Example sentences of "of [noun] [unc] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Rotten in particular was becoming increasingly estranged from McLaren 's view of what the group should be , and resentful of McLaren 's attempts to control them . |
| 2 | Rohmer was surprisingly strong , but the impetus of Cardiff 's lunge spun him away from the girl . |
| 3 | Something like £1,500 shared among the family , not to mention generous bequests , including £200 towards the completion of Lavenham steeple and cash distributed among the parishes where Spring owned property , virtually accounts for what was far and away the greatest personal estate owned by any commoner , or for that matter almost any peer : only the duke of Norfolk 's £4,000 topped it . |
| 4 | Dr Eurwyn Lloyd Evans , the county 's director of economic development and planning , said : ‘ We are aware of the Ministry of Defence 's intention to review its Air Force establishments throughout the country . |
| 5 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 6 | THE Northamptonshire nuns who are trying to save 5,000 chickens are to take legal action against the Ministry of Agriculture 's decision to slaughter their flock . |
| 7 | They 're also pretty peeved at what they see as the Ministry of Agriculture 's failure to represent their interests adequately in Brussels . |
| 8 | The conditions of Teo 's release prohibited her from issuing public statements and from associating with others arrested under the ISA . |
| 9 | In fact , Laplace transformation of an entire equation that has been obtained by invoking one of Kirchhoff 's laws converts it from integro-differential form into algebraic form . |
| 10 | She wished she knew more about painting ; the name of Melanie 's mother meant nothing to her . |
| 11 | In their view , the effects of employees ’ coalitions keeping wages artificially ‘ high ’ or of employers ' coalitions keeping them artificially ‘ low ’ needs to be fully analysed . |
| 12 | Jack spoke ‘ casually ’ of Alison 's intention to sell her flat . |
| 13 | Two of William 's friends having lots of fun |
| 14 | But even as he prayed he could hear the voice of William 's grandad berating him from under the lid of the closed coffin . |
| 15 | When Gabriel entered the warm , dark room , some of Bathsheba 's workers recognized him . |
| 16 | We liked to think that this was one of Rona 's sentinels seeing us off the premises . |
| 17 | A lawsuit in 1625 disclosed that Richard Warner , a soap-boiler of Bristol , had a mill in Caerleon , Monmouthshire , and by offering double wages , had secured some of Webb 's workers to build it . |
| 18 | The council houses , of fudge-coloured brick , stood in two rows and a horseshoe shape with a screen of Leyland 's cypress hiding them from the village . |
| 19 | A few days later , parliament met and some MPs took advantage of Wolsey 's disgrace to air their grievances against the church . |
| 20 | Sacko , a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) official serving in the Central African Republic , had been Finance Minister for six months before resigning in August 1987 in protest at the unwillingness of Traoré 's government to support him in a drive against corruption [ see pp. 36085-86 ] . |
| 21 | The editor of the Church of England Newspaper remarked that the overzealousness of Ramsey 's friends did him a disservice by making him the representative of an intolerant school of thought and by inflating his reputation beyond what his record would endorse . |
| 22 | Unfortunately for the government , it became clear that Mosley meant what he said about the scandal of mass unemployment and the greater scandal of Labour 's failure to do anything about it . |
| 23 | All through the pages of Ramakrishna 's biography appears his gentle humour which often acted as a prelude to his flights of ecstasy . |
| 24 | The sentence is itself ‘ redundant ’ with respect to the opening sentence of Beckett 's Malone Dies which it self-consciously imitates , and the implication is that all discourse is but a re-hashing of another 's words . |
| 25 | Several of Arkan 's soldiers jostled us on to the street and having made their fists and revolvers known to us , said : ‘ Arkan is the police here . |
| 26 | Liberal thinkers welcomed the view that evolution came about through the accumulation of animals ' efforts to conquer their environment , since this implied that the social progress resulting from commercial activity was a direct continuation of Nature 's development . |
| 27 | The manner of Hector 's death makes their reaction even more disturbing — he is killed as a result of a materialistic whim for a soldier 's ‘ sumptuous armour ’ . |
| 28 | Boldness triumphed and they moved on towards Perth after sending a detachment of the Camerons to try to capture the fortified barracks at Ruthven , where it was left to stalwart Sergeant Molloy of Guise 's Regiment to give them their first rebuff . |
| 29 | They point to the poster campaign it launched last September , through Ogilvy & Mather , which effectively relaunched Wisk as a mainstream colour care detergent , and the new label design as evidence of Lever 's determination to boost its sales . |
| 30 | When one of Ken 's friends told her he had just bought a new television set — a 17-inch console — she commented : ‘ Seventeen inches ? |