Example sentences of "a [noun] of [noun prp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple . |
| 2 | A description of Carniola in the late seventeenth century by the Germanised Slovene nobleman Von Valvasor depicts a vigorous economic life , based on the exploitation of local mineral and agricultural resources . |
| 3 | He became responsible for all of the Bruce family interests , including their right to the throne , and was appointed a Guardian of Scotland in the absence of his young uncle , David II . |
| 4 | One might add Ælfwine of Elmham , a monk of Ely in the nearby diocese of Dorchester . |
| 5 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , it is true that there is a photograph of Rene in the town hall . |
| 7 | It is also visible in scene three when he produces two of his longest utterances as comments on Hollar 's philosophical thesis ( p. 55 ) , and in scene one , where his identification and development of a linguistic paradox generated by a photograph of Anderson in the Colloquium brochure ( " Young therefore old . |
| 8 | To this cross a figure of Christ in the Oslo Museum probably belongs . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | A study of Cheshire in the first quarter of the fifteenth century , however , shows how the social ties of the gentry class were rooted in the locality . |
| 11 | His pioneering role as a proto-Keynesian champion of the ‘ middle way ’ and a critic of Munich in the 1930s is surely understated . |
| 12 | There is a mention of Borwick in the Domesday Book , 1086 , and there was an early wooden structure to the East of the present building . |
| 13 | Even if they do not have thrush symptoms at the time , there is likely to be a reservoir of Candida in the vagina . |
| 14 | in the following year ( a portrait of Buckingham in the National Portrait Gallery is attributed to Larkin on stylistic and technical grounds ) . |
| 15 | One exemplary study is Early Victorian Country Towns : A Portrait of Ashbourne in the Mid Nineteenth Century ( 1978 ) edited by Adrian Henstock . |
| 16 | Perhaps it had been a decision taken by a General of KGB in the Lubyanka , perhaps the papers had gone to the Politburo or even to the President , but the matter had not been pushed . |
| 17 | From a handful of POCs in the early Sixties , the number of cases taken up by Amnesty now stands at 42,000 of which 38,000 are now closed . |
| 18 | ‘ In the brochure it looks like a picture of Disneyland in the bush with mud huts with all mod cons . |
| 19 | A picture of Augusta in The Queen : ‘ a blushing rosebud , soon to be a blushing bride . |
| 20 | ‘ Earlier , I had seen a picture of Farrah in the paper . |
| 21 | A Duke of Aquitaine in the style of 1176 and 1179 was not going to have much time for customs which reflected the political realities of earlier days . |
| 22 | If you would like to view a videogram of Colwyn in the comfort of your own home for 7 days FREE LOAN , forward your cheque in the sum of £10 payable to Colwyn Borough Council with your Name , Address and Postcode to : . |
| 23 | A curate of Calverton in the late sixteenth century , Rev. William Lee , had a brainwave one day when sitting at home watching his wife knitting stockings by hand . |
| 24 | Omri , a king of Israel in the ninth century , for six thousand shekels acquired the entire site for his new capital city of Samaria ( 1 Kings 16.24 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Seaside towns have lost their air of gentility , ’ he said over a pint of Courage in the Royal , another gloomy relic of better days . |
| 26 | Later we found them chatting over a game of Alma in the Railway Tavern . |
| 27 | A drop of Drosera in the 30th dilution succussed with 20 strokes of the arm at each dilution , given as a dose to a child suffering from whooping-cough , endangers life , whereas , if the dilution phials are succussed only twice a , globule the size of a poppy seed moistened with the last dilution cures it readily . ’ |
| 28 | This kind of paper , in use in the 25 years up to 1914 but revived in recent times , also places the EZRA POUND photographs in a time outside the present — suggesting , perhaps a vision of Venice in the time of the " Belle Epoque " when Pound first came to Europe as a young man and revolutionized poetics in the English language . |
| 29 | He retired as a major in 1837 and became a sheriff of Cork in the same year . |
| 30 | There was a bust of Marx in the local cemetery and a bust of Freud outside the swimming baths . |