Example sentences of "of friends of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His obligatory attendance of the 40th birthday party of East Germany has helped to leave that self-advertised ‘ pillar of European stability ’ and ‘ trustiest of friends of the Soviet Union ’ looking more unstable than at any time since the Red Army moved in to suppress the uprising of 17 June 1953 . |
| 2 | The guests , who consisted mostly of green types and sensible eaters , were lectured by Jonathon Porritt , director of Friends of the Earth and very important Green Party spokesman , on his concern for the ill effects of Western food on the health of Europeans , and for the devasting results of exporting processed food to developing countries . |
| 3 | Mr David Gee , director-designate of Friends of the Earth , published a report yesterday supporting Mr Patten , who he described as a ‘ radical green ’ . |
| 4 | Mr David Gee , director designate of Friends of the Earth , said the bill had already been weakened by giving big concessions to industry , especially over freedom of information to the public and scope and timetable of the new controls over pollution . |
| 5 | It was a measure of how much the green political arena had changed that in December 1989 Jonathan Porritt , then Director of Friends of the Earth , was invited for talks at 10 Downing Street . |
| 6 | Apparently there was always a flood of people flowing through the farmhouse : friends , friends of friends , friends of friends of friends . |
| 7 | Katharine Hancock , trading manager of Friends of the Earth , says : ‘ We welcome this kind of move from a mainstream manufacturer . ’ |
| 8 | Interviewed on BBC Radio 4 , Andrew Lees of Friends of the Earth declared , ‘ I have been given clearance by my Board to seek a judicial review … we are very serious about this issue and are going to go for it . ’ |
| 9 | In new surveys he said , a ‘ multi-stress ’ approach would be needed , while ITE 's deputy director , Fred Last , commented , ‘ I do n't agree with some of Friends of the Earth 's conclusions . |
| 10 | One immediate response to the CEGB 's announcement was the formation of the Alliance Against Hinkley C. This brought together a mixture of Friends of the Earth supporters from Bristol — only some twenty-five miles north of Hinkley — and others who had been active in the Somerset anti-waste-dumping campaign of the 1970s . |
| 11 | On Sundays , when various other children , sons of friends of the Imperial family , came to spend time with the Prince , the Emperor and Empress made a point of being with them , sometimes taking part in the plays which the children acted . |
| 12 | He began his career as a teacher and is former Director of Friends of the Earth . |
| 13 | In 1970 he helped to found the British wing of Friends of the Earth ; with them he was instrumental in giving a hefty nudge to the rickety barrow of the British nuclear establishment . |
| 14 | Antiwhaling notices in the press and on television by , for example , the Japanese branches of Friends of the Earth and World Wildlife Fund would help this campaign . |
| 15 | Early last year the North Hertfordshire branch of Friends of the Earth conducted a survey of importers of tropical timber . |
| 16 | For example , a girl of fourteen may reckon that she is old enough to go camping abroad or inter-state with an assorted group of friends of her own age . |
| 17 | The concert is in aid of the Paul O'Gorman Foundation for Children with leukaemia and the Association of Friends of Surrey County Youth Orchestra . |
| 18 | The Gdansk Society of Friends of Science and Art published an annual yearbook . |
| 19 | She went around with a group of friends of about the same age , and one evening they were messing around at a friend 's house when his parents were out . |
| 20 | It was shown at Bristol City Art Gallery and Museum in 1976 and its opening marked the inauguration of the association of Friends of the Theatre Collection . |
| 21 | Accordingly , with the collector 's salary no longer burdened with a kind of pension to a colleague , Elphinstone of Quarrel was challenged by Buchanan of Aucheneen , apparently with the support of friends of the second Duke of Montrose . |
| 22 | You could give her er erm er wr , give her the address of Friends of the Earth , London . |
| 23 | ‘ Julia Hailes and John Elkington have dodged the big issues , ’ says Sandy Irvine , author of Friends of the Earth 's discussion paper Beyond Green Consumerism . |
| 24 | Simon Counsell of Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) says , ‘ The arrival of this company … bodes ill for Guyana 's forests . ’ |
| 25 | In case you get any ideas buster , that car behind is full of friends of mine . ’ |
| 26 | He worried about her lack of friends of her own age , yes , even male friends . |
| 27 | I feel like a worker in Stalinist Russia denouncing his comrades but I say , ‘ Well , I thought of a couple of friends of mine … ’ |
| 28 | These are concerns that are shared by Jonathon Porritt , the former director of Friends of the Earth . |
| 29 | Jonathon Porritt , environment TV presenter and for director of Friends of the Earth , will be looking at how we can learn to think Green . |
| 30 | There is also an exemption in the case of the supply of alcoholic liquor for the consumption of friends of a resident who are being bona fide entertained by him at his expense at the premises where he is residing ( e ) . |