Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of [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 | There are three N.F.P.A. Codes which specify the protection of the storage of goods in the United States of America . |
| 5 | " I 'm sick and tired of the pace of play on the Tour , " said the winner of this year 's Catalan Open . |
| 6 | For example , this month 's issue of Psychology Today contains the result of a study of the pace of life in 36 American cities . |
| 7 | The Autumn issue marked the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain with articles on the Battle and those who fought in it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( 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 . " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They elected to bypass Drummossie Moor , site of the battle of Culloden in 1746 , twenty-seven years earlier . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Prior to eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil , Adam and Eve were not troubled by ontological anxiety . |
| 21 | The Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Persistent diarrhoea was defined as a chronic doubling of the frequency of defecation before irradiation and a minimum frequency of at least 14 bowel actions a week . |
| 25 | Estimates of the frequency of formation of interstrand crosslinks range from 1–7% ( 1 ) . |
| 26 | In their 1968 study of the frequency of use of British scientific journals , as measured by requests to the British Library , Martyn & Gilchrist found that Nature was the highest ranked journal , and the highest ranked earth science journal was Journal of Petrology ( ranking one hundred and fifteenth ) . |
| 27 | One measure of a successful department will be its primary/secondary links in terms of the frequency of consultation between phases , the level of joint planning between them and where possible the coherent management of a cross-phase unit of study . |
| 28 | This information may then be represented statistically ; in terms of the frequency of occurrence of combinations of letters , or in terms of the probability that some letter is preceded by some combination of a number of other letters ( transitional probabilities ) ; or non-statistically in terms of whether or not some combination of letters occurs in the source . |
| 29 | Because of the frequency of occurrence of this device , most computers include instructions tailored to its use . |
| 30 | 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 . |