Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anita Saada had children of similar ages to Laura 's and was to become a staunch source of support to her over the years . |
| 2 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 3 | She would employ 250,000 men and women in over 80 British towns and cities , and drag 1 , 006 tons of chains after her into the Clyde at her launch , but she was still 534 until the day a city went to sea and the farmer 's field was flooded across from the Glasgow Road . |
| 4 | There is some provision made within the law for copying a work of part of it without the need to obtain permission . |
| 5 | But the brain and questions of its function , and the part ‘ memory ’ ( and I put it in quotes ) or rather , a consideration of memory , can play in furthering our understanding of this function , belongs of course to everyone as a human being , from the stupidest person who can not read or write to the top people in biochemical research . |
| 6 | He was starting to feel like a bundle of notes about himself in a case-history folder in hospital , one of the folders labelled ‘ NOT TO BE HANDLED BY PATIENT . ’ |
| 7 | She ground her teeth , glaring down at the neat stack of notes before her on the desk . |
| 8 | The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups . |
| 9 | The man in charge at Chelsea at the moment , David Webb , is on probation and it is unlikely his chairman , the fiery Ken Bates , would release such a sum of money to him during the trial period . |
| 10 | Similarly , secondary education librarians point to the lack of continuity between primary and secondary education , The lack of continuity between the various sectors and the poor transference of skills from one to the other is partly a consequence of lack of co-operation between the different sectors , but also the dilemma of librarians at different levels as to whether they should focus on short-term or long-term information needs . |
| 11 | The discussion that follows will examine the imperfections in the market for control and then consider the wider implications of reliance on it as a disciplinary mechanism . |
| 12 | Though his tone was abrupt , Polly sensed a lessening of tension in him at the change of subject . |
| 13 | ‘ The first job , of course , was to try to find any traces of nitroglycerine on anybody in the club or in their rooms . |
| 14 | He was about to step across to the darkness of the recess and Lily 's room when he heard footsteps and the sound of voices below him in the tiled entrance hall . |
| 15 | A man called Slade made a statement that he had seen Cooper twice in London on the day of the murder , indeed had had a cup of tea with him in a café . |
| 16 | ‘ But we can take heart from the Celtic and Leeds results and carry a lot of optimism with us into the first leg in Germany . |
| 17 | And we had to move all them , there were a lot of hooha about it in the paper about what , a year ago ? |
| 18 | She even wondered if it might not have been Mandy 's laughter-filled anecdotes about summers at the lodge that had coaxed this deep ache of loss within her to the surface of her consciousness . |
| 19 | ‘ So what we did was to take a couple of months for everybody in the band to write songs , and to rehearse everything . |
| 20 | Although he was fourteen years younger than Alexander , Daniel too was in the habit of thinking of himself as a survivor , a battered and grizzled survivor . |
| 21 | Instead of thinking of it as a zero-sum game in which one side gains what the other loses , they are beginning to regard it as a positive-sum game from which both sides may gain , provided both play with skill and finesse . |
| 22 | Clearly , out of sorts with himself in the wet and windy conditions which he hated , he smashed his racquet on the ground on no less than eight occasions . |
| 23 | The other result is a lot of prejudice against them in the city . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not as though a gentleman would only bring one or two pairs of shoes with him to a house-party . ’ |
| 25 | Detached from the orbit of the old Raymondin counts of Toulouse , they were carving out a quasi-autonomous sphere of influence for themselves along the Pyrenean frontier . |
| 26 | The 1960s were marked by a strong interest in the relationship between primary and secondary education , and in possible changes in the age of transfer from one to the other . |
| 27 | After Corrections I joined Picture Group in 1981 and for some reason I ended up doing a lot of work for them in the ghettos , guns , drugs and things like that ; it became my forte and I came to feel at ease in this kind of environment . |
| 28 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 29 | ‘ We 've done a lot of work with them over the past three weeks . |
| 30 | Treachery is unlikely , but the decision not to attack the Scottish camp , and not to pursue the Scots when they broke camp , suggests at the very least a lack of confidence and judgement amongst the English commanders , and there is some evidence of disagreement amongst them about the tactics they should adopt . |