Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you trod carefully last week , however , it was possible to avoid the appalling tedium of the poll of polls , or the studio debates about the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement . |
| 32 | Founder of one of the most successful fashion houses in Paris , he is also founder and President of the Syndicate of Designers and Creators of Ready-to-Wear which brought haute couture into the open market place , particularly in America . |
| 33 | In 1277 Robert Kilwardby [ q.v. ] , the archbishop of Canterbury , himself a Dominican friar and former master at Oxford University , condemned a range of Aristotelian theses as well as Aquinas 's novel doctrine of the unicity of forms . |
| 34 | One of the rebels , vice-chairman Ronnie Teese , 56 , who has been banned for 12 months , said the club was ‘ terrified of the can of worms they might find ’ . |
| 35 | Not really believing it , and in total ignorance of the can of worms she was about to open , she asked , ‘ Are there many with that name in the area ? ’ |
| 36 | The deal follows the recent announcement of the production of a pure form of the hormone by researchers from the institute , using genetic engineering techniques . |
| 37 | Despite the architect 's awareness of the radical transformation that would be effected by conversion of the church into dwellings , it remained his objective to retain the essential character and best qualities of the original building and to keep the existing stonework as untouched as possible . |
| 38 | ‘ I 'll need no help , once I 'm out , ’ breathed Harry , thinking with feverish urgency of the grave under the lee of the church at Strata Marcella , and the little curling leaf on the threatened stone . |
| 39 | According to the Acts of the Apostles Peter took the lead in opening membership of the church to Gentiles . |
| 40 | For example , as Marcel drives along the winding road to Martinville , he describes the three spires of the church in terms of active movement , the spires exchange places , they come closer together , they draw further apart , they hide behind each other in turn . |
| 41 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 42 | Once we 'd established that nothing had been left behind Emily went off to catch a bus and I decided that no one would mind if I popped my head round the doors of the suite of rooms which George had occupied . |
| 43 | In response to these problems the IMF decided from January 1981 to reduce the size of the basket of currencies determining the value of the SDR from sixteen to five and to simplify the calculation of the interest rate on the SDR . |
| 44 | The current value of the basket of shares corresponding to one futures contract is £60 000 for the maxi VL , and £12 000 for the mini VL . |
| 45 | President Carlos Menem , keen on getting his hands on the proceeds of the privatisation before elections in the autumn , indicated last month that he will push the sale well ahead of schedule . |
| 46 | Amongst those concerns , the issue of the portrayal of women in the media features prominently . |
| 47 | On the question of the nomination of judges , it is open for anybody to recommend a judge . |
| 48 | As he slowly revolved he observed all points of the compass with eyes wide in wonder . |
| 49 | Finally , there is a sense in which these two enterprises in London and Edinburgh were perceived as particularly worrying not just because of the social origins of promoters and beneficiaries , or because of the threat to wages , but because they meant bringing women into the work-place . |
| 50 | Rothmans ' chairman Lord Swaythling , a Tory Peer , told of the threat to jobs at the company 's Darlington and Spennymoor plants in a letter to Darlington MP Michael Fallon . |
| 51 | In view of the threat of expulsions contained in these circulars , Labour supporters of Unity had to reconsider their position . |
| 52 | Thirdly , it is the intention of AIB Bank Management to introduce a reduction in Staff Costs by the elimination of special payments , by the reduction of London and Large Town Allowances , by the reduction of the standard of flights home and the phasing out of Overseas Allowance . |
| 53 | This ritualised drama of the conflict between managers and workers probably enables the participants to make a sort of sense of their relatedness . |
| 54 | Bentley 's group theory postulated that the study of politics was the study of the conflict between groups , although his work did not refer to organised interest groups only but to groups with shared views . |
| 55 | Through the arms and armour of kings , commanders and ordinary soldiers , the exhibition will present the realities and reveal the myths of the conflict of Cavaliers and Roundheads . |
| 56 | Where eminent historians argue , the student can do little more than be aware of the conflict of ideas . |
| 57 | These difficulties were the source of much of the conflict among philanthropists , between those who preferred to give thorough-going help to a few and those who believed that the scale of destitution was such that wholesale relief was necessary at least in times of high unemployment , to palliate serious destitution and to prevent social disorder . |
| 58 | The former includes a recognition of the conflict in schools between socialisation and the fostering of the autonomy of the individual , as well as the political and social assumptions and values implied in the curriculum . |
| 59 | An aftercast of the winds and study of the Canadian forecast for the period of the flight reveals the presence of a jet stream between 33,000 and 35,000 feet on the latter part of the route with winds up to 134 knots . |
| 60 | He says the Government recognises the importance of the route to commuters and tourists , and it will not be axed , even though it 's losing money . |