Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 For Suicide for Love — a synthesis by Matsuyo Akimoto of works by the seventeenth-century dramatist Monzaemon Chikamatsu — depicts a world in which individual impulses are kept in place by fierce restraints .
2 ‘ Well , you know my old man keeps a fifteen gallon cask of scrump in the shed ? ’
3 Thus it was no surprise that in 1967 he was chosen to become the Faraday Professor of Electrochemistry at the University of Southampton on the English south coast .
4 In these studies , however , the rise in PYY concentrations was not detectable until the end of a one hour infusion of oleate in the colon , and the highest PYY concentrations were not seen until one hour after the infusion had finished .
5 They increase the level of potassium in the body and this leads to a reduction in blood pressure , say researchers at Leicester General Hospital 's University Department of Medicine For The Elderly .
6 This compares with the 1987 General Election result of 43pc for the Conservatives , 32pc for Labour , and 23pc for Liberal/SDP Alliance candidates .
7 In 1987 an unpublished report , known as SHARPEN ( Scottish Health Authorities Review of Priorities for the Eighties and Nineties ) , pointed out the deficiency of local authority provision for mentally ill people and noted local authorities ' particular responsibilities under the Mental Health ( Scotland ) Act 1984 .
8 Others fly over western Europe , the west coast of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope .
9 The mobile belts of Proterozoic times extended the length of what is now the North Atlantic , from east Greenland and Norway in the north , via the British Isles , Newfoundland and the east coast of the United States to the west coast of Africa in the south .
10 STUDYING the West Coast of Scotland from the yacht Britannia , the Queen is said to have remarked , not long ago , that the people there did n't seem to have much of a life .
11 The ceremony , in the FMLN stronghold of Perquín in the north-eastern province of Morazán , was witnessed by Nicaragua 's Deputy Interior Minister and the chief of military intelligence , and by the Nicaraguan and Mexican ambassadors , whose presence had been accepted reluctantly by the Salvadorean government .
12 The decline of pre-marital pregnancy during the late nineteenth century was probably therefore less the product of adoption of middle-class values than the consequence of the felt loss of control over the consequence of heterosexual relations .
13 The final report of the SRHE/Leverhulme Programme of Study into the Future of Higher Education , Excellence in Diversity ( SRHE 1983 ) , called for a wide-ranging debate about the content of undergraduate courses in the light of contemporary needs .
14 In April 1974 , seven months after the coup which brought Pinochet to power , he arrived at the Air Force base of Colina on the outskirts of Santiago to begin his two years of military service .
15 The multi-million pound trail of destruction over the past 12 months includes the following outrages :
16 Dr. John Quicke , psychologist and Lecturer in the Division , has been awarded a research grant of £10,000 from the Mental Health Foundation , ( with likely funding of a further £10,000 ) to explore ways in which schools can teach about mental handicap .
17 At the 40th session of the UNHCR Executive Committee in October 1989 the 43 member states adopted a general programme budget of $190,000,000 for the first six months of 1990 only ; after extensive debate at an extraordinary session in May 1990 and at the regular session in October , the Executive Committee finally adopted a general programme budget for 1990 amounting to $378,885,900 , including the $38,000,000 deficit carried over from the previous year .
18 A government minister , last week appointed to look after green affairs , says he ca n't rule out a three pound gallon of petrol at the pumps .
19 Mrs Hollidaye put her flowers in a tin bucket of water in the porch where other bunches of flowers were being collected .
20 So please sent your club donation of £20 to the Disaster Appeal , .
21 In the evening of Jan. 29 , Israeli gunboats shelled the Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidiyeh near the port city of Tyre in retaliation .
22 The gas detection instrumentation supplier Neotronics Technology is to acquire the instrument division of Solomat in the UK , France and US for $5.5m ( £3.3m ) .
23 Sir John Phear , who was Chief Justice for a short time in the late 1870s , felt that many magistrates ‘ manifest as a rule want of knowledge of the practice of the Courts , of the business of their office , and of the law which they have to conform and carry out . ’
24 Despite the reductions in grant , Mr Cecil Parkinson , the Transport Secretary , is steering BR towards a record £5billion investment programme of modernisation for the 1990s , and is welcoming private sector involvement .
25 b By the age of 12 years old a child will have eaten about half a pound weight of coal-tar in the form of food colouring and dye .
26 Professor Christians , Research Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois , Urbana , was the main speaker at the first North American Consultation on Communication in Theological Education .
27 Fifteen miles away from Menzion you can join the Southern Upland Way , which runs for 212 miles from the south-west coast of Scotland to the eastern seaboard .
28 But Kane was right when he identified in his letter a broad-and-loose Melody Maker aesthetic that prefers transports to truths , rapture to appreciation , magic to meaning , the letting loose of ecstasy to the clench of commitment .
29 This year 's profits will be used to help fund a record £1.5billion programme of investment over the next five years to cope with what is described as ‘ a phenomenal ’ growth in mail .
30 Club M'Diq is carefully sited on the Mediterranean coast close to the fishing village of M'Diq in the Rif region of that country , within easy reach of the exotic landscapes and fascinating old towns of Northern Morocco .
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