Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lutz Stavenhagen said that he expected 11 out of the 12 EC leaders in Strasbourg to endorse the proposal — a reference to the renewed isolation of Mrs Thatcher over the issue . |
| 2 | The whole sequence , therefore , appears to be concerned with rescripts of Marcus Aurelius on the subject of trusts for public building . |
| 3 | From it , Glen Loy opens an inviting way into the hilly interior but the object that most excites attention is the tremendous bulk of Ben Nevis on the far side of the valley , better seen from here than from any other low viewpoint . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend the Member for Belfast , East ( Mr. Robinson ) and I understood that the basis of the talks was to try to secure a replacement for the Anglo-Irish Agreement and to make arrangements to safeguard the administration of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | Following the defeat of Kenneth Kaunda in the presidential elections in October , the United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) accepted his resignation as party leader on Jan. 6 ; the UNIP would hold a congress in April to elect a new leader as well as all members of the central committee . |
| 6 | In Britain such was the period following the defeat of Clodius Albinus in the civil war of AD 196 . |
| 7 | After the mixed card on St Patrick 's Day we are back to an all National Hunt affair and the main race , the Sportsman Hunter Chase , may go to Bajan Blues who almost brought off the shock defeat of Matt Reid at the last meeting . |
| 8 | Bill Clinton 's defeat of George Bush in the US presidential elections cast an air of uncertainty over the talks . |
| 9 | He cleaned up in the 12th frame on his way to a 9–4 defeat of Ken Doherty in the third round of the UK Championship at Preston . |
| 10 | British Columbia .............. 3 New Zealand .................. 48 AS THE All Blacks touch down at Heathrow today there is nothing but cold comfort for John Ryan , the Welsh coach , with the news of their heavy defeat of British Columbia at the Swangard Stadium here en route to their United Kingdom tour . |
| 11 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
| 12 | Second , and more important , came the succession of Mikhail Gorbachev to the Soviet leadership . |
| 13 | Alfred Gomolka ( CDU ) resigned on March 16 as Minister President of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania over the privatization of the five main shipyards in the region . |
| 14 | The danger and the extra effort needed to shoe a colt for the first time was recognized by a custom called in some districts of East Anglia by the term First Nail which presumably referred to the violent shock the first nail would give to the colt . |
| 15 | Aberdeen 's frustrating afternoon was summed up by the loss of Gary Smith before the match with ‘ flu and his replacement David Winnie with a stomach upset in the second half . |
| 16 | The loss of Mike Gatting with the last ball on Sunday night was crucial , because Mike is such a good player of leg spin . |
| 17 | After the tragic murder of Harry Masterson in The Greek Key crisis , Tweed had shuffled some of his four sector chiefs . |
| 18 | On March 18 , hundreds of people marched through the streets of Tottenham , to mark the third anniversary of the false convictions of Winston Silicott , Enghin Raghip and Mark Braithwaite , for the murder of PC Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm Uprising in October 1985 . |
| 19 | The struggle to avoid the wrath of divine judgement on the nation and conviction that the crisis of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars both revealed God 's displeasure and offered an opportunity to vindicate the nation 's purity , contributed powerfully to substantial ideological coherence over the slave trade , embracing politically a range from the Toryism of James Stephen to the liberal wing of dissent . |
| 20 | Prince and Princess Michael of Kent attend a film premiere of New York Stories in aid of the Sharon Allen Leukaemia Trust and Variety Club of Great Britain at the Odeon , Haymarket , London W1 . |
| 21 | She had even left a photograph of Joseph Hegarty in the boy 's room lest he should think that his father was being banished from his memory on top of everything else . |
| 22 | Bailey nudged Clarke and pointed to the photograph of Catherine Deneuve on the front page of the paper . |
| 23 | Perceiving the child 's intentions , Nana got up and walked stiffly to the front room , returning in an instant with the curling photograph of Queen Elizabeth from the sugar shelf . |
| 24 | Michael Smith was found slumped over the wheel of his blood-spattered Mercedes with a torn up photograph of Andria Horton on the seat beside him . |
| 25 | ‘ It was a fantastic experience , and I remember taking a photograph of Harold Abrahams at the start of the 100 metres race that he won . |
| 26 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 27 | That statement had been true and had in any case not been made by Moorgate Mercantile , since H.P.I. was not an agent of Moorgate Mercantile for the purpose of making such a statement . |
| 28 | He became a zealous agent of Thomas Cromwell in the Dissolution and , according to John Foxe , ‘ repented him very muche that he had made Songes to Popish Ditties in the time of his blindnes ’ and seemingly abandoned composition . |
| 29 | Amnesty 's major Sri Lanka ( September-December 1990 ) succeeded , against considerable obstacles , in bringing the tragedy of Sri Lanka to the attention of the world , and helped generate some fresh signs of change . |
| 30 | Attempts have been made to link the main periods of construction with known historical events , such as the bid of Clodius Albinus for the purple , first proposed by Dr Philip Corder in 1955 , developed by Professor Frere and now accepted , with reservations , by Mr Wacher following earlier doubts . |