Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] of [noun] 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 | It is , it 's the fighting dog of Mexico the chihuahua . |
| 5 | Suspicions bubble furiously , contacts drop like ninepins , Redford is bashed on the head a few times , the dreaded box is nicked back and forth between the Good and the Bad like a gunpoint game of Pass The Parcel and Redford 's erstwhile girlfriend Liz ( Mary McDonnell ) ends up offering refuge to the jittery team and their mountains of equipment . |
| 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 | erm it 's , it 's a kind of dancey kind of hate the word but raveish type music but a bit mellower . |
| 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 | For a core group of clients the case management services must be assertive ( Bond et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | From a staging point of view the PGA and the Tour , working together in a very harmonious way , should be delighted with the way it all worked out . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes . |
| 15 | Using the premiums quoted in Fig. 7.1 for BP options with an exercise price of 240p the effect of time can be seen as follows : |
| 16 | Perhaps more than in any other specialist area of study the means to do so are readily available . |
| 17 | Whichever may be the true explanation , it is certainly known that on her way across the wilderness north of Hermitage the queen was thrown by her horse into a peat bog , marked on modern maps as the Queen 's Mire . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | From the AIB point of view the exercise meant devoting the time and effort of a number of experienced personnel to activities that served no benefit to the Branch . |
| 20 | In terms of a classical wave picture of light the electrons would all be agitated by the electromagnetic radiation , bobbing up and down like anchored buoys in an ocean swell . |
| 21 | In the World Population Plan of Action the section dealing with morbidity and mortality recommend " particularly vigorous efforts " to reduce " fetal , infant and early childhood mortality and related maternal morbidity and mortality " . |
| 22 | From the particle point of view the result is less obvious . |
| 23 | The neck 's profile is a fairly pronounced V shape , and with a fingerboard radius of 10″ the guitar is very comfortable to play without being too chunky . |
| 24 | The Institute has warned auditors who carry out circulation audits that the specimen letter of engagement the Audit Bureau of Circulations issued to its members in November last year is not in a form agreed by the Institute . |
| 25 | Of course , you get what you pay for , and no-one in his right mind would expect this garment to wear or wash as long , or as well as , a fleece jacket of double the price . |
| 26 | At Robin 's Rocks , Mark 's The Silver Shadow , E5 6b , climbs the impressive overhanging wall right of Turco the Terrible . |
| 27 | From an animal welfare point of view the chasing of a fox or a deer round the countryside with dogs and followed by men either on foot or mounted on horses is a cruel practice which can not be justified . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | Although in Minister for Arts , Heritage and Environment v. Peko-Wallsend the treaty had been entered into prior to the listing of Kakadu , in Re Ditford , ex parte Deputy Commissioner of Taxation the case was cited as authority for the proposition that Australian courts have disclaimed entitlement to adjudicate upon decisions by the executive concerning the exercise of its treaty-making power . |
| 30 | 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 . |