Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] of the " in BNC.

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1 The review that we undertook of the calls shows that the peak demands in are between eight A M and twelve midnight , so the four officers will work a sixteen hour duty scheme er of eight till four , four til midnight , and then the cover between midnight and A M will come fr eight A M will come from as it does at present .
2 Constance smiled in the dark as she thought of the chaste kisses she had allowed Nicky .
3 Ask voters to say what comes to mind when they think of the Labour Party and a large proportion mention , ‘ the unions ’ , ‘ strikes ’ , ‘ the winter of discontent ’ , and ‘ the three-day week ’ , even though this last event occurred under Mr Heath .
4 Er well I think the experience that I gained of the the kind of erm living situation erm because I you know we underwent the same kind of difficulties .
5 It was with much regret that I learned of the sad passing of Jack Golder ( Shergold guitars ) on 9th April ‘ 92 , via the obituary published in your June issue .
6 And the , the incredible er spectacle that we have of the endless three , four , five hundred page biography is based on no evidence at all , because we know very very little about this man , except that he was a shareholder in the theatre , a very very minor actor , the sort yes , who would have minded the costumes .
7 Labour was moving on as a renewed party — ‘ a party that cares as much about consumers as it cares about producers ; a party that wants to make the economy work as much as it wants to change the economy ; a party that embraces as much of the green as it does of the red ’ .
8 I bow my head in shame when I think of the countries we 've looted and the people we 've subjugated .
9 the Far East , including Japan , Australasia and South America are among the areas that bring a gleam to his eye when he talks of the future .
10 Goodness when I think of the moving they must have done , the trunks they must have packed .
11 With some exceptions , the gentry and clergy readily accepted the Restoration in 1660 ; few went as far as the Reverend Dr William Oughtred who , at the age of 86 , ‘ died of excess of joy when he heard of the restoration of the monarchy ’ .
12 Is the Secretary of State aware that it is almost three years to the day that we heard of the Clapham rail tragedy , which was caused by faulty signalling and negligence ?
13 On the same day that he heard of the post at Shrewsbury , however , another letter reached him , addressed in an unfamiliar hand .
14 For all those who sit on European committees , the CAP is the main criticism that we have of the Community 's work .
15 so we could have reduced that , and I think that is the criticism that I make of the Conservatives , not that the Conservatives in this council have done that , but that they should be apologizing for it .
16 We went about a mile before they tired of the effort involved , and I did n't mean to go much further in any case because according to the map I had in my pocket we were by then in about the centre of the western spur of the Quillersedge woods .
17 IRISH Prime Minister Albert Reynolds came under Unionist fire last night after he spoke of the importance of the Republic 's constitution to nationalists north of the border .
18 Membership of an economic community requires the acceptance of a financial obligation to fund the objectives of the organisation whether they consist of the limited objectives of a regional trading group , or the more extensive objectives of an economic union .
19 Harper 's voice had a note of relish as he spoke of the fighting to Lucille .
20 Mary Warnock provides a scathing analysis of the government 's attitude to higher education when she writes of the contempt that the government has for universities and their staff :
21 She would look at him sideways , smile at unexpected moments , and while she was never coarse there was the vaguest suggestion of the gentlest possible obscenity as she spoke of the bodies of animals .
22 IT WAS with great sadness that we heard of the death of , at the age of 67 , on April 24 .
23 It was with great sadness that we learned of the death , at 94 , of Ralph Gerstenberg , on 27 September 1993 .
24 Sir — It was with deep sadness that I heard of the death of Fred Daly , to date the only Irish winner of The Open .
25 It was , therefore , with sadness that I read of the British Olympic Association 's petty , bigoted decision to withhold recognition of the Paralympics team .
26 Humans clomped slowly around the train and what remained of the truck .
27 And then there would be a few more trees around the , the back area if you like of the erm er marketplace .
28 And if you notice what we 're trying to do is with our er illustration here er is to reflect the the gentility if you like of the Yorkshire hills and Yorkshire dales and we have a logo of our own which appears in the corner of the screen .
29 For example if you think of the Vauxhall Cavalier advert where they 're crashing these Cavaliers all over the place , if you had a silicone er a silicon-based steel instead of crumpling nicely the steel would actually crack and break .
30 Educated at Luddesdown before taking his degree at Oxford in 1738 , he was well acquainted with this area for he writes of the old Chapel at Upper Hailing .
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