Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun sg] of [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attacked by the invisible Visians , they are forced to escape from an invading troop of Daleks in the Daleks ’ own vessel . |
| 2 | The spacious railway carriage known as The Anna Karenina is available for charters by private groups of two to eight passengers , allowing an extensive tour of Russia in considerable style and comfort . |
| 3 | At a press conference on July 19 the president of the National Assembly Juan Escalona said that " we have never believed that socialism is only possible with one party " , adding that under the present conditions , with an economic blockade of Cuba by the USA , " the existence of a single party is a defence mechanism " . |
| 4 | These ranged from an economic blockade of Lithuania in April 1990 [ see pp. 37360-62 ] , and violent military intervention in the Baltics in January 1991 [ see pp. 37944-45 ] , through a continuing " battle of the laws " with the RFSFR , to efforts to mediate over or exploit inter-ethnic conflicts within and between seceding republics ( such as the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh and the South Ossetia dispute in Georgia — see p. 37971 ) . |
| 5 | Gilbert Elliot , second Earl of Minto [ q.v. ] , while staying in Geneva in 1821 , recorded an account of Schweppe given him by François Hubert , the blind Swiss naturalist , an old friend of Schweppe in Bouchet . |
| 6 | I TOOK the little cinder that was the remains of the wasp and put it into a matchbox , wrapped in an old photograph of Eric with my father . |
| 7 | b , The frequency of C within the dynamic fractal generated by a single D invading an infinite array of C. At generation t , the width for the growing D structure is , and the frequency of C , f C ( t ) within the square of size ( centred on the initial D site is shown as a function of t . |
| 8 | For Peking , Tibet has been an inseparable part of China since the 13th century , although direct control was not established until 1950 , when the People 's Liberation Army invaded the region after the revolution . |
| 9 | In the minds of those who gave positive thought to it , the Commonwealth was to be an organization to which no one who was unwilling need apply , and in which those who had joined were to reach their decisions on the basis of consensus : the goal to be pursued was an uncoerced acknowledgement of Britain as the senior partner in a world-wide enterprise ; the position to be sought was the supremely equivocal but potentially supreme satisfying one of primus inter pares . |
| 10 | Tibet became an autonomous region of China in 1965 , but the Tibetans continued to regard the Dalai Lama as their " god-king " and to resent the Chinese presence . |
| 11 | Tibet became an autonomous region of China in 1965 , but the Tibetans continued to regard the Dalai Lama as their " god-king " and to resent the Chinese presence . |
| 12 | Almost an entire generation of Titfords in Frome was increasingly destitute from the 1780s onwards ; in a town which had depended heavily upon the wool industry for its prosperity for so long , the innate conservatism of the local clothiers left them unable to respond to changing times and new technology . |
| 13 | I do n't really think much has changed in appropriate critical judgements since 1906 , but it is an intriguing example of Schillings in triumphalist mood . |
| 14 | Evidence for wall-painting is also given by fragments of painted plaster from the exterior of an early temple of Poseidon on the Isthmus . |
| 15 | [ Holds up an idealised portrait of Jesus with blond hair and blue eyes . ] |
| 16 | Its strange , lowered vista , for instance ( which now reminds the adult more than anything else of George Herriman 's Krazy Kat , where buildings disappear and reappear from frame to frame " ) is an obvious representation of London in the late forties and fifties : all the houses had gaps in between , because of the bombs , and the sky came closer to the ground than seemed right . |
| 17 | It 's all a long way since his early acting days on the stage in the late Seventies which culminated in playing Lady MacDuff in an all-male production of Macbeth in Glasgow . |
| 18 | The fact that central government was now beginning to regard Siberia as an integral part of Russia as a whole , rather than merely as a colonial appendage , was marked by the abolition in 1763 of the Siberian Department ( Sibirskii prikaz ) , the central state bureau which had , with a brief interruption under Peter the Great , been directly responsible for the governance and administration of the territory since 1637 . |
| 19 | They have already arranged a rigorous season for the All Blacks , beginning with three centenary ‘ Tests ’ against the World XV in April , two against Ireland in May-June and now three against the Wallabies during an 11-match tour of Australia in June and July . |
| 20 | Plans are now afoot for an important exhibition of Canaletto in England and another devoted to the more unexpected theme of dogs in art , enterprisingly planned to coincide with Crufts ' arrival at the NEC early next year . |
| 21 | Two findings point to an important role of CCK in the regulation of postprandial gall bladder motility . |
| 22 | It is an important piece of Germany on the Swiss shore of the Bodensee , overlooking the point where the Untersee joins it , but since it will inevitably be in the path of the traveller following those lakes , it had better be mentioned . |
| 23 | It had on it an enormous photo of Bernard in hot pursuit of a cartoon of two bikini clad girls . |
| 24 | He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974 and an honorary Fellow of Jesus in 1980 ; won the British Biochemical Society 's CIBA Medal and Prize for outstanding research in 1973 , and the Royal Society 's Copley Medal in 1981 . |
| 25 | This is an inescapable result of Allen v. Flood , however unfortunate some of its consequences may be . |
| 26 | An embryological study of Carausius by Scholl ( 1969 ) confirms this , suggesting that the neck includes a dorsal labial component and a ventral prothoracic part , though Wada ( 1966 ) regards the neck of Tachycines as entirely labial in origin . |
| 27 | In the second year , there is an in-depth examination of Scotland since 1660 ; this brings out how many aspects of modern Scotland were shaped as long ago as the late seventeenth century . |
| 28 | Clearly this phenomenon is not confined to the United States ; value pluralism has created something of an educational Tower of Babel in Britain also . |
| 29 | His supporters subsequently asserted that the Browns had passed Common 's patterns to McCormick , but there is no evidence that the American , working in an isolated part of Virginia from 1831 , ever encountered them before his reaper improvements of ten years later . |
| 30 | The UCC 's Office of Communication , which has been an active member of WACC for over 20 years , will be the first religious organisation to receive the award — the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism . |