Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further on , the road crosses open moorland to arrive at Grudie Bridge , which is not now the delightful picnic spot it used to be , the old stone bridge having been replaced and many of the noble pines sacrificed to road widening ; nothing , however , can diminish the majesty of Slioch directly across the water . |
| 2 | There is still a great deal of Greece all through the Tartarin and Daumier part of this queer country , where the good folks have the accent you know ; there is a Venus of Arles just as there is a Venus of Lesbos and one still feels the youth of it , in spite of all … |
| 3 | Sadly , the gloom of World Cup failure prevails ; Denmark 's 1–0 defeat of Albania earlier in the day rendered even the most optimistic mathematician 's calculator redundant . |
| 4 | Our cell culture experiments do not support this suggestion as they did not show the synergy between EGF and TAGH that would be predicted , but because of the inhibitory effect of TAGH alone at the concentrations used , they can not refute this possibility . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | These restrictions on testation had disappeared over the greater part of England early in the fourteenth century , but they survived in the province of York till 1692 , in Wales till 1696 , and in London till 1724 . |
| 7 | It was possible , of course , that their man had taken his taxi to a part of London far from the place he was staying in . |
| 8 | At least the newspaper 's editorial columns served to remind me that Geneva had become part of Switzerland only in the previous year . |
| 9 | PENSIONER Sophia Hymes will be given the freedom of Chester today at the age of 91 . |
| 10 | Since enamelling was taken over by the west to produce jewels like that which tradition claims was presented to his foundation , New College , Oxford , by William of Wykeham early in the fourteenth century ( fig. 29 ) , enamel has held its own in the embellishment of symbols of high achievement . |
| 11 | BT has provided £75,000 in support of Teesside Tomorrow over the past three years . |
| 12 | In the course of a description of Henchard late in the novel , Hardy says , " [ QUOTE ] " . |
| 13 | Sacrosanctum Concilium speaks of the presence of Christ both in the sacraments and in the liturgical reading of the Word ( SC 7 ) ; Dei Verbum likewise speaks of ‘ the one table of the Word of God and the Body of Christ ’ ( DV 21 ) . |
| 14 | There is going to be all forms of Jihad all over the world because there is a sacred element , there is an element erm of er which is the presence of a foreign non-Muslim force in the Holy Land ; this is a very explosive element . |
| 15 | ‘ They are the people who are carrying the long glorious story of Britain forward across the years . |
| 16 | Dating has obviously become extremely inaccurate by this level compared with the precision higher up the stratigraphical column , but presumed late Precambrian glacial deposits extend from the west of Ireland up through the Highlands of Scotland and then up through Norway to Varangerfjord near its northernmost tip . |
| 17 | There , in this country , more so than any other country in Europe , there 's a tradition of adults abusing children quite legitimately as well in the form of beating them and erm indeed headmasters of Eton back in the eighteenth and nineteenth century were often selected , not because of their scholarly ability , but because of their size and strength . |
| 18 | Sulgrave Manor is situated in the village of Sulgrave just off the B4525 road from Banbury to Northampton , 7 miles N.E. of Banbury . |
| 19 | William Tunstall , kinsman of Richard 's councillor Sir Richard Tunstall , was made water bailiff of Winchelsea early in the protectorate , for instance . |
| 20 | William Tunstall , kinsman of Richard 's councillor Sir Richard Tunstall , was made water bailiff of Winchelsea early in the protectorate , for instance . |
| 21 | This was his picture The Raising of Lazarus now in the Tate Gallery . |
| 22 | To me there are prototypes of Alf all over the country : far too many of them in fact . |
| 23 | The most serious problem remaining for 5 Corps was thus that posed by the approach of the main body of Croat troops ( reported as being 200,000 in number ) , accompanied by huge numbers of Croat civilians , who were attempting to escape into Austria via Dravograd , towards the small town of Bleiburg just inside the Austrian frontier . |
| 24 | Three major divisions can be recognized ( Fig. 3.11 ) ( 1 ) the Southern ( Patagonian ) Andes , extending from Tierra del Fuego northwards to the Gulf of Penas at latitude 47°S where the actively spreading Chile Ridge extends westwards into the Pacific ; ( 2 ) the Central ( Chilean-Peruvian ) Andes reaching from the Gulf of Penas northwards to the Amotape cross structure at the Peru-Ecuador border where the northwestern trend of the mountain belt changes to a northeasterly orientation ; and ( 3 ) the northern ( Colombian-Venezuelan ) Andes , extending from the Amotape cross structure northwards and then eastwards to eventually link with the Caribbean Arc . |
| 25 | Never mind , what it comes to is that there may well be a sturdy little male to carry the name of Graham proudly into the future . |
| 26 | ‘ We will also be taking the name of Cleveland out of the area and hopefully changing the image of Cleveland . ’ |
| 27 | But when I mentioned that there was a legendary tunnel that ran from the battlements of Beaufort down through the sheer rock to the bottom of the Litani gorge , they leapt to their feet and bounded up one of the staircases . |
| 28 | The film opened on 2,400 screens across the United States before opening in Britain and the rest of Europe later in the summer . |
| 29 | But the Eddie did n't specify a date at all , beyond a vague ‘ waiting period ’ that extended from the beginning of December through to the end of February . |
| 30 | The year began with the capture by the EPLF of the Eritrean port of Massawa in February [ see pp. 37401-02 ] , which left the EPLF in effective control of the whole of Eritrea apart from the capital , Asmara . |