Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure you do n't want to hear about Mark 's cousin getting done for selling crack mixed with concrete , or the Forest Of Dean whizzkid who tried to get the band 's mate to give them heroin so they 'd all become addicted so he could make a profit out of them , or Zac sticking his finger up a chicken 's arse , do you ? |
| 2 | Harry woke the following morning in a guest room of Breakspear College which Ockleton had generously made available to him . |
| 3 | As I walked out to the front of Wolverhampton station I did wonder a little when I noticed that there was a regular service train on the monitor , due to leave at 1822 . |
| 4 | The development work will be carried out at Northern Telecom 's radio technology centre of excellence at Paignton in Devon , formerly the part of STC Plc which produced the Ptarmigan radio system for the UK Ministry of Defence . |
| 5 | He might be less likely to dismiss Pope John Paul II as the stooge of a defunct ideology , yet there is plenty in the conservative tradition of Vatican thinking which is just as subversive of his attempt to present consumerist liberal society as ‘ final ’ . |
| 6 | This last quality — encouraged by Ashcroft Noble — he had learned to recognize in himself during the period of growth between the boy naturalist of The Childhood and the much-sought-after undergraduate writer of Lincoln College who breathes freely through the ornate pages of his own Oxford . |
| 7 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 8 | Or — like a few men of Sparrow Force whom Corporal Palmer had found near the coast living off the Company 's abandoned-in-transit Christmas parcels — they wandered aimlessly until captured , or killed by native factions . |
| 9 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |
| 10 | In our fifth report we compared the Leeds conception of PNP coordinator with other versions : the role of SEN coordinator which emerged after the 1981 Education Act , and that of curriculum coordinator , first tentatively identified by Plowden ( CACE 1967 ) , then developed in the 1970s and 1980s by HMI and others ( DES 1978b , House of Commons 1986 , Campbell 1985 , Taylor 1986 ) . |
| 11 | The entry for the following day , 13 May , began : " Organisation of VIKTRING cage our main responsibility , taking a whole Grenadier coy . |
| 12 | Finally to add a bit of orange or red colours to the tank , and rather than include the aggressive C. citrinellum or C. labiatum , which might cause problems for the beginner , you could add the orange-yellow form of Petenia splendida which , while not being a Cichlasoma , would make a good addition to the community tank as they are very peaceful despite their large size . |
| 13 | Contract hire is the more popular method because vehicles are exempt from special car tax and VAT but remain the property of Motability Finance who pay for the car insurance , servicing and maintenance . |
| 14 | In concluding this chapter it is necessary to mention two pieces of EEC law which will be of vital significance in relation to consumer contracts : the General Product Safety Directive ( 92/59/EEC ) and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive . |
| 15 | WHEN LEAVING THE LATE NIGHT PERFORMANCES WOULD PATRONS PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE OF THE RESIDENTS OF JEUNE STREET WHO MAY ALREADY BE ASLEEP . |
| 16 | WHITE-HOT FURY OF SNOW QUEEN I 'm branded a liar , says ‘ no sex ’ [ name given ] . |
| 17 | This was an example of Highland hospitality I was to find repeated often . |
| 18 | Another point is , up in Hull in October er , somebody wrote a book about Mahatma Ghandi and he got death threats so the vice chancellor of Hull University he 's in Fenners he 's a director of J H Fenners in industrial . |
| 19 | On top of the head of S. marmoratus there are two pale lines running from the tip of the nose back for about two to three head lengths , with small pale dashes at the end . |
| 20 | Among the Dark Elves of Naggaroth he is known as the Reaper , to the Goblins of Red-Axe Pass he is Orcbane , and to the north the Norse know him as Mankiller . |
| 21 | Our National President , Steve Gauld , closed the Convention and we offered our thanks and gratitude to all those who had made the weekend such a success , to Tim Cain who kept all the sessions to time ; to the exhibitors who supported us so well ; to all the members and outside speakers who made presentations ; to the staff of Keele University who served us so well in all areas ; and to Joe Bennett who organised the whole thing , sorted out the speakers , took our bookings and generally made sure it all went well . |
| 22 | , Benjamin Wills ( 1807–1899 ) , Plymouth Brother , was born in Devonport , Plymouth , 12 December 1807 , the only child of Quaker parents , Benjamin Newton , a draper of Plymouth dock who died ten days before the birth of his son , and his widow Anna , a daughter of Roger Treffry of Lostwithiel , with whom Newton lived until the age of twelve . |
| 23 | george Best said ‘ You 're my best mate pal so you are , hic , you and me against the f**cking world , hic , f**cking best mate a bloke ever had , hic , do you want a fight or what , hic ’ George then vomited and began coughing up blood so I grabbed hold of Dennis Law who said ‘ Younaaaa theeeerm Maanchessterr Uuuniitedd younaanarr ’ . |
| 24 | He produced two numbers of Colliers Magazine which he handed to me . |
| 25 | He gives the example of Johnny Saxon who , three years after winning the world welterweight title , was charged with burglary and eventually institutionalized at New Jersey State Mental Hospital : ‘ Boxing does not leave all its scars on a fighter 's face ’ ( 1973 , p.325 ) . |
| 26 | Bethany Megan Robinson says residents of Hammond Drive who object to the closure of Loraine Crescent do so because it stops them taking a short cut . |
| 27 | The children were called in for tests after being treated by a paediatrician at the Countess of Chester Hospital who was suffering from TB . |
| 28 | One CDP paper suggested the Council visit to Teesside exemplified the aspects of CNAA activity which were giving rise to concern : ‘ while not adducing any evidence which indicates an objective failure of student or employer satisfaction or of academic standards , the report makes serious criticisms of the management of the Polytechnic , based on a cursory inspection and conversations with members of staff ’ . |
| 29 | In the Records of Rochester Cathedral there is mentioned in 1259 , Brother Adam de Hallinges a Monk of the Prior of Rochester . |
| 30 | This was founded in 1938 by George MacLeod ( now the 95-year-old Very Reverend Lord MacLeod of Fuinary ) , a Church of Scotland minister who believed that the root of community life was shared work . |