Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun prp] [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The geography of Boiotia might to a shallow observer seem to suit her for naval hegemony . |
| 2 | " By appointment " warrants awarded by the Prince of Wales will in future comply with a set of environmental criteria . |
| 3 | There is some comment has been made that a new settlement to the South or the South West of York would in some way undermine the urban regeneration erm of Leeds City Council , now I find this a surprising comment given that though people who are making that comment are also at the same time advocating much increased development allocations to , for example , Harrogate district , the main centre for which is erm , nearer than most conceivable new settlement locations to the South and South West of York . |
| 4 | The rest of Europe could at this time show little lute music comparable with that of the Spanish and Italian lutenists . |
| 5 | What we can not countenance though sir , is any widening o of the route that they seek to go down , to have these sites included in the greenbelt , and that 's to say to entertain the argument that the whole of Skelton ought to be washed-over . |
| 6 | Overbeck 's critique connected directly with the recent rediscovery of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament in the work of Weiss and Schweitzer ; and these were powerfully reinforced in their effect upon Barth by the preaching of J. C. Blumhardt ( 1827 — 91 ) , which had centred on the call to live in the light of the future coming of the kingdom , in which the victory won by God in the death and resurrection of Jesus would at last become apparent . |
| 7 | To the same purpose the president Montesquieu , though I trust too hastily , presages ; that as Rome , Sparta , and Carthage have lost their liberty and perished , so the constitution of England will in time lose its liberty , will perish : it will perish whenever the legislative power shall become more corrupt than the executive . |
| 8 | In January 1928 he was invited back to speak at the Cambridge Union , on the motion that the Church of England ought to be disestablished . |
| 9 | The greater part of the property of Britain used to be surrounded by a kind of magic circle within which the law of honesty could not penetrate . |
| 10 | The Bank of England used to be the City 's leader ; in recent times it has seemed content to be its cheerleader . |
| 11 | Finally , it suggested that interconnection with the Republic of Ireland ought to be re-eastablished . |