Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hudson , Director of Long Ashton Research Station , University of Bristol , to examine and report on both the provision of full-time courses below that of OND and also all part-time courses in further education . |
| 2 | In Zanzibar , where Idris Abdul-Wakil ( the President of Zanzibar and thus Second Vice-President of Tanzania ) had announced earlier in the month that he would not seek re-election , Salamin Amour was chosen by the CCM as sole candidate to succeed him . |
| 3 | The victory over the Galatians consolidated the state of Pergamum and probably provided Attalus I with the right occasion for declaring himself king . |
| 4 | They had spies out , to be sure , but so far no definite reports had come in other than that Balliol and the English army , now unfortunately reinforced by the Highland and other Scots adherents , had left Perth ten days before , cavalry and foot marching southwards by Auchterarder and the Allan Water , to cross Teith by the Ford of Keir and Forth by the Fords of Frew , presumably to avoid any opposition at the vulnerable Stirling Bridge ; which conjecture had set Alexander Ramsay worrying about Doune Castle and Mariot Randolph , not to mention her brother raising his levies thereabouts . |
| 5 | Clearly it is good news for the people of Rugby and especially for patients attending St. Cross hospital . |
| 6 | Thanks to Bob Payton , formerly of JWT and now proprietor of a popular restaurant chain , agency creative people are far more aware of the value of music , in this pop-dominated world , in talking to specific generations . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A Hamitic people , they established themselves over a great part of Shoa and even pushed northwards along the escarpment for some hundred and fifty miles beyond Dessie . |
| 9 | , Charles ( 1630–1713 ) , aristocrat and natural philosopher , was born 13 September 1630 , the fourth son in the family of nine sons and three daughters of Henry Frederick Howard , third Earl of Arundel [ q.v. ] , and his wife Lady Elizabeth Stuart , daughter of Esmé , Earl of March and later third Duke of Lennox . |
| 10 | As Oonagh Toffolo , who once nursed the Duke of Windsor and regularly visits Diana for sessions of acupuncture and meditation , observes : ‘ She is a prisoner of the system just as surely as any woman incarcerated in Holloway jail . ’ |
| 11 | While Gedge was back in his bedroom strumming with Solowka , a group called Years grew out of Sen and eventually merged with the Clichés to become the Chameleons . |
| 12 | He tried to get a post at the British Museum , and was most indignant when it went to George Children , a friend of Davy and thus possessing superior patronage . |
| 13 | The language used was simpler and chattier than that of Pravda or even of Trud , the main labour organ . |
| 14 | ‘ We have identified that as a link from Stockton station into the new Teesdale site , linking up with the new university , alongside the Teesside Park development into the centre of Middlesbrough and then towards the east , turning down Cargo Fleet Lane , terminating at Ormesby . |
| 15 | The new nature reserve will be the area of Middlesbrough and more than seven times the size of Hyde Park . |
| 16 | Many of his public obligations were thoroughly familiar — on 12 May , for example , he gave an address at the University of Sheffield and then two weeks later received the Dante Gold Medal at the Italian Institute — but other duties were more painful to perform . |
| 17 | In the crow that day was cricket-lover Robert Gordon Menzies , Attorney-General of Victoria and afterwards Prime Minister of Australia . |
| 18 | In his earlier years the emperor Constantine ( c.288–335 ) had been an adherent first of Hercules and then of Sol Invictus . |
| 19 | However he must understand the indignity Leeds fans suffered during eight seasons being beaten by the likes of Shrewsbury and even ( gulp ) Bradford City . |
| 20 | John the former Manchester City manager is there , a former manager of Shrewsbury as well , he 's with Alan and Blackburn have just gone close to going two one up . |
| 21 | They were often seen together in the extensive grounds of Littlecote and also in the lonely alehouses in the sparse villages of the district . |
| 22 | The yeast , which gives the beers a rich fruitiness , is a strain developed by Ridleys of Chelmsford and further cultured by Crouch Vale in Essex . |
| 23 | He wove these and other influences from Florentine contemporaries into a distinctive manner , at once responding to the plastic values of Donatello but never renouncing an almost calligraphic approach to outlines and drapery . |
| 24 | I practise in the London Borough of Newham and also give medical advice to the family health services authority through the department of general practice and primary care of the Joint Medical Colleges of St Bartholomew 's and the London Hospitals . |
| 25 | He thought the worst of Mitch and clearly thought that left to herself she would ring London at once . |
| 26 | They have always had this opportunity at the University of Stirling but now they also gain national certification via SCOTVEC . |
| 27 | Felix thought of Czechoslovakia and then careered into a fantasy of Ho Chi Minh gossiping about the minor members of the English Royal Family . |
| 28 | It is possible from the village , without too much effort , to survey the great wilderness of Fisherfield Forest from the east by taking the private road to the little huddle of buildings known as the Heights of Kinlochewe and thence following a rising track to the left until the vast amphitheatre is revealed in a surround of formidable mountains of which Slioch and Mullach Coire Mhic Fhearchair are now the most prominent . |
| 29 | Goff became a regular visitor to Hamilton Terrace , a friend of Minton and also Vaughan , though the latter he found a taciturn , difficult person . |
| 30 | Scientists were free in the Netherlands and much of Germany as well as in Britain . |