Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [noun] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her reasoning cried out the truth — that he was a part of Maria Luisa and always would be . |
| 2 | Along with the sermon on the Mount , it was the favourite reading of Mahatma Gandhi and indeed both ( in very different ways ) encourage selfless devotion to others and the principle that the end does not justify the means . |
| 3 | This coincides with conditions which are favourable to the development of the free-living stages of Ostertagia spp. and so infective larvae accumulate during the winter to cause clinical problems or production loss in the second half of the winter ; arrested larval development occurs at the end of the winter or early spring . |
| 4 | In the time of King Edward and afterwards it was worth seven pounds , now sixteen . |
| 5 | In spite of this awareness , it seems extraordinary that the candidate in Madrid favoured by Prim and his government was one who was bound to be unacceptable to Napoleon III for the simple reason that he was a son of King Louis-Philippe and so represented the Orléanist dynasty . |
| 6 | But for the time being the whole field of myth was reinterpreted in terms of Dionysiac pessimism and thereby revitalized , gaining a new weight and significance . |
| 7 | Henry took the homage of the barons and knights of La Marche and then returned to Angers to celebrate Christmas . |
| 8 | Sponsors for the show include Saffron Walden , Herts and Essex Building Society , Clacton Lions , the Rotary Club of Clacton Jubilee and also an anonymous donator . |
| 9 | It spawned the Bladud tale , it made Francis Peck subtitle his Antiquarian Annals of Stanford of 1727 Academia Tercia Anglicana , or ‘ The Third English University ’ , and it fuelled the fertile minds of William Stukeley and later Victorian romantics . |
| 10 | ‘ You referred earlier to the death of Ramsey Everett and there you have my meaning , for the exact circumstances of his death remain elusive in a truly Tyrrellian fashion . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Why , a kind of fur , pale grey and very expensive worn mostly by wealthy Edwardian ladies with a bunch of Parma violets and perhaps a toque . ’ |
| 12 | The Branches have to depend upon the voluntary support of the membership to fulfil what many see as their prime role , and where once the polytechnics were able heavily to subsidise a service of CPD seminars or even help run an ‘ in-house ’ programme , they can no longer operate in this way and have to charge for the events on a full cost basis . |
| 13 | The police hastily threw a cordon across the end of Duke Street and here the first clashes occurred . |
| 14 | After the fall of the Philippines , a series of epic island battles led to the American capture , at enormous cost , first of Iwo Jima and then of Okinawa . |
| 15 | The court heard he set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books to spend almost £6,500 . |
| 16 | He had set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books which he saved up to spend almost £6,500 . |
| 17 | All were taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital but later discharged . |
| 18 | WILLIAM was ordained as a Church of Scotland Minister but later became an army Chaplain ; he served in India for several years and wrote a series of books on the country which are still highly regarded . |
| 19 | The DES has been anxious to promote a national system of transferability and , to this long-term end , it set up a working party in June 1977 to examine all aspects of a national credit transfer agency , under the chairmanship of Peter Toyne , formerly of Exeter University and now Deputy Director of the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education . |
| 20 | The road out of Shiel Bridge runs along the south side of Loch Duich and soon arrives at a junction where a no-through-branch turns off to serve the scattered habitations along the shore , ending at Totaig and the forlorn slipway of the abandoned ferry to Dornie . |
| 21 | Areas of lower metamorphic grade Lewisian sediments , similar to those hosting the Gairloch deposit , occur on the north side of Loch Maree and elsewhere in north-west Scotland . |
| 22 | At a roadside cottage at the end of the village ( a former toll bar ) , a narrow lane turns off the main road to the left and continues beyond a crossroads and the old railway track to start a long climb on the side of Casterton Fell and ultimately come to an end at Bullpot Farm . |
| 23 | In 1920 he was offered the Governor-Generalships , first of South Africa and then of Australia , together with a peerage . |
| 24 | The finest bronze castings of Shang China and arguably of all time were not made for implements or even weapons , but for the ritual vessels centred on the cult of ancestors . |
| 25 | A detailed site investigation confirmed that the limestone and oil shales had been extensively worked to the east of Straiton Road and also identified a number of coal seams near Lasswade Road which had also been worked . |
| 26 | The ROK army had been occupied throughout the winter in containing guerrillas ; they were under the direction of North Korea and occasionally obtained arms supplies from the north , as with a recent arms shipment landed on the east coast , the bulk of which was confiscated before it could be used inland . |
| 27 | By 1840 , Chalk 's son owned the mill and leased it to the cloth manufacturing partnership of Samuel Francis and A.M. Flint , who remained there until 1853 . |
| 28 | The voluntary sector is a large employer of ACE schemes and now relies heavily on it for its funding . |
| 29 | The Worcestershire Way starts on the sandstone ridge of Kinver Edge and then follows the River Severn from Upper Arley to Bewdley before crossing limestone ridges running north from the Malvern Hills to Malvern . |
| 30 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |