Example sentences of "of the [noun prp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 and er the children used to play on the banks of the Nile early in the morning when they got up , there was all sand there .
2 Meanwhile , at Stratford , the district council banned fishing on the popular 300-yard stretch of the Avon just above the swan sanctuary following complaints from nearby residents .
3 The following were some the most important features of these rules : 1 ) The contractual undertaking involved was to perform or to procure performance of combined transport by two or more modes of transport , such as by sea , inland waterway , air , rail , or road ; 2 ) The document of title function was retained by the CTD , but it was predicated upon presentation of the CTD only to the Combined Transport Operator or his representative ; 3 ) The issuer of the CTD for the entire multi-modal carriage had to assume liability for the whole carriage , including delayed delivery , and this assumption of liability was as a principal and not as an agent of the shipper ; and 4 ) Abstraction protected third parties relying in good faith on the text of the CTD , and this protection was couched in terms similar to those of the Hague-Visby rules .
4 Martin Luther King 's civil rights campaign had resulted in legislation against the segregationism which existed in parts of the USA well into the 1960s .
5 It would seem , therefore , that there is some sort of life to be eked out in the dark world on the periphery of the EEC even before the foundation , hopefully in 1993 , of the European Economic Area by which 380 million people of Efta and the EEC are to join forces to provide one ‘ home market ’ .
6 But , after a chilling encounter with a member of the Stasi just before the fall of the Wall ( we see it in a flashback ) , she has come running back to England , her marriage and her Christian belief in tatters .
7 All three remained wedded to the ways of the CEB even in the new organisation .
8 Believing Gorbachev 's policies were deviating from a number of fundamental Marxist principles , a group of members formed the Marxist Platform of the CPSU shortly before the selection of delegates to the 28th Congress of the CPSU .
9 There could be nowhere better to experience the suddenness of the Pyrenees here on the French side .
10 The Fenno-Scandian Shield and the Russian Platform match the Canadian Shield and the Stable Interior of the U.S.A. even to the " syneclises " and " anticlises " or " basins " and " domes " .
11 D. On the Lancashire side of the Pennines much of the coal which was in places where it was easy to mine has been extracted , and so mining is becoming more expensive .
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