Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] of [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not a man to belie the magnificent world for the credit of his craft . |
| 2 | For the implication of his theory of power is that if we break out of the regime of sexuality then power will play through a new series of discourses . |
| 3 | A non-confrontational policy designed to persuade drug cartel leaders to surrender in exchange for the banning of their extradition to stand trial in the USA had some success in Colombia [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37957-58 ; 38345 ] . |
| 4 | After being criticised by manager Mr Smith for the timing of his announcement , 24 hours before the Villa Park match , Beresford said : ‘ I do n't want to leave Pompey — in fact it 's quite the reverse . |
| 5 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 6 | The want felt for such an organization for the promotion of their intellectual , social , moral , temporal and spiritual welfare is very great ; there is a wide field of usefulness for the proposed union . |
| 7 | In that year he founded the Humanitarian League which became a channel for the promotion of his ideas . |
| 8 | Moreover the political parties would have to set up in every one of them the organization required for the preparation of their lists : an obligation they would be very unlikely to contemplate with enthusiasm . |
| 9 | Those sentenced to 13 years were Chen Zeming , a 37-year-old economist who had gone on hunger strike on Feb. 7 demanding more time for the preparation of his defence , and Wang Juntao , the 32-year-old editor of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly ( of which Chen had been the publisher ) . |
| 10 | In addition , rates have been increased for the minority of our policyholders who live in the larger cities because of the soaring number of thefts there . |
| 11 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 12 | Best-selling novelist ( Sin City , Penguin , £3.99 ) , poet , short story writer ( her story Hot Ice Cream first appeared in August SHE ) , Wendy is famous for the intensity of her prose and her frankness about sex and religion . |
| 13 | Both populations also competed for the prestige of their culture . |
| 14 | This important legal ruling that the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for the crimes they committed helped to ensure that another uneducated deaf woman was punished for the infanticide of her child . |
| 15 | Perrier 's first explanation for the contamination of its water was that a worker at its French plant had mistakenly used the wrong sort of cleaning fluid on bottling equipment . |
| 16 | There is a professionally qualified Staff of three in the Learning Support Department , , who has had many years of experience here at Heriot 's , both in the Junior School and in Learning Support ; ; who has more recently joined us after several years experience in Learning Support in other schools ; and who , as Head of Department and an experienced educational psychologist , is responsible for the assessment of our pupils and for the planning of their programmes within the Department . |
| 17 | Northern Telecom Ltd 's Greenwich , London-based STC Submarine Systems has added another award to its collection from 1977 , 1983 and 1990 , for the installation of its turnkey submarine telecommunications systems . |
| 18 | The front fastening of her bra fell apart beneath his light touch and her breasts spilled out , full and round , aching for the brush of his lips across their creamy slopes . |
| 19 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 20 | When the Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , addresses the Tory party conference this morning , he will know that despite the appearance of support from the lady at his side , it she who is almost single-handedly responsible for the undermining of his policy and his prestige . |
| 21 | It has been said that Lewis 's expressed distaste for the poetry of his contemporaries , such as MacNeice and Eliot , was based on jealousy . |
| 22 | Most of the calls for the abolition of our routines involving animals , particularly those appearing in the Press or the propaganda material issued by organisations like Animal Aid or the League Against Cruel Sports , ignore this basic logical point . |
| 23 | When Valuev became Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitrii Miliutin wrote that " The landowning party had every justification for counting on [ him ] for the realization of their views ' . |
| 24 | George Jones LABOUR GOOD : Labour 's campaign co-ordinator John Cunningham will take much of the credit for the projection of his party as putative government . |
| 25 | Thus , he pronounced against the rule that a man could not be liable for the rape of his concubine , stating that concubinage was evidence of consent , but no more than this since the woman could withdraw from cohabitation and thus withdraw her consent . |
| 26 | Although it is repeatedly said that at common law a man must keep his fire ‘ at his peril , ’ research shows that we can not be sure that at any period in the history of the common law a man was absolutely liable for the escape of his fire . |
| 27 | We would not be mentioning that event in these pages were it not for the misspelling of his name — something confused with a food mixer . |
| 28 | Our order book in the Middle East reflects the first-class reputation Wimpey has built over the years for the scope of its expertise and excellence of its workforce . |
| 29 | The bureau is interested in its sponsor 's demands as a basis for the formulation of its budget . |
| 30 | With a few exceptions particular examples of instruction programmes in individual libraries are rarely documented , and part of the reason for this is that special libraries themselves are not always entirely responsible for the education of their users . |