Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We see the importance of Hobbes for Oakeshott when we appreciate Hobbes 's achievement in effectively rejecting rationalism with his replacement of reason by will as the foundation of political authority . |
| 2 | The fund supports the Mariners Park Home in Wallasey for ex-mariners and their wives , the Royal Liverpool Seamen 's Orphanage and the Mersey Mission to Seamen , and other local seafarers ' organisations . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're coming to Highbury for training because you will be playing in the replay . ’ |
| 4 | This had the effect of realigning the traditional shipping lanes up and down the Gulf which led to the centuries-old general cargo ports in the Shatt al-Arab , Basrah and Khorramshahr , as well as the old-established Gulf ports like Bahrain and Kuwait and the recently installed array of oil terminals nearby : Mina al-Ahmadi and Mina Abdallah in Kuwait ; Ras Tanura and al-Jubail in Saudi Arabia ; Mina Saud and Ras Khafji in the Neutral Zone between the two ; Sitra in Bahrain ; Halul Island off Qatar and its onshore counterpart Umm Said ; Jabal Dhanna in Abu Dhabi and offshore Das Island ; and Kharg Island and Bandar Mah Shahr on the Iranian coast . |
| 5 | I do not fish the big rivers like the Thames or the Trent for bream but I love to get after them on streams the size of the Wensum , Bure or Waveney . |
| 6 | Dexter guessed that she thought the same as him but was keen to learn as much as she could from Blufton about Nicola and her motives for giving these ‘ facts ’ to the chairman of TVL . |
| 7 | It was largely the desire to create a diversion away from Flanders for Marlborough and his triumphant armies that led to new plans for a Jacobite invasion of the British Isles . |
| 8 | Yes , now I can not see the logic of allowing all this leisure to catch people to come into Standlake for leisure and they put a gipsy site next door to a residential — well , no , not residential , it 's a holiday park . |
| 9 | He is justifiably proud of what he and his father achieved at Lingfield , not least the deal they struck with the redoubtable Cyril Stein of Ladbrokes when they bought the course from his company seven years ago . |
| 10 | Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories . |
| 11 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |
| 12 | From the top of the stairs , one may enter either the temporary exhibition galleries , or the circuit of newly climate-controlled , track-lit , chronologically installed American and European picture galleries , containing masterworks such as Mantegna 's so-called ‘ Esther and Mordecai ’ grisaille , Bronzino 's ‘ Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo and her Son ’ , Guercino 's ‘ Mars with Cupid ’ , Giambologna 's small bronze ‘ Rape of the Sabines ’ , Terborch 's newly restored ‘ The music party ’ , and Gainsborough 's ‘ Portrait of Mrs Philip Thicknesse ’ . |
| 13 | This celebrated treatise , usually known as " The Art of Courtly Love " , lies at the origin of the legend of the Courts of Love , tribunals before which lovers were supposed to bring their quarrels in order to have them adjudicated by authorities in the art of love like Eleanor of Aquitaine and her daughter . |
| 14 | This was to Eleanor of Aquitaine and it was celebrated just eight weeks alter her first marriage , to King Louis VII of France , had been annulled . |
| 15 | For a long time Bayonne was an English possession , having been part of the extensive territorial dowry of Eleanor of Aquitaine when she married into the Plantagenet family in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 16 | And now there is young English Crown Princess , this Marie of Edimbourg as you will know . |
| 17 | It 's the latest setback for Wright amid fears that he could be sidelined with a hernia . |
| 18 | The dispute had its origins in the battle of Wakefield , at which Sir Thomas Harrington of Hornby and his eldest son John were killed on the Yorkist side . |
| 19 | The dispute had its origins in the battle of Wakefield , at which Sir Thomas Harrington of Hornby and his eldest son John were killed on the Yorkist side . |
| 20 | He decided to import a dog named Balthasar of Mallion , whose sire was Rudi Eulenspiegel of Mallion and whose dam was Quinta Eulenspiegel of Mallion . |
| 21 | The task of judging overall champion fell to honorary president Ieuan Jones and Lord Geraint of Ponterwyd and they ‘ back ’ the horse . |
| 22 | Saul of Tarsus after his Damascus road experience spent three days in fasting and prayer ; that showed he was in the receptive mood which invited the Spirit to come . |
| 23 | while enthusiasts like Richard Roberts of cheltenham and his co driver Paul Hunter are packing their tent to sleep in at night … |
| 24 | All-American girl made good : Elizabeth Halaby became Queen Noor of Jordan when she married King Hussein |
| 25 | He was supposed to take the advice of Archbishop Lang of Canterbury but he distrusted everything Lang said because he thought him an appeaser of Hitler . |
| 26 | , Sir ( Nicholas ) James ( Sutherland ) , baronet ( 1796–1878 ) , merchant , was born in 1796 in Lairg , Sutherlandshire , the second son in the family of three sons and five daughters of Captain Donald Matheson of Skinness and his wife Katherine , daughter of the Revd Thomas MacKay , minister of Lairg . |
| 27 | Even when Edward IV appointed his younger brother Richard of Gloucester as his deputy in the North , the latter entered into a special indenture with Percy to define their respective powers . |
| 28 | In May 1275 Edward I wrote to Alphonso of Castile , excusing himself from an alliance with Castile against France because he was bound by his homage and fealty to Philip III . |
| 29 | There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 . |
| 30 | There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 . |