Example sentences of "of the [noun prp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quiescence of the Jurassic culminated in the widespread Tithonian limestones of southern Europe . |
| 2 | " Ultimately we have the base of the Jurassic defined by a single bedding plane on the coast of Somerset , where we took the Jurassic specialists of the world to see it during our celebrations of the bicentenary of the birth of William Smith in 1969 . |
| 3 | The headlights of the Fiat swept from one side of the narrow winding road to the other , picking out an area of ploughed field , a thicket of scrub oaks with last year 's brown leaves still clinging to the branches , an ancient wooden cart fitted with modern lorry tyres , an abandoned barn covered with posters for a dance band called ‘ The Lads of the Adriatic ’ , a dirt track leading off into the hills . |
| 4 | The Political Secretariat of the ECCl replied on 20 February , repeating its suggestions for a United Communist Party and accused the ILP leadership of attempting to escape the decisions of its 1933 Conference . |
| 5 | Such an analysis is part of the larger long-term programme of the NRPB devoted to a geographical study of malignancy in the UK . |
| 6 | A fourth section of the RSJC deals with general questions of interest to all three groups . |
| 7 | His Interior portfolio was taken over by Rudolf Seiters , whose post as Head of the Chancellery went to Friedrich Böhl . |
| 8 | The identifier of the DC to start from . |
| 9 | The user can also enter the numerical value of the DC state to be considered . |
| 10 | The user can enter the numerical value of the DC state to be considered . |
| 11 | The user can also enter the numerical value of the DC state to be considered . |
| 12 | In the course of time the Mercian kingdom also came to embrace much of the territory , for example , of the Wocensaete or Wreocensaete , who took their name from the Wrekin and dominated the north Shropshire plain , and it would probably be the case , if charter-material had survived for this area of north-west Mercia analogous to that which has survived for the Hwicce , that kings of the Wreocensaete emerged in varying degrees of dependence on or subjection to the Mercian ruler . |
| 13 | An integrated OED , i.e. a version in which the Supplement material has all been inserted in the correct places and any alterations to the text of the OED required by the wording of the Supplement have been made . |
| 14 | As the Chairman of the CNAA wrote in 1970 : |
| 15 | Different areas of the CNAA wrested with this ‘ in radically different ways ’ : |
| 16 | The identifier of the SPR to start from . |
| 17 | The identifier of the SPR to start from . |
| 18 | The identifier of the SPR to start from . |
| 19 | Christian Burial of the Dead combines with Buddha 's Fire Sermon , but both are shot through with the sort of primitive fertility cycle hinted at in ‘ Death by Water ’ . |
| 20 | In passages written not without humour , though theirs is the blackest of black comedy , we read of the water of the Nile turned to blood , of plagues of frogs , gnats , flies , and locusts , of the domestic animals of the Egyptians dying of disease , of a terrible outbreak of boils , of death-dealing hailstorms , and an awesome and fearful darkness . |
| 21 | The watershed of the Caribbean extends across a huge area from the industrial cities of the northern US , which discharge waste into the Mississippi , to the Colombian Andes . |
| 22 | After 1902 the large head-dress badge under the King 's Crown was produced in white metal , with a cross of the Order of the Bath superimposed on a star , similar to that of the Order of the Garter . |
| 23 | After 1902 the large head-dress badge under the King 's Crown was produced in white metal , with a cross of the Order of the Bath superimposed on a star , similar to that of the Order of the Garter . |
| 24 | In South Wales the part of the winter that could be devoted to training was confined to the pre-Christmas period because of the January start to ground preparation for the early potato crop . |
| 25 | ‘ The fans of The Smiths seem to be in the foreground before the band themselves . |
| 26 | Their talent for self-promotion ensured that many people turned up at the Ritz to witness the intriguing spectacle of The Smiths falling on their collective backsides . |
| 27 | Similarly , the hero of The Foreman Went To France ( 1941 , Somewhere in France in US ) has to overcome managerial indifference and bureaucratic obstruction to cross the Channel and recover machines that might otherwise fall into the hands of the Germans . |
| 28 | Two members of the W.A.A.F. posted to Station X neatly encapsulated the idiosyncratic nature of Bletchley Park and its denizens in these verses , which I found with great pleasure in Beryl Escott 's recent Women in Air Force Blue : |
| 29 | The faction of the SPLA opposed to the leadership of Col. John Garang and led by Lam Akol and Riek Mashar Teny-Durgon [ see p. 38426 ] was now known as the Nasir group , after the eastern Sudanese town in which it was based . |
| 30 | On 29 May 1985 Petty Officer Gerald Andries of the DGSE flew to London and bought a French-made Zodiac inflatable dinghy and outboard motor for £1,400 from the Barnet Marine Center in North London , paying in cash . |