Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun prp] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officers have been combing scrubland and bracken on the outskirts of Bicester where the revolver was found , looking for other weapons , baseball bats used in the attack . |
| 2 | Significantly the dream of an Imperial organic entity perished on the very battlefields of Flanders where the self-governing Dominions did apparently fight ‘ for their common interests ’ : |
| 3 | The Windscale cloud however , passed over most of the cities of England so the collective dose would be higher . |
| 4 | The woods of Lothlorien where the Elves dwelt was a wonderful place but now it will wither . |
| 5 | There are , of course , big areas of Normandy where the farmers are still producing milk , butter , cream and cheeses by the old methods . |
| 6 | In some countries of Europe clearly the democratic institutions are stronger and more deeply rooted than in others ; but even where they are weak , the process of political development is conceived of as being one of moving towards a stronger form of democracy and dictatorship is seen as a deviation from the norm . |
| 7 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |
| 8 | But it 's outside the armed forces and in the factories of Gloucestershire where the defence reductions have cut most deeply ; contractors like Dowty and Smiths industries have shed thousands of jobs . |
| 9 | The newspapers said that this was due to the fact that the Syrian army was tightening its ring around the southern suburbs of Beirut where the French and American hostages were thought to be . |
| 10 | For example the German scholar who wrote a monumental life of Philip Augustus in six volumes and , in the process , came to study Richard 's career with great thoroughness , believed that " he had abandoned himself entirely to the pleasures of Messina where the women seemed very seductive to warriors from the North " . |
| 11 | Sea pinks cling to the lichen-covered rocks and huge beech trees , carved into oblique shapes by the wind , stand defiantly along the length of the bay and , to the south , on the slopes of Greenanmore where the kings of Dalriada had their summer residence . |
| 12 | On almost the whole of the exposed parts of the western coasts of Britain both the prevalent and dominant winds are the westerlies , but on the east coast , where the prevalent winds are still the westerlies , the dominant winds are the easterlies , as the westerly winds are blowing offshore and are incapable of producing waves affecting the coast . |
| 13 | The frentic merger activity among the nation 's accountants ( or not , as the case may be ) has spread to the wilds of Yorkshire where the tiny firm of Rawlinsons is linking with the equally tiny Milne Booth . |
| 14 | But there is no such careful blending of ingredients in Tetley 's Dances of Albion where the singer 's words of the traditional ‘ Lye Wake Dirge ’ bore no relation to what was being danced on stage . |
| 15 | After passing through the fires of Asuryan even the infernal heat of their forges could not hurt him . |
| 16 | The translation problem is even more difficult when faced with presenting Jesus as the ‘ Good Shepherd ’ ( Ps. 23 and John 10 ) in parts of Africa where the care of sheep is relegated to children or the mentally subnormal . |
| 17 | The police pursue policies of differential deployment ( for example , swamping certain parts of London where the West Indian population is prominent ) and ‘ methodological suspicion ’ ( that is , routinely suspecting only a limited proportion of the population , particularly those with criminal records or known criminal associates ) . |
| 18 | The carrying capacity of much of the land was greater than in other parts of Wales hence the predominance of full-time units . |
| 19 | In some parts of Scandinavia where the land was divided equally , the old person would move between the heirs , receiving food and lodging from each in turn . |