Example sentences of "of the [noun prp] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a meeting of the CNAA Council the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter said that he was ‘ not enthusiastic ’ about the binary policy , and that many other vice-chancellors shared his view . |
| 2 | All copies of the May 21 edition of the UK newspaper the Guardian were withdrawn in Ireland because distributors believed that a full-page advertisement for an abortion referral service breached the country 's strict abortion laws . |
| 3 | Changes in media personnel are fairly frequent and nothing gives a worse impression of the PR executive the continual receipt of material with a predecessor 's name or even their predecessor 's predecessor 's name on it . |
| 4 | It is very evident that in the early months of the Truman administration the new US president was far from settled in his views on foreign policy , not least because of the divided counsels of those around him . |
| 5 | In view of The Avon Gorge the tide is low and the water not clear but opaque with mud . |
| 6 | As part of the Sunningdale agreement the British and Irish governments agreed to take steps whereby offences committed in one part of the island could be brought before the Courts in the other . |
| 7 | To the north-west of the Colorado River the Kaiparowits Plateau and the Escalante River are prominent . |
| 8 | When we finally reached the top of the Bouton Straits the rain had ceased as completely as the wind and it was only the current which carried us eastwards into the luminous open sea . |
| 9 | As a result of the Guinness trial the Securities and Investments Board , the watch dog body with overall responsibility for policing the financial community , is abandoning its complicated rule books for a more broad-brush approach . |
| 10 | Of the Meikleour property the most successful lot was the outstanding pair of Louis XVI ormolu-mounted vases of Egyptian alabaster , made for the duc d'Aumont around 1770–75 and purchased for 13,801 livres at the celebrated Aumont sale in 1782 by Louis XVI . |
| 11 | But he declined to say whether the inspectors — two teams acting together for the first time in Iraq — had found any of the Scud missiles the United Nations thinks Iraq is hiding . |
| 12 | And in the aftermath of the February elections the worry is that Violeta Chamorro 's new UNO government might stray off the positive mental-health track that has made the contrast between these two countries so striking . |
| 13 | Children assisted in the preparatory stages of combing and carding the wool , for in Thurlstone and many other parts of the West Riding the woollen industry was still largely at the domestic stage of manufacture . |
| 14 | At the time of the Smithsonian Agreement the Group of Ten — the leading central bankers — had announced that discussions would begin promptly on a new long-term monetary reform . |
| 15 | In the case of the Withyham infants the joints were neatly burnished . |
| 16 | Ben Elton , 32 , star of the BBC series The Man from Auntie , is known for his angry humour . |
| 17 | Those who identify him take some pleasure in the thought that this sturdy independent was also the pensioner of the Empress Catherine the Great . |
| 18 | Not all have done so ; most have designated the Central Authority ( including in the case of the United Kingdom the subsidiary authorities in each part of the U.K. ) , but others have specified the president or registrar of or public prosecutor attached to a local court within whose area the addressee is to be found . |
| 19 | In the history of the settlement of the United States the first white settlers in north America arrived in Virginia in 1607 , and by 1685 there was a serious increase in flooding caused by forest clearance . |
| 20 | In 1921 Lord Northcliffe , the founder of the London newspaper the Daily Mail , was due to speak at a dinner for 3000 staff to celebrate the twenty-fifth birthday of the paper , but he had a throat infection , and his doctor advised him not to speak . |
| 21 | The belief that Worrell should have been appointed was extremely strong throughout the Caribbean , and it found its expression through C.L.R. James , then editor of the Trinidad newspaper The Nation . |
| 22 | India 's economy faltered during 1990 , and with the impact of the Gulf war the situation worsened considerably during the first half of 1991 . |
| 23 | In the aftermath of the Sizewell Inquiry the HSE had published a consultative report called ‘ The Tolerability of Risk from Nuclear Power Stations ’ . |
| 24 | The results of this Gallic look at Britain will be shown as part of the BBC2 series The Essential History Of Europe , which began last Thursday with Denmark . |
| 25 | As patron of the Macintyre organisation the Duchess of York has worked closely with the mentally disabled for some years , but even she was surprised ; delighted with what she saw on the opening night . |
| 26 | Persistent ill health induced him to give up the surveyorship at Christ 's Hospital in January 1816 and that of the Bethlehem Hospital the following year . |
| 27 | South of the Brabant Massif the existence of workable Upper Carboniferous coals beneath deformed Devonian rocks has long been known from mines and boreholes through the Faille du Midi or Midi Overthrust , the major thrust-fault complex of the Variscan Front . |
| 28 | In the last year of the Callaghan government the central contribution to local expenditure began to be cut . |
| 29 | Under the terms of the Versailles Treaty the Munsterwalde bridge at Kurczbrak was ceded to Poland . |
| 30 | At the end of the Gorbachev administration the success of both objectives remained problematic . |