Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a bouquet for the insurance company of Thame , the mechanical breakdown service . |
| 2 | They 're escaping the fog and frost of Britain for the winter warmth of California where conditions are almost ideal for free fall training . |
| 3 | Grass is the main crop , supplemented by the odd field of oats , barley , or roots for the winter feeding of breeding stock . |
| 4 | An example was written even before the Sharon Tate murders by Stephen Farber for the winter issue of the respected journal , Film Quarterly , in which he examined the reasons why young audiences responded so passionately to Easy Rider . |
| 5 | And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore . |
| 6 | And Gooch advised him to put England 's needs before his own for the winter tour of India . |
| 7 | Graham Gooch has been confirmed as England 's captain for the winter tour of India . |
| 8 | JOKER … but there will be no clowning glory for Gower he 's been snubbed by the England selectors for the winter tour of the sub-continent |
| 9 | Jack Russell , who plays for Gloucestershire , has been selected for the winter tour of the West Indies . |
| 10 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 11 | When , in 1908 he challenged a white man , Tommy Burns , for the heavyweight championship of the world , he carried into the ring far more than his gloves and gear : he carried the hopes of a considerable portion of black America . |
| 12 | But even this important distinction between the psychoanalytic and the materialist account is complicated by another equally important convergence : since , in cultural terms , desiring the normal is inseparable from and conditional upon not desiring the abnormal , repression remains central to identity , individual and cultural , even — or indeed especially — for the materialist view of homophobia as a strategy of social control . |
| 13 | For the materialist version of the CTP is beset with many difficulties that ultimately make its claim to have explanatory force somewhat vacuous . |
| 14 | In recent years , Hunt had become better known for his highly successful double-act with commentator Murray Walker for the BBC coverage of Grand Prix . |
| 15 | The concept of co-operative federalism is more a convenient myth for the gravy train of the Länder bureaucracies than anything to do with popular sentiment . |
| 16 | Chinese authorities have executed a bank accountant who embezzled more than $175,000 in the country 's first such case of computer fraud , the Xinhua Daily Telegraph newspaper reported yesterday : Shi Biao , who worked for the Jilin branch of the state-run Agricultural Bank of China , was found to have siphoned funds to private accounts from August to November 1991 , and he and accomplice Yu Lixin were arrested as they were preparing to leave China through the southern economic zone of Shenzhen , bordering Hong Kong ; it was the first case of bank embezzlement via computer in China ; China imposes the death penalty for a variety of offences , ranging from bicycle theft to panda poaching . |
| 17 | Strange physical phenomena often have their explanations in legend — a particularly colourful story accounts for the scree slope of Sgriob na Cailich on Beinn a Chaolais on the Inner Hebridean Island of Jura . |
| 18 | Abaar Property and Development is seeking either £75,000 for the freehold disposal of the property , subject to contract , or a leasing arrangement involving an annual charge of £10,000 for 10 years with upward rent reviews every three years . |
| 19 | The report is to be written for the Personnel Officer of the organisation which provided you with the placement . |
| 20 | Tracey Watson , a former student at Kirby College , Middlesbrough , who now works for the personnel department of South Cleveland Hospital , was yesterday presented with the Northern Council for Further Education 's regional student of the year award . |
| 21 | The future of a major logging , pulp and paper project planned for the Merauke area of Irian Jaya ( west Papua ) has been put in doubt after the withdrawal of one of the two companies supporting it . |
| 22 | There could be a capacity Crayford audience tonight for the £3,000 final of the Carsberg Vase . |
| 23 | Two Forest Justices were once more appointed , one for the forests north of the Trent , and the other for those in the south . |
| 24 | This research is aimed at investigating the educational potential for the mathematics classroom of a small number of powerful computer applications . |
| 25 | Socata 's parent company Aerospatiale is responsible for the cockpit architecture of the Airbus line , and there have clearly been transfers of technology between Toulouse and Tarbes , the result being that the TBM 700 needs to be flown like some kind of ! 320 . |
| 26 | It was obvious that not just a few houses , but whole districts including churches , monasteries , and other monuments to past glories would have to be swept aside to allow for the fill appreciation of the splendour of the glorious new order . |
| 27 | At the initial offer price for the unit trust of 50p , the estimated gross yield is 6.25% . |
| 28 | But they agreed with a proposal from the French Government , which is currently responsible for the EC Council of Ministers , to discuss an amendment which would allow the Commission to grant temporary exemptions to countries facing problems with liberalisation . |
| 29 | The banking law perspective , although narrower in scope , is likely to reveal what lies ahead for the ocean bill of lading . |
| 30 | SUFFOLK golfers Julie Hall and Joanne Hockley have both qualified for the matchplay stage of the Spanish Ladies golf championship . |