Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two minders were either side of Marcus now and the floor jumped at him . |
| 2 | Taylor opposed the ECOMOG intervention , apparently regarding its arrival as intervention on the side of Doe just when the latter was on the brink of defeat , and threatened reprisals against nationals of the countries providing troops for ECOMOG . |
| 3 | PETER SHILTON is 90 minutes from a potential disaster — but the former England international vows to carry on as player-manager of Plymouth even if the club lose to non-League Dorking tomorrow . |
| 4 | In the case of displayed material , for example , it would be open to a shopkeeper prosecuted for displaying a magazine entitled ‘ The British Heritage ’ to show that he believed that it was concerned with the stately homes of England rather than the racist propaganda that it actually does contain . |
| 5 | For instance , is it the thirtieth of May today or the thirty-first ? |
| 6 | The Welsh Secretary , John Redwood , told the House of Commons today that the Welsh Development Agency had tightened up its procedures in the wake of a highly critical report . |
| 7 | And so in the sanctuary of the triune Godhead , whose secrets we can never know , and whose mystery we must never probe , God the Father prepared him a body , and the Word from the beginning , the Son , humbly said , ‘ I come ’ and the Holy Spirit overshadowed a young woman of Israel so that the uncreated one was joined to creature-flesh and became man . |
| 8 | The promise refers to the post-resurrection days ; it does not provide an exception to Mark 's sharp portrait of Jesus alone as the man uniquely possessed by the Holy Spirit . |
| 9 | St. James 's Gate Brewery , Dublin , Mecca of Guinness worldwide and the fountainhead of Arthur 's famous dark brew is the world 's largest stout brewery . |
| 10 | She also recognized Chiang 's Nationalist government in Formosa ( Taiwan ) as the legitimate government of China rather than the Communist regime at Peking . |
| 11 | For example , Lord Crowther-Hunt considers that the Queen would be perfectly " justified " in withholding her consent from a bill which sought to abolish the House of Lords even if the government proposing this had secured a mandate through the manifesto set before the people at a general election . |
| 12 | For example , faced with the ratio of a two to one majority decision in the Court of Appeal as against dicta of three judges in the House of Lords agreeing with the dissent in the Court of Appeal and casting doubt on the correctness of the majority opinion , but not expressly overruling it , it is clear that the Court of Appeal must follow the dicta of the House of Lords rather than the ratio of their earlier decision , so paradoxically preferring the persuasive to the binding authority . |
| 13 | The House of Lords recently provided the scene for a tussle between Scottish common sense and southern sentimentality . |
| 14 | According to the former , Molla Edebali , a native of Karaman , came to the Ottoman lands and there won the complete confidence of Osman so that the latter " used to refer to him problems in the Seriat and to consult with him in matters of government " . |
| 15 | Opponents pointed out that , if everyone behaved as de Gaulle had done , US troops would be forced out of Europe altogether and the alliance would disintegrate . |
| 16 | Propaganda of this kind was particularly marked during the Seven Years War , and spread the idea of a trade balance which must be defended against the excessive strength of Britain just as the territorial balance in Europe must be safeguarded from the overgrown influence of any continental State . |
| 17 | MEG took part in the annual pilgrimage by erecting a marquee at the foot of the mountain where they displayed an exhibition of contrasting photographs of Mayo now and the aftermath of mining in Avoca and elsewhere in Ireland . |
| 18 | The King now prepared to mount an attack on Granada and , thanks to the request of his queen in a personal letter to Rodrigo , El Cid joined him , raising the siege of Leira just as the city was about to capitulate rather than fail Alfonso . |
| 19 | And could I just say that I think that the issue of sustainability does also touch upon the need for the new settlement to be be located on a public transport corridor , preferably an existing public transport corridor , and I think again that argument for for s for somewhere where a rail link , preferably , could be provided , and that of course would tend to support all those factors tend to support a location on the Northern side of York rather than the Southern side of York . |
| 20 | The outcome , perhaps inevitably , was that no new voting system at all was introduced , except for the university constituencies ( for it was deemed that graduates would be able to follow the mysteries of PR even if the rest of the electors could not ) . |
| 21 | Six years of bringing up Charlotte and Luke with chicken wire tacked across inside their bedroom window , and a security system worthy of Alcatraz so that the parishioners who needed to get to you never could . |
| 22 | I knew of Dominica only as the birthplace of Jean Rhys , a writer I deeply admire . |
| 23 | That would be impossible to accommodate without major adverse effect up what is a historic town , almost entirely er located within a conservation area , and as Mr Curtis said , erm constrained by the greenbelt , the final point is er it is located within the A sixty four corridor and it is inevitable that it would serve the needs of Leeds rather than the needs of York if it were expanded in that way . |