Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [coord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in part because of this love of the specially religious life , and in part because of the affection for the long history of the Church , that he led another pilgrimage ( 1959 ) of several thousand people to Holy Island on the coast of Northumberland and even The Times had a piece about the archbishop walking barefoot . |
| 2 | In a speech to the Romanian Communist Party Congress earlier this week , he attacked the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939 that carved up Poland and the Baltic states between them , but also ceded Bessarabia — then part of Romania and now the Soviet Republic of Moldavia — to Moscow . |
| 3 | The factory itself was formed by Bill Freeman in 1967 , a former employee of Stoddard and now the Contract Director of Stoddard Mercia Contract . |
| 4 | David Goodman , son of Monty and also a director , gave this account in an interview ( conducted by the staff of Canning Town Community Development Project ) in January 1975 . |
| 5 | ‘ Even though it was the rise of Nazism that eventually prompted me to write A Child of Our , the scapegoats of the North of England and especially the effect on the children remained very much in my mind . ’ |
| 6 | The Class 156 units ceased to be part of this operation from the 8th of July and presumably the temporary expedient of bus backup is in force if extra capacity is required . |
| 7 | Originally designated as a Phrygian nature-goddess of caves and waterways , Cybele was later thought to be RHEA , the wife of CRONUS and therefore the mother of the Olympian gods . |
| 8 | In 1949 Italy became a member of NATO and later a founding member of the EEC whose charter was established in the Treaty of Rome . |
| 9 | There were attacks on Heseltine 's temperament and suitability for office , instancing the occasion on which he had waved the mace in the House of Commons and also the manner of his resignation from the Cabinet over the Westland affair . |
| 10 | For years I found it very odd that the disciples spent very little time talking about the significance of the death of Jesus or even the person of Jesus . |
| 11 | Despite its name , it is found over a very wide range of warm countries , including not only most of Africa but also the Mediterranean islands of Majorca , Corsica , Sardinia , Sicily and Crete . |
| 12 | He began work in September 1567 in Carrickfergus , and by the autumn of 1570 he had mapped parts of Ulster and almost the whole area south of a line from Killary harbour to Strangford lough . |
| 13 | Jonathan Gershuny , now a Professor at the University of Bath and previously a colleague of Chris Freeman at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University , takes a particularly optimistic view of what work will be like in the future ( Gershuny 1978 ) . |
| 14 | As far back as can be traced it has been a village of yeomen , small independent farmers , and never since medieval times an estate village ruled by one big landowner , though for a period in the 18th and 19th centuries the Grimston family of Kilnwick and later the Hothams of South Dalton acquired some farms . |
| 15 | By A.D. 38 , Jesus was being openly proclaimed as the Messiah — not the Son of God but simply the rightful and anointed king — by Nazarean refugees , or perhaps established communities , as far away as Antioch . |
| 16 | The speed of flow is impressive , far faster than any human could achieve either with traditional methods or using earlier versions of PageMaker and so the feature is a genuinely worthwhile addition to the product . |
| 17 | Thus in chapter thirty he restates the threefold division of the spiritual life which he starts in Scale 1 : the basic faith without any inner experience of God , a felt love of Christ and finally an experience of the spiritual reality of God . |
| 18 | Eddie wrote light verse and became editor of Punch ; Dilly deciphered the Mimiambi of Herodas and then the German secret codes of two world wars . |
| 19 | My Lords let me like the Noble Viscount like Lord and the Noble Lord , Lord of Aberdale and indeed the Noble Lord , Lord of Haringey , begin by welcoming the decision of the Government to erm drop the provision in the Bill which gave the Secretary of State the power to appoint the Chairman of the Policy Authority . |
| 20 | The road serves the village of Barashevo and sometimes the civilians have to stand behind the lines of the guards and wait for the columns of criminals to go by before they can proceed on their way . |
| 21 | First er the precedent that exists for concessions on the electoral quota , the separate cultural identity , the special geographic situation , the economic needs of Cornwall and finally the concerns of Plymouth itself . |
| 22 | There was evidently some dilemma in Gould 's mind as to whether a work on the birds of Europe or just the birds of Britain would prove most lucrative . |
| 23 | To me , northwest Africa is part of Europe and either the division is farther south or , if they must be sailing on different plates , then those plates were very close together long before the Alpine convulsions . |
| 24 | Yet the clutch of Highers and then the Ordinary MA with which I eventually emerged turned out to be a pretty useful preparation for a life in journalism . |
| 25 | Iehmarc may have been Echmarcach Ragnallson , later king of Dublin ( see below ) , but who possibly in 1031 controlled part of Galloway and maybe the Isle of Man . |
| 26 | Suppose that he has to produce , not the complete works of Shakespeare but just the short sentence " Methinks it is like a weasel " , and we shall make it relatively easy by giving him a typewriter with a restricted keyboard , one with just the 26 ( capital ) letters , and a space bar . |
| 27 | Other tombstones tell us a little about the inhabitants of the town , and include F. Antigonus Papias , a citizen of Greece and possibly a Christian , who may also have been a merchant . |
| 28 | It was in the context of ‘ direction ’ that I first met Julian of Norwich and subsequently a wealth of other spiritual classics . |
| 29 | Everything that he had written during the previous four years on the overriding need to oppose fascism , on the need to defend nation states through the creation of a Strong system of alliances based on collective security , and on the central role of the Soviet Union in promoting peace and stability , all was reduced to the level of absurdity by the Nazi-Soviet pact , the invasion of Poland and subsequently the war in Finland . |
| 30 | Instead , he lived by the church bells of London and occasionally a sundial , as did almost everyone else there . |