Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] of [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the late eleventh century the hand of Cluny was felt in houses spread all over the north of Spain and down into Italy , even to La Cava near Naples and over into Sicily , and also across the south and west of Germany in the movement which had its centre in Hirsau . |
| 2 | It was , after all , the conquest and settlement of Siberia in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries which more than anything else — at least in terms of territorial aggrandizement — originally transformed the land-locked mediaeval Tsardom of Muscovy into the mighty Russian Empire , giving the government in Moscow and then St Petersburg virtually unchallenged , absolute sway over the whole of northern Eurasia and its polyglot peoples . |
| 3 | Two years ago , Mr Erich Honecker , who succeeded Walter Ulbricht as East German leader in 1971 , thought he had crowned the post-war settlement and division of Germany with the first official visit to the Federal Republic . |
| 4 | The dangers of overlooking the admixture of interpretative comment and factual information is much less in more frankly individual reporting like that of The Annual Register ; the comments on the Prime Minister and Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1938 volume , for example , readily disclose the writer 's sympathies . |
| 5 | Of particular offence to many Protestants was the widespread popular belief in the power of the Catholic priesthood to intercede with God , to exorcise the devil at baptism , and to transform the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ during the mass . |
| 6 | She has been a soloist at the Proms and is currently principal oboe with the London Bach Orchestra and the Orchestra of St John 's , Smith Square , and Professor of Oboe at the Royal Academy and Trinity College . |
| 7 | He moved to the table in the hall and put the cloth and tin of Brasso in the wicker basket alongside the dusters , the tin of polish and a bunch of keys . |
| 8 | The silver denarius was not established on a permanent footing until the Second Pubic War ( fig.39 : c , d ) , and gold only came to dominate the imperial coinage and advertise the power and majesty of Rome with the extension of the Empire ( fig.39 : e , f ) . |
| 9 | She felt that Brett — and she — would be safer with the added strength and shrewdness of Curtis on the team at Sherman & Grant … or would that now be Sherman , Grant & Curtis , she wondered . |
| 10 | In the aftermath of the battle Beaumont was apparently made both Earl of Moray and constable of Scotland by the new king . |
| 11 | The move demonstrated the irritation felt by the Prince and Princess of Wales over the media barrage they faced during their tour of South Korea this week . |
| 12 | The Sun , a tabloid , claimed that MI5 had bugged a marital tiff between the Prince and Princess of Wales in the privacy of their home . |
| 13 | Peers expressed their sorrow at the news of the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales after the Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay of Clashfern relayed the Prime Minister 's announcement to them . |
| 14 | The question of questions was at bottom this : the nineteenth century , with its partial proof of evolution and its axiom that miracles do not happen , enabled the chance of historical enquiry into the life and work of Jesus through the testing of ancient documents . |
| 15 | As well as defending their inter-pro crown , Ulster take on board games against Edinburgh and South of Scotland in the new link-up with the Scottish Districts sides ; Ireland play a full international against Romania , and , of course , with Malone not having a coach , as yet , he will be a key member of the Gibson Park set-up as they re-enter the All Ireland league after a brief absence . |
| 16 | Reports in late January spoke of a stalemate in the autonomy talks and of the effectiveness of the government 's economic blockade of Kurdistan [ see pp. 38458 ; 38598 ] which was enforced by a heavily fortified military line across north-eastern Iraq , running from Qasr-e-Shirin on the Iranian border east of Kirkuk and south of Arbil to the Turkish border west of Zhako . |
| 17 | In Scale 1 Hilton defines the obstruction to the sight and sound of Jesus as the body of sin and death from which Paul cried to be delivered ( Romans 7:24 — 5 ) and which the anchoress encounters in the progress of her meditative life . |
| 18 | Fellowship involves membership of the Governing Body ( with the possibility of being invited to serve on college committees ) , a workroom in college or its annexe , meals without charge , academic allowances exceeding 1,800 per annum , and membership of BUPA for the fellow and dependents ( subject to tax ) . |
| 19 | The issue and distribution of SCP in the primary market can be effected in various ways . |
| 20 | Her youth and looks aroused envy of Modi in the men and jealousy of Jeanne in the women . |
| 21 | She was seated next to the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh on the head table while Prince Charles was relegated to a side table . |
| 22 | Henry , count of Champagne and king of Jerusalem at the end of the twelfth century , had been twice betrothed before he won the heiress of Jerusalem : once , when he was five or six , to a lady of two , later on to her younger sister . |
| 23 | Could one , as it were , argue up to the reality and character of God from the analysis of religious experience or ethical awareness , as they had tended to do ? |
| 24 | Katherine Lundy operated in a world where deceit was accepted — indeed , expected , and she survived in this world because she herself had learned her lessons in one of the toughest schools of all — in the fire and revolution of Dublin before the " 16 Rising . |
| 25 | There is much about the love and forgiveness of God in the Old Testament , and much about his righteous anger and judgement in the New . |
| 26 | Heraldic shield of Robert , Earl of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan in the 12th century . |
| 27 | They 're escaping the fog and frost of Britain for the winter warmth of California where conditions are almost ideal for free fall training . |
| 28 | , Margaret , Lady ( 1571–1633 ) , diarist , was baptized 10 February 1571 , the only child of Arthur Dakins , gentleman and JP of Linton in the East Riding of Yorkshire , and his wife Thomasine Gye . |
| 29 | Even some in new houses now want to move out because of the construction works , traffic congestion , and a general decline in the image and attractiveness of Docklands over the past three years . |
| 30 | Like other supporters of Iraq , Yemen formally condemned the invasion and annexation of Kuwait during the early part of August , but then went on to direct its criticism at the US forces in Saudi Arabia and to press for an Arab solution to the problem . |