Example sentences of "[noun prp] of [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pioline , the 15th-seeded Frenchman who has never won a tournament , followed up on his fourth round demolition of world number one Jim Courier by beating Andrei Medvedev of Ukraine in the quarter-finals 6–3 6–1 3–6 6–2 . |
| 2 | And young Paul Daly , the son of Brian , had a rather one-sided 21-10 win over Martin McHugh of Carrickfergus in the under-25 singles semi-final after McHugh selected to drive at the wrong time , which was right up Daly 's street . |
| 3 | There are those who do indeed believe ( as we have seen , with some justification in terms of legal precedent ) that matters have already gone too far in the direction of a United States of Europe for the process to be stopped from reaching its federal point of destination . |
| 4 | There was only one hopeful prospect : the unrestricted sinking of neutral and unarmed ships by German U-boats had brought the United States of America into the war . |
| 5 | It was Thomas Paine who is said to have suggested United States of America as the name for the new country but he is perhaps best known for abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania 1780 and for his important written works including ‘ The Rights of Man ’ . |
| 6 | That sentiment , and the optimism expressed in such statements , fairly accurately reflected the views of those involved in similar activities with working-class and oppressed groups in Great Britain and the United States of America in the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 7 | Britain in the nineteenth century was , and the United States of America in the twentieth century is , the hegemon of global capitalism , though of rather different versions of it . |
| 8 | A commentary broadcast on March 18 on Radio Centrafricaine said that the decision to appoint a Prime Minister reflected President André Kolingba 's " determination to pursue the democratic process " , and was in line with the statement of President Mitterrand of France at the 1990 Franco-African conference in La Baule [ see p. 37524 ] . |
| 9 | After the death of King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway at the battle of Svold in 999 it had been ruled by Earl Eric of Lade and his brother Swegen under the sovereignty of Cnut 's father ; according to later Scandinavian tradition , Eric married Swegen Forkbeard 's daughter Gytha . |
| 10 | I wonder if any of your readers noticed in The Times of 10 March how Lord Armstrong of Ilminster of the Victoria and Albert Museum 's Trustees , quite casually assumed that the independence of our national museums had already been similarly compromised ? |
| 11 | Blogg 's brewery was making ales in Roman Road , Barnsbury , in the East End of London around the turn of the century . |
| 12 | The most dramatic evidence of this was the ‘ Battle of Cable Street ’ on Sunday 4 October 1936 , when a march through the East End of London by the fascists prompted an anti-fascist demonstration , violence , and the injury of seventy people and eighty-eight arrests , eighty-three of whom were anti-fascists . |
| 13 | In his discussion of The Legal Aspects of Sanitary Reform , Edward Jenkins includes an account of newly built cottages in the East End of London in the 1860s , where the contents of an adjacent cesspool were actually being used to make mortar for further dwellings , crammed into the back gardens of the first . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a waste of money , ’ said Harriet , looking out of the window at the parkland , which seemed lush enough to feed the whole of the East End of London until the next war . |
| 15 | Again , in Ellen Ross 's study of the East End of London before the First World War , the theme of women assisting other women comes across strongly . |
| 16 | The crowd went home quietly via the 300 pubs that were to be found in the East End of Glasgow in the good old days . |
| 17 | Palatinate of Durham Within the Department of Palaeography of the University of Durham , established in 1948 for the promotion of the study of manuscript material mainly from the northern counties , there are major collections dating from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries . |
| 18 | ‘ They are faithful to their lords ’ , wrote William of Malmesbury of the Normans , ‘ but swift to break faith for a slight occasion . |
| 19 | Between 1179 and 1184 William the Englishman completed the work begun by William of Sens in the choir , eastern transepts , and presbytery , and designed and built the Trinity chapel as a mausoleum for the relics of St Thomas Becket ( d . |
| 20 | A letter by King Areus of Sparta to the Jews , which would date the discovery of the family connection in the first half of the third century B.C. , was probably forged to provide a background for the authentic correspondence of the second century ( cf. 12.7 ) . |
| 21 | Pretender Charles attempted to enter England in 1744 , and succeeded in landing in Scotland the following year but , after initial successes in Scotland as ‘ Bonnie Prince Charles ’ — the grandson of James II — he suffered a terrible defeat at Culloden in 1746 and that was followed by the imposition of a ruthless repression in the Highlands of Scotland by the favourite son of King George II , the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 22 | A single track divides North Uist , from north to south , built in 1845 to provide employment during the terrible potato famine that ravaged Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 23 | Essentially , the position which Anselm established lasted till 1920 , despite the heroic struggle of Gerald of Wales in the early thirteenth century to establish an archbishopric at St Davids . |
| 24 | The Security Service reported in the war that the IFL was mainly subsidised by Leese 's private means and that the largest individual contribution , by a Colonel Macdonald of Brussels in the period for which cash books were found between September 1930 and August 1933 and from June 1937 to November 1938 , was only £5 per month with a special donation from him of £50 in November 1938 . |
| 25 | The new Chancellor was Kurt Georg Kiesinger , a sensitive , able man , and a good orator , who had established a good reputation as Minister-President of Baden-Würtemberg in the early sixties . |
| 26 | An almost identical coffin as that shown in the Bedford Hours , though within a far less elaborate hearse , can be seen in the equally luxurious London Hours of René of Anjou from the Egerton Workshop . |
| 27 | Lord Auckland , Governor General of India in the 1830s , left Calcutta to tour the Upper Provinces in 1837 with an entourage of twelve thousand people , 140 elephants , hundreds of horses and bullocks and 850 camels . |
| 28 | Price met President Arevalo of Guatemala on the Honduran island of Roatán on Dec. 15 , 1989 for further talks on the longstanding border dispute between the two countries , whereby Guatemala claimed some or all of Belize territory [ see pp. 33522 ; 34287 ; 34611 ; 35963-64 ; 36999 ] . |
| 29 | In November 1990 Lacy had vetoed the appointment of Jack B. Yager to a union vice-presidency on the grounds of his past association with criminals ; in December he banned vice-president George Vitale of Michigan from the union for five years for alleged embezzlement . |
| 30 | Caribbean interest in athletics has been enlivened by the Olympic success in 1976 of Don Quarrie of Jamaica in the 200 metres and Hasely Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago who dominated the 100 metres event in the mid-1970s . |