Example sentences of "of the [noun] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paisley used his time to hammer home the religious significance of the battle with O'Neill by writing a commentary on Paul 's Letter to the Romans , the book which Paul had written while awaiting trial in prison . |
| 2 | The Autumn issue marked the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain with articles on the Battle and those who fought in it . |
| 3 | The peer , whose ancestors include Sir Winston Churchill and the first Duke of Marlborough , victor of the Battle of Blenheim in 1704 , was taken to Kensington police station . |
| 4 | I would have defended it and its people to the death and was understandably disillusioned when , on my arrival , I was beaten to a pulp because of the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 . |
| 5 | ( 10 ) A synthesising question a question that pulls the questioning process together , and allows for a resolution of the problem , e.g. " Write an account of the Battle of Hastings from the viewpoint of either Bishop Odo or Harold 's standard bearer . " |
| 6 | Visitors can trace the history of medieval fortification from a stone hall-keep built within a decade of the battle of Hastings in 1066 by one of William the Conqueror 's principal lieutenants , through the gun loops of the 17th century . |
| 7 | And around this same period , an Englishman reading in the public library at Bagnères came upon an account of the battle of Toulouse in the Napoleonic wars which he thought too favourable to the French , and annotated it accordingly in the interests of accuracy . |
| 8 | Almost the same exhibition will be at the Kunsthalle of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich from 13 March to 6 June , and at the Hamburg Kunsthalle from 18 June to 29 August . |
| 9 | The prominence of the duke of Norfolk in the Paston Letters reflects his local power , but the Oxfordshire of the Stonors seems to have been markedly less subject to the pre-eminence of a great man . |
| 10 | ( For those interested in the whole question , I consider John Grigg 's account of the Duke of Windsor in the DNB to be the fairest assessment I know . ) |
| 11 | A hundred years ago , he had saved the life of the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim ; a century later , Karelius reflected , an infinitely less important Englishman had again owed his life , besides that of the woman he loved , to one of the Hapsburgs ' men . |
| 12 | In the Parliament of 1679 he voted against the exclusion of the Duke of York from the throne . |
| 13 | Thus , the first book we know of printed in Norwich was in Dutch , for the benefit of the refugees who had fled there from the persecutions of the Duke of Alva in the Netherlands . |
| 14 | When George Ill and his supporters questioned the local authority of the Duke of Richmond by attempting to remove him from the lord-lieutenancy in 1779 , they were firmly repulsed by a well-organised but short-lived local movement for ‘ reform ’ . |
| 15 | By command of The Queen , the Lord Reay ( Lord in Waiting ) was present at Royal Air Force Northolt this afternoon upon the departure of The Duke of Gloucester for Portugal and bade farewell to His Royal Highness on behalf of Her Majesty . |
| 16 | The year 1726 saw this difficulty emerge in an aggravated form in the county of Stirling , where two candidates came forward to challenge the re-election of MacFarlane of Kirkton , who had enjoyed the endorsement of the Duke of Montrose for several years past . |
| 17 | In the beginning most of the members were elderly and the first meetings were ill-attended , but by the spring of 1935 more younger people had joined and , encouraged by the consent of the Duke of Montrose to be the President , it began to flourish , reaching a membership of about 150 . |
| 18 | He then directs him to the message to the angel of the church at Laodicea in the third chapter of Revelation . |
| 19 | Earlier , in 1278 , when Roger permitted the appropriation by Stafford priory of the church of Stowe by Chartley , he made no stipulation about the creation of a vicarage , but he did obtain a ten-mark annual pension for the dean and chapter of Lichfield 's common fund . |
| 20 | The genealogist who has traced his family tree as far back as is possible through the use of the civil registration records kept at St Catherine 's House , London , and local registry offices then turns naturally to the baptism , marriage and burial registers of the Church of England for the preceding generations . |
| 21 | He widened it from a training for future priests of the Church of England to a course which anyone might wish to read for their education . |
| 22 | He had sentenced the entire General Synod of the Church of England to death . |
| 23 | While Charles could technically be King and head of the Church of England as a divorced man , it is unlikely . |
| 24 | During his time as Bishop of Woolwich , responsible for an area stretching from the inner-city boroughs of South London to the Surrey commuter belt , David Sheppard conducted a survey of 150 parishes to show the electoral roll members of the Church of England as a percentage of the total population . |
| 25 | Ken was rediscovered in the nineteenth century by the Oxford Movement , for whom his idea of the Church of England as part of the Universal Church and his ascetic character had a great appeal . |
| 26 | The move may seem relatively trivial , but it is a telling comment on the declining position of the Church of England at a time when it least needs it . |
| 27 | The General Synod of the Church of England on Nov. 11 approved , with the necessary two-thirds majority in each of its three houses , a measure to permit the ordination of women priests . |
| 28 | He took a far more realistic approach to the revival and certainly did not share their conviction that the Oxford Movement would lead to the reunion of the Church of England with the Church of Rome . |
| 29 | East Anglia University Additional Sponsors : Norwich Diocese of the Church of England via Norvicase ( Diocesan Board for Social Responsibility ) Norwich Industrial Mission ; |
| 30 | Neo-Gothic in turrets and corridors and battlements , it was founded by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce of Oxford opposite the front gate of his palace , and then developed by two of the leaders of the Church of England in Queen Victoria 's days into the foremost training college of that Catholic tradition . |