Example sentences of "of the [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One American war correspondent wrote of this incessant traffic ; ‘ The one sight of the battle of Verdun that will always live in my memory is that of the snow-covered and ice-coated road … constantly filled with two columns of trucks … |
| 32 | The date of the coronation — an event regarded at the time as a rushed and shabby affair — has inspired comment , for it was the 13th , the thirtieth anniversary of the battle of Flodden . |
| 33 | SELKIRK Halliwell 's House off the main square , actually an entire terrace of eighteenth-century dwellings , has become a museum of local and national history , with a special display of the town 's long-standing ironmongery trade , and sad souvenirs of the battle of Flodden . |
| 34 | Touring Northumberland we visited the site of the battle of Flodden in 1513 , but it is really Branxton Ridge and the monument is near Branxton village Flodden Edge is about a mile away . |
| 35 | They elected to bypass Drummossie Moor , site of the battle of Culloden in 1746 , twenty-seven years earlier . |
| 36 | At the start of the season , the defensive system was a sweeper one , it worked superbly , we were winning though , but it , it 's the , it 's the reincarnation of the battle of Culloden as far as I 'm concerned ; Bonnie Prince Charlie just trying to swamp the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 37 | This section demonstrates how , in its choice of language , film-editing techniques and subtle juxtaposition of images and commentary , television news delivered an entirely misleading and politically biased representation of the Battle of Orgreave on 18 June 1984 . |
| 38 | It is thought that none of the selection of vintage aircraft sold , the Stearman , for example , reaching £30,000 against a reasonably realistic estimate of £35–38,000 . |
| 39 | He then goes on to declare that ‘ as the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operation on the stomach ’ , so sweetness and whiteness are ‘ but the effects of the operations of manna by the motion , size , and figure of its particles on the eyes and palate ’ . |
| 40 | His other publications included A Manual of the Operations of Surgery , which ran to seven editions , and articles on scapulo-humeral dislocation and pulsating tumours of the orbit . |
| 41 | Many of the operations of mind , for example high-speed addition , skilled typing , or playing a musical instrument are not readily examined through introspection . |
| 42 | The flexibility of Prestel as a means of the communication of information is considerable . |
| 43 | The fruits of the tree of life are portrayed through acid-etching of the flasked , or surface-coloured , glass . |
| 44 | He carried the skin and mask of the Nemean lion , the victim of his first Parerga , and his mighty club , a living olive tree torn from the ground , a symbol of the Tree of Life . |
| 45 | The culmination of the whole initiative will the construction of the Tree of Life exhibition in Rio de Janeiro in June at the centre of the Earth Summit and in view of the world 's press . |
| 46 | People through the ages made images of the Tree of Life , as with the stone altar in Neolithic Malta with trees carved on all four sides . |
| 47 | Prior to eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil , Adam and Eve were not troubled by ontological anxiety . |
| 48 | The Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge ? |
| 50 | This Labour is highly reminiscent of the Babylonian myth of the Garden of Eden brought back by the Hebrews from captivity and incorporated with modifica-tions into Genesis , as the apples of the Tree of Death , with Satan in the guise of the snake ( see p. 158 below ) . |
| 51 | There therefore does n't seem to have been much of a change , and furthermore Smith ( 1983 ) in his text specifically entitled Recreation Geography has also followed this model , albeit in the modified form of the relationship between ‘ travel/resources ’ which he calls the two main branches of the tree of recreation geography . |
| 52 | POISON OAK ( Rhus toxicodendron ) , an American cousin of the Tree of Heaven ( Rhus typhina ) that adorns many an English garden , has been incriminated as an agent of sexually transmitted disease . |
| 53 | Central North Side enjoyed a rate of unit improvement using bond issue finance almost twice that of the percentage of North Side units it contained . |
| 54 | Because even the smallest feldspar grains luminesce brightly , a far more accurate estimate of the percentage of feldspar in a clastic sediment is obtained by point-counting under CL . |
| 55 | Basic measures of the percentage of GNP passing through government hands in the form of direct expenditure ( 27 per cent in 1975 ) or transfer payments ( 22 per cent in 1975 ) , the scale of the public sector and the battery of regulatory control , add up to an order of central economic direction which , by comparison , makes the Victorian age appear as one of pure laissez-faire . |
| 56 | We were the big trading nation , and even today we are the second largest by way of the percentage of GDP exported and imported — we are second only to West Germany . |
| 57 | They found a significant difference between the two areas in terms of the percentage of breeding pairs with no eggs or eggshells of inferior quality ( e.g. very thin , granular , porous , fragile , without coloured spots ) . |
| 58 | In order to investigate the possibility of making savings on committee expenses , SCC was asked to undertake a review of the frequency of Council , board and committee meetings and put forward proposals for the future . |
| 59 | Persistent diarrhoea was defined as a chronic doubling of the frequency of defecation before irradiation and a minimum frequency of at least 14 bowel actions a week . |
| 60 | Estimates of the frequency of formation of interstrand crosslinks range from 1–7% ( 1 ) . |