Example sentences of "of [noun] [to-vb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE WERE sailing from the Queensland port of Cairns to go diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 2 | In her inaugural address Chamorro announced an end to military conscription ; plans to reduce state bureaucracy , strength of the Army and the size of the defence budgets ; the recognition of titles to land redistributed under the previous Sandinista government ; and a thorough review of economic policy . |
| 3 | Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation . |
| 4 | At a series of meetings to invite convene by a local member Mrs the concept of issuing |
| 5 | The Party chairman would decide later that day on what course of action to take pertaining to the Young Conservatives : the morning 's debate would continue as planned . |
| 6 | This is probably because small birds need less food , ( Condition refers to stored energy , in the form of fat deposits ; Petrie used a complicated measure of condition to get rid of the effects of size alone . |
| 7 | I had to use a lot of rudder to keep sailing on a straight course . |
| 8 | The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific . |
| 9 | It took about a year to organize , partly because the idea blossomed in the summer , too late for that year ; it is not the sort of place to go cycling in the winter . |
| 10 | Following the government 's announcement army veterans from the civil war in the south were reported to have staged a sit-in on the bridge between Khartoum and Omdurman , customs officers to have called for an all-out strike by civil servants " to put an end to the military regime " and tens of thousands of protesters to have taken to the streets of Omdurman on Feb. 9 . |
| 11 | There was nothing like a big coon or a dose of clap to get rid of a punter . |
| 12 | The reduction in the number of Points to Remember came as a result of observations that the rural mothers found it difficult to remember all of the Ten Points . |
| 13 | This clause was construed by both Evershed J and the Court of Appeal to include acting as a consultant . |
| 14 | We all had an extra cup of coffee to celebrate meeting in a foreign land . |