Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week the head teachers association of Cambridgeshire wrote to the county council to say that because of critical shortages of books , equipment and facilities and because of oversized classes , it would have serious difficulty providing the national curriculum . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , do shut up ! ’ said Molly , thinking of Jacqueline left in the sole care of Giovanna . |
| 3 | He was an intelligent man but he had not travelled far , and we spent hours sitting on the verandah talking about our different cultures — he was fascinated by the idea of social security , the nuclear family , double-decker buses and cricket — while above us dark silhouettes of geckoes scurried across the strip lights . |
| 4 | A light , high tang of fuel lay on the air . |
| 5 | As is usual with a carnival , it started with a Fancy Dress Procession around the parish , which finished at the Shady Bower Field , and a great deal of thought went into the entries . |
| 6 | The potential we could receive here , erm the kind of people who live here , the numbers of people who live here now and in the future , the types of housing and housing again , in the future and all in all a g a great deal of study went into the area . |
| 7 | There was a good deal of shrubbery trailed up the sides and it would have been difficult to see us by a casual glance along the terrace . |
| 8 | The confrontation became heated and a force of Gardai came on the scene . |
| 9 | Such losses of services occurred in the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 10 | A succession of marquees led to the fairground complex , dominated by a great ferris wheel . |
| 11 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 12 | Quite simply , not only do we and they not share common objectives , but we do not even make similar appraisals of world events , as the President of France demonstrated at the time of the coup in Moscow , when he seemed willing to negotiate with the coup 's leaders . |
| 13 | Even after radio reporting of results began between the wars , the ‘ pink'uns ’ and ‘ green'uns ’ kept their readers . |
| 14 | Silver plumes of snow lay across the peaks . |
| 15 | The real loss of life occurred on the evening of 4 December when a group of insurgents , accompanied by a crowd who had apparently come along to watch events , was fired on during a panic reaction on the part of the soldiers . |
| 16 | The sun shone equally on them both : their shadows , enormous and jagged , covered the ground between the table and the eating-house , and waves of heat beat on the tonsures of the Alban priests . |
| 17 | People laughed about their pink towels turning blue , the result of copper leached from the hot water pipes by the acidic water . |
| 18 | An unusual photograph of Joseph presented to the U.S. National Assembly by General Miles . |
| 19 | A vigorous programme of vaccination continued throughout the epidemic . |
| 20 | A massive programme of reforms had by the 1920s established law and order , infrastructure and a stable economy based on agriculture — notably the production of tea , rice and sugar — and some state sponsored industrial development . |
| 21 | It happens that the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland began during the age of the dinosaurs . |
| 22 | The experimental study of heredity led to the emergence of genetics , while ecology was presented as an extension of physiology into the study of the organism 's reaction to its environment . |
| 23 | The experimental approach to the study of heredity led to the creation of the new science of genetics . |
| 24 | Domes of clay burst in the clear depths |
| 25 | The Mayor of Bedford wrote to the Board expressing the concern of the Justices of Peace about the state of insubordination in the workhouse . |
| 26 | The medals and chains of office of the Heads of State glittered in the white light from cubic fittings suspended over the tables in the banqueting hall . |
| 27 | The Countess of Donnington stood at the window of the first-floor sitting room , intent on the street below . |
| 28 | Incubation with therapeutic concentrations of drugs led to the following reductions in binding : 10 mM 5ASA , 20% ( p<0.001 ) ; 10 mM N-acetyl-5ASA , 24% ( p<0.01 ) ; 10 mM 4ASA , 21% ( p<0.005 ) ; 10 mM N-acetyl-4ASA , 29% ( p<0.001 ) ; and 1 mM olsalazine , 29% ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 29 | GANGS of youths went on the rampage early yesterday , turning Christmas celebrations into chaos . |
| 30 | A much more serious incident began on 3 and 4 June when gangs of youths appeared on the streets of Ferghana and nearby towns , armed with iron bars and Molotov cocktails , and in search of Meskhetians . |