Example sentences of "of [art] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we had stuck away some of the chances we had in the first half then we 'd have won it . ’ |
| 2 | I have also enclosed a few of the papers I referred to at the beginning of the meeting , plus a travel claim form which you are welcome to use . |
| 3 | Details are emerging of the final stages of the talks which led to the collapse of the bid on Tuesday night . |
| 4 | And he does not like to be reminded of the gaffes he made as deputy chairman — branding the young unemployed as workshy , or musing on Radio Ulster whether Ian Paisley might like to be prime minister of a united Ireland . |
| 5 | The World Bank has admitted that many of the projects it funded in Brazil during the 1970s and 80s resulted in massive environmental degradation and the eviction of over 100,000 poor farmers and their families , many of whom were forced into the shanty-towns of major cities . |
| 6 | ‘ According to the report here , one of the aliases he used in share deals and bank accounts was Mr Jemmel . |
| 7 | What are the names of the towns which increased in size rapidly when steam power was used ? |
| 8 | One of the problems which arose from Friedman 's definition of the natural unemployment rate was that , apart from a list of qualifications mostly of a microeconomic nature , it appeared to possess characteristics which were usually associated with an economy in overall full employment . |
| 9 | The following extract is taken from this last chapter , and elaborates on some of the problems we mentioned in our first chapter , ( pp 7–8 ) . |
| 10 | it does n't say it it was at Newark erm and I think you 've got reasonable prospects of knocking it back because of the problems you had with towards the end . |
| 11 | Then the infant school the first class of the infants we had in a hut on Netteswell Road and then we went , they came from that hut there to the servant 's quarters of Mark Hall . |
| 12 | He did this without ever losing sight of the contrasts he made between steps of each sequence because these were controlled by the particular rhythm , tempo and quality of the music . |
| 13 | Morgan 's work offered to Marx and Engels the early history of the processes which led to the creation of capitalism . |
| 14 | And if the process of inquest clarified internal boundaries , it almost certainly also compelled fief-holders to reflect on the extent of the services they owed to the count . |
| 15 | The director must therefore confirm , to each company , the amounts received or receivable by him in respect of the services he performed for that particular company . |
| 16 | The major-domo gestured to one of the slaves who knelt beside the wall . |
| 17 | Perhaps some of the cooks who fought as infantry at Maleme , Crete , could drop us a line . |
| 18 | The 21-stone club chairman , reported to police by one of the photographers he assaulted on Monday , was on the rampage once more , threatening to give free transfers to the entire squad whom he blames for the £50,000 Football League fine . |
| 19 | On the basis of the answers they received to these questions Goldthorpe and his colleagues concluded that monotony is a definite source of job dissatisfaction . |
| 20 | Many of the sites they inherited in 1948 were near the towns and cities which were the main load centres , but such sites seemed less likely to gain planning permission in the 1950s . |
| 21 | One of the psychiatrists I spoke to while preparing this book said that in his therapy groups for people with anxieties , he asked them to make lists of their day 's worries . |
| 22 | One of the musicians who played in the band with Buddie had once ruffled Frankie 's thick black hair and called him ‘ Smallfry ’ in a way that was not meant to be unkind . |
| 23 | One of the areas I looked at first was the so-called ancillary services — that is cleaning , catering and laundry . |
| 24 | Much of the original Middlesbrough no longer exists Most of the slums which developed from the complex succession of nineteenth-century grid blocks have now been swept away in modern re-development . |
| 25 | He says that he worked at Emma 's request to produce a record of the deeds which touched upon the honour of her and hers , and the oldest surviving manuscript , which is very close to the author 's original , may be the copy she received : it contains a miniature which shows an ecclesiastic presenting a book to a woman while two figures , presumably her sons Harthacnut and Edward , look on . |
| 26 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 27 | His letter written to congratulate his elder brother Lodovico when his engagement was announced , is typical of the sermons he preached at the marriages of so many friends . |
| 28 | The Anarchists were one of the groups they moved against . |
| 29 | Weinrich-Haste ( 1984 ) , for example , in a study which examined the political values of undergraduates , found that sociologists , at one extreme , tended towards liberalism and radicalism , while engineers were the most politically and socially conservative of the groups she looked at . |
| 30 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |