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 | Sulgrave Manor is situated in the village of Sulgrave just off the B4525 road from Banbury to Northampton , 7 miles N.E. of Banbury . |
| 17 | William Tunstall , kinsman of Richard 's councillor Sir Richard Tunstall , was made water bailiff of Winchelsea early in the protectorate , for instance . |
| 18 | William Tunstall , kinsman of Richard 's councillor Sir Richard Tunstall , was made water bailiff of Winchelsea early in the protectorate , for instance . |
| 19 | This was his picture The Raising of Lazarus now in the Tate Gallery . |
| 20 | To me there are prototypes of Alf all over the country : far too many of them in fact . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The film opened on 2,400 screens across the United States before opening in Britain and the rest of Europe later in the summer . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | THE launch of Middlesbrough yesterday as the country 's second environment city did n't exactly get off to a flying start . |
| 27 | Ken Gower from Pitstone in Buckinghamshire witnessed Britain 's first atomic bomb test off the island of Montebello also in the Pacific in 1952 . |
| 28 | The long , low island of Lismore away to the east was Campbell ground , and the great fortress of Dunstaffnage out of sight beyond it on the mainland . |
| 29 | Or again , someone may honestly put himself under the lordship of Christ yet at the same time adhere to a Christian lifestyle or espouse Christian values which by temperament or nationality he would be likely to appreciate anyway . |
| 30 | From the pattern of ocean floor magnetic anomalies it is possible to trace the movement of India northwards over the past 80 Ma or so ( Fig. 3.23 ) . |