Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We believe , ’ the letter reads , ‘ that as in the case of Walter Scott , Thomas Hardy , George Eliot and other writers of genius among whom Stevenson rightfully takes his place , a commemorative postage stamp should be issued and his name likewise be honoured . ’ |
| 2 | The investigation will be mounted by the full council of BAFTA at its Piccadilly headquarters on Monday . |
| 3 | The investigation will be mounted by the full council of BAFTA at its Piccadilly headquarters on Monday . |
| 4 | I am writing in response to the letter from Gordon Lewis about the Ministry of Defence in your May edition . |
| 5 | The facts that might have prompted CSM to take a more serious view of Opren at its November 1981 meeting are : 1 its own unprecedented number of adverse reaction reports ; which by 1 November 1981 included over 20 deaths which reporting doctors suspected to be due to an Opren reaction ; 2 The reports of the Paris symposium , which it could have attended ; and 3 Dista 's suggestions for a change in the dosage recommendations . |
| 6 | The level of income at which SB is received is widely accepted as a crude and basic measure of the ‘ poverty line ’ , that point below which people may be said to be ‘ in poverty ’ . |
| 7 | There was no thanks , no expression of sympathy for what Anna had suffered . |
| 8 | Anselm met them as best he could as they arose , and we may trace them step by step , less to recall the stages in an archbishop 's promotion , than to understand the state of mind in which Anselm progressed from one stage to the next . |
| 9 | Beginning with the transfer of power in India and Pakistan in 1947 , through the retreat from Egypt , and the rapid withdrawal from Africa in the Macleod period in the late 1950s and early 1960s , the rapidity and lack of tension with which Britain shed her imperial domain is perhaps the most notable of tributes to national stability and , possibly , maturity in the post-war world . |
| 10 | In this chapter we have been looking at the details of the division of labour to which Ella was referring . |
| 11 | The team was able to win some very prestigious senior assignments during this time , deliberately dissociating itself from the wholesale movement of dealing and broking teams , an aspect of search of which GKR strongly disapprove . |
| 12 | It is , of course , exactly the sort of piece in which David Alden excels . |
| 13 | Consideration of the nature of hypocrisy in Macbeth reinforces our awareness that Shakespeare connects it with all other forms of evil , the initial dissimulation leading to treason , regicide , and the never-ending chain of murder by which Macbeth destroys the whole of Scotland : Macbeth , having used fraud and force to obtain power , must now use force openly . |
| 14 | Both knew the other was thinking of their first meeting and the case of murder in which Meredith had found herself so painfully entangled . |
| 15 | They had descended the causeway which wound around the plug of rock upon which Kinsai was built , and now they were close to a stream which ran as a tributary into the D'neistr , the river which flowed north to the Sea of Tears . |
| 16 | As a result , Ireland was spared the kind of violence with which Rome established her sovereignty elsewhere . |
| 17 | The aim is to curb rogue salesmen by replacing existing misleading contracts and establishing a code of practice on which Stevens and Bolton are advising . |
| 18 | The man for the crisis proved to be Downton , who stayed with Gower till the end , which came when Botham declared on 302 for 6 ; they were helped by Marshall not being able to bowl , but it was still a fine piece of concentration of which Ken Barrington would have been proud . |
| 19 | It seems perfectly possible that the creation — or re-creation , if one accepts that Molla Edebali and Tursun Fakih were in some sense Muftis — of the office of Mufti to which Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan were appointed represents the first step in the creation of the office to which Fahreddin Acemi was appointed , a groping towards the concept which was fully realized in the office held by the latter . |
| 20 | Unlike the Obersturmfuhrer , who appeared to have a streak of kindness in his Gestapo soul , these women were as hungry for cruelty as wolves for their prey . |
| 21 | Sibton was built in 1827 atthe tail end of this pure and severe period of architecture of which William Wilkins , who built Grange Park , and the Northumbrian architect John Dobson were past masters . |
| 22 | The 70th anniversary on June 1 , 1990 , of the Treaty of Trianon under which Hungary ceded Transylvania to Romania , was marked by nationalist speeches in both countries . |
| 23 | In short , it is very much the kind of hut in very much the kind of village with which Darién is amply overstocked . |
| 24 | The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made . |
| 25 | I remember that we got round to talking about historical hindsight , or the kind of attitude to which André Maurois ( to whom I was to introduce Eliot years later ) referred when he imagined a man saying ‘ Gentlemen , we are about to enter upon the Middle Ages ’ . |
| 26 | It was the tragic irony of Fate that , because of the terms of reference to which de Castelnau had committed him in advance , this uniquely humanitarian general would be called upon to subject the men under his command to what was shortly to become the most inhuman conflict of the whole war . |
| 27 | For the majority of those who experience Hamlet today the play 's textual medium is paramount as the point of reference to what Hamlet may be . |
| 28 | THERE is one sphere of battle in which America has always had supremacy : the one that surrounds the earth . |
| 29 | In the next couple of years these will prove uniformly bad , underscoring the steady loss of competitiveness from which Lloyd 's has suffered recently . |
| 30 | Do n't you fucking stop throwing bits of bread at me Liam |