Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] of [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't imagine I can only say that from my knowledge of Herefordshire as a Herefordian myself , I ca n't imagine for the life of me that there are seven thousand people locally who could remotely afford a thousand pounds per share . |
| 2 | Massoud Barzani , leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party ( KDP ) and of the eight-member coalition of Kurdish opposition groups , the Kurdish Democratic Front ( KDF ) , secured agreement from Turkey and the UK at the end of February that allied aircraft would continue their protection of Kurdistan against a possible attack by Iraqi forces . |
| 3 | In the Arab world Syria has atoned for its support of Iran during the previous Gulf war , and forged a lucrative friendship with Saudi Arabia . |
| 4 | First came the disappointing news that House of Fraser is to close its branch of Binns in the town . |
| 5 | In their study of Yorkshire during the 1984–5 strike , for example , Winterton and Winterton ( 1989 : see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) found that the strike breakers were more likely to live outside the mining communities , thereby producing a geography whereby the strike was strongest ( and longest ) in the pits whose labour came mainly from local , closed communities : in Nottinghamshire , of course , the opposite occurred , with the closed communities being solid against the strike . |
| 6 | At the time , however , in France it was practically unthinkable and one may surmise that while France itself might have recovered from the débâcle of 1940 there was added point to her recovery of Vietnam after the humiliation and tragedy of March 1945 . |
| 7 | Explorations of contemporary feminist artists include Judy Chicago 's ‘ Dinner Party ’ and two essays on Faith Ringgold , on her observations of America in the 1960s ( Lowery Sims ) the other , on Afrocentrism in Ringgold 's work . |
| 8 | Niki 's three hard-earned points made the score 64 to 47 and the race was no sooner ended than the Ferrari dirty-tricks brigade was at work again in Paris , wrapping up their exclusion of Hunt from the podium at Brands Hatch . |
| 9 | First , she made a free gift of Scotland , and her claim to England , to the French king , should she die without issue ; second , she put her country in pawn , for the money spent by France in defending it and educating her ; and third , she negated in advance any agreement between her and the Scottish Estates which ran counter to her disposal of Scotland in the interests of France . |
| 10 | Even now , and though the events of June triggered a brief period of reappraisal , the British still seem besotted by their vision of China as a billion-strong market for their goods and services — and either unaware , or unimpressed , that their exports to Hong Kong itself are currently worth three times as much as those to its northern neighbour . |
| 11 | Her vision of God in the depths of the self is reminiscent of the basic insights of Buddhists , Hindus and Sufis . |
| 12 | They should abandon their insistence on the worship of the mythical creator of the universe , and seek their understanding of God within the confines of human knowledge . |
| 13 | BRITAIN elects its House of Commons by the simplest possible system : single-member constituencies in which the front-runner wins , even if he has under 50% of the votes . |
| 14 | Their view of Karma as a life-giving force that flows from life to life is in every way like the modern physicist 's view of electrons ( electricity ) which they say is not ‘ matter ’ but a ‘ force ’ . |
| 15 | She tried to recall her impression of Joanna in an effort to distract herself , thinking back to their arrival . |
| 16 | Born about 1182 in Normandy , the son of a German father ( Henry the Lion ) and an Aquitanian mother , he had been much in the company of his uncle , King Richard I , who created him count of Poitou at the age of fourteen . |
| 17 | Coucy soon rose high in favour at court : in 1363 Edward granted him lands in north Lancashire , Cumberland and Westmorland to which he had some claim by inheritance ; two years later he married Isabella , and in 1366 the king created him Earl of Bedford with an endowment of 1,000 marks a year . |
| 18 | Sheikh Abu Abdullah Muhammed ibn Abdallah ibn Muhammed ibn Ibrahim al-Lawati , known to his friends by the diminutive Ibn Battuta , had left his birthplace of Tangier in the early June of 1325 . |
| 19 | Totally divorced from that friendship is his assessment of Ken as an actor . |
| 20 | On his death , his Sussex estates and titles passed to Thomas Pelham of Stanmer who changed his barony of Chichester for an earldom in 1801 , another reward for royal service . |
| 21 | The childish drawing of rabbits sitting under the trees among the spring daffodils ; his sketch of Ivan on the sled , of Lepkin dozing in his chair by the stove . |
| 22 | Admittedly , even at the end of our period , Thomas More still wrote some major works in Latin , but these were the works of a humanist scholar thinking of an international audience , and he was also prepared to produce an English version of the History of Richard 111 and to write his Confutation of Tyndale in the vernacular . |
| 23 | It has to be noted that he no longer lists his membership of CND in The Northern ‘ s Who 's Who . |
| 24 | Dr Asvat subsequently reported his examination of Stompie to the Soweto Crisis Committee , set up in 1988 to monitor and try to control the activities of Mrs Mandela , director of the ANC 's Social Welfare Department . |
| 25 | He crossed the Tay from Scone to his fort of Perth on the opposite side and transmitted encouragement , he hoped , to its captain . |
| 26 | Hitler sought to create a ‘ New Order ’ in Europe and to portray his invasion of Russia as a latter-day crusade against Bolshevism . |
| 27 | ( For instance , Kamata [ 1982 ] , in his exposé of Toyota in the early 1970s , suggested that workers who chose not to ‘ empower ’ themselves in this way were punished for it through criticism and smaller bonuses ! ) |
| 28 | It is evident from the massive character of the great border dyke which Asser in his Life of Alfred in the late ninth century attributes to Offa ( Life of King Alfred , ch. 14 ) , running from Sedbury Cliffs near Chepstow to Treuddyn , linking up now with Wat 's Dyke which ends at Basingwerk in north Wales , that considerable energy and manpower must have been devoted to the delineation , construction and maintenance of this frontier line . |
| 29 | Eusebius , the ‘ father of church history ’ and biographer of the first Christian emperor , commented in his Life of Constantine on the ‘ hypocrisy of people who crept into the church ’ with an eye to the emperor 's favour . |
| 30 | It is the opinion of many critics of Paradise Lost , and indeed my own , that Milton has been far too successful in his portrayal of Satan as a grand and magnificent figure . |