Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Start from the layby next to the Dundonnell River which is two and a half miles south of Dundonnell on the A832 .
2 It will be overseeing the installation of a small-scale hydro-electric generating scheme bringing heating and lighting to the village of Mango in the foothills of the Karakoram range .
3 I poured a slug of whisky into the glass .
4 The curse was only employed twice — once against the magistrate who fined my father £100 and took away his publican 's licence for receiving a stolen lorry load of whisky during the war .
5 He had an electric kettle , some lemons , a pot of honey and a bottle of whisky beside the bed , to make himself soothing drinks .
6 Hence the glass of whisky at the dispatch box rather than mineral water : A premature celebration ?
7 David Perry , 35 , of Buttermere Avenue , Orford , Gary Toony , 25 , of Kendal Avenue , Orford , and Steven Lea , 27 , of St David 's Drive , Callands , all Warrington , admitted the theft of cases of whisky at the town 's Crown Court .
8 An elderly man sat at a table beside an open fire , a large pint of beer and a small glass of whisky on the table , an alsatian stretched out asleep at his feet .
9 That is the equivalent of weighing a fully-laden oil supertanker so accurately that a contraband bottle of whisky in the captain 's cabin would register on the scales .
10 The hammer lock kept my head down , but I could see he was carrying a bottle of whisky by the neck .
11 The man sitting at the other end of the bench took a quarter-bottle of whisky from the pocket of his torn donkey-jacket , twisted off the gold tin top and took a swig .
12 That was a case in which the defendant took two bottles of whisky from the shelves and put them in her shopping bag .
13 ‘ Ah , yes , performance , ’ he murmured , taking another great gulp of whisky from the glass in his left hand , still holding her tightly with his right .
14 Black let out a sigh then produced a bottle of whisky from the bottom drawer of his desk .
15 He took the bottle of whisky from the dresser and poured himself a drink .
16 She picked up a barely touched bottle of whisky from the dining-room table , frowning faintly as she studied its label .
17 In Gloucestershire the average man in the vale , situated between the Cotswold Edge and the river Severn , was half as much again better off as in the Forest of Dean across the river ( see Table 2.2 ) .
18 Forest of Dean above the River Wye
19 Foreign dependants of the Court continued to be appointed to important Forest wardenships — such as Amaury de St Amand , Steward of the Household 1233–40 , who was also warden of the Forest of Dean during the greater part of that time , and Peter Chaceporc , the able Poitevin Keeper of the Wardrobe 1241–54 , who was appointed to the same wardenship in May 1248 .
20 Reading , by the early nineteenth century , was receiving coal from the Midlands via the Oxford Canal and from the Forest of Dean via the Kennet and Avon , but the main beneficiaries were the inland coalfields themselves and the areas adjacent to them .
21 As explained in Chapter 2 , from September 1981 a permanent Dean replaced an elected Head of Department in the role of Dean of the Modular Course .
22 It was on ‘ evidence ’ such as this that a Gloucestershire jury on 22 May 1300 reduced the Forest of Dean to the king 's demesne lands and woods .
23 With the Malvern Hill rising to the north ; the Wye Valley and rolling Herefordshire stretching to the Welsh borders to the west ; the secret Royal Forest of Dean to the South ; and the Severn Vale , Gloucester , Cheltenham and the Cotswolds to the east ; surely Newent must be the centre of England at its best .
24 The office of Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests , created in the eighteenth century , has been discontinued , but ‘ Deputy Surveyors ’ manage the New Forest and the Forest of Dean for the Forestry Commissioners .
25 The Severn had the longest uninterrupted stretch , and its 20- to 80-ton open barges carried down coal from Shropshire and salt from Droitwich , as well as agricultural produce , and brought up iron from the Forest of Dean for the Midlands metal makers , and a whole range of goods and groceries from Bristol .
26 if you think that was muddy … you ai n't seen nothing yet … because on Friday we 're off to the Forest of Dean with the Mad Dogs of Gloucestershire
27 At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks .
28 A major centre of Diktynna-worship in the classical period was the Diktynnaion , a great temple on a peninsula to the west of Kydonia .
29 The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial .
30 The animals are packed with sufficient food and a source of moisture for the complete journey allowing for possible delays .
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