Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | LEBANON 'S Christian leader , General Michel Aoun , last night denounced a draft peace agreement produced by the country 's parliamentarians in the Saudi resort of Taif on the grounds that it did not set a timetable for the withdrawal of Syrian troops occupying the country since 1976 . |
| 2 | Adam of Eynsham , the biographer of St Hugh of Lincoln , gives us a revealing description of Richard in the last summer of his life . |
| 3 | Approached from the sea the effect was magnificent as the buildings extended from the lower Sanctuary of Asklepios to the middle city with its gymnasia , its agora and sacred precinct to the upper acropolis city with its important temples , steeply sloping theatre cut into the hillside and famous Altar of Zeus . |
| 4 | As a young man he had walked past the University to light his lamps , but the Old College had gone , removed to the rural splendour of Gilmorehill in the 1860s . |
| 5 | His remarks gave offence to Bulgaria 's neighbour , Greece , whose ambassador was instructed to protest on the grounds that " the possible recognition of Skopje under the historical Greek name of Macedonia " constituted " an unfriendly stance with negative consequences for relations " . |
| 6 | Mathew Smithard got 1 , Mark Ford got two in a 4–0 rout of Darlington in the Northern Intermediate League . |
| 7 | The typefaces in our new design are those on this page : a classic cut of Baskerville for the main body of text , and Franklin Gothic for headlines ( in most parts of the paper ) . |
| 8 | Harold Macmillan , for example , never forgot his experience as an MP in the economically depressed north-east of England in the 1930s . |
| 9 | The most dramatic and explosive of these changes was the devastating impact upon the social and political fabric of Europe of the First World War . |
| 10 | [ Public Record Office , PCC 208 Brook ( will ) ; Jacob M. Price , ‘ The Tobacco Adventure to Russia ’ , Transactions of the American Philosophical Society , new series , vol. li , part 1 , 1961 ; R. Sedgwick , The History of Parliament : the House of Commons 1715–1754 , 1970 ; unpublished biography of Gould for the 1690–1714 History of Parliament , History of Parliament Trust . ] |
| 11 | [ J. R. Woodhead , The Rulers of London 1660–1689 , 1965 ; B. D. Henning , The House of Commons 1660–1690 , 1983 ; unpublished biography of Herne for the 1690–1714 History of Parliament , History of Parliament Trust ; D. W. Jones , War and Economy in the Age of William III and Marlborough , 1988 ; Jacob M. Price , ‘ The Tobacco Adventure to Russia ’ , Transactions of the American Philosophical Society , new series , vol. li , part 1 , 1961 . ] |
| 12 | In the courtyard is a wooden statue of Hercules from the second quarter of the 18C , attributed to L. Widmann . |
| 13 | For Peking , Tibet has been an inseparable part of China since the 13th century , although direct control was not established until 1950 , when the People 's Liberation Army invaded the region after the revolution . |
| 14 | Why were the large new steelworks and rolling mills built in a different part of Sheffield from the old cutlery works ? |
| 15 | For a time this story of Jacob at the Jabbok runs true to plot . |
| 16 | To hear him talk , anyone would think she was some kind of Jezebel on the make . |
| 17 | At this village north of St Austell is the Wheal Martyn China Clay Works , now preserved as an open-air museum of the industry that brought prosperity to this part of Cornwall from the mid-eighteenth century , when William Cookworthy , a Plymouth Quaker and apothecary , discovered kaolin , the chief ingredient of porcelain , which had been a secret closely guarded by the Chinese for over a thousand years . |
| 18 | Such statues were common in this part of France during the later part of our period , though most have not survived . |
| 19 | The passage of Wellington 's soldiers through the Basque country , when they were deemed to have behaved with greater decency and correctness than their French opponents , was in some degree the origin of the considerable fashion for this part of France among the English throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | Medau work has been popular in this part of Paris for the past eighteen years . |
| 21 | I 'm trying to trace a member of our family who moved to this part of London during the war , looking for work . |
| 22 | Contained within the breccias are the fossilized bones of many animals that lived in this part of Britain during the middle Pleistocene , and we will be describing the way in which the fossil bones of the smaller animals came to be deposited . |
| 23 | He liked America , he had studied agriculture at the top University of Utah after the Second World War . |
| 24 | The main novelty this year is the British premier of Mannekins by the Polish composer Zbigniew Rudzinski . |
| 25 | On day five you depart by road for the three-and-a-half hour journey to the lively resort of Pattaya at the Gulf of Siam . |
| 26 | New labourers came out , many from Ireland where pressure on land was unusually severe ; they came from southern Irish ports , so they could not have been directly affected by the English conquest and the Scottish settlement of Ulster at the beginning of the seventeenth century , but possibly Irish landlords felt that it no longer made sense to keep up private armies and turned men out of service for this reason . |
| 27 | In a very few cases , serious mental disorders similar to schizophrenia or mania have been reported that may be due to a direct effect of HIV on the brain . |
| 28 | A pink marble carved figure of Christ on the column , attributed to the Master of Rimini , is expected to make £70–90,000 ( $130–160,000 ) and four bronze figures of the Apostles by Alessandro Vittoria bear the estimate of £30–40,000 ( $55–73,000 ) . |
| 29 | Some of the main issues arising here can be illustrated further from the course taken by the historical study of Jesus through the century , and from the rise towards its close of quite new approaches to the study of the history of religions in general . |
| 30 | There is no further mention of Ambrosia in the records , and possibly she is to be identified with the ‘ Dame Ambroise de Saint-Joire ’ named in 1288 among the first entrants to the Carthusian nunnery of Melan ( Haute-Savoie ) founded in 1282 by Beatrice de Faucigny . |