobites as he went , before embarking on a little 25-ton ship at Le Havre to sail round the west coast of Ireland . |
| 7 | I was born , as were both my parents and their parents before them ( and so on ) on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides . |
| 8 | The remainder of the seedlings have been taken to good garden homes as far apart as Tresco on the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Bute in the north . |
| 9 | Sir , — I read the article in the October issue , When growth and stability turned to disaster ( see p 26 ) , with a good deal of interest having worked with a professional firm in the Isle of Wight in the fifties , and knowing something of the type of clientele referred to . |
| 10 | The Isle of Man in the Irish Sea and the Channel Islands between Great Britain and France are largely self-governing ; they are not part of the United Kingdom . |