Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd fallen in love with the decorative arts of France of the 17th and 18th centuries and wanted to furnish his house in that style . |
| 2 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 3 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 4 | Lewis and Townsend describe the North-South divide as ‘ one of the distinctive characteristics of Britain in the 1980s ’ . |
| 5 | The characteristics of LSW near the source show considerable variation within tens of years . |
| 6 | THE COPIOUS volumes of records acquired each year by the Scottish Record Office are to be housed in a new repository on the outskirts of Edinburgh as the famous domed building on Princes Street is full . |
| 7 | The Sahara was theirs from the southern outskirts of Ajdabiya to the Egyptian border , to Wainat and Sudan , and then to the French conquests in Chad . |
| 8 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 9 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 10 | Sun Microsystems Inc duly unveiled plans for a European software centre located on the outskirts of Dublin in the Republic of Ireland last week ( CI No 2,1180 . |
| 11 | The Thirty Comrades entered the southernmost districts of Burma alongside the rapidly advancing Japanese . |
| 12 | Like many men of the muirlands and remote districts of Ayrshire in the 17th century , John was a fervent opponent of the imposition of Episcopacy on to the Scottish Kirk . |
| 13 | The first letter , from the Jews of Judaea to the Jews of Egypt , commends the celebration of the Feast of the Purification of the Temple and is dated in 124 B.C. The second letter , from Judas Maccabaeus and the people of Jerusalem to Aristobulus , " teacher of King Ptolemy ( Philometor ) " , is apparently dated in 164 B.C. : it tells the story of the end of Antiochus IV and the institution of the Feast of the Purification of the Temple . |
| 14 | In the past , when warring factions had been rife on the island , families of breeding had automatically sent at least one son to train in the Halls of Valiance in the western region of Gleberune and , as a consequence , generous donations had showered into the Valiance coffers . |
| 15 | Looking back over the years at the relative strengths of Japan versus the US in the semiconductor industry — a polarisation that will always make the news in Japan — during the 1970s , the US had an advantage , Grove said , which faded in the 1980s when Japanese manufacturing disciplines , just-in-time and its clearly superior semiconductor manufacturing equipment led to the Japanese gaining the upper hand , particularly in memory chips . |
| 16 | It was also one of the attractions of London for the intellectually-minded tourist . |
| 17 | Questionnaires were first designed with the assistance of the Equal Opportunities Commission and sent to samples of women and men barristers and Heads of Chambers at the Independent Bar . |
| 18 | Occasionally , I caught glimpses of Shelley through the vines , skipping about in a somewhat girlish manner between the two houses and the little landing stage where their boats were moored ; there were a collection of rowing boats and a masted boat with a deck which Claire referred to as ‘ the schooner ’ . |
| 19 | As the Psalmist does not mention the destruction of the city or the deportation of the people , the context can hardly be the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. But the description does not correspond either to what we are told in the Books of Maccabees about the defilement of the Temple in 167 B.C. , when only the priests ' chamber was destroyed and only the gates burned ( I Mac . |
| 20 | If one takes this attack by Strabo into account , it seems strange that specialists on the ancient sources about Gaul , such as P. Duval , can still believe that Eratosthenes wrote at least thirty-three books of Galatica on the Celts . |
| 21 | During the war he took some of the most enduring images of Paris under the occupation . |
| 22 | ‘ Unlike the barren , drought-stricken images of Ethiopia during the famine , Negros , with its green fields fringed by tall coconut palms gives every appearance of being lush and fertile . ’ |
| 23 | Eighty or so acres of Midshire by the river Comer , close by the border of Wales . |
| 24 | Designed and built by the astronomer Andronicus Kyrrhestes of Macedonia in the second quarter of the first century BC , with a wind vane and complicated sundials on each of its eight walls , its most interesting feature is a reservoir in a smaller building that stood next to its south side . |
| 25 | At present resources are limited , but there are courses and retreats which offer the opportunity to focus on the spiritual and emotional aspects of HIV in the safety of a non-judgmental and totally confidential environment . |
| 26 | All three performances of Macbeth at the Civic are already sold out . |
| 27 | Listen to the words of Abraham to the rich man who died ‘ between us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from hence to you can not ; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence . ’ |
| 28 | We quoted earlier the words of Ginguené to the effect that the conducteur 's arm was in motion during solo music at the mid-century . |
| 29 | ‘ In the words of Diaghilev to the young Jean Cocteau , astonish me , Fosdyke . ’ |
| 30 | This is unusual in the Near Eastern religions , although Christians sometimes talk of Jesus as ‘ God ’ ( as in the words of Thomas after the Resurrection , ‘ My Lord and my God ’ — John 20:28 ) , and in the doctrine of the Trinity it is made clear that the Father , the Son and the Spirit are all ‘ God ’ ( as stated in the Athanasian Creed ) . |