Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To obtain an order form for your tickets please contact the Netherlands Board of Tourism in London ( telephone 071–630 0451 ) . |
| 2 | The first recipient of the original scholarship was Norcross Burrowes in 1880 , who went on to graduate from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1884 . |
| 3 | Furthermore , many absences from services in the post-Reformation period were occasioned not by apathy or reluctance to forgo a morning 's work or relaxation , but rather by ill-health or family commitments ; when William Kirke of Stow-cum-Quy in Cambridgeshire , for example , was hauled before the church courts for absenteeism , he informed them that at the time his wife had been ‘ lying in childbed and also his children wanted succour ’ . |
| 4 | His teachers were vastly impressed by his work , and drew the attention of William Yates of Liverpool to him in order to help Yates with his projected survey of the County Palatine of Lancaster . |
| 5 | Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister ; First Lord of the Treasury ; Minister for the Civil Service Sir Geoffrey Howe Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons Lord Mackay of Clashfern Lord Chancellor Douglas Hurd Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs John Major Chancellor of the Exchequer David Waddington Home Secretary Tom King Secretary of State for Defence Nicholas Ridley Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Kenneth Baker Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Kenneth Clarke Secretary of State for Health John MacGregor Secretary of State for Education and Science Malcolm Rifkind Secretary of State for Scotland Cecil Parkinson Secretary of State for Transport John Wakeham Secretary of State for Energy Lord Belstead Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords Antony Newton Secretary of State for Social Security Christopher Patten Secretary of State for the Environment Peter Brooke Secretary of State for Northern Ireland John Selwyn Gummer Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food Norman Lamont Chief Secretary to the Treasury Michael Howard Secretary of State for Employment David Hunt Secretary of State for Wales |
| 6 | *John Major Prime Minister , First Lord of the Treasury , Minister for the Civil Service Lord Mackay of Clashfern Lord Chancellor Douglas Hurd Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs *Lord Waddington Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords **John MacGregor Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons *Norman Lamont Chancellor of the Exchequer *Kenneth Baker Home Secretary Tom King Secretary of State for Defence **Kenneth Clarke Secretary of State for Education and Science *Malcolm Rifkind Secretary of State for Transport John Wakeham Secretary of State for Energy Antony Newton Secretary of State for Social Security *Chris Patten Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ( and chairman of the Conservative Party ) Peter Brooke Secretary of State for Northern Ireland John Gummer Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food Michael Howard Secretary of State for Employment David Hunt Secretary of State for Wales Peter Lilley Secretary of State for Trade and Industry **William Waldegrave Secretary of State for Health *Michael Heseltine Secretary of State for the Environment *Ian Lang Secretary of State for Scotland *David Mellor Chief Secretary to the Treasury *Appointed on Nov. 29. ** Appointed on Nov. 2 . |
| 7 | The Security Service reported in the war that the IFL was mainly subsidised by Leese 's private means and that the largest individual contribution , by a Colonel Macdonald of Brussels in the period for which cash books were found between September 1930 and August 1933 and from June 1937 to November 1938 , was only £5 per month with a special donation from him of £50 in November 1938 . |
| 8 | For Suicide for Love — a synthesis by Matsuyo Akimoto of works by the seventeenth-century dramatist Monzaemon Chikamatsu — depicts a world in which individual impulses are kept in place by fierce restraints . |
| 9 | A letter by King Areus of Sparta to the Jews , which would date the discovery of the family connection in the first half of the third century B.C. , was probably forged to provide a background for the authentic correspondence of the second century ( cf. 12.7 ) . |
| 10 | Thus it was no surprise that in 1967 he was chosen to become the Faraday Professor of Electrochemistry at the University of Southampton on the English south coast . |
| 11 | Taken to France by James II on his flight , it was later worn by the Cardinal Duke of York on his mitre before coming home again to Queen Victoria by way of George IV . |
| 12 | One could not predict creatures not yet discovered , for the natural systems had no neat arithmetical basis like Linnaeus ' ; and anyone contemplating the system set out in Cuvier might feel ( with King Alfonso of Castile on Ptolemaic astronomy ) that if God had consulted him , he would have recommended something simpler . |
| 13 | Those responsible for initial teacher training , for example , were apparently relieved that the Polytechnic , upon its merger with the Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education in 1975 , was not intending to leave them as a monotechnic island in the interdisciplinary sea of the Polytechnic , particularly when it remained possible ( as confirmed by subsequent experience elsewhere ) that isolation would mean a low ranking in whatever prioritization exercises the Polytechnic might be forced to undertake . |
| 14 | For details contact Jonathan Pugh at Brighton College of Technology on 0273 667788 or Sharon Finch on 0293 560777 . |
| 15 | The ceremony , in the FMLN stronghold of Perquín in the north-eastern province of Morazán , was witnessed by Nicaragua 's Deputy Interior Minister and the chief of military intelligence , and by the Nicaraguan and Mexican ambassadors , whose presence had been accepted reluctantly by the Salvadorean government . |
| 16 | The final report of the SRHE/Leverhulme Programme of Study into the Future of Higher Education , Excellence in Diversity ( SRHE 1983 ) , called for a wide-ranging debate about the content of undergraduate courses in the light of contemporary needs . |
| 17 | Morrell forged a new era in BEM methods of therapy by formulating a method whereby EM signals from the body are converted and sent back into the body to stimulate the organism 's self-repair mechanisms . |
| 18 | IBM Corp 's Technology Products unit — IBMspeak for the chip business — has finally nailed down some US distributors for the chips , subsystems and packaging products it wants to offer on the merchant market : the national distributors are Bell Industries Inc , Los Angeles , Bell Microproducts Inc , San Jose and Marshall Industries Inc , El Monte , California ; regional manufacturer 's representatives appointed include Bonser-Philhower Sales of Richardson , Texas , for Texas , Oklahoma , Louisiana and Arkansas ; S J Associates of Rockville Centre , New York for the Mid-Atlantic , Metro and Upstate New York regions , Connecticut and Eastern Pennsylvania ; Nexus of Mountain View , for Northern California ; Centaur Corp of Irvine for Southern California ; and Mill-Bern Associates of Woburn , Massachusetts for the states of Vermont , New Hampshire and Maine . |
| 19 | At least 42 Palestinians were wounded in a clash with Israeli troops at the Gaza camp of Rafah on March 9 . |
| 20 | Note that these resonators were cylindrical extensions of Hertzian loops , the resonant wavelength of which had been calculated by Hector Macdonald of Aberdeen in 1902 as 7.94 x the diameter of the loop . |
| 21 | Celtic goal hero John Collins hurdles Scott Nisbett of Rangers in yesterday 's Old Firm clash at Parkhead |
| 22 | May I extend the grateful thanks of Mr. and Mrs. Emery of Eye in my constituency , whom I visited this morning and who have just had their home insulated under the Government 's home energy efficiency scheme ? |
| 23 | It was claimed that he had purchased the Surrey manor of Woodmansterne from its tenant while litigation about the manor was pending in the Common Bench before him and his colleagues . |
| 24 | Taking no chances , power packed Denbighshire amassed 243–6 after losing opening batsman Richard Buckley-Jones of Marchwiel for a duck with only three on the board . |
| 25 | But in 1921 the King 's personal physician , Lord Dawson , stunned his profession alike and delighted the press by praising the morality of family limitation and warning Church leaders that they risked losing a whole generation by their unrealistic pronouncements ; an example followed in 1925 when the next King 's physician , Sir H. Rolliston , Regius Professor of Physick at Cambridge , became president of a new family-planning clinic . |
| 26 | Two weeks ago , the rector was talking about the unity of the body of Christ in the church ; as he spoke , he drew attention to a review of a new book by the Regius professor of theology at Oxford . |
| 27 | Another of his fellow pupils was Richard Allestree , later to become Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford , and later Provost of Eton College . |
| 28 | When microbes were first cultivated and investigated , John Burdon Sanderson ( 1828–1905 ) , later Regius Professor of Medicine in Oxford , observed that bacteria did not grow readily in the presence of certain Penicillium moulds . |
| 29 | , Sir William ( c. 1506–1544 ) , borderer , was born in or before 1506 , the eldest son of Sir Edward Musgrave of Hartley near Kirkby Stephen in Westmorland and of Edenhall near Penrith in Cumberland , and his wife Jane , daughter of Sir Christopher Ward . |
| 30 | So they scanned the local horizon and set up agreements with Strathclyde for management skills , Napier Poly for plastic skills , Paisley College of Technology for Materials skills , and so on . |