Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | from the wilds of whitewater we 're off to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire for the start of our action round up … there we 're meeting up with greyhound trainer Tony Meek … and his two dogs … |
| 2 | WHILE ENJOYING the high quality of play by England during the recent New Zealand tour and latterly the World Cup , and appreciating the fitness they displayed , I could n't help but wonder about the current medical practices being used to prepare players for matches while still injured . |
| 3 | The state of play in Aotearoa at the moment is : so now everyone knows about the inequities in paradise , what are we going to do about it ? |
| 4 | Essentially , the position which Anselm established lasted till 1920 , despite the heroic struggle of Gerald of Wales in the early thirteenth century to establish an archbishopric at St Davids . |
| 5 | Midland , Birmingham & Wolverhampton Junction Railway ( from junction with the Midland Railway & L.N.W.R. at Willenhall and a north & south facing junction with the Stour Valley Line of the L.N.W.R. , south of Wolverhampton via Bridgnorth to the Central Wales Railway and the Shrewsbury & Hereford Railway at Craven Arms and branch to the Bishop 's Castle Railway near Cheney Longville . |
| 6 | This is essentially the conclusion drawn by Salmon ( 1987 ) in his survey of decentralization in France in the early 1980s . |
| 7 | Having achieved this , they provoked disquiet in two quarters : first , those concerned with the defence of Basrah , up the river to the north , and the nearby port of Umm Qasr ; and , second , the government of Kuwait ( an important source of support for Iraq throughout the war ) , which had already suffered air attacks and was to be struck again before the fighting was over . |
| 8 | Lets hope Community Care will be a constant companion and source of support to Thompson in the future . |
| 9 | A message of support from Thatcher for the Conservative candidate was delivered through the voters ' letter-boxes and several leading Tories , including Party Chairman Kenneth Baker , visited the constituency to support the election campaign . |
| 10 | Now , I think there 's probably a very nice parallel here , I ca n't help thinking it was probably a bit better , must have been better organised in the Second World War , but there 's going to be a erm special exhibition here is n't there , on memories of change on Oxford in the Second World War , and of course there were a great many extra people there too . |
| 11 | We discussed the problem of the possible leakage of expertise from Russia in the field of weapons of mass destruction . |
| 12 | An almost identical coffin as that shown in the Bedford Hours , though within a far less elaborate hearse , can be seen in the equally luxurious London Hours of René of Anjou from the Egerton Workshop . |
| 13 | In fact , the 1959 Act has worked to secure a very large measure of freedom in Britain for the written word . |
| 14 | A rapacious British land taxation policy was partly responsible for a series of famines in Bengal in the second half of the eighteenth century , while elsewhere in India the staple foods of the poor such as millet and pulses were displaced by the production for export of grains and commercial crops ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 79 , 84 , 86 ) . |
| 15 | And so , like so many other politicians of merit , Amini was excluded form any positions of responsibility in Iran from the early sixties onwards . |
| 16 | " It 's true to say that there was a great deal of discontent in Russia during the reign of Nicholas II , indeed there were things wrong with Russian society that needed reforming badly , whilst the ruling class lived in unabashed luxury the peasants who made up 90 per cent of the population had to be contend with lack of food and primitive living conditions added to this was was a completely ineffective educational system which meant that illiteracy was widespread , thus problems were on a large scale in Russia social reforms were desperately needed , as were political reforms since Russia as an autocratic country suppressed any means of political liberation . " |
| 17 | The U-boat activity and the occupation of part of France by the enemy were responsible for the food shortages , which sent prices soaring . |
| 18 | Er work continuing in Newark town centre with the closure of part of Castlegate in the Beesmarket Hill area of the town , diversions there mean that delays are likely too . |
| 19 | The most dramatic example of this is the Jorvik Centre in York , which has a lifelike reconstruction of part of York in the Viking age ( complete with sounds and smells ) , a reconstruction of the excavation itself , and a display of finds . |
| 20 | But that was the only s And then of course in Sanday in the what we call the North End , |
| 21 | At least two offers of resignation by Chevènement since the start of the Gulf crisis ( in December 1990 and earlier in January ) had been rejected by Mitterrand . |
| 22 | The progress of restorations in Venice since the 1966 flood |
| 23 | Wagner 's profession of sympathy for Schopenhauer at the November meeting could only have come as the happiest of coincidences , while , in general , this first experience of the composer 's powerful personality confirmed and added to his new status : Wagner was at one with Schopenhauer and he was ( to Nietzsche 's way of thinking ) an artist such as Schopenhauer himself would have wished him . |
| 24 | an extra game for you tonight here 's Hereford 's moment of glory against Coventry in the first round of the Pilkington Cup at Coundon Road on Saturday … |
| 25 | It 's about collison of cultures in Britain since the end of the war , and it looks at the way that some artists of non-British origin have come to terms with modern art — or , rather , have made a personal art by calling on ways of expression that might have been absolutely native to them in other countries than this . |
| 26 | The destination — as so often with this ship — was Honduras in Central America , quite a rich source of exports to England at the time , including the mahogany which was used for so much 19th-century furniture . |
| 27 | This paper reports the results of the Scottish Council 's survey of exports from Grampian during the year 1990/91 . |
| 28 | The Maryland legislation was symptomatic of the continuing national debate over abortion , and the uncertainty surrounding the future of Roe v. Wade since the Supreme Court 's decision in July 1989 undermining that ruling by enabling states to restrict access to abortion [ see pp. 36809-10 ] . |
| 29 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 30 | Now that sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century . |