Example sentences of "of [noun prp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The office of Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests , created in the eighteenth century , has been discontinued , but ‘ Deputy Surveyors ’ manage the New Forest and the Forest of Dean for the Forestry Commissioners . |
| 2 | The Severn had the longest uninterrupted stretch , and its 20- to 80-ton open barges carried down coal from Shropshire and salt from Droitwich , as well as agricultural produce , and brought up iron from the Forest of Dean for the Midlands metal makers , and a whole range of goods and groceries from Bristol . |
| 3 | A wild boar forages for food in its natural habitat ; something not seen in the Forest of Dean for 500 years . |
| 4 | I returned from that first Manhattan holiday aglow with the pleasure of new friends acquired in New York 's radio circles , and , of course , a large autographed photo of Jessica for Fred Workman . |
| 5 | BCRS wish to thank Mr Graham Vincent of Wolverhampton for the donation to the Society of 6 photographs of stations on the BCR , taken in 1942 . |
| 6 | Architects for the conversion were Cecil Denny Highton and Partners and the work was carried out in two phases , the contractors for the first being Newman and Kerry of Aldershot , and J. Edwards and Sons of Waterlooville for the second . |
| 7 | Mark Richards , a walker and a close friend of Wainwright for 20 years , thinks that the author would be turning in his grave . |
| 8 | That is when ‘ Taw Valley ’ will head out of Waterloo for Salisbury at 4pm . |
| 9 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
| 10 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 11 | Left panel : Nuclei from K562 cells were isolated and treated with 20µg/ml of DNaseI for increasing lengths of time ( t ) from 0 to 20 minutes at 37 ( indicated by a gradient above each panel ) . |
| 12 | ‘ You did n't come out of Brighton for those two days ? ’ |
| 13 | Apart from the doctor and his wife and Giles Carnaby they were all people from the village who had not had an opportunity for a good look at the inside of Greystones for quite a while and were busy taking note . |
| 14 | Earlier this year , in my capacity as chairman of the Thirties Society , I asked Caithness 's successor , Virginia Bottomley , to reconsider English Heritage 's recommendation of Bankside for listing . |
| 15 | A PEDIGREE Charolais heifer has been donated by Harry and Jean Marguess of Muckamore for the ‘ Farm for Africa ’ project , part of an overall drive spearheaded by Magheralin Parish Church to buy a 100-acre farm in Uganda and stock and equip it . |
| 16 | And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore . |
| 17 | So I needed no more prompting than a letter from Sean Constable of Runcorn for me to choose Marcus Miller on Sanborn 's Hey for this month 's analysis ( enjoy your Elites , Sean ) . |
| 18 | Bonaventure with a cheque for £8,000 , which had been raised over the years by the people of Hemlington for their centre . |
| 19 | Woods et al ( 1976 ) suggest the use of ATNs for semantic analysis . |
| 20 | He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) . |
| 21 | In 1631 Aylesbury encouraged Warner to edit and publish Harriot 's treatise on algebra , the Artis Analyticae Praxis , and wrote on his behalf to the ninth Earl of Northumberland for a reimbursal of expenses . |
| 22 | The political overtones to this imbroglio reflected the need of King Stephen [ q.v. ] to control the northern sees during the civil war , for David , king of Scots [ q.v. ] , the ally of the Empress Matilda [ q.v. ] , reinforcing his acquisitions in England north of Tyne , had in 1139 secured the earldom of Northumberland for his son Henry . |
| 23 | He evidently also wrote to the earl of Northumberland for the same purpose since the earl was raising men in the East Riding on 16 June ( the day after the duke 's letter reached York ) . |
| 24 | At the same laboratory , Dr Clayton Williams and colleagues have developed a type of AFM for measuring the distribution of atoms of a ‘ dopant ’ in semiconductors . |
| 25 | No Minor County came close to upsetting first-class opposition , so we are left congratulating Graham Morris of Northumberland , Graeme Calway of Dorset , Giles Toogood from Shropshire and Nick Adams of Cambridgeshire for their Man of the Match awards . |
| 26 | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia visited Baghdad at the end of March for the first visit by a Saudi monarch since Iraq 's Baathist revolution of 1968 . |
| 27 | Stuart is having a social event on the eleventh of March for the media and the police , I 'll circulate this round with a er slip on it , erm it involves a conducted tour of the police station and some bits and bobs |
| 28 | He is incredulous when she says that some people might think better of Jason for confessing his fear . |
| 29 | Surely no one could think better of Jason for the quoted remarks ? |
| 30 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |