Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among his public works ( mentioned in Elucidario Madeirense by Silva and Meneses ) , he was responsible for building houses of refuge near the exposed mountain passes , and public fountains for thirsty travellers all over Funchal , at his own expense . |
| 2 | The sub-schema DDL allows the setting up of particular user views of part of the schema , such as the specification of privacy locks , and the renaming and redescription of data items and records . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , you know my old man keeps a fifteen gallon cask of scrump in the shed ? ’ |
| 4 | Designed and built by the astronomer Andronicus Kyrrhestes of Macedonia in the second quarter of the first century BC , with a wind vane and complicated sundials on each of its eight walls , its most interesting feature is a reservoir in a smaller building that stood next to its south side . |
| 5 | In these studies , however , the rise in PYY concentrations was not detectable until the end of a one hour infusion of oleate in the colon , and the highest PYY concentrations were not seen until one hour after the infusion had finished . |
| 6 | They increase the level of potassium in the body and this leads to a reduction in blood pressure , say researchers at Leicester General Hospital 's University Department of Medicine For The Elderly . |
| 7 | This compares with the 1987 General Election result of 43pc for the Conservatives , 32pc for Labour , and 23pc for Liberal/SDP Alliance candidates . |
| 8 | Dynacord 's bass research has concentrated largely on speaker technology , and these units represent the company 's answer to the relatively slow response characteristics of speakers in the low frequency range . |
| 9 | Others fly over western Europe , the west coast of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope . |
| 10 | The mobile belts of Proterozoic times extended the length of what is now the North Atlantic , from east Greenland and Norway in the north , via the British Isles , Newfoundland and the east coast of the United States to the west coast of Africa in the south . |
| 11 | STUDYING the West Coast of Scotland from the yacht Britannia , the Queen is said to have remarked , not long ago , that the people there did n't seem to have much of a life . |
| 12 | The decline of pre-marital pregnancy during the late nineteenth century was probably therefore less the product of adoption of middle-class values than the consequence of the felt loss of control over the consequence of heterosexual relations . |
| 13 | Subject to contract heads of agreement for the acquisition of the whole of the issued share capital of ABC HOLDINGS LTD [ ’ abc ’ ] |
| 14 | Anderson et al 1978 3 combined peer ratings of universities with the numbers of publications produced by these universities within 10 scientific fields : Developmental Biology , Zoology , Pharmacy , Physiology , Mathematics , Microbiology , Psychology , Chemistry , Biochemistry , Physics . |
| 15 | Anderson et al 1978 combined peer ratings of universities with the numbers of publications produced by these universities within 10 scientific fields : Developmental Biology , Zoology , Pharmacy , Physiology , Mathematics , Microbiology , Psychology , Chemistry , Biochemistry , Physics . |
| 16 | In April 1974 , seven months after the coup which brought Pinochet to power , he arrived at the Air Force base of Colina on the outskirts of Santiago to begin his two years of military service . |
| 17 | The multi-million pound trail of destruction over the past 12 months includes the following outrages : |
| 18 | Dr. John Quicke , psychologist and Lecturer in the Division , has been awarded a research grant of £10,000 from the Mental Health Foundation , ( with likely funding of a further £10,000 ) to explore ways in which schools can teach about mental handicap . |
| 19 | At the 40th session of the UNHCR Executive Committee in October 1989 the 43 member states adopted a general programme budget of $190,000,000 for the first six months of 1990 only ; after extensive debate at an extraordinary session in May 1990 and at the regular session in October , the Executive Committee finally adopted a general programme budget for 1990 amounting to $378,885,900 , including the $38,000,000 deficit carried over from the previous year . |
| 20 | A government minister , last week appointed to look after green affairs , says he ca n't rule out a three pound gallon of petrol at the pumps . |
| 21 | Mrs Hollidaye put her flowers in a tin bucket of water in the porch where other bunches of flowers were being collected . |
| 22 | So please sent your club donation of £20 to the Disaster Appeal , . |
| 23 | SOLUTION ( a ) We must first write the equation for the complete combustion of ethanol : Applying equation ( 12 ) to this reaction and remembering that the standard molar enthalpy of formation of elements in their standard states is zero we obtain By rearranging this equation and substituting the above values for the standard molar enthalpies , we obtain ( b ) The enthalpy diagram will show two routes to the formation of the combustion products of ethanol from the elements in their standard states : route A is the overall reaction : route B is divided into two steps , B1 — the formation of from its elements in their standard states , and B2 — the combustion of . |
| 24 | In the evening of Jan. 29 , Israeli gunboats shelled the Palestinian refugee camp of Rashidiyeh near the port city of Tyre in retaliation . |
| 25 | The gas detection instrumentation supplier Neotronics Technology is to acquire the instrument division of Solomat in the UK , France and US for $5.5m ( £3.3m ) . |
| 26 | On 31 March 1925 American Columbia used their new equipment to record a most impressive demonstration disc — the Associated Glee Clubs of America at the Metropolitan Opera House . |
| 27 | Sir John Phear , who was Chief Justice for a short time in the late 1870s , felt that many magistrates ‘ manifest as a rule want of knowledge of the practice of the Courts , of the business of their office , and of the law which they have to conform and carry out . ’ |
| 28 | Despite the reductions in grant , Mr Cecil Parkinson , the Transport Secretary , is steering BR towards a record £5billion investment programme of modernisation for the 1990s , and is welcoming private sector involvement . |
| 29 | b By the age of 12 years old a child will have eaten about half a pound weight of coal-tar in the form of food colouring and dye . |
| 30 | Professor Christians , Research Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois , Urbana , was the main speaker at the first North American Consultation on Communication in Theological Education . |