Example sentences of "[adj] of the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior officers were generally resentful of the attempts of politicians to interfere in military affairs and in the organization of the Empire , which was almost a military fiefdom . |
| 2 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 3 | It is impossible for the seller to exempt himself from liability under section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act . |
| 4 | ( The purchaser could , of course , have brought an action against the vendor under section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act . ) |
| 5 | ’ Gabriel , having both hands round the playmaster 's wrist , managed to pull his face free of the spread of fingers . |
| 6 | In the dark office the human awoke , mooed for a while , and tried to jerk free of the cobweb of wires that held it down . |
| 7 | She would do business with her fellow ministers free of the curse of committees . |
| 8 | Praying that the links would n't catch on my clothes … in my knitted sweater … should have stripped … head under , metal lying on my face , push the links up with hands , full strength , take care , do n't rush , do n't snag clothes , get free of the jumble of things on the mud around me , hold onto the wire outside , do n't let go , the current in the river was appreciable , tugging , keep straight , hang on , shoulders through , raise the links , back through , bottom through , legs … links … short of breath … lungs hurting … careful , careful … unknown things round my ankles , hampering … had to breathe soon … feet catching … feet … through . |
| 9 | A higher turnout than in 1987 was reported in the Bergamo-Brescia constituency in Lombardy , native turf of the Northern League , which wants northern Italy to be a separate republic in a new Italian federation , free of the burden of taxes and inefficient and corrupt rule from Rome . |
| 10 | Provision would be made for the possible transfer of other functions at a later date , ( e.g. The assessments of means , decisions on the grant of criminal legal aid , and at least some of the determinations of bills now carried out in the courts ) . |
| 11 | The present reforms attempt to gain some of the advantages of markets within a public health system , without their inequities and in- efficiencies , by a managed form of competition . |
| 12 | Thus within this conversation , we can say that there are actually two types of talk ( at least ) going on : argument , where some of the rules of politeness governing conversation are temporarily suspended , and management , where they continue to hold . |
| 13 | Horses can learn some of the vocabulary of others . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , Clinton 's dignified television performance ( seen by an estimated 40 per cent of the electorate ) , together with inconsistencies in some of the claims of Flowers , and the withdrawal of the Nichols lawsuit , appeared to have rescued the Governor 's campaign from the point of destruction . |
| 15 | The practical interconnection between gender , ethnicity and class can be seen in some of the ethnographies of women 's lives that have been recently produced . |
| 16 | I hope I have demonstrated some of the variety of ways in which Credits can be used and as I write perhaps some genius is thinking up yet another variation to deal with a particular problem . |
| 17 | These 14-year-olds are doing just some of the variety of jobs done by teenagers that are either illegal or just terribly underpaid . |
| 18 | Some of the gems of excuses … |
| 19 | So , even though I was young and inexperienced , I felt that I could appreciate some of the feelings of men like Captain Robins , and now this strange and kindly doctor , ‘ happily ’ married to a woman rich enough to live in a big house facing Wimbledon Common while he preferred a far-off island ; each partner more in love with a way of life than with one another . |
| 20 | My reply is that I have sought to identify some of the congeries of qualities of the legal institution of marriage , not to identify its ‘ essence ’ . |
| 21 | We set ourselves to introduce a critical awareness of current misconceptions about language , to inform students of some differences between speech and writing , to make them aware that social and aesthetic evaluations of language are that , and nothing more ( however confidently pronounced ) and to sensitise them to some of the difficulties of pupils in English schools for whom English is not the mother tongue , or for whom their own English was a baffling unfamiliar variety . |
| 22 | One way of addressing this is for me to continue to highlight some of the views of colleagues who have not , in the public mind at least , been closely associated with the anti-Federalist cause and several of whom were not , for instance , among the eighty-odd Conservative Members who signed one or both of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motions . |
| 23 | A triumph of the 1991 Avignon Festival the company , Ches Panses Vertes from Picardy , create vivid with sombre imagery of the battlefield with a structure of sand and barbed wire … a mystical garden in which two men re-enact with tiny wire figures some of the experiences of Cendrars and his experiences of Cendrars and his companions during the first year of the 1914–18 war . |
| 24 | These are some of the findings of Trends in Journals Subscriptions 1990 and 1991 , compiled by Priscilla Oakeshott . |
| 25 | Yet he was probably correct in attempting to explain some of the complexities of roads in England by using one sheet of the ordnance Survey 1-inch map series . |
| 26 | Some of the studies of futures other than index futures are summarized in Table 8.4 . |
| 27 | Police have recovered some of the haul of firearms stolen from a shooting range . |
| 28 | Police have recovered some of the haul of firearms stolen from a shooting range . |
| 29 | These are just some of the reactions of members of the community regarding the renovation of St. Joseph 's House . |
| 30 | What I 'd like now like to do is to describe some of the components of tools strategy to enable and empower us to deliver enterprise-wide client server solutions . |