Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] 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 | In any event , at the higher level Rusk announced that the independence of the Associated States of Indo-China within the framework of the French Union was now assured , even if this did mean squaring the circle or at least begging the question . |
| 4 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | At present resources are limited , but there are courses and retreats which offer the opportunity to focus on the spiritual and emotional aspects of HIV in the safety of a non-judgmental and totally confidential environment . |
| 8 | The Treaty on European Union can honestly be regarded as an attempt to respond , in the medium- and long-term , to the economic and political imperatives of Europe in the 1990s and beyond . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Harold Macmillan , for example , never forgot his experience as an MP in the economically depressed north-east of England in the 1930s . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | [ 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 . ] |
| 13 | [ 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 . ] |
| 14 | You will find er different states operating different polic one of the , one of the most interesting transformations of America in the post second world war years er was the migration of many millions of er black people from the southern states to the northern states . |
| 15 | In the courtyard is a wooden statue of Hercules from the second quarter of the 18C , attributed to L. Widmann . |
| 16 | At the time of going to press the arrangements for the consecration of these first black bishops of modern times are not yet complete , but it is rumoured that the Holy Father has expressed the wish to elevate all three distinguished sons of Africa to the plenitude of the priesthood with his own hands . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Why were the large new steelworks and rolling mills built in a different part of Sheffield from the old cutlery works ? |
| 19 | The White Lions hold the passes in the broken Northlands of Chrace against the constant incursions of the Dark Elves . |
| 20 | He liked America , he had studied agriculture at the top University of Utah after the Second World War . |
| 21 | The main novelty this year is the British premier of Mannekins by the Polish composer Zbigniew Rudzinski . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She is incensed by reports that her blossoming career has left The Darling Buds Of May in the lurch . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is believed that information relates to confirmed sightings of Moira on the night she disappeared . |
| 27 | It is believed that information relates to confirmed sightings of Moira on the night she disappeared . |
| 28 | The latest developments have emerged a year after police in Coatbridge received surprising new information about the case , believed to relate to confirmed sightings of Moira on the night she disappeared . |
| 29 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |