Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] of [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Eastern District submitted a motion to the March 1960 National Conference at Brighton , calling on the government ‘ forthwith to increase its normal rate of grant-in-aid of voluntary Providing Bodies from 75% to 90% ’ . |
| 2 | In education , the period between the remarkably inexplicit 1944 Education Act ( based on the social consensus of wartime ) through the closer definitions of circular 10/65 and subsequent legislation in the 1970s and 80s , to the book-length ERA and its accompanying barrage of programmes of study etc , presents , among other things , an historical progression from implicit to explicit . |
| 3 | He has raised the reputation of the Chelsea Garden so much that it excels all the gardens of Europe for its amazing variety of plants of all orders and classes and from all climates , as I survey with wonder and delight , this 19th July , 1764 . |
| 4 | The report stated , however , that some problems needed to be solved , principally that of lack of encouragement of cadres and individuals to exercise their democratic right of freedom of expression . |
| 5 | He criticised the MPs for ‘ their absolute lack of understanding of the conflict here ’ but said he would be willing to meet them to discuss the letter and other issues . |
| 6 | This clarification was particularly needed in common law countries , such as Great Britain , because of their procedural requirement of privity of contract . |
| 7 | As it happened all his discoveries went against the Peripatetic views , and as he advanced so the attacks on him grew , largely because the lesser ones among opponents saw their cosy lives of repetitions of dogma in danger . |
| 8 | I remember listening , fascinated , to her enormous fund of stories of the old times in Jamaica , of my grandad , whom I never knew , and of the ‘ white folks ’ . |
| 9 | The present Teacher Placement Service structure became operational during 1989 and began to translate its bold target of 10% of teachers receiving industrial placements each year into a reality . |
| 10 | The Hanoverians of the early eighteenth century diluted their grip on power both by their frequent absences from executive meetings and by their occasional lack of command of the nation 's language when they did attend . |
| 11 | But she had to , to establish her self-chosen role of leader of men . |
| 12 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
| 13 | This final ignorance is anticipated by an innocence in the merchant that takes the form of his persistent lack of awareness of the loaded nature of particular forms of language use , of double meanings and innuendo . |
| 14 | The last , the real architect of the Government , accepted tenth place in his old post of Minister of Health . |
| 15 | Given his detailed control of programmes of study and attainment targets it is difficult to envisage credible examinations that would not reflect these . |
| 16 | Samir Geaga , head of the ( Christian ) Lebanese Forces militia , resigned formally on March 20 his nominal post of Minister of State in the government of national unity , which he had boycotted since its formation in December on the grounds that it was too pro-Syrian . |
| 17 | David Mellor was appointed Minister of State at the Privy Council Office with responsibility for the arts ; Angela Rumbold took over his previous post of Minister of State at the Home Office and was replaced as Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science by Timothy Eggar . |
| 18 | His famous series of posters of the distraught zookeeper and his mischievous animals carried the line — My Goodness , — My Guinness — and scored another smash hit with Guinness fanciers . |
| 19 | His well-documented fear of loss of personal popularity and the corresponding growth in instability of the regime is further testimony of his awareness of the centrality of the integratory force of his role as Führer . |
| 20 | It aims to provide the student with a basic knowledge of the background to industry , to raise his general level of understanding of management processes , and to acquaint him with the tools and techniques of management . |
| 21 | An injunction that his feast day is to be observed appears in the legal texts which Wulfstan drafted for him , and if the same clause in surviving copies of Æthelred 's laws is a later interpolation , as Patrick Wormald has contended , then Cnut 's interest in Edward , implied by his apparent gift of relics of this saint to Westminster Abbey , would be all the more striking . |
| 22 | And there were others less distinguished , perhaps , but whose lively presence made any visit memorable ; for instance , Mr Wilkinson , valet-butler to Mr John Campbell , with his well-known repertoire of impersonations of prominent gentlemen ; Mr Davidson from Easterly House , whose passion in debating a point could at times be as alarming to a stranger as his simple kindness at all other times was endearing ; Mr Herman , valet to Mr John Henry peters , whose extreme views no one could listen to passively , but whose distinctive belly-laugh and Yorkshire charm made him impossible to dislike . |
| 23 | Now simply efficient , she finished dressing him , put him into his cot and handed him his final bottle of milk of the day . |
| 24 | It spawned the Bladud tale , it made Francis Peck subtitle his Antiquarian Annals of Stanford of 1727 Academia Tercia Anglicana , or ‘ The Third English University ’ , and it fuelled the fertile minds of William Stukeley and later Victorian romantics . |
| 25 | I hope that the hon. Member for Fife , Central ( Mr. McLeish ) will understand that I do not intend to follow what he said in his long speech — it was almost the same length as his speech in our previous debate on the subject — or his wide range of criticisms of the Government 's policy . |
| 26 | Another force underlying his policies , one which helps to explain his ready acceptance of ideas of limited monarchy and some degree of representative government , was aristocratic conservative influences , derived particularly from the Habsburg province of Carinthia and the traditions of its estates , which were strongly represented in his entourage . |
| 27 | In his excellent review of studies of ‘ what managers do ’ , Hales has argued that three areas of difficulty may be encountered in the published research evidence on managerial work , viz : |
| 28 | And it 's electricity and our real lack of understanding of what it actually is that … ’ |
| 29 | Given our current state of knowledge of sign languages , it is obvious that these comments are no longer appropriate and that BSL can be treated as an effective cognitive component in development . |
| 30 | How absolutely it chimes with our modern experience of loss of a sense of place . |