Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ceiling and first floor had vanished except for lines of ledges along the wall . |
| 2 | Southern counties , although rather cloudy , will be mainly dry , except for outbreaks of drizzle over south-west England and South Wales . |
| 3 | As we saw in Chapter 3 , witchcraft and astrology are generally not available in the higher education curriculum , except as objects of study by anthropologists and sociologists . |
| 4 | Communication of research in progress is largely a matter of informal international personal contacts , rather than through publication of lists of completed theses . |
| 5 | None of the beneficiaries has any interest in the property — except in respect of income on capital actually paid to him . |
| 6 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 7 | The loans were granted simultaneously on the date of purchase , although in order of charge on the property , the Halifax loan is the first charge and the Standard Life the second . |
| 8 | In the conference call that followed Digital Equipment Corp 's announcement of its figures ( CI No 2,148 ) , news of which did n't reach us until after close of play on Wednesday , company executives said that their outlook for the rest of the year continues to be cautious given the current economic environment , and they declined to forecast profits : Bill Steul , chief financial officer , said that during the third quarter , DEC 's US business showed a decline of just under 5% , and that total product revenues were flat , while services grew at about 12% in the quarter ; business was a little soft in Germany and France and continues to be down in Japan , but that there are some signs of improvement in Japan ; DEC , in its final quarter of fiscal 1993 , does not expect much in revenues from its Alpha-based systems running Microsoft Corp 's new NT operating system before next fiscal . |
| 9 | Confusion over what could or could not be reported arose , however , because of differences of interpretation among French , Saudi , UK and US officials in Saudi Arabia and in their respective capitals . |
| 10 | After the death of Chilperic and the revolt of Gundovald in 584 , Guntram recognized his nephew as being fit to rule in his own name , but even this did not ensure consistently good relations between the two kings , not least because of differences of opinion over control of certain cities , and because of the ramifications of the Gundovald affair . |
| 11 | In addition Richard Armitage , acting as a special US ambassador to the Middle East , held previously unannounced talks with King Hussein on Jan. 22 , following a statement by US President Bush that he was not planning to " write off " Jordan because of differences of opinion on the Gulf conflict . |
| 12 | Most girls born 70 and more years ago can not be traced because of change of name at marriage . |
| 13 | A's action on the guarantee succeeded because , although B had acceded to the demand because of fears of delay in litigation and loss of public confidence , the pressure fell short of coercion . |
| 14 | The demand for action comes in a week when John Bond has been advised to stay away from his former club , Burnley , for Shrewsbury 's FA Cup tie this afternoon because of fears of reprisals from angry Turf Moor fans . |
| 15 | JTR made merry at Gress where breakfast was waiting and congenial company took him along the coastline to caves that , because of lack of stamina on my part , were never redrawn . |
| 16 | ‘ Often the cream of talent drops out because of lack of knowledge about how to effectively use time . ’ |
| 17 | Children of working-class parents are more prone to accidents than other children for a variety of reasons : inadequate housing conditions ; tendency to play in the street because of lack of space at home ; less parental supervision ; and so on . |
| 18 | A total of $100,000,000 in aid had been frozen by the US administration in May because of lack of progress on the compensation of US citizens for property seized by the former Sandinista regime [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 19 | Few companies have taken an interest in biological insecticides such as Bacillus thuringiensis ( its spores or toxin ) or the baculoviruses , because of lack of protection by patent and difficulties in producing formulations that are stable in the field . |
| 20 | He went no further either because of ideological conservatism , or because of lack of courage of his convictions . |
| 21 | Far too many handicapped young people have been condemned to operate at a lower level of education and achievement than their abilities warrant because of lack of facilities for further and higher education . |
| 22 | In 1950 , because of pressure of work on Grove , Blom gave up the important editorship of Music & Letters , which he had held since 1937 . |
| 23 | He was not reappointed as master of the choristers , but continued in employment as a lay clerk at least until 30 September 1499 ; because of loss of documentation at Windsor , his career beyond that date can not be traced , and his date of death is unknown . |
| 24 | And yet at street level in Ireland for many years , the same author was known simply as ‘ the man who writes dirty books ’ , a consequence of his infamous collusion with church and State in the mid-1960s when his second novel ‘ The Dark ’ was banned , allegedly because of suggestions of homosexuality in the characters of the father and priest , as well as the use of the word ‘ fuck ’ and an explicit scene of masturbation . |
| 25 | Many participants at the conference expressed the fear that pressure for rapid economic transformation in Eastern Europe would tempt governments to ignore environmental problems , already severe because of years of neglect by the previous communist regimes and the use of obsolete technology . |
| 26 | William Clark , who was press adviser to Anthony Eden during his premiership , wrote , while under sentence of death from the cancer of which he died last year , a book of mémoires d'outre tombe in the unconventional yet quite literal sense of that description . |
| 27 | From this grew the notion that the pope had the power not simply to explain and interpret the law , but to make it , whether by word of mouth in councils or by letter . |
| 28 | It is enough , ’ he concluded in triumph , though whether by way of verdict on his mother 's marital mores or as comment on his own wrestling with the English language was not clear . |
| 29 | You may define Greater York on a erm on a different basis u if you use for example as against number of trips to theatres . |
| 30 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |