Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The Last of the Mohicans had been his favourite book at the time ; he had insisted on being Hawkeye and Tim Skerritt on being the treacherous Indian , Magua .
2 of the Mohicans ,
3 LAST OF THE MOHICANS : Rip-roaring yarn with Daniel Day-Lewis as a native who falls for English Rose Madeline Stowe .
4 LAST OF THE MOHICANS : Rip-roaring yarn with Daniel Day Lewis as the adopted Indian who falls for an English rose .
5 LAST OF THE MOHICANS : All-action yarn of the year with Daniel Day Lewis as the native who falls for English rose Madeline Stowe .
6 Michael Mann 's The Last Of The Mohicans , an adaptation of the classic James Fenimore Cooper tale starring Daniel Day Lewis and American Indian Movement ( AIM ) leader Rusell Means , looks the best bet to subvert old frontier stereotypes .
7 I 'm hoping it 'll be Oscar time , either for that or Last Of The Mohicans ( which stars Daniel Day-Lewis ) .
8 ‘ The Last of the Mohicans . ’
9 There is no way anyone should see Michael Mann 's splendid panoramic epic The Last Of The Mohicans , based very loosely on James Fenimore Cooper 's classic novel , on anything but the best wide screen and in full Dolby sound .
10 Only Chingachook , the last of the Mohicans ( Russell Means ) , his natural son Uncas ( Eric Schweig ) and his adopted son Hawkeye , ( Day-Lewis ) remain resolutely unpartisan .
11 1 ( — ) LAST OF THE MOHICANS : All-action yarn of the year with a mesmerising performance from Daniel Day-Lewis as Hawkeye , the part-native , part-settler who falls for English rose Madeleine Stowe .
12 Cinema-goers in the North East gave THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS a warm reception .
13 FRENCH actress Isabelle Adjani , 36 , above , has moved back to Paris following the ending of her relationship with actor Daniel Day-Lewis , 34 , star of Last of the Mohicans .
14 Leading lady Julia Roberts was keen to make it with a British actor , namely Last Of The Mohicans Daniel Day Lewis , but is reluctant to go ahead with the replacement suggested by producer 's Universal , her former boyfriend Jason Patric .
15 The Last Of The Mohicans has romance and Lewis ' bare torso for the girls and action and Stowe 's wind-blown hair for the boys , history and literature for the high-brows and yards of bloody violence for the yobs .
16 MICHAEL MANN 's moved on from Miami Vice and back to the 18th Century for Last Of The Mohicans .
17 These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors .
18 Last Of The Mohicans ’ violence is also romantic , centring on Daniel Day-Lewis ' virile , Indian-raised Hawkeye , a man whose creed is , as Mann says , ‘ The quintessence of the American myth of liberty and independence .
19 I have suggested that we use Maa with subtitles ( I am thinking of Dances With Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans ) .
20 One might say the same about portrayals of American disc jockeys , leukaemia victims , Martians , cowboys , millionaires or the Last of the Mohicans .
21 Russell Means , a considerable force in American Indian politics , makes a sturdy and proud Chingachgook , whose son Uncas , a grunt and growl performance from Eric Schweig , is the alleged last of the Mohicans .
22 Pete , who honed his career up at Hope Street in productions like John McGrath 's The Bofers Gun , now finds himself in the thick of more flak in the new movie , The Last of the Mohicans , which opened last night .
23 In the blocks , I thought , a sort of interior fog will be creeping out from the corners of the ceilings and under the beds .
24 So I slipped back upstairs , taking more careful note of my surroundings , particularly the small gargoyle 's heads in the cornices of the ceilings and , above all , the great blackened Beauce crosses .
25 Each part of the walls and the rest of the ceilings received their appointed section of the Christian story .
26 Lady Thatcher is scheduled to make an explosive and finely timed entry into the debate tomorrow to stiffen the sinews of the Euro-sceptics .
27 That point has been reinforced in this debate by the total failure of the Euro-sceptics to come forward with any positive idea about Britain 's role .
28 Two or three of his articles were hardly intelligible to some of the subscribers .
29 When we opened the hall , most of the subscribers wanted to sit facing the conductor because from there they were able to follow all the developments of the performance much better .
30 ‘ The petitioners remark that ‘ the Royal Veterinary College of London is the private property of the subscribers thereto who may continue or close the same at their discretion ; that it is only from their desire to advance the veterinary art that they have allowed their institution to be employed as a College of instruction ; and that thereby the veterinary profession in this country owes even its existence to their establishment ’ .
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