Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun prp] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that they have been healed ; it may be that they have known the manifest presence of God as the church has drawn near to him in worship . |
| 2 | Electricity generator PowerGen Plc said Sir Graham Day is to retire as its chairman and that Sir Colin Southgate , chairman and chief executive of Thorn EMI Plc , will succeed him ; Sir Colin has been a non-executive director of PowerGen since the firm was created in 1990 . |
| 3 | As in a modern context it is immediately clear that students find it hard to combine study with a full-time job ; so , addressing a would-be contemplative , the Cloud-author explains his view that it is impossible for man to pursue the discipline of meditation and study unless he first ceases external activity , and impossible to come to mystical knowledge of God if the mind is engaged in discursive thought . |
| 4 | I wish to explore those proposals , lay bare the dangers which lurk beneath them and identify the threat not only to parliamentary representation from Scotland in this House but to the economic well-being of Scotland if the Labour party were ever in a position to exercise in Scotland the kind of powers that it would give to such an assembly . |
| 5 | As the sun began to set over Auckland they took a short flight on a tiny seaplane , and the gold light enhanced the aerial view of Auckland as the lights began to come on in white wood houses , skyscrapers , hotels . |
| 6 | Around 100 members and guests participated in the programmes , the first of which looked at the future economic development of Scotland while the second examined the social and political circumstances relating to the ambitions outlined in the first . |
| 7 | From Yugoslavia Tito 's regular and partisan troops were poised to enter the same southern part of Austria as the British . |
| 8 | The name of Hastings is , of course , inextricably linked with the last successful invasion of Britain when the French arrived , conquered the English and a new age of Norman influence and culture spread throughout England . |
| 9 | So Grandad stuck to tea , and the occasional mug of Bovril when the weather was bad . |
| 10 | There are , however , no tigers in Sri Lanka , so they must have reached the southern tip of India when the land bridge to that island had disappeared and the sea gap become too wide for even a tiger to swim across . |
| 11 | It is believed he may have been going to visit relatives in Caithness in the far north of Scotland when the tragedy happened . |
| 12 | Room service at Peel Square offered a variety of suppers , and we settled for lamb chops followed by a nice piece of Stilton When the waiter took away the supper I ordered a quarter bottle of cognac . |
| 13 | Then there is a final upthrust of Munros before the range ends abruptly in a steep decline to Loch Treig . |
| 14 | I mean we , we were very concerned about the possibility of there being wide-scale , widespread large-scale flooding of London before the barrier was put up . |
| 15 | Stanko Guldescu , the historian of medieval Croatia , has described this disaster as having ‘ more significance for the subsequent fate of Europe than the more publicised Serbian debacle ’ at Kosovo Polje in 1389 . |