Example sentences of "of the house of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his first sea-voyage , as the ship lay in the harbour of Las Palomas on its way to Santa Barbara , he had woken to the sound of words in his ear perhaps inspired by the strange familiarity of the house of Los Xicales , glimpsed from the ship , perhaps indeed a prophecy that he would meet the girl of his memory in that very house . |
| 2 | The droveways and drainage ditches were clearly well maintained throughout and began to silt up only during the currency of late colour-coated wares and coins of the house of Valentinian . |
| 3 | As their search became more frantic they found themselves aided by Bismarck , who in February 1869 gave his support to a Prince belonging to the Catholic branch of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 4 | Here , however , lay the crux of the matter , for the King of Prussia and his government maintained that they had never been officially associated with Leopold , whose activities were purely personal , and that the King was concerned with the matter only as head of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 5 | A proposal for constitutional reform to allow a national plebiscite on the reintroduction of the death penalty in Brazil , for kidnappings , burglaries and rapes resulting in the victim 's death , was approved by a Congressional Commission of the House of Deputies in December 1990 . |
| 6 | The president of the House of Deputies of the Congress , Carlos Dupre , on Nov. 28 ordered an official investigation to verify the authenticity of a letter attributed to " various military chiefs " which called on former President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the C.-in-C. of the Armed Forces , to resign . |
| 7 | The showrooms of the House of Oliver were smaller and less grand than those at the House of Mattli but the décor was newer and fresher , pale grey drapes , ultra modern black furniture and a great deal of gleaming stainless steel . |
| 8 | You are likely to find that your memories of the house of childhood are split — into fear and security , fire and ice , harmony and conflict . |
| 9 | 1992 Medals of Honour were awarded to : Great Britain , for the restoration of the landscape and ornamental buildings of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Estate , Ripon ; Poland , for the restoration of the eighteenth-century wooden church of the Birth of Our Lady , Bralin ; Hungary , for the restoration and renewal of the old village of Magyarpolany ; Germany , for the restoration of the House of the Templars , Amorbach , with particular reference to its sixteenth-century interior decoration ; Finland , for the restoration of the House of Estates , Helsinki ; and Belgium , for the restoration and conversion into a cartoon museum of the Waucquez warehouse , originally designed by Victor Horta . |
| 10 | The Ten Commandments began : ‘ I am the Lord your God , who brought you out of the land of Egypt , out of the house of bondage . |
| 11 | I am the Lord your God , who led you out of the Land of Egypt , out of the house of bondage . |
| 12 | The initial idea of God as the one who led the people ‘ out of the house of bondage ’ , who freed the Israelite slaves from Egyptian control , develops into an idea of God as one who made the heavens and the earth . |
| 13 | The Mosaic Law underlines the fact that their whole social , religious and daily life must be governed by loyalty to that one God who brought them out of the land of Egypt , out of the house of bondage . |
| 14 | ALEXANDER emigrated to Cape Town where one of his grandsons became Speaker of the House of Assembly . |
| 15 | F. W. de Klerk was sworn in on Sept. 20 , 1989 , as the new executive President , chosen on Sept. 14 ( following elections on Sept. 6 to all three houses of the tricameral Parliament ) by an electoral college composed of 50 members of the House of Assembly , 25 members of the House of Representatives , and 13 from the House of Delegates [ see pp. 36880-81 ] . |
| 16 | Roelof F. Botha Foreign Affairs Gerrit van N. Viljoen Constitutional Development Gen. Magnus A. Malan Defence D. W. de Villiers Minerals and Energy , Public Enterprises ; Privatization Kobie ( H. J. ) Coetsee Justice , Chair of the Ministers Council of the House of Assembly Barend J. du Plessis Finance Adriaan J. Vlok Law and Order Gert J. Kotze Environment and Water Affairs Kent D. S. Durr Trade and Industry , Tourism Jacob de Villiers Agriculture Gene Louw Home Affairs ; National Education Eli van der M. Louw Manpower W. J. de Villiers Administration and Economic Co-ordination George S. Bartlett Public Works and Land Affairs , Transport E. H. ( Rina ) Venter National Health and Population Development C. J. van der Merwe Education and Development Aid Hernus J. Kriel Planning and Provincial Affairs |
| 17 | The proposed amendments also made provision for the appointment of a Deputy Governor who would replace the Permanent Secretary for Finance as a member of the Executive Council and of the House of Assembly . |
| 18 | Philip Greaves , had the portfolios of Public Works and Communications added to his existing responsibilities ; he was also Leader of the House of Assembly Warwick Franklin had hitherto been Agriculture Minister , where his tenure had been a controversial one . |
| 19 | The President is chosen by an electoral college composed of 50 members of the House of Assembly , 25 members of the House of Representatives and 13 from the House of Delegates [ see pp. 36880-81 ] . |
| 20 | In the March 1990 general election ZANU-PF won 116 of the House of Assembly 's elective seats and Mugabe was re-elected for another term as President . |
| 21 | Monty Maule was elected Speaker of the House of Assembly at the start on June 3 of its new session . |
| 22 | His chief rival , Roniti Teiwaki , an independent member of the House of Assembly for South Tarawa , polled 41.9 per cent , with the remainder of the vote being shared by Beniamina Tinga and Boanareke Boanareke . |
| 23 | On Aug. 26 , members of the House of Assembly belonging to the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union — Patriotic Front ( ZANU-PF ) refused to approve the budget for the newly created Ministry of National Affairs , Employment Creation and Co-operatives headed by Didymus Mutasa . |
| 24 | The Free National Movement ( FNM ) government of Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham , elected on Aug. 19 [ see p. 39046 ] , presented its programme to the opening session of the House of Assembly on Sept. 3 . |
| 25 | Jagan , 75 , once a hardline Stalinist , had first led the PPP to an election victory in 1953 , in the pre-independence period , but had been dismissed as Leader of the House of Assembly , when the UK government suspended the Constitution in the face of perceived " communist subversion " [ see pp. 13152 ; 13177 ; 13239 ; 13523 ] . |
| 26 | The dualistic ambience in literature has long been influential , but has remained controversial , and it is both influential and controversial in these annals of the House of Roth . |
| 27 | 4:23 , Mark 1:34 ) When he was about to commission his twelve disciples , he said , ‘ Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel , and preach as you go , saying ‘ the Kingdom of Heaven is near'' ’ . |
| 28 | Ferdinand , as he was originally named , was of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Napoleon III may well have felt that this candidacy would be pleasing to England and that it would at a personal level strengthen his ties with the English Royal House . |
| 29 | Between 1676 and 1685 Bauthumley was keeper of the house of correction , administering relief to the poor in Leicester on behalf of the corporation . |
| 30 | The books seemed never to cease , from Burgundy Vines and Wines and a history of the house of Krug , to Fred , the story of Freddie Trueman , and , together with Sir Neville Cardus , The Noblest Game . |