Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked the Queen to appoint an Archbishop of York without first asking the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 2 | The latter seemed to hold the view that , if there had to be an Archbishop of Canterbury at all , it were best that he should be a socialist . |
| 3 | Ramsey was sure that this was a first in history ; the settlement of the choice of an Archbishop of Canterbury by telephone . |
| 4 | But we can not exclude an effect of ACE on the metabolism of other peptides in view of its wide substrate specificity , nor can we exclude the possibility that a variant of another gene , closely linked to the ACE gene , causes the observed association . |
| 5 | Assuming that the Commission makes recommendations acceptable to the Government , then there will not necessarily be a delay before the legislation is introduced as it is accepted that sentencing bargaining can be introduced in England and Wales simply by a Practice Direction from the Lord Chief Justice , or in Scotland by an Act of Adjournal in the High Court by the Lord Justice General . |
| 6 | An evening of Clairvoyance with International Medium DAVID YOUNG |
| 7 | An evening of Sevillana by one of Spain 's leading groups of singers and dancers . |
| 8 | IBM 's FULL-FUNCTION CICS/2 FOR OS/2 2.0 HERALDS AN ERA OF CICS WITH EVERYTHING |
| 9 | The most famous example is the burial of the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy by an eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 . |
| 10 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 11 | Clearly we are meant by the storyteller to understand the long trumpet blast on the seventh day of the siege of Jericho as heralding an appearance of God to his people rivalling the great theophany of Sinai . |
| 12 | Occasionally whole books were copper-engraved , the most notable example , probably , being an edition of Horace by John Pine ( 1690–1756 ) , which gave an effect of fine precision but was ruinously expensive , since the text was first typeset , then an impression on paper was transferred to copper , on which the engraver exercised his skill . |
| 13 | An editorial committee has been formed to continue this project , and it has appointed Dr Malcolm editor of the next volumes in the series : an edition of Leviathan in both its original texts ( English and Latin ) , and what will be the first collected edition of Hobbes ' correspondence . |
| 14 | Of much greater importance was Philip 's support for David II of Scotland and Edward 's fear that Philip might launch an invasion of England on behalf of his Scottish ally . |
| 15 | Isabella and Mortimer began to plan an invasion of England in July 1326 and the Count of Hainault placed shipping and men at their disposal . |
| 16 | In 1759 the French were known to be preparing an invasion of Scotland in which French forces would sail and rouse any remaining Stuart rebels . |
| 17 | Although the conflict was perceived in the West as being an invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union , the prime treaty commitment is in the Agreement between Afghanistan and Pakistan on the Principle of Mutual Relations in Particular of Non-Interference and Non-Intervention . |
| 18 | This does not prove that there is an excess of DVT in the treated patients , but it raises a justifiable concern . |
| 19 | On late Saturday afternoons , at the corner the kerb is covered with men who stand with their backs to the light , intently reading in a pink newspaper full of poetical reporting and results ‘ noted an observer of Glasgow in 1901 . |
| 20 | Maynard Keynes wrote an obituary of Frank in his Essays in Bio- graphy ( 1933 ) , pp. |
| 21 | In 1939 , for instance , in an obituary of Ford for The Nineteenth Century and After , he had written of ‘ the stilted language that then passed for ‘ good English ’ in the arthritic milieu that held control of the respected British critical circles , Newbolt , the backwash of Lionel Johnson , Fred Manning , the Quarterlies and the rest of ‘ em ’ . |
| 22 | This year , for example , the Pushkin Museum is intending to organise a number of important exhibitions : the first show of Botero 's works to be held in Russia , and an exhibition of Kandinsky in Italy . |
| 23 | An example of LTP in the perforant pathway recorded in vivo . |
| 24 | There is a possibility that Aethelred was seeking to make an example of Eardwulf in Eardwulf 's own territory and that the attempted assassination was frustrated by Eardwulf 's supporters . |
| 25 | MacCormac has designed only one private house , a low glass and wood structure in Blackheath , an area of London with some startlingly good modern buildings . |
| 26 | It was a startling picture of two sides of a coin — a lively launch of an area of SNH by pleasant and caring people , and the inheritance of a mess created by the lack of knowledge and concern of past generations . |
| 27 | The falls are at Neuhausen , an extension of Schaffhausen to the south , rather than a suburb of it . |
| 28 | He detected an inscription of Kleomenes on the figure 's clothing , obscured by a dense network of incisions . |
| 29 | In 1638 he became an alderman of Shrewsbury under its new royal charter . |
| 30 | An alderman of Leeds in 1858–68 , he was mayor in 1860–1 , as well as being a magistrate for Leeds borough and for the West Riding of Yorkshire . |