Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er My Lords I do not see within this of amendments the answers that we want , I see two or three narrow misses . |
| 2 | After a 1992 high of 181p the shares have been in near constant retreat , hitting a low of 83.5p before recovering to yesterday 's suspension price of 129p . |
| 3 | If you enter a 1990 subscription to OECD Economic Studies today , we will send you free of charge the special 1989–90 winter issue on ‘ Modelling the Effects of Agricultural Policies ’ . |
| 4 | Oh , well perhaps we 'll get him some of Thomas the Tank for his birthday then , if we 've forgotten it , biscuit |
| 5 | On the fourteenth of October the Children Act comes into force . |
| 6 | On the floor of the tomb there were five tiny , inch-high ivory heads , including one in the image of the one-eyed Philip and another of Alexander the Great . |
| 7 | With with the greatest of respect the the point was n't really answered . |
| 8 | To be guilty of theft the offender , as I shall call him , must act dishonestly and must have the intention of permanently depriving the owner of property . |
| 9 | The earliest story in history of the successful use of psychology to manage a horse , is that of Alexander the Great ( 356–323 BC ) and Bucephalus . |
| 10 | N not as it is today , beautiful green grass and we used to play er cricket , football , marbles er pitch card , ring tor , er duckie stone , and all that of course the village in those days was divided into two parts and if you lived over 's Hill you was a downtowner . |
| 11 | Benjamin Titford 's material and social success during a lifetime spanning 65 years could not match that of William the Undertaker , but he had done very well for himself , for all that . |
| 12 | Some — like that of Ryno the medic , exhausted and saddened after a struggle to save the life of a fellow constable — show how very young most men are when they are caught up in armed conflicts . |
| 13 | The only real-life burial where this combination of song and cavalcade is reported is that of Attila the Hun , in Jordanes ' Gothic History . |
| 14 | The figure whose character achieved clearest focus was that of Fulk the Good , Geoffrey Grisegonelle 's father . |
| 15 | If there is one image which biographical criticism has projected powerfully , it is that of Tolkien the philistine , hater of literary mainstreams . |
| 16 | A fairly long , extremely active and relatively well-documented royal life like that of Charles the Bald can serve modern students as a thread through the maze of complex power-relations , and at the same time it leads back to the heart of events . |
| 17 | The voice was that of Woil the buzzard who at that same moment was having the door of his cage opened by one of the Men with food . |
| 18 | But as Nithard went on to observe , the policy had originally , back in 823 , been that of Louis the Pious himself . |
| 19 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 20 | When I was in the Bodleian I was shocked at the existence of hundreds of letters the writers had marked ‘ burn ’ . |
| 21 | To many hundreds of birdwatchers the name conjures up either the anticipation or satisfaction of excellent birding , or memories of the abject miseries of seasickness on the three-hour crossing . |
| 22 | The thirty-nine works Brooklyn acquired nineteen paintings , nine works on paper and three sculptures ; the Met gained seven oils and one work on paper are all that remained of the hundreds of works the Lowenthals purchased between 1943 and 1958 . |
| 23 | The hundreds of orchids the Gaskells grow include some less familiar ones , like slipper orchids and the spidery brassia . |
| 24 | For hundreds of years the farmers clustered together in these villages . |
| 25 | For hundreds of years the ship of the line was the ultimate argument of kings , frequently used . |
| 26 | After hundreds of years the stain 's there |
| 27 | The introduction There are hundred of stars that shine there are hundred of fish in the sea , there are hundreds of people the whole world over , there 's only one mother for me , only one mother for me , I love her and she loves me , there are and shells on the shore , there are and shells on the beach there are the whole world over but there 's only one mother for me . |
| 28 | JACK Lee , whose name will always be associated with the Midland School of Embalming , which he founded just after the war and from which he has trained many hundreds of embalmers the world over , has decided to take more of a ‘ back seat ’ and has handed over the principal 's chair to John Davis , although he will still be ‘ in the wings ’ as an advisory tutor . |
| 29 | In the faintest of whispers the parents try to give comfort , try to quieten : for a moment it seems that they might even have to stifle . |
| 30 | But contrary to the popular belief that mink have been wiping out waterfowl and outcompeting the native otter , detailed studies have shown that over much of Britain the animal was either sharing abundant food resources with other predators or exploiting a niche which was previously unoccupied . |