Example sentences of "of the [noun] and [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The Emperor Karl Franz is prince of the Reikland and his troops are well equipped and clothed as might be expected .
2 We all sat around cross-legged picking at bits of the sheep and I was offered the eye by the Sheik , which I understand was a kind of honour .
3 His ball bounced through the back of the green and he did n't get up and down for a birdie .
4 Next week sees the anniversary of the battle and it is the 75th anniversary of the Air Force .
5 Close the curtains to exclude daylight , and pick a camera position which gives a good wide-angle view and also allows close-ups of the tree and its decorators .
6 One particular aspect of the economic life of Israel which has received great attention in the history of the Church and which needs further expansion is the prohibition on usury .
7 People are really suffering because of the church and we need Sinead O'Connor to state that fact .
8 This paragraph speaks of the ‘ many distinctive gifts and talents that women offer to the Church ; ’ in it the bishops state : ‘ We believe the time if overdue for more positive attitudes about your participation in the life of the Church and we recognise with regret that you have often been permitted to play mainly a limited and often inferior part in the Church .
9 Father , You are lord of the church and we acknowledge that you are lord of St Leonard 's .
10 Bethune-Baker and his school at Cambridge disliked the anti-rational quality in the book — the ‘ scandalousness ’ of the Church and its gospel — and took several more marks off Hoskyns for begetting such a child .
11 In our annual reports in Dumbarton Oaks Papers we have shown something of the extraordinary nature of the church and its decoration and shed much new light on the period immediately before Justinian .
12 The plan was for a short gathering , possibly not more than a month long , which would reassert the unity of the Church and its authority in matters of the faith .
13 Next comes the extremely widespread stress upon the Eucharist as the centre of the Church and its unity .
14 The nature of the Church and its tradition were central to the unfinished business from Vatican I ; Modernism and the Roman reaction to it had left serious questions about the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible and about the development of doctrine ; the Liturgical Movement was already revealing both the need for major pastoral renewal and a vision of what its fruits could be , not merely inside the Catholic Church but also in its ecumenical relations .
15 At that conference , in July of the following year , he read a paper on " The Ecumenical Nature of the Church and Its Responsibility Towards the World " and became a member of a special section dealing with the " economic order " .
16 Its memorials tell of wealth and poverty , while its size and situation relate to the foundation of the church and its status .
17 But he would be hindered unless he knew the methods and presuppositions of the Church and its clergy .
18 Charles the Bald 's ancestors , the eighth-century founders of the Carolingians ' family fortunes , had taken control of the church and its resources on a massive scale , and systematically : they had incorporated the church into the state .
19 After a long time , the music started to play again and Cousin Jane and Mike walked back down the aisle and out of the church and everyone followed them into the sunny afternoon .
20 Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus .
21 Look in the churchyard at the south east corner of the church and you will find a poignant tombstone , grave of Cook 's mother , brothers and sisters .
22 ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high .
23 I quote further it should only be used to signify the unity of the church and it should provide a sharing in the means of grace .
24 Now what I 'd like you to do is to select two , I told you I 'd be serious in the last part , the whole is here , is select the two pads you like best , please , and put one at the front of the binder and one at the back .
25 It can be no accident that the opinion of the police officer is now sought on matters which once would have remained the province of the archbishop and his clergy .
26 In ancient Greek myth Harlequin made his first appearance as Hermes ( or Mercury ) , the messenger of the gods and himself the god of all animals and travellers .
27 Few books can have captured so powerfully and quickly the imagination and appealed to the religious yearnings of a gullible public than Chariots of the Gods and its successors .
28 It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem .
29 In 1312 Clement V sent his vice-chancellor of the Curia and his chamberlain to resolve the conflict over Gaveston ; in 1316–17 another mission was involved with the realignment of parties ; and in 1326 the pope gave his backing to the queen only after his envoys had failed to achieve an Anglo-French peace between Charles IV and Edward II .
30 They were always changing them to try and balance up the take I suppose , on each , each leg of the route and there was always was the chief clerk then and him and I got on very well together and he really initiated me into running times .
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