Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the majority of people the response to an odour is instantaneous , disappearing immediately the odorant is removed . |
| 2 | She hated John , and when Herod rashly promised Herodias ' daughter anything she wanted , Herodias made her daughter ask for the head of John the Baptist . |
| 3 | For the purpose of discussion the impact of agriculture on environment will initially be examined in relation to three distinct regions that exemplify developing world environments , namely arid and semi-arid regions , humid rainforest regions and mountain areas . |
| 4 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 5 | For the purpose of comparison the three different types of representation for the utterance The order goes in by late November are shown below : |
| 6 | For the purpose of upkeep the Wall was built approximately three metres east of the true border , creating a strip of land called the Untebaugebiet . |
| 7 | For the whole of Scotland the official percentage of married women in employment was only 4.1 per cent , compared to 9.6 per cent in Great Britain as a whole . |
| 8 | A final dividend of 7.1p is proposed for this year giving an overall dividend for the year of 10.3p an increase of 6.7% . |
| 9 | It was then that they scooped out for the storage of goods the extensive vaults and cellaring that still run beneath the old town today . |
| 10 | In evolving the final arrangement of elements for The Wealth of Nations the artist began with a series of drawings and models set in relations to the building . |
| 11 | When being assessed for the Certificate of Eligibility a student must provide the following documents : |
| 12 | For the offence of murder a life sentence is mandatory . |
| 13 | The American tradition of the fine photographic print may have been an irresistible provocation — but there were plenty of precedents available for the kind of work the Starn Twins wanted to do ( notably the expansively scored and painted photographic base used by Anselm Kiefer ; Julian Schnabel 's broken plates ) . |
| 14 | To return to this country , I am advising on a draft Bill for the protection of antiquities the Society of Antiquaries , the Council for British Archaeology and the museum profession are behind it . |
| 15 | So there was intermarriage with natives , something also implied by Pindar ( Pythian ix ) , who describes how Telesikrates ' ancestors competed for the daughter of Antaios the Libyan giant ( and cp . |
| 16 | Raja-Shikara , Prescription for the Way of Life a Poet should Follow ( tenth century AD ) |
| 17 | Table 26 shows that in 1991 injuries to elderly people accounted for 50.3% of all bus passenger injuries whereas for the rest of Scotland the figure was 43.4% . |
| 18 | In the contest for the governorship of Tokyo the LDP switched its support from the 80-year-old incumbent governor Shunichi Suzuki , to Hisanori Isomura , the candidate supported by the national leadership of the opposition Komeito ( Clean Government Party ) and Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ) . |
| 19 | After what seemed ages , Dustin thought he might be willing to co-star in John and Mary if only in gratitude for the bit of play-doctoring the two visitors had done . |
| 20 | The Detachment Commander , a Captain and Ammunition Technical Officer ( ATO ) in the Royal Ordnance Corps , is busy writing up reports for the couple of incidents the team has attended during the preceding few days . |
| 21 | I , Duclos , am responsible for the plantation of Vi An and I will not tolerate lazy , idle , work-shy " yellows " here . |
| 22 | It was to satisfy a roving disposition and an idle curiosity rather than any deep ideal that Rudolf Rassendyll , man-about-town , decided on impulse while travelling in France to visit Strelsau for the coronation of Rudolf the Fifth . |
| 23 | I would rather not have that on the subject reports but if it 's going to be on i for the sake of coherence the comments should be together . |
| 24 | For the sake of exposition the duty will be analysed here in four parts . |
| 25 | For the sake of clarity a simplified balance sheet is shown below : |
| 26 | For the sake of clarity the ascending-node longitudes have all been set equal to each other , though within each group they are in any case much the same . |
| 27 | Although for the sake of clarity the stages are shown as separate boxes , this is a poor form of organization to use in practice . |
| 28 | Although for the sake of clarity the stages are shown as separate boxes , this is a poor form of organization to use in practice . |
| 29 | For the sake of standardization the London Companies always worked to the lowest common denominator ! ) |
| 30 | I had had my head shaved for the sake of hygiene the day before I left England . |