Example sentences of "[noun sg] [unc] [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He attributed the Association 's lack of appeal to its domination by Church of England clergy and lay churchmen , leaving no room for either non-conformists or uncommitted lay people . |
| 2 | The contractor 's provision of float within the programme is there to cover items that are at the contractor 's own risk and in general should not be used to abate any extension of time to which the contractor may be entitled . |
| 3 | The captain , Phil Carrick , last month put the cat among the pigeons , or his head upon the block ( depending upon each Yorkshireman 's point of view on his county 's cricket , without which no Tyke is properly dressed ) by writing a letter , with his players ' support , in which he advocated the abandonment of the holy writ , the birth qualification . |
| 4 | When Labour faced the polls in October 1990 , it was reduced to a 29-seat rump in the 99-seat parliament , caused , analysts agreed , by the electorate 's lack of confidence in the reforms and distaste for the social cost . |
| 5 | But this spring 's burst of blossom on older trees in the garden has had me thumbing through the catalogues again . |
| 6 | Other critical statements made about a plaintiff are irrelevant unless they shed light on the defendant 's state of mind at the time he wrote the article which gave rise to the action . |
| 7 | Where visitors have contributed to the injuries they have sustained due to the defendant 's breach of duty under the OLA 1957 , then the damages to which they are entitled may be reduced . |
| 8 | ‘ Build up to standard , not down to a price ’ was the motto of the Strand Theater Company , who had now so dramatically brought about the movie 's coming of age in Chicago . |
| 9 | Birmingham City 's chairman Samesh Kumar is to be voted off the club 's board of directors at an extraordinary general meeting next month . |
| 10 | My last post , however , was in the Department 's Division of Radiocommunications as Director of Radio Technology . |
| 11 | The postholder will be placed in one of the enforcement sections and will participate in the Department 's programme of rotation for Senior Trading Standards Officers and Trading Standards Officers . |
| 12 | The organization of the message into information units of given and new reflects the speaker 's sensitivity to the hearer 's state of knowledge in the process of communication . |
| 13 | Also , Teesdale , with its views of the revitalised Tees , will be an appropriate home to Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution from May this year . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will make a statement on the future of Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools in Wales . |
| 15 | An announcement on the future role and organisation of Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools in Wales will be made shortly . |
| 16 | It is not enough compensation to read on your contemporary one that Her Majesty 's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs requests and requires . |
| 17 | Not for him the elevation and security of Wordsworth 's appointment as His Majesty 's Distributor of Stamps for the County of Westmorland . |
| 18 | For that reason , it is worth thinking about what is interesting about you from a journalist 's point of view before trying to woo him or her with your beautiful noise . |
| 19 | Independent schools have drawn their pupils very unequally from the different social classes , as Figure 11.17 illustrates for the Oxford Social Mobility Study 's sample of men in England and Wales who had completed their education by 1972 ( women were not included in the study ) . |
| 20 | Tom Drake or Anne Galloway of the Assessment Department will be happy to discuss any aspect of the college 's assumption of responsibility for assessment or to give information on the systems which other centres are adopting . |
| 21 | It 's a similar , humble beginning to father Harry , who started at Doncaster before joining Manchester United for a world record goal-keeper 's fee of £27,000 in 1957 . |
| 22 | Anybody who visited America at the time when the exchange rate was two dollars to the pound will confirm that they could purchase a pound 's worth of goods for a dollar ; that is , at half the price they would pay at home . |
| 23 | Earlier this week in Surrey , a businessman 's wife was beaten and robbed of seventy five thousand pound 's worth of jewellery after being attacked in her sports car on the M Twenty Five . |
| 24 | Labour 's change of policy on the European Community puts it in a strong position to argue that economic and industrial decisions are increasingly likely to be made on a European basis and it is essential that Britain plays a more constructive role . |
| 25 | It was not only the blow of failing to win power , and with it all hopes of a Scottish parliament , but also the fact that Labour lost votes and a seat in Scotland — facts which are conveniently forgotten when home-rulers and guardians of the party 's traditional totems blame failure in the south for Labour 's lack of achievement in the north . |
| 26 | That bombshell , coming from the Labour party at a time when Nottinghamshire miners are continually breaking production records , shows Labour 's lack of faith in and support for the coal industry , and why Nottinghamshire miners abandoned socialism in 1985 . |
| 27 | From clogged skies to choked motorways , from Clapham Junction to the Marchioness , Mr Prescott has been Labour 's voice of protest on an issue that has moved to the heart of the ‘ quality of life ’ agenda increasingly dominating the political agenda . |
| 28 | The broadcast sought to contrast the record of the past 13 years of Tory rule with Labour 's Winter of Discontent in 1978–79 . |
| 29 | Where is Labour 's vision of Europe in the year 2000 , weaving together political , security , economic and industrial issues ? |
| 30 | This was , it seems , partly with the rather Machiavellian intention of forcing Conservative MPs to unite behind a Prime Minister whose continuance in office was considered best to serve Labour 's prospects of victory at the next election . |