Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pied flycatchers have been the subject of study in the Forest of Dean ever since 1942 when the first eighty boxes were nailed into place . |
| 2 | Other districts were illegally withdrawn from the Forest jurisdiction by magnates to make their private chases — such as the Earl Marshal 's chase near Chepstow , carved out of the Forest of Dean early in Henry III 's reign ; the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 's chase of Cannock ; and the Bishop of Ely 's chase of Somersham . |
| 3 | He spoke slowly , deliberately , first in the music of Quechua then in Spanish , or Castellano as he called it , stopping to emphasise his points with a jabbing , rhetorical ‘ eh-eh ? ’ |
| 4 | I was in the hills north of Achnashellach recently on a day of low cloud and smirry rain . |
| 5 | The setting was so romantically idyllic , with the distant jangle of yacht masts , soft calypso music , the rustle of breeze in the palms , that she thought of Mortimer again with a sick wave of anger . |
| 6 | THE launch of Middlesbrough yesterday as the country 's second environment city did n't exactly get off to a flying start . |
| 7 | In a famous book ( The King 's Two Bodies ) , E. H. Kantorowicz illustrated his theme of the development of Christ-centred kingship with the depiction of the Emperor Otto III on a page of a gospel book made for the imperial church of Aachen probably in the 990s . |
| 8 | Nor was the successful Counter-Reformation beyond the Alps much affected by the spirit of Trent even in non-musical matters ; the most firmly Catholic of rulers , the King of Spain and the prince-bishops of the Empire , were very jealous of Papal interference in their domains . |
| 9 | The warning came after thieves took the bag from the medic 's car while it was parked in the Moulsham Street area of Chelmsford late on Monday night . |
| 10 | Now , with the division of Germany almost at an end , there are uncomfortable questions about the future of the two alliances , and how , if at all , they can be fitted into a Europe that includes a re-unified Germany . |
| 11 | Walker 's worry is that neo-Nazis will travel from all parts of Germany and treat the clash between the champions of England and of Germany almost like a mini international He is confident that Leeds have taken all reasonable precautions but added : ‘ The great bulk of Leeds supporters are well behaved and will subject themselves to checks . |
| 12 | ‘ The fact that the regime has so quickly and so completely imploded in East Germany could risk a reunification of Germany almost by default before long , ’ one diplomat said . |
| 13 | New Zealand seemed to weather the loss of Hartland straight after lunch to one which bit back and had him lbw . |
| 14 | Most people were in their beds when the bomb exploded in the middle-class district of Bowbazaar soon after midnight , police said . |
| 15 | Part of the problem , certainly , was the slow and inadequate response of the central authorities and of Gorbachev personally to a deepening crisis . |
| 16 | Of the 29 rifts identified in Africa , five have led to continental separation and a further three have been associated with the movement of Madagascar away from the African mainland . |
| 17 | Yet the Defence Force offered a chance admittedly small — of subsequently entering the Imperial Guard and leaving the claustrophobic hives of Necromunda entirely for other worlds . |
| 18 | A BELGRADE-BASED guerrilla group captured a strategic town in the breakaway Yugoslavian republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina yesterday in another victory for Serbs seeking to partition the newly independent state . |
| 19 | This proposes , in essence , that Iraq should get out of Kuwait straightaway in return for being left alone afterwards . |
| 20 | So far Soviet officials have failed to link the notion of some form of neutralisation of Afghanistan specifically with understandings on the neutrality of the states around it . |
| 21 | Because of the recession , there is a prospect that more of that money will flow back out of Washington afterwards in refunds to taxpayers who did not do as well as in the past . |
| 22 | In one of yesterday 's attack on blacks , a member of the white ultra-rightwing Wit Wolwe ( White Wolves ) shot a five-year-old black girl in the mining town of Nigel yesterday in what a Wit Wolwe spokesman said was a revenge attack for APLA 's killings of whites . |
| 23 | Now the Monday the twenty eighth of February now on Friday Friday the twenty fifth you will need to phone in okay . |
| 24 | PENSIONER Sophia Hymes will be given the freedom of Chester today at the age of 91 . |
| 25 | It is found in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library , Oxford ( MS Digby 86 ) , that appears to have been written within the diocese of Worcester both for , and , arguably , by , a layman and is datable between the accession of Edward I in 1272 and the end of the eleventh year of his reign in November 1283 . |
| 26 | Again it is between Roger Fleming , John Blackwall , Anthony Blackwall ( now described as a stocking weaver ) from Litton in Derby , Penelope Wright and Roberta Maria Anna Wright both of Longston in Derby , and Daniel Morley ( now seen as an Iron Master ) of Ashbourne also in Derbyshire . |
| 27 | Almost 3 centuries ago all this was forest , part of the Royal Forest of Shotover just outside Oxford . |
| 28 | Still , it 's easy , almost a reflex , to think of Florida only in terms of its star attractions , the DisneyWorlds and Cape Canaverals and Busch Gardens . |
| 29 | The white marble figure of Bacchus now in the ilex walk at Ham House in Richmond , for example , is almost certainly that mentioned in a 1672 inventory — ‘ For 1 Pedastall for ye figure Bacchus ’ . |
| 30 | This covers most of Scotland apart from the Midland Valley and identifies estates by name , with a map showing their boundaries . |