Example sentences of "the [noun pl] of [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 2 | His appointment was in part a result of the amicable Anglo-French gathering which took place at Paris and Poissy in June july 1313 for the knighting of the sons of Philip the Fair . |
| 3 | Since the division of the empire by the sons of Louis the Pious in 843 , there had been a tradition that the imperial crown went with the possession of the middle kingdom , the kingdom of Louis 's eldest son , Lothar . |
| 4 | Along the roads of Provence the tall McDonalds-like chain shop signs are springing up everywhere and prices are naturally very competitive . |
| 5 | Are there any matters arising from the minutes of November the twenty ninth ? |
| 6 | The centrepiece of this delightful sleepy village on the outskirts of Middlesbrough the winner of a ‘ Britain in Bloom ’ award , is the Parish Church where James Cook Senior and Grace Pace , Cook 's parents , were married in 1725 . |
| 7 | By the time they reached the outskirts of Portsmouth the rain had practically stopped , but the sky was still slate grey and threatening . |
| 8 | D. In the new factories of the New Towns and the outskirts of Glasgow the products are mainly of small size and high value . |
| 9 | ‘ The Castles of Edward the First ’ and ‘ Medieval Festivals ’ would take up the afternoon . |
| 10 | Within ten minutes you were in your bed , reading hand-outs on ‘ The Castles of Edward the First ’ and ‘ Medieval Festivals ’ . |
| 11 | In his deep distress at seeing the empty bottle , the words of Paul the apostle came to him : |
| 12 | Remembering the words of Nehemiah the prophet : |
| 13 | Above the Old Town , on the West Hill , lies Hasting 's most important monument to her famous past : the ruins of William the Conqueror 's first castle . |
| 14 | But for the donations of Louis the Pious in 817 and of Otto I in 962 we ave texts , the Ludovicianum and the Ottonianum , which have been accepted as genuine . |
| 15 | The fact that changes are being contemplated might illustrate to the directors of RWC the folly of arriving at such arrangements in cabals rather than conducting open draws — which are more exciting and include seeding to prevent geographical or quality imbalances . |
| 16 | Just as fate had been unkind in many ways to those Titfords who had stayed in Frome throughout the 18th century , so it had been a firm friend to the descendants of William the Emigrant after his arrival in Kent . |
| 17 | It was possible , however , for a member of the House of Orange ( the descendants of William the Silent , the leader of the struggle for independence against Spain in the later sixteenth century ) to be elected Stadtholder of all or most of the provinces and thus attain the position of General Stadtholder of the federation . |
| 18 | It was said that the Kahanamokus were the descendants of Kamehameha the Great , but Duke inherited his name from his father , a Honolulu police captain who was named after the then Duke of Edinburgh following his visit to the Islands in 1869 . |
| 19 | Will you fight for the descendants of the great Cormac and his daughter Dierdriu and the descendants of Grainne the Gentle and of Erin and of Niall of the Nine Hostages ? |
| 20 | The comedy duo follow will be following in the footsteps of Orville the Duck and Little and Large as recent big-name acts to bring festive crowds flocking to Darlington 's record-breaking Civic Theatre . |
| 21 | For everyone else , it really does n't matter , because the detective work is going to lead to applications for us today , as disciples who follow in the footsteps of Matthew the apostle and whoever it was who put together the first gospel of the New testament . |
| 22 | He may have made his name with a story from British history , but that was simply calculated opportunism as he showed by following with similar , though less amusing and successful , treatments of the lives of Catherine the Great ( 1934 ) and Rembrandt ( 1936 ) . |
| 23 | Originally Salcey was part of the chain of Royal Hunting Forests that stretched from Stanford to Oxford and dated back to the days of William the Conqueror ( 1066 ) . |
| 24 | The villa had been built in the days of Lorenzo the Magnificent by a Baderini banker . |
| 25 | Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king , behold there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem , saying , ‘ Where is he that is born King of the Jews ? |
| 26 | During the days of Herod the Great and his successors , Palestine was a troubled province of the Roman Empire . |
| 27 | Since the days of Frederick the Great the Germans had been brought up to believe that the Poles were drunken , brutish and in every way inferior . |
| 28 | Coal was on the move when Leith was first recognised as a port back in the days of Robert the Bruce . |
| 29 | ‘ The transition from ‘ the days of John the Baptist ’ ( Matt. |
| 30 | Hilton was rooted in patristic and scholastic theology and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing has been profoundly influenced by the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite . |