Example sentences of "of [num] the [noun prp] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the autumn of 1861 the Slavophile Ivan Aksakov tried to dissuade students from engaging in disturbances by urging them to return to their books and to " study Russia and the Russian nationality ( narodnost ) , in order to fill the gulf which still separates us from the people " .
2 During the autumn of 1984 THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE demonstrated the new topographical photography of the 1980s .
3 AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job .
4 After the Education Act of 1902 the London County Council made available each year a number of scholarships for brighter boys from its own elementary schools , but the school ( like Lord Williams 's School at Thame ) remained formally independent .
5 In the summer of 1978 the Ernest Ayliffe Home closed down and " Fulford Grange " was sold .
6 By the spring of 1937 the Largo Caballero government had gone some way towards taming the process of social revolution and absorbing the militias into a regular army built around the Communists ' own Fifth Regiment .
7 As of 1988 the UN ECE Convention included a NOx Protocol , under which UK emissions must not rise above 1987 levels : this will probably require power station controls as well as limits on traffic sources .
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