Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] of [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Novelist , Andrew Field , claims to have discovered the lost chronicle of Edward de Vere in a hidden compartment of a desk in Chipping Norton , and he 's written a convincing novel round the supposed documents , supporting the theory that de Vere was a diplomat scholar and soldier beloved of Elizabeth the first , that he in fact , wrote the plays and the sonnets . |
| 2 | Gretchen , the new girl , was putting up the Christmas decorations , replacing the black crepe around the crush velvet portrait of Wally the Whale with sparkly tinsel . |
| 3 | Cistercian abbey founded in 1143 and traditionally the burial place of Llywelyn the Last . |
| 4 | Well Hartleys the er , the knitting wool people of Keighley the er , his son I soldiered with him |
| 5 | It is , it 's the fighting dog of Mexico the chihuahua . |
| 6 | Formed in 1868 the first English club North of York the Bankers are the only club in continuous , 102 year Northern League membership . |
| 7 | So could I therefore ask the minister to , on another matter , to ensure that later in his remarks would he agree to the proposal that the right to a postal vote should be highly publicised in this country , perhaps by putting the R P F nine A form in the newspapers well before the closing date of May the twentieth . |
| 8 | Now experiencing at first hand with the Boy Scouts of America the role of ‘ spook-in-residence ’ that he had observed at a distance during his earlier incarnation as a BSA executive , Coleman was engaged mainly in recruiting local captains of industry as sponsors and committee chairmen . |
| 9 | Thus , along the south coast of England the movement of material is eastwards , while on the east coast , where the dominant winds are north-east , it is southwards , except along part of the north Norfolk coast where it is towards the west . |
| 10 | These regulations which will give effect at the European council directive of December the sixth will of course alter the long standing position in the U K whereby only British and Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland are entitled to vote in European parliamentary elections . |
| 11 | After this second surrender of Barcelona the Moorish population was removed , and the city repopulated with people from Septimania , thus ensuring that further racial and religious ties would not weaken this important stronghold in Spain . |
| 12 | In the plateau lands of Notranjsko the north-west to south-east trend line of the Dinaric system may be discerned , in contrast to the east-west line of the main Alpine system . |
| 13 | However delay has meant that the ordinary electoral register is already published so regulation eighteen substitutes publication date of May the ninth for the European community citizens register . |
| 14 | At Robin 's Rocks , Mark 's The Silver Shadow , E5 6b , climbs the impressive overhanging wall right of Turco the Terrible . |
| 15 | As the East German trains pulled into the border station of Hof the first refugees , many of them in tears , were greeted with cheers , applause and a local youth group singing the Beatles song ‘ Let It Be ’ . |
| 16 | Whenever I hear the opening bars of Zadok the Priest , I remember the attentive , eager face of the eleven-year-old boy , singing in the school choir concert for the first time . |
| 17 | Prof MANOLIS ANDRONIKOS , the Greek archaeologist who has died at Salonika aged 72 , made one of the great archaeological discoveries of the century when in 1977 he found the tomb of King Philip II of Macedon , the warrior father of Alexander the Great . |
| 18 | Creature comforts of George the kid |
| 19 | It is a matinee performance of ET The Extra-Terrestrial . |
| 20 | That 's the clan cloth of Callum the Great . |
| 21 | Such attitudes were far removed from the world of the fictional Sir Joseph Bowlem in Dickens 's Chimes short story who boasted ‘ I allow nothing to be carried over into the New Year ; every description of account is settled in this house at the close of the old one ’ , and the real life employee of Manders the Wolverhampton paintmakers who scribbled on the flyleaf of a 1896 catalogue : |
| 22 | The dress sword of Major the Honourable etc . |
| 23 | The teaching and life style of John the Baptist identifies him with the prophetic tradition in Israel . |
| 24 | Bronze easting of Thor the thunder God who was worshipped extensively in northern Europe at the time of Charlemagne 's enforced military evangelism . |
| 25 | we 're going to stay afloat now for news of a top European win for the Laser firm of Banbury.With the help of computers and fashion , their sailing craft are on the crest of the highest wave you ever did see |
| 26 | I have received thy kind letter of February the 19th 1755 , which gave me much satisfaction : and some uneasiness , that so many years have elapsed wherein we might have reciprocally communicated our observations to each other ; and although thee had incomparably the advantage over me , yet , notwithstanding , I love to peep into the abstruse operations of nature . |
| 27 | The more I became involved in the executive work of CBC the less I liked it , but the more I worked with Ira Dilworth the more I liked him . |
| 28 | That night in the B&B north of Stornoway the other guest was a visiting resident GP from Melbourne . |
| 29 | She 's got some stupid thing at the moment with , with a flip top of Thomas the Tank Engine . |
| 30 | In the North East of England the waterways developed as a network linked to the wide rivers Aire , Calder , Ouse and Trent . |