Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copies donated by Alfred Munnings of three of his pictures are the King 's charger ‘ Delhi ’ , a Friesian bull and an equestrian portrait of King Edward VIII as Prince of Wales which later hung in the Paris apartment of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor . |
| 2 | Like all Trolls they will eat anything and through force of circumstance they tend to eat a lot of rocks . |
| 3 | In the intermediate steps , however , the numbers are incommensurable : for brevity of exposition we give four decimal places only , though of course a computer will normally employ a much greater number . |
| 4 | Lancelot , although befriended by a hermit , can not be brought back to a normal state of mind because the hermit is too poor to feed him properly , and ‘ for defaute of sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforetyme ’ , and became violent , breaking the legs and arms of those who tried to help him . |
| 5 | They are sufficiently common to have been studied in several ancient civilisations , and are named after Diophantus of Alexandria who wrote a 13-volume treatise on arithmetic in about 250 AD . |
| 6 | Dinner was plate after plate of food he 'd hardly ever set eyes on , let alone eaten : caviar , bortsch , salmon , duck . |
| 7 | Other cases held length after length of cloth which would he worked into dresses , over-dresses and the embroidered underpants of the bride 's trousseau . |
| 8 | " T. and T. , however , was well managed by the Stavanger family , generation after generation of mariners who really understood the shipping business . |
| 9 | It said : ‘ If it becomes known that UK companies have supplied equipment for manufacture of munitions we could truthfully say that when the licences were issued we had no reason to believe that this civilian equipment was for other than general industrial purposes . ’ |
| 10 | A third approach is evident in cases which accept in principle extensive review for error of law which flows from Anisminic and O'Reilly , but which then qualify it in varying ways . |
| 11 | LIFESPAN provides a facility for identification of SPRs which are outstanding . |
| 12 | As with every system of national qualifications , it is the quality assurance and control of assessment of NVQs which is vitally important . |
| 13 | A number of studies have attempted to do this both by comparing the rates of progress of children whose caretakers employ different styles of ‘ Motherese ’ and by deliberately seeking to modify adult input . |
| 14 | She 'd do anything for us — and we both know that , which means I suppose that we have a sort of shell of security which goes with us everywhere . ’ |
| 15 | Revising the original articles for Notes towards the Definition of Culture , he complicated his argument 's texture by involving more material relevant to his personal history and to the history of his work , such as that mention of Heart of Darkness which looks back to The Waste Land . |
| 16 | Eliot 's reading of Heart of Darkness whose Buddha-like clerk , Marlow , saw London as ‘ one of the dark places of the earth ’ further blended savage and ‘ sepulchral city ’ . |
| 17 | The actions of such a council are of general public importance and the free discussion of their activities is one aspect of the right of freedom of expression which is of the utmost importance . |
| 18 | Well of course of course they do . |
| 19 | the prime weakness of the UK housing market is the near absence of provision of private-renting which would meet the demands of lower income households , a very different situation to that which prevails in many European countries . |
| 20 | Poorly trained managers who found themselves faced with new , rapidly changing technologies developed technophobia out of fear of things they did not understand . |
| 21 | Also , there are instructors with the Minister of Industry of Bangkok who teach machine knitting , but they teach only if you have a group of ten or more . |
| 22 | British seamen in the US deserted in droves , alarming the new British government and bringing about a revived dialogue not only on seamen 's complaints about the inadequacy of British pay , the constantly recurring problems of loss of wages and effects when torpedoed and the inroad made by railway fares when they were paid off from diverted ships , but also on the dangerous state of mind of seamen who were incensed by the conviction that they were constantly subject to neglect , mishandling and coercion . |
| 23 | But my guess is that the place to tap is the state of mind of teachers themselves . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think anyone , who either has children or who does n't want them , can understand the state of mind of people who do want them . |
| 25 | Geoffrey Fisher wrote a last school report which in later years became legendary : ‘ A boy with plenty of force of character who , in spite of certain uncouthnesses , has done good service on his own lines ’ . |
| 26 | The sexual waywardness of the territorial aristocracy did not endanger the integrity of succession of estates which were regulated by primogeniture and entail . |
| 27 | Similar expressions can be found for the effect of changes in age of onset of alleles which have permanent effects once first expressed . |
| 28 | On pain of loss of temporalities which you hold from us , we strongly inhibit you in the council now called at Lambeth from presuming to attempt anything to our prejudice , or that of our realm , or against us or our rights which our predecessors , kings of England , enjoyed by ancient and approved custom , or to assent to any such move . |
| 29 | Some residential units told Community Care of under-occupancy of beds which are normally heavily over-subscribed . |
| 30 | Conditions ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) alone clearly are not enough and there can only be a limited number of ways of thinking of conditions which give the same results as ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |