Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditions and hopes at the embassy had been declining rapidly , given the apparent reluctance of Czechoslovakia to contemplate even a temporary humanitarian solution to ease the overcrowding . |
| 2 | In the course of his rectorial address at Edinburgh in 1907 , Haldane asserted that " when a leader of Ingenious comes forward the people may bow down before him , and surrender their wills , and eagerly obey " , since " to obey the commanding voice was to rise to a further and wider outlook , and to gain a fresh purpose " . |
| 3 | To many in England the truce of Bruges seemed literally a sell-out : the French forced the garrison at Saint-Sauveur to hand the fortress over to them directly in return for 53,000 francs . |
| 4 | ( Coincidentally the town of Alma-Ata has now a population of over one million and is in Kazakhstan ) . |
| 5 | Aw , c'm on , it was just like that in Australia not long ago : one of the wire services reports in a condescending way that under local law , the National Institute of Industrial Property of Brazil recognises only the principle of priority in brand names , so that companies like IBM Corp , Xerox Corp and Sony Corp have had to ‘ buy back ’ their names before they could do business under them in Brazil ; the US is pressing Brazil to change the law to protect internationally recognised brand names — but it is not so long ago that , legend has it , an enterprising travelling Australian spotted that car hire was becoming big business , so when he got home , he registered the names Hertz and Avis , sold the Hertz name back to the company when it wanted to set up in Australia — and then used the cash he got from Hertz to set up the Avis concession in Australia . |
| 6 | The gigantic Black Arks of Naggaroth vomited forth a wave of corruption on the shores of the Elf lands . |
| 7 | The Hebrew conveys , as the English can not , the notion of tables being turned , of the people of God becoming now the enemy of God . |
| 8 | There the emphasis in late medieval times was on the transcendental unity of the whole body of Christ embracing both the living and the dead , a unity constantly in creation through the energy of love . |
| 9 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 10 | The thought of Beth having both the man she loved and an easy life was too disturbing . |
| 11 | While the Duke of Argyll had indeed a well-established interest in the county , and John Campbell of Mamore had a long tenure of the parliamentary seat , it is hardly to be wondered that some of the gentlemen resented that blunt statement of Campbell power . |
| 12 | It is extremely rare for the House of Lords to reject outright a Bill passed by the Commons , slightly less rare for the Commons to reject outright a Bill passed by the Lords — odd or controversial Bills are occasionally passed by the House of Lords , sometimes , one suspects , in the confident expectation that they will be rejected by the Commons . |
| 13 | Forne of Skirpenbeck took away the bowl , although that was not his business , and came back with a leg of pork , the burnt seaweed still sticking to it . |
| 14 | The first known inhabitants of Italy lived around a quarter of a million years ago , when the country was mostly inhabited by elephants and rhinoceroses . |
| 15 | His work with the youthful Chamber Orchestra of Europe confirms both a commitment to training and to performing new works . |
| 16 | A Black Brant rocket from Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg carried aloft a package of explosives prepared by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico . |
| 17 | It also relates to Eliot 's sense of the poet 's mission in ‘ Little Gidding ’ when the streets of London become simply a tribal homeland . |
| 18 | ( The University of London has both a principal and a vice chancellor . ) |
| 19 | In the event , the Duke of Buccleuch played only a minor role in the outcome of the competition . |
| 20 | We have assembled a collection of three videos , covering last year 's National Park Conference in Brecon , the use and misuse of planning guidelines in one corner of Wales caused quite a stir when first televised , and won a CPRW award . |
| 21 | AS the Prince and Princess of Wales sat only a few feet apart in Seoul 's Presidential palace yesterday they could have been mistaken for strangers uncomfortably thrown together . |
| 22 | Impatient of this , Richard of Gloucester put forward a further suggestion — which made the first seem infinitely preferable ! |