Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Spraying commences in May and continues right up until the harvest , although the number of times the vines are sprayed and the types of spray used will depend on the local conditions of pests and disease . |
| 3 | But by the mid-1980s , after more than a decade of discussion the G-77 had been unable to get the industrialised countries to agree to substitute the mandatory ‘ shall ’ for the advisory ‘ should ’ in the draft Code ( Zacher and Finlayson , 1988 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 4 | From that revelatory moment when the box of white paper is opened until the moment of exposure the exchange of light onto receptive surface has begun . |
| 5 | From this period until the reign of Constantine the emperor and his mature male subjects were almost invariably bearded . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether it is just the advance of modern technology within the family , or whether it is because the type of material the fire is built with nowadays would n't let them taste quite so good . |
| 7 | Since the collapse of Leyland-Daff the only entrance to its sales headquarters has been partly blocked by heavy trucks . |
| 8 | Since the lifting of sanctions the last couple of years has seen a flood of wines onto our shelves from the Cape — which has some of the most beautiful winelands in the world . |
| 9 | After the presentation of trophies the Scottish Amicable teams and supporters retired to a local hostelry for a victory and re-union celebration . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | After a couple of years the clump , will be looking a little shaggy so in March cut hard back to the developing basal shoots and feed as new growth develops . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Long ago , when the colony was flourishing and sugar was being shipped in quantities of menhir-shaped loaves to the storerooms and the kitchens and the taverns and the parlours of the capitals of Europe , a French missionary priest , one Père Labat , wrote one of the first comprehensive travel books about the new world of the islands , chronicling the natives and their customs ( as far as he could ) as well as the way of life the settlers had developed , with their fine mansions and wide verandahs , ornamented with brattishings and cool with shutters and fringed jalousies . |
| 17 | The paid work of women at home is as invisible as the unpaid work of women at home , and as poorly rewarded as the work of women the world over . |
| 18 | As early as the time of Saul the festival of the new moon was celebrated with great solemnity . |
| 19 | Hence as the enemy of society the witch comes to be viewed as the embodiment of all those dark forces which threaten cooperation , group cohesion , and the entire moral order . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 22 | As a community of faith the model and inspiration in life is Jesus Christ and not merely a consensus among individuals . |