Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used the Ulster slang , knowing I would have learned it during my tours of duty on attachment in Belfast . |
| 2 | Baulked through my lack of means of anywhere that would have corresponded to my Aunt Anna 's notions of gentility or my own aspirations , I found myself in an area of bleak but populous streets lined with smoke-blackened tenement blocks south of the river . |
| 3 | I had hardly finished rummaging through my snapshots of cars of the '50s ( pictured here a fortnight ago ) when I was transported back another 10 years to the 1940s . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you want me to oxygenate it for you ? in he asked , ‘ I know what I 'm doing , I 've kept fish for ten years.in He waited for my look of amazement at his expertise . |
| 5 | I sincerely hope the prejudice of my overseas training and lack of vocational training do not account for my lack of success in gaining access to resources . |
| 6 | He looked at me with twinkling pity for my lack of understanding of the really serious things in life . |
| 7 | room for my sort of personality in most careers , but to some extent it 's got to be you know balanced and |
| 8 | So you know when you get in a meeting sometimes you 've got a point of view on an agenda item and you think how where am I gon na get support for for my point of view on the meeting ? |
| 9 | The Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers decided at a meeting in Luxembourg on Oct. 22 to lift diplomatic and economic sanctions against China ( imposed in June 1989 — see p. 36722 ) and Iran ( agreed in February 1989 — see p. 36450 ) and to establish diplomatic and economic relations with Vietnam , broken off after its invasion of Cambodia in 1978 . |
| 10 | Commenting on the appointment , Dean Witter Reynolds Inc analyst Jay Stevens told Dow Jones & Co that the automakers have been working to slash excess capacity and workers for years and that that is the situation now faced by IBM after its decades of success in the mainframe computer market have been undermined . |
| 11 | The Communist Party , after its reversal of policy in October 1939 , tried to keep the idea of " Unity " alive through the People 's Convention . |
| 12 | In particular , the ‘ Mind Britain 's Business , campaign against the League of Nations policy to boycott fascist Italy after her invasion of Abyssinia in 1935 cut little ice . |
| 13 | And one after your cup of tea at six o'clock . |
| 14 | and after your cup of tea at five o'clock . |
| 15 | one after your cup of tea in the morning |
| 16 | Whether they will look after our type of clients in the way they are used to being looked after is of course a different question . |
| 17 | ( c ) We moved " recent critical appraisal " after our analysis of powers of description and humour because these sections give our own critical appraisal ; now , by the time we outline other people 's opinions we have something to compare them with , and can therefore do something more interesting than just repeat them . |
| 18 | Prison officers are repeatedly subject to abuses from the Government about their lack of commitment to the job that they do . |
| 19 | The mixture of praise and criticism for general practitioners ' care of people in residential homes was similar to comments about their care of others during the last year of their lives . |
| 20 | Current drugs education materials targeted at 13-17 year olds are based on two premises : i ) that substance abuse needs to be approached in the context of the general use of legal drugs in society and ii ) that young people should be encouraged to make rational decisions about their use of drugs on the basis of criteria related to personal health , self-identity and relationships with others . |
| 21 | He worried about her lack of friends of her own age , yes , even male friends . |
| 22 | Yes , yes , her mother had always been honest about her lack of initiative in that direction . |
| 23 | Britain appeared to have little interest in the area , Russia was preoccupied with her domestic problems , and in any case the Tsar had never forgiven Austria for her lack of support during the Crimean War . |
| 24 | Read Masterclass , page 36 , for her outline of fashion for this season . |
| 25 | A subsequent search and investigation of her papers , such as they were , revealed a very large cargo of brandy in the hold , damning correspondence with the ships ' agent in Belgium , and some unconvincing reasons for her change of destination from Sweden to Spain . |
| 26 | In a civil trial that began in 1987 , Eileen Roddenberry sued Norway , the company set up by her ex-husband , for her share of profits from the original television show , as well as Star Trek : The Next Generation , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , and the Star Trek feature films . |
| 27 | She need not rely for her sense of identity upon outward appearance ; she may in fact look beautiful , she may look a mess ; it does not matter greatly at that particular time . |
| 28 | Who wants to body bash ? ’ she shouts with her body language , as she looks for her type of guy in the park — a hunky Dobermann or a Rottweiler usually twice her size ! |
| 29 | The reference given is dated 1983 , since when many developments have taken place , not least that American otorhinolaryngologists have adopted the Miller technique as their treatment of choice for allergic perennial rhinitis . |
| 30 | During its years of association with Middlesbrough , the Jupiter saw active service in the Falklands and The Gulf . |