Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results — 66 per cent for the PLO , 33 per cent for Hamas and 1 per cent for Islamic Jihad — were regarded as an important signal of the depth of support for the PLO mainstream and its policy of negotiation with Israel . |
| 2 | For example , think of the depth of difference between Britain and Iran . |
| 3 | The names and addresses of senior judges in the Irish Republic , together with a document which purports to come from the office of the Chief of Staff of the Irish Army , surfaced yesterday as the latest in the series of security leaks , writes David McKittrick . |
| 4 | In a darkened hive the angle of orientation of the central segment of the dance with respect to the vertical is strongly correlated with the angle between the food source and the sun 's position . |
| 5 | It is the angle of this part of the dance with respect to the vertical that tells the other bees the direction to the food . |
| 6 | The angle of the waggled part of the dance with respect to vertical symbolizes the angle between the food source and the sun . |
| 7 | There are three N.F.P.A. Codes which specify the protection of the storage of goods in the United States of America . |
| 8 | " I 'm sick and tired of the pace of play on the Tour , " said the winner of this year 's Catalan Open . |
| 9 | For example , this month 's issue of Psychology Today contains the result of a study of the pace of life in 36 American cities . |
| 10 | Dolores came out of the cottage with mugs of coffee for them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Autumn issue marked the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain with articles on the Battle and those who fought in it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 16 | Certainly , if there was a degree of hostility to the Danes in London the anniversary of Ælfheah 's death on 19 April would have been a time when feelings ran particularly high , for Cnut 's England was clearly conscious of anniversaries of recent events , as awareness of the dates of the battle of Assandun in 1016 and the death of Edmund Ironside indicates . |
| 17 | When the new basilica of his church was consecrated late in the reign the day chosen for the event was not his own feast-day on 20 November , but that of St Luke on 18 October — the anniversary of the battle of Assandun in 1016 . |
| 18 | ( 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 . " |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Touring Northumberland we visited the site of the battle of Flodden in 1513 , but it is really Branxton Ridge and the monument is near Branxton village Flodden Edge is about a mile away . |
| 21 | They elected to bypass Drummossie Moor , site of the battle of Culloden in 1746 , twenty-seven years earlier . |
| 22 | This section demonstrates how , in its choice of language , film-editing techniques and subtle juxtaposition of images and commentary , television news delivered an entirely misleading and politically biased representation of the Battle of Orgreave on 18 June 1984 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If so , HP could hit the full-motion video market long before its competitors and , with NT in tow , might wind up in the thick of the battle for dominance in the next wave of PCs . |
| 25 | This rhetoric needs to be understood in terms of the battle for control of the party , as rival factions take up distinctive stances . |
| 26 | P&O merchant seamen were in the thick of the battle from start to finish and the war histories of P&O , British India , Orient Line , New Zealand Shipping , Hain Nourse , Strick , Federal Steam and Moss Hutchison tell of countless dramas and acts of courage . |
| 27 | I would prefer to retain the term to refer to the normal language behaviour of the user in pursuit of a communicative outcome rather than the language-like behaviour of the learner . |
| 28 | There is then the question of the selection of topics for these courses — should teachers avoid significant historical events simply because men predominate in them ? |
| 29 | The parties exchange lists of the relevant documents ; if there is a failure to comply with this requirement , the court may make an order for discovery A number of features of this system of discovery are noteworthy because of the contrast between discovery in England and the very much broader concept , known by the same name , in United States practice . |
| 30 | The central relationship in the novel between Serena and Stella is emblematic of the contrast between adaptation to convention and rebellion . |