Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 2 | Virginia , in her fifties , thinking of Vanessa at Charleston , wrote , ‘ Do you think we have the same pair of eyes , only different spectacles ? ’ |
| 3 | William Berkeley , William Ovedale and Roger Kelsale were made responsible for victualling the ships , and were also authorized to receive all those prepared to make their peace with the new regime except Woodville himself , Dorset ( the only indication that he might have joined his uncle ) and Robert Ratcliffe , a former associate of Rivers at Calais . |
| 4 | William Berkeley , William Ovedale and Roger Kelsale were made responsible for victualling the ships , and were also authorized to receive all those prepared to make their peace with the new regime except Woodville himself , Dorset ( the only indication that he might have joined his uncle ) and Robert Ratcliffe , a former associate of Rivers at Calais . |
| 5 | Her cheeks pink , she took a deep breath , and , enormously grateful for the solid bulk of Leo at her back , she stepped inside . |
| 6 | In this context , Edward s assumption of the title and arms of Ring of France at Ghent in 1340 is of the utmost significance , for it allowed him to pose as an alternative government in France and attract the loyalty of those who for whatever reason were discontented with Valois rule . |
| 7 | Malcolm Crosby , the Sunderland caretaker manager , expects to stay in that position despite guiding his club to the final with a 1–0 defeat of Norwich at Hillsborough . |
| 8 | CARL PREAN , the English No 1 , secured four wins as England qualified for the semi-finals of the men 's team event with a 4–1 defeat of Holland at the European Championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 9 | KEITH JARRETT , a teenage centre with Newport , played out of position at full-back when he made his debut for Wales but scored 19 points in the 34–21 defeat of England at Cardiff Arms Park . |
| 10 | Country Member gave Andy Turnell some compensation for the disappointing defeat of Katabatic at Exeter . |
| 11 | The defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 had opened up travel on the Continent , and Sewell , fully realising that his visits were cursory , seems nevertheless to have enjoyed them . |
| 12 | The second Denby Dale Pie was the ‘ victory pie ’ of 1815 , celebrating the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo . |
| 13 | There had been no war in Europe between Britain and any continental power since the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo a century earlier , when the scale and power of armaments had been puny by comparison to those available in the early 1900s . |
| 14 | Among the 50 or so battlefields to choose from are : Wellington 's defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo , the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign , the cowboys and Indians of America 's Wild West , and the Battle of the Somme . |
| 15 | Two years later , apprised by his elder brother and partner Laurence of the defeat of Napoleon at Moscow before this was publicly known , he secured large contracts for the forward delivery of Russian imports at their peak wartime prices . |
| 16 | At a banquet for the president of Turkey at Hampton Court Palace the entertainment was to be provided , at the president 's request , by students from the Royal Ballet School . |
| 17 | Lee Teng-hui , chairman of the ruling Kuomintang party ( KMT ) , was sworn in as President of Taiwan at a ceremony in Taipei , the capital , on May 20 , having been chosen by the country 's electoral college in March [ see pp. 37318-19 ] . |
| 18 | Mitchell , now 27 , was president of OUDS at Oxford . |
| 19 | W.D. ( Bill Wickson , who died suddenly on April 15 , aged 77 , had been elected President of Surrey at the club 's AGM only two days previously . |
| 20 | It was attended by ministerial delegates from the 13 member countries , and chaired by Jibril Aminu , the Nigerian Minister for Petroleum Resources , who had been elected President of OPEC at the last six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 [ see p. 38602 ] . |
| 21 | The Water of Leith rises in the Pentland Hills and flows for a distance of 36 kilometres to meet the Firth of Forth at Leith . |
| 22 | The harbour at this time was formed on the bed of the ‘ Water to Leith ’ , a small stream with its source in the Pentland Hills and flowing for thirteen miles or so through Edinburgh and Leith into the Firth of Forth at this point . |
| 23 | The Senate recently estimated the number commuting daily into the west from east Berlin and nearby districts of Brandenburg at 50,000 to 60,000 . |
| 24 | ‘ No , nothing at all , not a mention of Elsie at all except on her birthday . |
| 25 | It may have been a sign of things to come that though the strike led to a long lasting respect between Havelock Wilson and Tom Mann , no such relationship developed with Ben Tillett , who in his recollections of the strike refrains from making mention of Wilson at all . |
| 26 | There was no mention of ACE at the launch , the machines are ACE-compatible but without EISA bus and other bells and whistles are not ACE-compliant . |
| 27 | After interminable waiting , he accompanied Gilbert to Newfoundland in 1583 , witnessed Gilbert 's actions there , and survived various disasters , culminating in the loss of Gilbert at sea , to bring his ship home in September 1583 as the sole vessel to survive the expedition . |
| 28 | He always wanted to become Prime Minister , and in 1969 he secured the safe Tory seat of Louth at the age of 29 , becoming the country 's youngest MP.The trouble was , he was in too much of a hurry . |
| 29 | Ine did not allow the displeasure of Canterbury at his failure to agree to a partition of the diocese of Winchester to drive him into action on the matter , despite threats of excommunication . |
| 30 | The mandatory study of Marxism-Leninism at university was also dropped . |