Example sentences of "[verb] of the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Crabbe in his poem of 1802 , " The Parish Register " , writes of the village paupers as " Those who take from our reluctant hands / What Burn advises , or the Bench commands " . |
| 2 | James Bond … would surely approve of the gun holders in the back . |
| 3 | Now , what do you make of the pencil entries at the start of the new year ? ’ |
| 4 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 5 | If one thinks of the DNA codes for proteins as records in a jukebox , the problem is to understand why one disc , say the haemoglobin theme , is played only in red blood cells while another , the albumin theme , is played only in liver cells . |
| 6 | Have n't you heard of the sorcery wars between the Amaranths and the Tyrians ? |
| 7 | Her hand tipped the scoop and the chips slid into the scale and when the dial registered much more than half an ounce she did n't remove any but , taking a paper bag , she blew into it , then , tipping up the scale , she disposed of the coconut chips before saying , ‘ I 'll be with you in a moment . ’ |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what assessment he has made of the resource implications for the health service in Scotland of the incidence of hypothermia in the winter months . |
| 9 | Comparative case studies will be made of the accounting regulations for research and development expenditure and for the translation of currency movements in the accounts of firms . |
| 10 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 11 | Major commitments in the concluding joint statement ( i ) ratified previous commitments made under the 1987 Esquipulas II or " Arias " peace process [ see pp. 35440-42 ] and welcomed new peace dialogues in El Salvador and Guatemala [ see below ] ; ( ii ) re-affirmed commitments to strengthen and consolidate democracy in the region and to respect human rights ; ( iii ) expressed satisfaction with the running of the recent Nicaraguan elections [ see p. 37236 ] and demanded an immediate start to the demobilization and disarming of the contra rebels under UN supervision which was to be completed by April 27 [ but see pp. 37370-71 ] ; ( iv ) agreed on a meeting of a joint regional security commission to take place in Costa Rica on May 15 ; ( v ) undertook to reorganize , strengthen and reactivate regional economic integration , to review foreign debt conditions and to urge the international financial community to provide additional resources under favourable terms ; and ( vi ) agreed on regional co-operation to eliminate illegal drug trafficking . |
| 12 | An analysis already exists of the migration patterns of 1974 and it is intended to make direct comparisons between this and the 1983 results . |
| 13 | I am sorry to hear of the job losses to which the hon. Gentleman refers , but the only secure future for the coal industry or , indeed , for any other industry , is for it to produce something that people want at a price that people can afford . |
| 14 | Why do not the Government even now get rid of the tax concessions for private health insurance and put the £60 million saved straight into fighting cancer ? |
| 15 | Look at it the other way … at least we ARE beating the lower teams something a lot of ‘ mid-table ’ sides fing difficult ( as do some top of the table sides at times — remember Scum vs West Ham : ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) . |
| 16 | Watkins knew of the Chin tracks in India which follow the most direct line between villages regardless of gradient ; the straight camel tracks of Palestine , sighted on tree clumps on ridges , notched where the line went through ; and the skyline cairns of Egypt set up as landmarks for caravans . |
| 17 | ( Think of the opening chords of the slow movement of Schubert 's ‘ Unfinished ’ , for instance . ) |
| 18 | The sexual aspects of adult life are immensely varied and will be considered in more detail as we come to think of the client groups with which social workers deal . |
| 19 | Advantage can be taken of the filing exemptions as a small company provided that the appropriate note is included on the balance sheet . |
| 20 | The first known secular literature in Slovene was composed of the baroque poems of an Augustinian friar , Marko Pohlin , written in the mid eighteenth century . |
| 21 | The great wall at the end is all that remains of the Baroque fortifications of Prague . |
| 22 | A colossal number of Housing Executive dwellings in my constituency are in urgent need of renovation — I am thinking of the housing estates at Tullycarnet , Ballybeen , Groomsport , Bangor and Holyrood . |
| 23 | GPs are to be warned of the side effects of prescribing steroids to children after a nine year old girl died after taking the drugs . |
| 24 | In the UK , financial deregulation from freeing of the building societies to Big Bang in the City were handled more sensibly . |
| 25 | I can happily dispose of the foam cartridges at regular intervals without losing vital bacteria as there will be sufficient in the gravel . |
| 26 | It was the following weekend and Rachel was helping her father , who had just given the lawn its last cut before winter , to dispose of the grass cuttings on the compost heap at the bottom of the garden . |