Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] of the " in BNC.
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| 31 | For the opening years of the sixth decade ‘ R&B was King ’ — thanks , not least , to the popularity it had enjoyed among the troops . |
| 32 | RICHARD ECKERSALL is responsible for the trading activities of the subsidiaries SAI and BAI . |
| 33 | You will , by now , have had the experience of making at least two sleeves , so the pair for the handle ends of the lines can be made up' in the field' quite easily with just that wire needle and a box of matches to hand . |
| 34 | In northern Ontario , railways that had originally been designed as ‘ colonization roads ’ to link any pioneering agricultural communities and to increase settlement in the ‘ clay belt ’ had become instead ‘ prospecting roads ’ in the remarkable scramble for the mineral riches of the area which developed in Edwardian times . |
| 35 | Instead , green campaigners want to see old industrial land used for the housing estates of the future . |
| 36 | Although the Bois became notorious as the place where the respectable of society met the less respectable , it was nevertheless , in some sense , an extension of the Court itself , for the carriage outings of the Emperor and the Empress formed part of the spectacle : |
| 37 | This is Salisbury Plain , but for the fighting men of the Glosters , it could be any trouble spot , anywhere in the world . |
| 38 | The plan was leaked to the New York Times yesterday , in time for the strategy hearings of the Senate Armed Services Committee , and the hearings on possible defence cuts before the Senate Budget Committee . |
| 39 | Pattern for the side vents of the 1895 coat , which unbuttoned to allow use of the sword belt . |
| 40 | A similar case was previously made for the source regions of the Cameroon line c.o.b .. |
| 41 | It was important for the demonstration aspects of the initiative to have it geographically dispersed in order to get the message across that community care maybe can work but also has its problems . |
| 42 | Money surviving these payouts would be available to Höchstetter and his partners for the running costs of the works . |
| 43 | Brazilian medical schools have little commitment to training doctors for the health needs of the community as most will become specialists . |
| 44 | The following statement is the conclusion of a report drawn up for the debenture holders of the Bishop 's Castle Railway by Mr. Fraser , now the auditor of the Cambrian , in which he shows that it would pay to make this line independently of any other . |
| 45 | Ballesteros should provide some badly needed colour , not least for the television sets of the patrons in Japan . |
| 46 | In particular , see current programme , a volunteer ( or two ) is required for the morning sessions of the 27th June 1981 . |
| 47 | Except for the rock follies of The Royal Standard and the Daniel O'Donnell-welcoming confines of the Assembly Halls , Walthamstow is as rich in artistic merit as the Arctic is in elephants . |
| 48 | A GIS gives the user complete freedom to combine , overlay and analyse data from many different sources , regardless of scale , accuracy , resolution and quality of the original map documents and without any regard for the accuracy characteristics of the data themselves . |
| 49 | IT IS again the week when the world 's finance ministers and central bankers flock to Washington for the spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 50 | The price to pay for picking up the public asset should be respect for the pension rights of the public company employees . |
| 51 | It proved a splendid medium for the copy books of the writing masters , such as George Bickham , whose best known book , The Universal Penman , is an expensive item . |
| 52 | Good news on the ice : the Swindon Wildcats and Milton Keynes Kings have both qualified for the knockout stages of the Autumn Trophy . |
| 53 | Queen Anne 's time had been the " golden period " for the serge weavers of the Exeter region . |
| 54 | Old school is a back-to-basics reaction to the sportswear industry 's increasing reliance on pink and pastel , splash and spray , an apparent brainstorm which has forced people who have no desire to look like an explosion in a paint factory to search in discount stores and back-of-beyond sports shops for the design classics of the recent past — nylon Adidas track tops with the simple three-stripe design on each arm , or a pair of shell-toed trainers . |
| 55 | Even during the recession years of the early 1980s , the rate of net outward migration from Greater London to the rest of the South East never fell below 40 000 a year and with the subsequent economic recovery it had risen to 65 000 by 1986–87 ( Champion and Congdon , 1988 ) . |
| 56 | Young men who could easily find work in the East Anglian villages during the peak periods of the farming year — haysel and corn harvest — were dismissed by farmers after the harvest , and often spent the whole winter hanging about without work and without any form of subsistence except the parish or the charity of their family . |
| 57 | The seminar was very well attended and the discussion provided useful comment that will be taken into account during the drafting stages of the report . |
| 58 | During the détente years of the 1970s when the USSR appeared as a revisionist power in the Third World its interest in neutralisation slackened . |
| 59 | A number of his contemporaries , however , willingly gave up their wealth during the opening decades of the fifth century . |
| 60 | He was said to have had a family in Belgium at one point , known Janke Adler , met Gauguin in a park , scribbled all over the statues at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts when a student in Paris , and lost all his money when the Japanese had the bad taste to conquer his rubber plantations sometime during the confused struggle for Manchuria during the opening stages of the last big one . |