Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stockman got most of the cuts he wanted from the cabinet and then turned his attention to the legislature . |
| 2 | The planning at Brighton revealed some of the unease in relations with the local authority . |
| 3 | At Camberwell Bobby Hunt formed the Bob Hunt 's Ragtime Band ( Bobby on trumpet , Oska on trombone , Monty Sunshine on clarinet , Terry Arthurs on piano and Denis ( ‘ Pip ’ ) Piper on a one-string bass made out of a wooden box and a broomhandle ) and which rehearsed at lunchtime in the pottery room , Minton helping some of its members to buy their instruments . |
| 4 | In August 1991 the Pentagon revealed that of all US servicemen killed in Desert Storm , one quarter had fallen as a result of friendly fire . |
| 5 | I much Does Devlin want some of that Oh ! |
| 6 | When a Serbian family in the village of Zakuti sold some of their land to Albanians , the local committee of the Party decided that this was an act of ‘ treachery ’ , and demanded that in future the law banning sales to other nationalities should be strictly enforced . |
| 7 | Williamson used some of his vast wealth to provide permanent evidence of his beneficence . |
| 8 | Edouard tasted some of these thin sour wines with disgust , and gave orders that the entire cellar stock be jettisoned forthwith . |
| 9 | Although Hawke retained much of his former Cabinet following the general election , one notable absence was that of former Finance Minister Peter Walsh who retired from government because he felt that the Hawke administration lacked sufficient political will to tackle the country 's pressing financial problems [ see p. 37378 ] . |
| 10 | The basic idea was to develop partnerships with employers that would enable academic staff at Napier to meet some of their enterprise skills training needs through participation in the training programmes of outside employers . |
| 11 | At £1,045 , the Greenfield has many of the same basic components as its rivals . |
| 12 | Ken produced some of his standard characters that were to become as closely identified with him as was ‘ Stop messing about ’ — which did n't disappear totally from the airways . |
| 13 | Conversely , managers in Stuttgart at Mercedes-Benz , Daimler 's car-making heartland , are just as resentful of watching firms like MBB and AEG lose most of the profits they earn . |
| 14 | The environmental impact of precolonial agriculture in the subhumid highlands of central México equalled that of the Classic Maya cities in the lowland rainforests of Guatemala , and was even more severe than that of the indigenous cultivators in New Guinea . |
| 15 | Mouton-Rothschild made some of the most stylish wines of the 1980s , especially the superb 1986 . |
| 16 | Cotton is profitable again — Texas produces half of the US cotton crop — and much less insecticide is now applied to the crop . |
| 17 | Currently Spain 's Costa del Sol offers some of the best investment opportunities in land and property available anywhere in Europe . |
| 18 | So that was where Spencer wasted some of his ill-gotten gains , was it ? |
| 19 | As for what the head contains , well , yes , Johnny needs some of the things that live in there : will , desire , perversity . |
| 20 | In other words , Hegel elevates some of the traits which characterise men as powerful masculine beings , women as feminine , to the status of differences in their natures . |
| 21 | No one has all the answers but with all her experience in Club Class , Pat has most of them . |
| 22 | Terry Porter visited John Ambrose in his workshop in Ely to discover some of the secrets of his success |
| 23 | ‘ Has young Meredith changed any of his wild ways since he took over the reins at the manor ? ’ |
| 24 | Friedlander used many of the formal devices he developed during the earlier series but also conveyed the different working environment of a new , light industry . |
| 25 | On a journey across the Trans-Siberian in 1977 , Eric Newby found many of the old stations still surviving . |
| 26 | Rising professional status involved a negotiation of establishment culture , and Hill dropped many of the public trappings of his evangelical background — embracing Anglicanism and sending his son to Eton and Oxford . |
| 27 | New chairman Robert Corbett says most of the losses seem to stem from incompetent grain trading . |
| 28 | Steven ate some of them scrambled . |
| 29 | Harbourside cafes , palm trees , arrival by Simplon Orient Express , ‘ 30s evenings with casinos and Palm Court Orchestras , and mouth watering seafood — travel writer Carol Wright describes some of the more delicious options open to delegates to the Booksellers Association Annual Conference in Torquay |
| 30 | ‘ Let's go out , Billy , ’ Marie says all of a sudden . |