Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years , the Tory Government has gone on about freedom of choice in education but it has only been those with money who have had any real choice . |
| 2 | Apart from short leases , it has long been the practice for business tenancies to provide expressly for insurance of premises against fire and other damage . |
| 3 | Ferguson stressed that the American actions need not be interpreted as aggressive but rather as part of defence against a possible Soviet offensive . |
| 4 | Copper was found in Crete itself , especially in the Asterousi mountains bordering the Mesara plain , and some may have come from Chrysokamino , near the coast east of Pachyammos , but the demand for metal artefacts is likely to have been high enough for imports of copper to be necessary . |
| 5 | Our circulation had risen to 30,000 , enough for economies of scale in printing to become effective . |
| 6 | This is , of course , not a question only for teachers of children from ethnic minority groups , and is particularly relevant when considering all aspects of underachievement . |
| 7 | In the event of the hiring being terminated , the hirer would be liable only for arrears of rent in respect of the period prior to the termination . |
| 8 | They are set down again below for ease of reference in relation to the VOR . |
| 9 | Already by the time of Mortmain , however , the problem was less about donations of land to the religious houses than the purchase of land by them , but this too was curtailed more by monastic poverty than by statute ; in fact the king not long after this had to ban houses of which he was patron from selling their endowments . |
| 10 | Lee Teng-hui , chairman of the ruling Kuomintang party ( KMT ) , was sworn in as President of Taiwan at a ceremony in Taipei , the capital , on May 20 , having been chosen by the country 's electoral college in March [ see pp. 37318-19 ] . |
| 11 | On July 1 Gopal Singh was sworn in as Governor of Nagaland after the transfer of Gen. ( retd ) K. V. Krishna Rao to Jammu and Kashmir [ see above ] . |
| 12 | She said that it was a time for prayer and especially for prayers of protection against evil of any kind and , sending for her holy book , quoted me the following passage : |
| 13 | Until recently it was assumed that they all persisted as adults , but is has now been shown that the chilling of infective larvae before administration to calves will produce arrested L5 ; hypobiosis at this stage has also been observed in naturally infected calves in Switzerland , Austria and Canada , although the extent to which this occurs naturally after ingestion of larvae in late autumn and its significance in the transmission of the infection has not yet been fully established . |
| 14 | Johnson , in his periodic spring cleanings , had a habit of donning large gloves and lustily banging his books together amid clouds of dust before returning them to their shelves shaken and contused . |
| 15 | True egoism , as we have described it , is conceivable only under conditions of conflict in which only the pre-human ends remain . |
| 16 | As the Children Act waits , poised for implementation , it remains to speculate on how significant and successful it is likely to be : and it is tempting to do so with benefit of hindsight in the context of all the discarded child care legislation of the past forty years . |
| 17 | It was this legacy of coercive intent along with centuries of suspicion toward central administration which , perhaps , encouraged resistance to attempts to introduce a census in Britain until the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 18 | It was part of her prize — along with £1,000-worth of dresses for her four bridesmaids and another £1,000-worth of Young 's clothes hire for husband Paul Wrigley and his attendants . |
| 19 | Along with scores of authors of whom he had never heard he found forgotten friends : Hugh Walpole , John Galsworthy , and the redoubtable Mazo de la Roche , captivator of millions who would now be devotees of TV soap … |
| 20 | Proof of disqualification may be certificate of conviction or extract from the magistrates ' court register together with proof of identification of the defendant , e.g. by the police officer who was present in court when the defendant was disqualified . |
| 21 | The performance of these systems indicated that poor acoustic quality together with lack of top down constraint could cause the graph to grow rapidly , to be very ‘ wide ’ from the beginning of the utterance . |
| 22 | Going concern was one of the areas the Cadbury Committee considered , and it recommended that the accountancy profession , together with representatives of preparers of accounts , should develop guidance on the subject for both companies and auditors . |
| 23 | The employees ' contracts should clearly state the length of the assignment for which they have been engaged together with details of procedures for termination of employment — both on behalf of the employer and the employee . |
| 24 | Members receive a quarterly magazine together with details of discounts on various goods and services including holidays , entertainment and High Street purchases . |
| 25 | The certificate should indicate the name of the contract , contract number , name of sub-contractor , nature of work , the gross payment to date , previous payments and current payment for the period , together with details of deductions for such items as retention , insurance and CITB levy . |
| 26 | This was , of course , an extractive process partly dependent on the availability of suitable clay , together with supplies of wood for fuel and water ; but there is no consistent link between towns and the known production centres , and many kiln sites are unrelated to settlements of any size , such as those at Farnham ( Hants ) , the New Forest , Upchurch ( Kent ) and the extensive if dispersed area of kilns in the upper Nene valley between Duston and Irchester . |
| 27 | For example , there is a published catalogue of the books in the Florida State University " Shaw Childhood in Poetry collection " ; this catalogue lists books of poems relating to childhood , together with lists of poems in the books , and even representative poems from the books — making it a bit like a dictionary of quotations on the topic . |
| 28 | Unfortunately silting has reduced the depth of some broads , and this , coupled with increased nutrient levels from sewerage outfall , together with run-off of fertilisers from surrounding farmland , has reduced the aquatic life . |
| 29 | She was called upon , day after day , to sustain Mrs Browning in her awful anxiety and she did it willingly , dragging out from the furthermost corners of her memory evidence of Miss Henrietta s strength and fortitude together with examples of women of whom she had heard who had survived this disease . |
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