Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Mark bought an elephant , Tara , for £4000 and embarked on a 600 mile trek with five eccentric Indian companions , from Konarak on the shores of the Bay of Bengal to Sonepur by the mighty River Ganges . |
6 | They had to operate from a precariously-held line stretching 800 kilometres from Akyab on the Bay of Bengal to Ledo at the foot of the Tibetan mountains . |
7 | Parvis Yousefi opened an account at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington under the name of Momen Garawand . |
8 | The court heard he set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books to spend almost £6,500 . |
9 | He had set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books which he saved up to spend almost £6,500 . |
10 | The village of Lyonshall in Herefordshire near the Welsh borders was provided with a station by the Great Western Railway ; this station had a somewhat chequered history and a rather inconsistent patronage . |
11 | It is perhaps possible to recognize traces of the version of Nicolas of Damascus in the account of Josephus in Bellum Judaicum 1 if we compare it with the much more elaborate story told by Josephus in his Antiquitates Judaicae . |
12 | The second attack on the 18th was on shipping and dock installations in the Port of Gdynia in Poland on the Baltic Sea , and the third was on the synthetic oil plant at Politz near Stetin . |
13 | He was count of Anjou in Maine after the death of his father ; he was Duke of Normandy by right of his mother and Duke of Aquitaine by right of his wife , Eleanor , the divorced wife of King Louis VII of France . |
14 | Nor was there any likelihood of a spontaneous revolt against the Nazi regime in Germany — not even after the overthrow of Mussolini in Italy in the summer of 1943 . |
15 | ITV exhibited patriotism approved by the rabid tabloids in cancelling its showing of Argentina versus Belgium in the World Cup . |
16 | Some authors have attributed the presence of certain southern plants such as the moss Myurium hochstetteri to the relatively frost-free winters while Clark ( 1956 ) believed that local ins of heather were less resistant to frost , resulting in a notable loss of Calluna in Harris in the winter of 1946–47 . |
17 | Christopher Robson ( countertenor ) has recently been electrifying audiences with his performances of Arsamenes in Xerxes at the English National Opera , and when he opens his mouth on this recording he may as well be plugging us all into the mains . |
18 | Their Lordships were shown a judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada in Stinchcombe v. The Queen ( unreported ) , 7 November 1991 from which it appears that ( partly in reliance on section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ) a much wider view is taken of the prosecution 's duty of disclosure of documents to the defence , namely , that , subject to certain discretions as to whether and when disclosure should be made , the Crown has a legal duty to disclose all relevant information to the defence on the basis that |
19 | His coils , sixty in number , are in operation from the southern tip of Tasmania to Queensland in the north of the Continent where farmers , aiming to improve their land , request his services . |
20 | , Nicholas ( 1795–1865 ) , civil and mining engineer , was born at the farm of Daniel at Sourmires in the parish of Ryton , county Durham , 24 April 1795 , the son of Nicholas Wood , tenant farmer . |
21 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
22 | Much of the initial capital was probably raised by local grandees like the Duke of Somerset at Petworth from the profits of estate management . |
23 | In their approach to the irregularities which have been discussed their Lordships gladly adopt what was said by the High Court of Australia in Davies v. The King ( 1937 ) 57 C.L.R. 170 , 180 , and cited with approval by the Jamaican Court of Appeal in Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , 591 : |
24 | Mr Williams , originally from Bangor , was curate of Upton by Chester in the 1960s and was diocesan youth officer in the city for several years . |
25 | Rev Williams , originally from Bangor , was curate of Upton by Chester in the 1960s and was diocesan youth officer in the city . |
26 | The approach of the House of Lords in Swain v The Law Society illustrates how this model might work . |
27 | Discussions were held with the government of Iran in May on the strengthening of bilateral ties . |
28 | But so wide are the left 's woes — in the past few years , they have affected socialist parties from Britain at one end of Europe to Greece at the other — that it is worth considering the possibility that something else is at work , too : the body of ideas that socialists used to represent has lost so much electoral support that socialist parties , at least in their old guise , are doomed . |
29 | The other great facies of the Devonian is the continental red sandstone development which extends across the north of Europe from Ireland to the Russian Platform . |
30 | Next Tuesday it 's the turn of drama and literature , and I shall be looking at the place of Britain in Europe with the help of Gabriel Droskapovchy . |