Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Some of the main issues arising here can be illustrated further from the course taken by the historical study of Jesus through the century , and from the rise towards its close of quite new approaches to the study of the history of religions in general . |
| 32 | They then undertake a detailed study of Europe in the Early and Late Middle Ages , followed by an in-depth look at the Italian Renaissance and its impact on the development of European culture and society . |
| 33 | This reflected the growth expectations for high-tech industry based on the locational advantages of Newbury on the M4 and north-south routes , and the expected benefits from weekend break business from the home market … plus an expected increasing flow of high-spending overseas tourists from London to nearby Windsor and the surrounding area . |
| 34 | KABUL — Fifteen mujahedin rockets slammed into residential areas of Kabul over the weekend , killing 10 people and wounding 27 , writes Ahmed Rashid . |
| 35 | But he denied newspaper reports that the men had been involved in last December 's bombing of a Pan Am jet which exploded above the Scottish village of Lockerbie with the loss of 270 lives . |
| 36 | For the classes who did have enough to bequeath , we have valuable evidence about the patterns of inheritance preferred in the early nineteenth century from a variety of sources , especially a study by Davidoff and Hall ( 1987 ) of 622 wills made in two different areas of England during the period 1780–1850 . |
| 37 | An encampment of tents was constructed on the dry , high plateau of Paris by the French decorator Jansen . |
| 38 | This can not , of course , apply to outcrop rock such as that at the old village of Tockmal on the Oa , which has a group of shallow cups . |
| 39 | The white stone palais of the governor of Cochin-China was built in the grandiloquent , neoclassical style favoured by those fervently patriotic Frenchmen who had erected the great public buildings of Paris in the late nineteenth century . |
| 40 | Interox , jointly owned by Solvay and Laporte , has selected the east German town of Bernberg as the site for its new 50 000 t pa hydrogen peroxide plant . |
| 41 | The European Commission 's report by the Ruding Committee on tax distortions in the internal market was questioned by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland for the ‘ piecemeal approach ’ it put forward to harmonise by directives on individual items . |
| 42 | As a rounded account of the rise of Saddam it has one serious failing in that it pays far too little attention to the economic and social development of Iraq over the past 20 years . |
| 43 | The fact that other works of art not belonging to Capricorn were also on the premises did not affect that conclusion : nor did the absence of any outward sign of Capricorn on the premises have any significance , since it would be uncharacteristic for art dealers in objects of such high quality to place conspicuous nameplates on their premises . |
| 44 | The climb to the ruined fortress of Pisac above the red-roofed town soon left me breathless . |
| 45 | Among the published results , it is intended to produce a ‘ social atlas of London in the 1690s ’ . |
| 46 | In the minds of those who gave positive thought to it , the Commonwealth was to be an organization to which no one who was unwilling need apply , and in which those who had joined were to reach their decisions on the basis of consensus : the goal to be pursued was an uncoerced acknowledgement of Britain as the senior partner in a world-wide enterprise ; the position to be sought was the supremely equivocal but potentially supreme satisfying one of primus inter pares . |
| 47 | Although the Central Authority initially resisted the more direct encroachment of Whitehall on the Area Boards ( successfully insisting that communication should normally be through the Authority ) , the semi-political process which determined the Whitehall allocation of resources to electricity was mirrored within the British Electricity Authority . |
| 48 | The question of the refugees ' return was a direct obligation of Israel towards the refugees , not towards the Arab states . |
| 49 | The terrible fire , which had destroyed the historical centre of Lisbon in the summer of 1988 was at that time still fresh in the memory . |
| 50 | Summits include Parliament Hill in London and the Old Man of Coniston in the Lake District National Park . |
| 51 | Schleiermacher 's own account of Jesus relied heavily on such psychological study ; so , for that matter , did that of Liberal Theology ; and so too did those which saw Jesus only as a particularly heroic and noble representative of the human race , as did the immensely popular Life of Jesus by the Frenchman Ernst Renan ( 1823–92 ) . |
| 52 | Chance evidence from one chronicle records that he stayed at the Benedictine abbey of Andres in the Pas de Calais on his way before crossing the Channel . |
| 53 | The series focuses on the work of individuals working in remote cultures and in this programme the individual was a Cambridge mechanical engineer , Martin Ede , who is working in the Andean heights of Bolivia among the Aymaran Indians . |
| 54 | The apparently set commercial format of ITV in the UK was rudely upset during 1991 by a novel — and pretty ill-thought-out — scheme dreamed up by the government to distribute new licences for ITV1 . |
| 55 | I 'm built for action , and it seemed a raw deal being dumped in a desolate corner of London with the kind of instructions you 'd give an old man on retirement . |
| 56 | Roman Italy again provides an analogy : the roads built by people like Aemilius Lepidus in the first half of the second century physically facilitated the political and cultural unification of Italy in the course of the next 150 years . |
| 57 | A rifle through old issues of NME during the Baker era reveals only a few features here and there : his singles reviews columns remain legend in the NME office to this day , but Baker was never the interview machine that , say , Tony Parsons or Paul Morley were . |
| 58 | How will your book give a different image of Modigliani from the usual one in already published works ? |
| 59 | An SD report on youth in August 1943 suggests a continuation of the old detachment of Hitler from the Party . |
| 60 | So it was that during a week long break from filming Neighbours in October 1987 Kylie boarded an airliner and left the sweltering sunshine of Melbourne for the cold and rain of an English autumn . |