Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 2 | John was capable of laughing at himself in respect of attempts at beautification . |
| 3 | One Stasi officer shot himself in front of intruders in the southern town of Suhl . |
| 4 | Well it is because that actually does , with the pie chart , lead you into sort of chunks of work area |
| 5 | Why are you in charge of clinics in both places ? ’ |
| 6 | Power is not something that is possessed such as blue eyes or red hair but manifests itself in terms of relations with others . |
| 7 | The idea of Wendy 's tailoring enterprise in making a violently checked blanket-coat puts one in mind of escape-committees in German P.O.W. camps making enemy uniforms out of British battle-dress or bedding . |
| 8 | But they put me in mind of trees in November . |
| 9 | Northwich , Middlewich and Nantwich , as well as Droitwich in Hereford and Worcester , were all known to the Romans for their salt deposits , and several ancient routes across Britain are known as ‘ salt ways ’ because salt was carried on them in trains of packhorses to the far corners of the kingdom . |
| 10 | They liked me because I told them dirty jokes , made good after-dinner speeches , did a reasonable job for them in terms of links with government and that kind of thing , and had a bit of class . |
| 11 | As political conditions in China became increasingly chaotic in the decade after World War I Aglen found his responsibilities becoming not only more onerous , but also more difficult to carry out without coming into conflict with one or other of the Chinese factions making demands upon him as custodian of revenues of which he was in sole charge . |
| 12 | Endill tried to cheer him up , tempting him with games of marbles underneath History class or journeys into the corridors . |
| 13 | The inquisition post mortem held after his death shows him in possession of lands worth over £60 a year . |
| 14 | His will , made on 30 November 1679 and proved on 1 April 1680 , shows him in possession of lands in Essex and Ireland ; it made modest but adequate provision for his wife Martha , daughter of John Ireland of Hale in Lancashire , and for a son and three daughters . |
| 15 | His personal troubles sent him in search of analysts for both himself and his wife , sometimes with disastrous consequences . |
| 16 | A corresponding duty is imposed on him in respect of lettings of offices and shops ( Offices , Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 , ss9(1) , 42(6) , 43(4) ) . |
| 17 | Sites ' demonstration takes a simple piece of Mandlebrot-plotting code written for the Intel machine and runs it in variety of ways on the Alpha machine . |
| 18 | But it is much more useful to explain it in terms of interactions between pistons , cylinders and sparking plugs . |
| 19 | Yeah yeah certainly , erm I think that 's er that 's good , well if , if you can , if you can access it er in some way informally or , or , you know , it 's probably un unlikely that you 'd get too much stuff in writing as you say but , you know , er it could be very er productive and interesting erm tt erm can that sort of thing , particularly if you can get it in terms of quotes from people , you can sort of , you know , make a project look quite nice because it looks like if you do all this , you know , sort of stuff with the attitude scales it , it 's er it gives you lots of nice numerical data but er |
| 20 | In the remaining weeks he refined the calibration of the detector by exposing it to beams of neutrons of known energy , produced by a van de Graaff accelerator . |
| 21 | He attacked her and threw her to the ground before turned his attention to the pub , picking up pool balls and throwing them at bottles of spirits behind the bar . |
| 22 | We 're not gon na get into anything about chairmanship of meetings on this course , there is a meeting 's course that does that so I do n't want to promise you something that I 'm not gon na I 'm not gon na be able to deliver I know what you mean certainly in terms of timing of your presentation keeping t time with your presentation we 'll be looking at that and help you achieve that . |
| 23 | Tony in charge of services and communication , Simon in charge of policy and development , Richard in charge of resource development , and although it 's not on the script and she said I must n't to the script , I ought to mention also Samantha who has joined us as head of communications on whom , you may thank for all the sort of visuals that we 're having , and the bright idea of videoing er , our Chairman . |
| 24 | Erm , if I could say that , we show you lots and lots of photographs of bits of squashed metal , that does n't actually mean very much , and I think Mr more than anybody round here will with that . |
| 25 | Expect to see lots of pictures of Batts in the blackburn strip tomorrow . |