Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] of [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two had barely exchanged a word in the last twenty minutes except for a short and inconclusive argument as to whether a particularly powerful explosion had been the oil bond store or the workshop of Kerible the Enchanter . |
| 2 | I 'm sure you know that the Bank of England the Bank of England have made a very strong point that on balance there should be more non-executive directors than executive directors in the company and , er it is felt very strongly that to get a good mix of non-executive directors really does protect the shareholders ' interests and , er I think we 're very much following the lead , er , of the Bank of , of England , erm , in this particular respect . |
| 3 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 4 | Little can be made of this , although the biographer of Edward the Confessor speaks of Danes preparing to rebel against Cnut early in his reign , and Henry of Huntingdon thought that an English and Danish attack on the Wandali ( the Wends , the Slav peoples on the southern shores of the Baltic ) occurred in its third year . |
| 5 | From this period until the reign of Constantine the emperor and his mature male subjects were almost invariably bearded . |
| 6 | In this there is a kind of truth ( for Tolkien was kind-hearted about things like the ‘ evacuation ’ of Minas Tirith and the survival of Bill the pony ) , but also an evident falsehood . |
| 7 | Grimma told him about events in the quarry — the fight with the humans , and the stealing of Jekub the earth-mover to escape . |
| 8 | In terms of regional differences , East Anglia reported the highest proportion of companies that had raised R&D spending , and the southwest of England the lowest . |
| 9 | We pray that each member of the church in our land may know the love of God the Father , the strength of God the Holy Spirit and the friendship of God the Son , and be willing to share their faith with those who are not yet followers of our Saviour . |
| 10 | He became the secretary of a standing committee of veterinary surgeons dedicated to petitioning the Privy Council for a Royal Charter ‘ conferring upon the graduates of the Royal Veterinary College and the College of Edinburgh the title of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons , upon the same plan and constitution as the present Royal College of Surgeons ’ . |
| 11 | The Blue Mosque and the Mosque of Suleiman the Magnificent were more impressive from outside ; but inside them I was conscious of confinement . |
| 12 | She can remember Queen Victoria 's diamond Jubilee , and the coronation of Edward The Seventh . |
| 13 | Cam Head the high point , and the hamlet of Starbotton the third point of the triangle . |
| 14 | In the abbey church of St Hilary in Poitiers where , four years earlier , Earl Patrick of Salisbury had been buried , he took his seat in the abbot 's chair to receive from the hands of the Archbishop of Bordeaux and the Bishop of Poitiers the sacred lance and banner which were the insignia of the ducal office . |
| 15 | Cameron now expected a glancing reference to Exodus 32 and a figuring of Aaron the idolator as the rebel and troublemaker who seduced the honest Israelites with the golden calf of dangerous principles . |
| 16 | Since the collapse of Leyland-Daff the only entrance to its sales headquarters has been partly blocked by heavy trucks . |
| 17 | After the baptism of Clovis the kingdom of the Franks was theoretically a Christian state ; that is not to say that all its members were Christian — indeed it would be a long time before the Christianization of the Merovingian kingdom was complete . |
| 18 | Rivalry with France was one theme in the centuries of empire to come , but after the loss of Calais the English concentrated on capturing French colonies or in restraining French attempts to dominate Europe rather than on trying to make anything substantial out of the nominal claim to the French crown that English kings asserted until 1801 . |
| 19 | After the murder of Gaveston the baronial opposition disintegrated and Edward was able to prepare for a campaign against the Scots , but when this ended in the humiliating defeat of his forces at Bannockburn in June 1314 the earl of Lancaster again united the hopes of the disillusioned baronage . |
| 20 | ‘ Before the reign of James the Fifth , a Highland Laird made a trial of his wife for a certain time , and if she did not please him , he was then at liberty to send her away ’ — which is exactly what took place when a Macdonald married a Macleod . |
| 21 | I was in the United States when the invasion of Iraq the invasion of Iraq into Iran , and I saw the whole situation with the aid of erm the United States mass media , so actually erm I had different ideas about erm what is the outcome and what is the results of the erm invasion was , and I took erm throughout the conflict I took an opposing view , because I always viewed the Iraquis as being aggressor and they inflicted damaged to a neighbouring country and erm they had erm no whatsoever rights to do anything like that and we see it again when erm they invaded Kuwait , they have no right at all erm they it is just the policy of the governing body of the Iraqui regime . |
| 22 | As early as the time of Saul the festival of the new moon was celebrated with great solemnity . |
| 23 | She never dropped out of University and she always worked ( when no-one was looking ) , but she never really felt a part of the University itself , so much as a part of Bristol the city . |