Example sentences of "the [noun] of [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will examine the main determinants of international production and foreign direct investment and how these have changed over the last 50 years ; the way in which decisions are taken within multi-national enterprises ; the changing forms of international involvement , and the impact of the activities of MNEs on the home and host economies in which they operate . |
| 2 | It was all part of the defence of London in an emergency . |
| 3 | In 1124 Louis VI , king of France , took a banner from the altar of the abbey church of Saint-Denis to be his standard in the defence of France against a German invasion ( see pp. 177–8 ) . |
| 4 | The available armed forces were expected to be fully committed to the defence of Italy in the first two years of a war . |
| 5 | The British did not respond , partly because of their current involvement in the defence of Kuwait against an Iraqi threat . |
| 6 | Grain and orchards do flourish in , for example , the Marathon plain , the market garden of modern Athens , but the inability of Attica as a whole to feed a large population gave the olive an additional role as an export , to be sent to south Russia to pay for Ukrainian corn . |
| 7 | Every day , he passed between the cliff-top fort and the captured castle at its foot , clearing the way not just for the King 's casual occupation , but to repair the defences of Kyrenia against the corsair , or Carlotta , or the Turk . |
| 8 | The addition of Murav'ev to the Secret Committee , which took place on the recommendation of Orlov immediately after his appointment as minister , was probably the low point of the emancipation story . |
| 9 | He also advocated the addition of Jacques as a committee officer , together with Hickson and Pateman , in recognition of the traditional partnership principle between the University and the WEA , as existed for the Tutorial Classes Committee . |
| 10 | The addition of PSL to the ADCC assay culture with the serum samples from patients with ulcerative colitis enhanced % cytotoxicity . |
| 11 | He will find it difficult to escape once more to the fastnesses of Cornwall without a horde of people eager to commission him clinging to his coat tails . |
| 12 | The prayer of Jesus from the heart of the suffering world is not something in the mind , it is his accepted bodily agony and it is by being given the grace to accept our material weakness and pain and finally our death in union with him that we too can pray . |
| 13 | A long paragraph presented the acts of God in the Bible as like a mighty drama . |
| 14 | The weakness of TANU as a communications channel was well known . |
| 15 | welcoming the fact that the German … people have expressed their will to bring about the unity of Germany as a state so that they will be able to serve the peace of the world as an equal and sovereign partner in a united Europe ; |
| 16 | Jewish legend also suggested that Alexander proclaimed the unity of God from the tower of his new city , Alexandria ( Ps. -Callisth . |
| 17 | This was the part he had dreamt of night after night in that living room and now — astoundingly — it was to come true in the birthplace of Shakespeare with a great company all around his son . |
| 18 | Macaulay wrote , ‘ To represent Charles as a martyr in the cause of episcopacy is absurd … the attachment of Charles to the Church of England was altogether political … . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I always pop into the Prince of Wales for a few bevvies when I leave here , so does Fred . |
| 20 | ‘ Per venit ad aures nostras — It has reached our ears , most beloved Son in Christ … ‘ , followed by the usual sanctimonious phrases , then the allegations of sodomy , murder , the unsuitability of the Prince of Wales for an innocent French princess , the dissolution of the treaty , all culminating in bloody war . |
| 21 | But that was perhaps not enough , and he went on to explain to the congregation and to the Prince of Wales as the new President that there was a ‘ more searching question ’ to be asked about validation : |
| 22 | He wrote : ‘ All the world and the glory of it , whatever is most attractive , whatever is most seductive , has always been offered to the Prince of Wales of the day , and always will be . |
| 23 | The well remembered afterdinner speech made in his presidential capacity by the Prince of Wales to the BMA in December 1982 linked the name of Paracelsus with the holistic approach to medicine . |
| 24 | Or should he , de Craon wondered , abandon this game , resume his official status and demand the betrothal of the Prince of Wales to the Princess Isabella ? |
| 25 | But her cause was badly damaged in 1985 , the day before she was to sit next to the Prince of Wales at a dinner in Florida , when it was revealed that she posed as a nude model in magazines and appeared in pornographic films in the late 1960s . |
| 26 | The award was in respect of an exhibition entitled ‘ Wealth of a Nation ’ mounted by the royal Scottish Museum , the award being presented by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales at a special ceremony in Edinburgh . |
| 27 | The award was presented by the Prince of Wales at the Annual Meeting of the per cent club , which I 've already mentioned , and it was during nineteen ninety , and it won the private sector small to medium size company , or companies subsidiary sector category . |
| 28 | erm , you have , I have n't , and erm , there was a photograph that I cut out of the paper sometime before he abdicated , over the Prince of Wales at the races with Mrs Simpson . |
| 29 | The Centre , designed for use by the jewellery industry and related businesses , is an inner city regeneration scheme created by the Prince of Wales through the Duchy . |
| 30 | Traditionally the British had been Champagne 's most lucrative customers — after the drink had been popularised in society by the Marlboroughs and the Prince of Wales in the last half of the nineteenth century . |