Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hadrian 's Wall , a World Heritage Site , marks the northern frontier of Roman Britain and stretches over 70 miles from the Solway Firth to Wallsend in the east . |
| 2 | Eastwards towards the sunrise , the ice-hung peaks of Mustagh Ata and Kongur over in Sinkiang hunched on the skyline . |
| 3 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper , Louis van Tilburg , research curator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam commented : ‘ On the basis of the photos we have been able to inspect we are confident that the six drawings do not fit within the oeuvre of Van Gogh and do not correspond in any way with the graphic style he developed at the time . |
| 4 | We went in the direction of Stoke Poges and recited as much of the ‘ Elegy ’ as we could remember . |
| 5 | On page 809 of this issue , Woodhead and colleagues report new isotope data on volcanic rocks from seamounts southeast of Pitcairn Island that seem dramatically to confirm this theory . |
| 6 | The idolisation of Miss Hatherby that had so annoyed Nora in the early days of the piano lessons had gone . |
| 7 | Neither will large doses of vitamin C. And rushing around trying to ‘ burn off ’ the alcohol is futile because muscles ca n't use alcohol directly . |
| 8 | Your old ships , my lord King , were already engaged with the ships of Earl Siward and getting much the best of it . |
| 9 | The Lada came past the Historical Museum in the centre of Red Square and turned right , just before the Lenin Mausoleum , into the Nikolskaya Vorota entrance . |
| 10 | I am a native of South Shields and grew up in a locality which has much in common with its other half . |
| 11 | The remaining three peaks of the west ridge ( Loughshannagh , Carn and Muck ) are not especially exciting , but below the ridge to the east is a broad shelf containing the beautiful little lake of Lough Shannagh and ending abruptly at the top of the Ben Crom cliffs . |
| 12 | Ira Dilworth , Dick Halhed and Jim Gilmore had all visited the northern B.C. port of Prince Rupert and spoken highly of it , so I decided to go north on a Pacific coast steamer . |
| 13 | Mrs Stych fixed her button eyes upon the elegant figure of Mrs Frizzell and bowled purposefully across the lawn . |
| 14 | This is analogous to the claim Gandhi makes in an address he gave to Christian missionaries , namely , that ‘ many men who have never heard the name of Jesus Christ or have even rejected the official interpretation of Christianity would probably , if Jesus came into our midst today … be owned by him more than many of us … ’ |
| 15 | But Owen 's bowmen were swarming along the higher shoulders of Bryn Glas and shooting down upon them , and upon the struggling men-at-arms ; and they had the advantage of better positions and better sighting , and skill and marksmanship at least equal . |
| 16 | However , A. Alföldi has identified the head as that of Antoninus Pius and shown also that it did not belong to the club . |
| 17 | In October , Leech was refused planning permission for housing development to the south-west of Cramlington Village but did not appeal against this decision . |
| 18 | The gothic spires of parliament shimmered in the autumnal sunlight as they drove to the far side of Parliament Square and turned right towards Victoria . |
| 19 | I left my sack at the top of Cairn Lochan and scrambled down to the foot of Savage Slit . |
| 20 | I would better understand this type of ‘ high-tech ’ approach if you demolished the whole of Trafalgar Square and started again with a single architect responsible for the entire layout . |
| 21 | His earliest patron was Hubert Walter , later archbishop of Canterbury [ q.v. ] , a fellow native of West Dereham and founder there of a Premonstratensian abbey whose charters are witnessed by Master Elias , perhaps as early as 1188 . |
| 22 | To that end , the organisers have opted for a less familiar face of Francis Bacon and tracked down rare and unusual material as well as pictures of great significance . |
| 23 | You will meet the boat at the lock of Nag Hammadi and sail on to Sohag — the capital of the province of Girga . |
| 24 | He was a good friend of Benjamin Franklin and tried unsuccessfully in 1774–5 to mediate between Franklin and the government of Lord North to avoid the impending break with the American colonies . |
| 25 | ‘ Oppression , oppression , oppression , ’ grumbled a veiled and outspoken woman named Fatiya Abdel-Aziz , whose brother Ibrahim was swept up by police in February in the slum of Dar es-Salaam and has not been heard from since . |
| 26 | Hand-beating an aluminium panel does not necessarily make for a better car , confers no empirically measurable added value : nonetheless , it is the hand-wroughtness of Aston Martins that make otherwise sensible men write out cheques for £120,000 . |
| 27 | Their confusion was illustrated by an outbreak of schizophrenia in the mind of Stuart Barlow when put through with only Alan Kelly to beat . |
| 28 | Viking slipped away from the shelter of Sula Sgeir and turned eastward to where the distant hump of North Rona beckoned across a grey , breaking swell . |
| 29 | Most units were usually too busy to go to war : dispersed on training schemes , preparing for some grand parade , absorbing new equipment , training for a tour of Northern Ireland or retraining back from it . |