Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's almost impossible to separate it from thinking of Alexander Pope the man . |
| 2 | When the pope wrote to Anselm that ‘ we behold in you the venerable persona of St Augustine the Apostle of the English ’ this was more than a complimentary politeness . |
| 3 | In May 1911 , the inmates were allowed a special diet to mark the coronation of King George the Fifth , and the usual extras ‘ as at Christmas ’ were added . |
| 4 | " In the name of God be it Amen , the xxthe day of the Monthe of Marche the yere of our Lorde after thaccompt of the Churche of Englond Mcccclxxxvijth and the iijde yere of the Reigne of King Henry the Vijth … |
| 5 | THE closure of Aldershot Stadium the former headquarters of promoter Spedeworth International , rounded off a disappointing season of short circuit motor racing last year , but the rapidly approaching 1993 season already promises much more ( writes Kevin Wegg ) . |
| 6 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |
| 7 | So far as is known , nobody else has been arrested or charged in connection with the murder of Mr Mxenge The State President , Mr F. W. de Klerk , last week refused to order a judicial commission of inquiry into the death-squad allegations on the ground that it would be faster to use the ‘ tried and respected prosecution mechanisms of the state ’ . |
| 8 | A repeat of Paul Merton The Series and a new series of Julian Clary 's Sticky Moments begins on Channel 4 on September 11 . |
| 9 | The pope sent cardinals , the senator of Rome and other nobles to escort him to St Peter 's and at the monastery of St Pancras the king was anointed by the cardinal bishop of Porto and crowned by the pope , who gave him the royal insignia . |
| 10 | I could not finish them until after Dana had left for the States , when I would sit day after day beside my desk , trying to write , while on the other side of Avondale Buildings the children screamed and shrieked in the playground . |
| 11 | In his biography of John Wesley the by then very conservative Robert Southey warned : Perhaps the manner in which Methodism has familiarized the lower classes to the work of combining in associations , making rules for their own governance , raising funds , and communicating from one part of the kingdom to another , may be reckoned among the incidental evils which have arisen from it . |
| 12 | Except in the Ross and Weddell bights and along the coast of West Antarctica the shelf is generally narrow , rarely more than 100 km wide . |
| 13 | This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an ‘ unofficial ’ international conference — a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised . |
| 14 | The following evening , the Ulster Hall hosts the gutsy folk and rock of Brighton lads The Levellers . |
| 15 | The more I read of the early months of Nicholas MacMahon the more convinced I became that I too was rearing a prodigy . |
| 16 | The anger in his face made his eyes glow , reminding Athelstan of the figure of St John the Baptist in a mummer 's play . |
| 17 | Proceeding south from the West End of Princes Street the Lothian Road leads to the residential districts of Bruntsfield and Morningside and on to the Pentland Hills — R. L. Stevenson 's ‘ hills of home ’ . |
| 18 | Under the direction of Sgt Hayter the Lancaster was loaded onto six Queen Maries , three of which were wide loads , and started the journey to Hendon . |
| 19 | In the Surrey part of Windsor Forest the verdict on 5 March 1300 was that ‘ the whole county of Surrey was forest in the time of Henry II , who died seized of it . ’ |
| 20 | Eliot instances the activities of Dyak headhunters the production of whose carvings is at once a task utilitarian and sacred . |
| 21 | At the foot of Ballard Cliff the beach is covered by fallen rocks of chalk , changing to pebbles and shingle further south . |
| 22 | Victory tends to wipe the tapes of history and in the euphoria of Friday dawn the campaign was hailed as brilliant . |
| 23 | A statue of St John the Baptist , patron saint of the Knights of Malta , stands in the centre . |
| 24 | The statue of S. James the Apostle decorates the trumeau and on each side are statues of apostles , prophets and elders . |
| 25 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 26 | Thanks to donations from parishioners , the six old bells of St Thomas The Martyr have been re-cast and re-hung . |
| 27 | In 1318–19 the rise of Hugh Despenser the younger gradually displaced Damory from his standing at the centre of the court . |
| 28 | They came to Worcester from the headquarters of King Charles the Second to escort the city 's mayor to London . |
| 29 | Section 674 deems that income for tax purposes to be the income of Mr A. The income of £50,000 is amalgamated with the £100,000 and Mr A is assessed accordingly . |
| 30 | As we shook hands I felt some embarrassment ; he had been sacked from his post in the English Literature and Language Department of the University of East Anglia the previous year . |