Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] of [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hated John , and when Herod rashly promised Herodias ' daughter anything she wanted , Herodias made her daughter ask for the head of John the Baptist . |
| 2 | For the whole of Scotland the official percentage of married women in employment was only 4.1 per cent , compared to 9.6 per cent in Great Britain as a whole . |
| 3 | Table 26 shows that in 1991 injuries to elderly people accounted for 50.3% of all bus passenger injuries whereas for the rest of Scotland the figure was 43.4% . |
| 4 | In the contest for the governorship of Tokyo the LDP switched its support from the 80-year-old incumbent governor Shunichi Suzuki , to Hisanori Isomura , the candidate supported by the national leadership of the opposition Komeito ( Clean Government Party ) and Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ) . |
| 5 | It was to satisfy a roving disposition and an idle curiosity rather than any deep ideal that Rudolf Rassendyll , man-about-town , decided on impulse while travelling in France to visit Strelsau for the coronation of Rudolf the Fifth . |
| 6 | ‘ I do so much want to congratulate you and your parish on the televised celebration of your Mass for the Feast of Christ the King yesterday . |
| 7 | Herod Antipas was the ruler responsible for the death of John the Baptist . |
| 8 | Here Beowulf and his men are waiting ( the latter without hope ) for the appearance of Grendel the man-eater . |
| 9 | During the course of May the government of South Korea was shaken by the most serious unrest since President Roh Tae Woo came to power in 1988 . |
| 10 | After the death of Sigismund during the siege of Altdorf the horn passed into the keeping of the Temple of Sigmar . |
| 11 | However , during the reign of Peter the Great ( 1682–1725 ) , tremendous changes were introduced into every sphere of Russian life which , as far as Siberia was concerned , meant a greater element of state intervention , of dirigisme , particularly in the exploration and scientific investigation of Siberia 's natural and economic resources . |
| 12 | If the flow of compulsory exiles to Siberia decreased during the reign of Peter the Great , so did the rate of voluntary fugitives from central European Russia increase by leaps and bounds . |
| 13 | fourth , the regularization of commercial relations with China by the treaties of Nerchinsk ( 1689 ) and Kyakhta ( 1727 ) , and also the building of fortified ‘ lines ’ ( linii ) in the relatively fertile southern borderlands , created stable conditions there for trade , agriculture and settlement , as did the annexation of the rich Gornyi Altai district to the empire in 1758. fifth , after the comparative lull during the reign of Peter the Great , the St Petersburg authorities resorted with increasing frequency to the practice of exiling malefactors and malcontents to Siberia , with the twin aims of punishment and colonization . |
| 14 | Style of architecture etcetera , prevalent during the reign of Louis the fifteenth |
| 15 | Bird , female of the ruff style of architecture prominent during the reign of Louis the f fifteenth . |
| 16 | During the reign of Charles the Bald , however , such developments not only continued but showed cumulative effects . |
| 17 | Once again the hostility of the Assembly led to his resigning his seats , a happy decision as it turned out , for during the month of June the government touched its lowest point of popularity by authorizing the brutal suppression of an insurrection in Paris . |
| 18 | During the time of Magnus the Pious the Imperial court was at Nuln , for example . |
| 19 | The income which in fact is the income of B is to be treated for income tax purposes as the income of A. The purpose is notionally to transfer B's income to A , so that A may be charged to tax on the aggregate of his own and B's income . |
| 20 | There is however much more to be said here about the development of Parker the musician . |
| 21 | The dispute brought out into the open the argument about the kind of Europe the Community ought to be building , an argument which had simmered beneath the surface for some time , but which until now , partly deliberately and partly unconsciously , had been successfully avoided . |
| 22 | James 's comment , when the news of her birth was brought to him , that ‘ it cam wi' a lass and it will gang wi' a lass ’ ( a reference to the way in which the house of Stewart had come to the throne , through the marriage of Walter the Steward to Robert Bruce 's daughter Marjorie ) may be apocryphal and was , as it turned out , inaccurate ; the ‘ lass ’ who was to bring Stewart rule to an end was not Queen Mary , but Queen Anne in 1714 . |
| 23 | All the same , what would you think of these reasons for inserting a piece of autobiography into the second defence of the English people , a defence of course for cutting off the head of Charles the First . |
| 24 | When she was two hundred and fifty miles off the coast of Ireland the Athenia was attacked and sunk by a submarine . |
| 25 | For some time after the battle of Nechtansmere the Picts had remained the more powerful of the two . |
| 26 | After the disappearance of Aenarion the lands of Ulthuan were thrown into confusion . |
| 27 | In Normandy , the army under the command of the Earl of Warwick sacked Carentan and carried off huge quantities of plunder , while Froissart observed that after the sack of Caen the English ‘ won an amazing quantity of wealth for themselves ’ , and ‘ sent boats and barges laden with their gains — clothes , jewellery , gold and silver plate and many other valuable things — down the river to Ouistreham where their main fleet lay ’ . |
| 28 | A year after the capture of Chichester the Royalists , helped by the irrepressible Ford from his house at Up Park , seized Arundel . |
| 29 | This chapter aims at motivating godly praying in order that leaders will not be sloppy and selfish , but will be shepherds after the heart of Jesus the good shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep . |
| 30 | Consequently their influence on the Left of the Labour Party was greatly diminished and for several years after the departure of MacDonald the Labour Left was mainly represented by small groups based on defectors from the ILP and , to a lesser extent , from the Communist Party . |