Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] of [noun] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the Treasury has offered an ex gratia payment of £580 to Ms Anouschka Zagorski , studying law at King 's College , London , to reimburse the cost of her fees for the last academic year . |
| 2 | Remember how our peasant woman made her way painstakingly on foot , then by boat and cart to the uezd centre of Roslavl' in Belorussia . |
| 3 | They signed an agreement for closer co-operation on economic , technological and research activities , providing for the establishment of joint ventures and the opening of a US$3,000,000 line of credit to Bulgaria . |
| 4 | Tony is er Professor of Economics at Cambridge and is a world renowned luminary in economic circles and er he 's , he 's here for the next week as a special professor and er is giving a number of lectures er most of which are open to , to all , to all students and he is a very famous economist , very clever chap you know if you can get to see him I , I 'd reco I 'd recommend it erm presuma there may be a sort of programme of his visit stuck up on the student notice boards erm , if there is n't er he 's giving a , a lecture tomorrow two o'clock in B seventy four and that 's , that 's if , he is going to be talking to the M A students er taking Economic Development and Policy Analysis and his topic there is comparing income inequality and poverty in Europe erm so if you , you know , if you are free tomorrow at two it just might be interesting to go along to , feel free to go to B seventy four tomorrow at two o'clock . |
| 5 | Now of course er we 've sold the er chain of chemists in Canada who might have sold bottles of aspirin but , before we sold the chain , there was another enormous quantity of bottles of aspirin which was n't defined , it was something which was introduced after , long after we defined what we meant by outputs of aspirin . |
| 6 | Right then , all comments on the second , I know we 've got any other business coming up , but I mean Ken 's offered a sort of er word of praise for Tracy , anyone bursting to say something about the secretary 's report . |
| 7 | And sometimes used to get a bit of a a bad storm ahead so we used to especially if you went from here to er North of Scotland round Cape . |
| 8 | The pledge brings total EC food aid to Ethiopia to 175,000 tonnes , after a 30,000-tonne gift of cereals in November , officials said . |
| 9 | The pledge brings total EC food aid to Ethiopia to 175,000 tonnes , after a 30,000-tonne gift of cereals in November , officials said . |
| 10 | The relative scarcity of ethnographic descriptions of peaceful societies has resulted in focusing a good deal of interest on those that do exist : Colin Turnbull 's description of the Ituri Forest Pygmies ( 1961 ) , Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ' characterization of the ‘ harmless people ’ , the Kalahari Bushmen ( 1958 ) , Robert Dentan 's description of the Semai as ‘ non-violent people of Malaya ’ ( 1968 ) , Robert Levy 's ethnography of the Tahitians ( 1973 ) , Jean Briggs ' descriptions of the Inuit ( 1970 , 1975 ) , and Melford Spiro 's accounts of life on Ifaluk ( 1950 , 1952 ) , being among the most notable . |
| 11 | She had been a member of the bank 's board of management since November 1991 and had worked at the bank for 30 years . |
| 12 | Joseph Farrell reports on the theatre company 's change of direction with Sophocles 's ‘ Antigone ’ |
| 13 | Thus instead of following the traditional linear progression of the allegory — a development towards contemplation based on Jacob 's union with Rachel after his marriage to Leah — Hilton is more interested in emphasising the coexistence of the two wives : In his reference to another facet of the story , that concerning Jacob 's change of name to Israel , allegorised as a man seeing God , Hilton does suggest a progression in contemplation for his pupil saying that he will become Israel , that is , fully contemplative , in the next world , certainly , and possibly even in this if his circumstances change so that he is relieved of worldly responsibility altogether . |
| 14 | In November 1985 he resigned from the government in protest at the signing that month of the Anglo-Irish Agreement [ see pp. 34070-73 ] , stating that he could not support the government 's change of policy on Northern Ireland , including " the involvement of a foreign power in a consultative role in the administration of the province " , which he claimed would prolong and not diminish " Ulster 's agony " [ see p. 34072 ] . |
| 15 | Ianthe said she would try to come , though it seemed as if Wednesdays in Lent were going to be almost too devotional with her uncle 's course of sermons at St Basil 's in the evenings . |
| 16 | Forced March To Freedom ( Ryerson Press , 100pp , illus , sbk , $12.95 ) by Robert Buckman is the Author 's story of PoWs of Stalag Luft III and their two forced marches across Germany in the final months of World War Two . |
| 17 | These wise tips come from John Clarke , and Pat 's sketches of ideas from Hugh Andrew should help you appreciate the wonders of sewing . |
| 18 | Richard held out his hand , and Merrill stood back a little , noting Luke 's flash of surprise at Richard 's West Country accent . |
| 19 | There was Razor McGloshan 's gang of bucks in Crown Street . |
| 20 | Europe 's experience of collaboration with Japan has not been easy . |
| 21 | SIR — There are special reasons for keeping Audubon 's Birds of America in Edinburgh ( Peterborough , April 1 ) . |
| 22 | In 764 Heahberht , who had witnessed Sigered 's grant of land to Rochester in 762 , appears as king of Kent in the company of Offa and members of the Mercian nobility in Canterbury when Offa granted land to the bishop of Rochester in Kent in his own name ( CS 195 : S 105 ) , the first occasion on which a Mercian king is known to have done so , and the same land which had only recently been granted to Rochester by Sigered and Eanmund . |
| 23 | Together with Caedwalla 's grant of land in Battersea in Surrey , also to the monastery of Barking ( CS 87 : S 1246 ) , it constitutes the first sign of an extension of western Saxon influence north of the Thames and an indication of potential development . |
| 24 | In 756 Cynewulf was able to seize the kingdom from Sigeberht , confining him to the region of Hampshire where a swineherd slew him at Privett ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) ; but he was obliged in 756–7 to witness Aethelbald 's grant of land in Wiltshire to Abbot Eanberht ( CS 181 : S 96 ) . |
| 25 | For example , Sulmac , the Kenyan subsidiary of Unilever , controls about one third of Kenya 's exports of carnations to Europe and has limited its integration to combining cultivation with warehousing and agency operations in the buying markets . |
| 26 | Only this holy housework enables her to break the chaplain 's privilege of closeness to Jesus . |
| 27 | 15 — 479 BC — whom there is no special reason to write off as an anachronism by the historian ) and the league was never dissolved in the fifth , despite the disgrace and demoralization caused by Theban medism in the Persian Wars , and despite a decade 's loss of independence to Athens , in Boiotia as a whole , between 457 and 446 . |
| 28 | Among the 50 or so battlefields to choose from are : Wellington 's defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo , the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign , the cowboys and Indians of America 's Wild West , and the Battle of the Somme . |
| 29 | After dropping four World Cup points in three games , concluding with last week 's 2–0 defeat in Norway , and then the embarrassment of losing in Boston , Millichip suggested he had over-ruled last week 's vote of confidence by Peter Swales , chairman of the FA international committee . |
| 30 | He has , however , also latched on to granny elephant 's words of approval to Mrs Large : ‘ You look like a film star . ’ |