Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means we can find all efficient solutions of VMP by solving the parametric programming problem LP ( 1 , θ ) for θ > 0 , using the procedures of Chapter 6 . |
| 2 | Brigadier Graham Hollands thanked the Duchess of York for honouring the Championships with her presence . |
| 3 | Two armed men held a gun to his head and made him drive the bomb to the heart of Westminster after hiring the cab at his office . |
| 4 | The Edinburgh Military Tattoo gratefully acknowledges the support of Glayva in mounting the 1992 Tattoo |
| 5 | He returned later to Serbia , and hoped then to secure the support of Miloš by writing a biography of the ruler . |
| 6 | Officers of merchant ships were particularly vulnerable if they did not have in their possession a written protection from impressment issued by the Admiralty , and David Scott was enabled to oblige both Provost Watt of Forfar and several influential merchants of Dundee by securing the freedom of Peter Brown , the mate of the ship John and Nancy of Dundee , though in this case the Dundee magistrates had to provide an able seaman as a replacement for Brown before he was freed from the pressing tender . |
| 7 | Many thanks to Janet Brown and her band of helpers from the Sutton , Epsom , Malden areas of Surrey for providing a lovely tea for us on 3rd April . |
| 8 | You have heard in response to a direct question put by yourself to an expert for North Yorkshire County Council , that he regarded the village of Flaxton as making a contribution to the historic setting of York , that it had a greenbelt function . |
| 9 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 10 | Water experts are blaming a decade of extensive development in the south of England for worsening the current drought . |
| 11 | At the same laboratory , Dr Clayton Williams and colleagues have developed a type of AFM for measuring the distribution of atoms of a ‘ dopant ’ in semiconductors . |
| 12 | Since there is no appeal against the opinion of the Commission , these findings do appear to exhaust the scope of this particular policy-changing strategy for the time being , though given the interest shown by the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in extending the right of conscientious objection , a change in the provisions of the Convention itself can not be entirely ruled out . |
| 13 | He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household . |
| 14 | It is impossible to understand the New Testament and the teachings of Jesus without understanding the Old Testament . |
| 15 | We have discussed the importance of Weber in understanding the workings of bureaucratic organisations . |
| 16 | Osborne , who is Professor of Music at Edinburgh University , conceived this imaginative and daring project ‘ to draw attention to the courage of musicians and the artistic community of Sarajevo by offering the solidarity and support of musicians throughout the world ’ . |
| 17 | Criticism of Cossiga for heading the movement for constitutional reform in favour of an executive presidency had come not just from the opposition Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS-formerly the Communist Party ) but also from within the Christian Democratic ( DC ) party , notably from former Interior Minister Oscar Luigi Scalfaro , and from Ettore Gallo , who had retired as President of the Constitutional Court in July . |
| 18 | His criticism of Lévy-Bruhl for overstressing the distance between the savage and the modern mind shows that for Eliot the two were linked , but Lévy-Bruhl 's stress on the different , apparently unreasonable nature of the savage leads to the modern Sweeney whose world is far removed from the sweet reason of Emerson . |
| 19 | I need say no more , except to underline the naivety of those who are prepared to champion the humanism of Marx in his attack on capitalism without recognising the inhumanism of Marx in proposing the socialist solution . |
| 20 | We will end the scandal of poverty pay and bring Britain into line with the rest of Europe by introducing a statutory minimum wage of £3.40 an hour . |
| 21 | In his life of Richard III Thomas More noted how The Duke of Buckingham in offering the crown to Richard in 1484 at Baynard 's Castle assumed a role in a staged presentation in which Richard feigned reluctance in accepting the offer of kingship . |
| 22 | To wind up the proceedings Commandant Vonla McBride , a member of the RNLI 's Committee of Management , proposed a vote of thanks to his Royal Highness The Duke of Kent for attending the meeting and for presenting the awards . |
| 23 | So , you know , tears went out to her , but I 'd also like to thank everybody at Audi who helped me , and also his Grace , the Duke of Marlborough for letting the event take place . |
| 24 | Although his death allegedly prevented the Duke of Northumberland from founding an anti-alien party , there were distinct links between the more extreme fringes of the Die-hard revolt and the emergence of British fascism . |
| 25 | Matthias ' aim , apart from regulating the internal affairs of Hungary by subduing the powers of chronically feuding magnates , was to create a Danubian empire strong enough to withstand the Turkish assault . |
| 26 | The United States aimed to prevent the Russians from occupying the whole of Korea through reaching a diplomatic agreement with Moscow to restrict Soviet occupation to the northern part of the peninsula . |
| 27 | The USA responded to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait by mobilizing the largest demonstration of US overseas military power since the Vietnam war . |
| 28 | This area , named Albert Basin , allowed vessels to clear the effects of the current in the Water of Leith before entering the lock . |
| 29 | Surely we should follow the example of Jesus in confronting the woman taken in adultery , who was about to be stoned . |
| 30 | Devolution may in due course come to Northern Ireland , but before it arrives do not the Government have it in their power , at a stroke , to restore some degree of democracy to the people of Ulster by establishing a Select Committee ? |