Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are three N.F.P.A. Codes which specify the protection of the storage of goods in the United States of America . |
| 2 | For example , this month 's issue of Psychology Today contains the result of a study of the pace of life in 36 American cities . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They elected to bypass Drummossie Moor , site of the battle of Culloden in 1746 , twenty-seven years earlier . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Amongst other things , it made him acutely aware of the contrast between life in a small town ‘ which had advanced to railways and telegraphs and daily London papers ’ and ‘ a world of shepherds and ploughmen … where modern improvements were still regarded as wonders ’ . |
| 15 | Because even the smallest feldspar grains luminesce brightly , a far more accurate estimate of the percentage of feldspar in a clastic sediment is obtained by point-counting under CL . |
| 16 | I have already discussed the more particular validation of ideas as they bear upon issues in language pedagogy in terms of the evaluation of principles in respect to transfer value . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ( 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 . ) |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Dexter noticed that she had made no mention of the murder weapon being a pair of scissors or of the discovery of blood in a wash-basin near where the body was found . |
| 21 | There are three main features of the task : ( a ) interpreting the scale of the diagram ; ( b ) appreciation of the positioning of furniture in relation to doors , windows etc ; and ( c ) general design considerations . |
| 22 | How does he recruit them to the cause of the critique of reference in language ? |
| 23 | He then directs him to the message to the angel of the church at Laodicea in the third chapter of Revelation . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Ken was educated at Winchester School and then at New College , Oxford , where , together with senior and junior members of the university , he worshipped according to the liturgy of the Church of England in defiance of the laws of the Cromwellian regime . |
| 26 | Such an understanding of reality on the part of a Catholic conservative was well expressed by the Anglican bishop Graham Leonard , in his speech against the ordination of women to the General Synod of the Church of England in 1978 . |
| 27 | From 1830 to the Disruption of the Church of Scotland in 1843 , he was minister of Monkton Parish Kirk and his daughter , Ann Burns , is buried in Monkton Kirkyard . |
| 28 | One minister of the Church of Scotland in Orkney had been growing increasingly concerned about the growth of extremism in religion . |
| 29 | He was deposed from the ministry of the Church of Scotland in 1831 for teaching that ‘ assurance of salvation ’ is attainable , and is indeed part of genuine faith , and for views on the atonement incompatible with the Westminster Confession . |
| 30 | He was high commissioner to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1842–6 , a period which coincided with the disruption crisis . |