Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] and [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warming to this theme , Ferril suggests that the ‘ egg of life ’ is symbolized by the oval inflated bladder of pigskin and by the oval-shaped outdoor arenas to which worshippers flock in their thousands in search of ‘ an outlet from sexual frustration ’ which they hope to find in the ‘ masochism and sadism ’ displayed before them by a highly-schooled ‘ priesthood of young men ’ . |
| 2 | There were five ancient parishes within the Borough of Bedford and in the second half of the eighteenth century they experienced increasing difficulty in dealing with the poor in the town . |
| 3 | He was also greatly assisted by the co-operation of both the Shipbuilders Association of Japan and by the Japan Shipowners Association . |
| 4 | Similarly no one who has attended the Yeats Summer School in Sligo will deny that the seminars and lectures are less profitable than driving to Glencar , or Gort , and walking in those places , or wandering in the demesne of Lissadell and under the shoulder of Ben Bulben . |
| 5 | With × 20 it is not hard to locate , somewhat to the northwest of Zeta and in the same field with it ; I can glimpse it with × 12 and suspect it with × 8.5 , though I have never been able to see it with any lower magnification . |
| 6 | What is clearly needed now is for rigorous western-style clinical trials to explore the efficacy and safety of formulations of herbs and for the pharmacology of these herbs to be investigated . |
| 7 | At the meeting the 41-member council recommended constitutional and party statute amendments which would delete references to the party as the " ruling political force of society and of the state " . |
| 8 | There is a story that Old Dobbin , even after he had been retired from active fire service , would still , by force of habit and for the excitement of it , try to get out of his stable to find his place between the fire-engine shafts whenever the alarm rang . |
| 9 | It is measured in the repossession of houses and in the lack of new house starts . |
| 10 | coding methods may be constrained by methods of input and by the amount of main memory available to a system ; |
| 11 | He continued to the outskirts of town and through the gates that led the half-mile to Destayala . |
| 12 | A protracted investigation into fraud at the Banco Ambrosiano came to a close on April 16 when Carlo De Benedetti , president of Olivetti and of the holding company CIR ( Compagnie Industriali Riunite ) , was sentenced to six years and four months in prison . |
| 13 | Thomas 's view of the pope as the dispenser of justice and of the cardinals as influential advisers within the papal circle accords with other accounts of the period . |
| 14 | There are fine views across the Firth of Forth and to the Forth Road and Rail Bridges . |
| 15 | He would have been saddened by the closure of Kelham and by the decline in numbers at similar Anglican institutions . |
| 16 | I suffered acutely , both from the gradual loss of faith and from the necessity of silence . |
| 17 | His lectures became notable and popular ; he had a command of words and of the crisp phrase . |
| 18 | This review is done every year and leads to the publication of a Programme of Work and to the setting up of module development groups made up of industrial , commercial and education representatives . |
| 19 | The electorate , for its part , no longer votes on the basis of the calibre of the candidates , but rather votes for a programme of policies and for the party which they wish to see form a government over the next 5 years . |
| 20 | The background to this debate , and clearly the cause of this debate , involves the great change — or different kinds of change — taking place across the continent of Europe and within the European Community . |
| 21 | In this memoir he identified the arrivals of dilatational and distortional body waves ( P-waves and S-waves ) and of surface waves in seismic recordings , a finding which was further documented in a paper of 1900 and which laid the foundations for the instrumental study of earthquakes and of the Earth 's deep interior . |
| 22 | But this is an oversimplification of the study of distributions and of the nature of exchange . |
| 23 | By 1939 it was widely believed that no more wooden aeroplanes would be built and this might have come true if the War had not created shortages of aluminium and of the machinery and skilled men for handling it . |
| 24 | Such processes lead to a concentration of sand and to the building of a bar at the break point . |
| 25 | And superimposed on all these variations in space and time are the more erratic influences of currents and of the influx of rivers . |
| 26 | However , the key Ministries of Defence and of the Interior went to NPKA members . |
| 27 | Work by the staffs in the four ministries of defence and by the NATO agency N A F M A to re-orientate the project in line with the minister 's directions is now at an advance stage . |
| 28 | Heads of Government and at the moment are being debated throughout the community but the signs are ominous for the anti-reformers as the McSharry Crusade gains momentum in its aim of changing the face of agriculture . |
| 29 | According to this document , the deployment of such forces would be conditional on consensus in the Council of Heads of State and on the consent of all parties to a conflict . |
| 30 | Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk , who chaired the meeting , announced at a news conference that after several hours of what were reported to be stormy discussions , 20 documents had been signed , notably including an agreement defining the status of the strategic forces and stipulating that their commander was subordinate to the Council of Heads of State and to the C.-in-C. of the joint armed forces of the CIS . |