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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Harold Macmillan , for example , never forgot his experience as an MP in the economically depressed north-east of England in the 1930s . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | [ 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 li , part 1 , 1961 ; R. Sedgwick , The History of Parliament : the House of Commons 1715–1754 , 1970 ; unpublished biography of Gould for the 1690–1714 History of Parliament , History of Parliament Trust . ] |
| 9 | [ J. R. Woodhead , The Rulers of London 1660–1689 , 1965 ; B. D. Henning , The House of Commons 1660–1690 , 1983 ; unpublished biography of Herne for the 1690–1714 History of Parliament , History of Parliament Trust ; D. W. Jones , War and Economy in the Age of William III and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 . ] |
| 10 | In the courtyard is a wooden statue of Hercules from the second quarter of the 18C , attributed to L. Widmann . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Why were the large new steelworks and rolling mills built in a different part of Sheffield from the old cutlery works ? |
| 13 | He liked America , he had studied agriculture at the top University of Utah after the Second World War . |
| 14 | The main novelty this year is the British premier of Mannekins by the Polish composer Zbigniew Rudzinski . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They then undertake a detailed study of Europe in the Early and Late Middle Ages , followed by an in-depth look at the Italian Renaissance and its impact on the development of European culture and society . |
| 21 | But he denied newspaper reports that the men had been involved in last December 's bombing of a Pan Am jet which exploded above the Scottish village of Lockerbie with the loss of 270 lives . |
| 22 | An encampment of tents was constructed on the dry , high plateau of Paris by the French decorator Jansen . |
| 23 | This can not , of course , apply to outcrop rock such as that at the old village of Tockmal on the Oa , which has a group of shallow cups . |
| 24 | Interox , jointly owned by Solvay and Laporte , has selected the east German town of Bernberg as the site for its new 50 000 t pa hydrogen peroxide plant . |
| 25 | As a rounded account of the rise of Saddam it has one serious failing in that it pays far too little attention to the economic and social development of Iraq over the past 20 years . |
| 26 | The fact that other works of art not belonging to Capricorn were also on the premises did not affect that conclusion : nor did the absence of any outward sign of Capricorn on the premises have any significance , since it would be uncharacteristic for art dealers in objects of such high quality to place conspicuous nameplates on their premises . |
| 27 | The climb to the ruined fortress of Pisac above the red-roofed town soon left me breathless . |
| 28 | Among the published results , it is intended to produce a ‘ social atlas of London in the 1690s ’ . |
| 29 | In the minds of those who gave positive thought to it , the Commonwealth was to be an organization to which no one who was unwilling need apply , and in which those who had joined were to reach their decisions on the basis of consensus : the goal to be pursued was an uncoerced acknowledgement of Britain as the senior partner in a world-wide enterprise ; the position to be sought was the supremely equivocal but potentially supreme satisfying one of primus inter pares . |
| 30 | Although the Central Authority initially resisted the more direct encroachment of Whitehall on the Area Boards ( successfully insisting that communication should normally be through the Authority ) , the semi-political process which determined the Whitehall allocation of resources to electricity was mirrored within the British Electricity Authority . |