Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr B 's altered appetite — for improvements as distinct from ladies ' maids — is proof of his moral reformation , for the villainy of Lovelace in Clarissa ( 1748–9 ) is signified by his neglect of his country seat ; while the excellence of Sir Charles Grandison , Richardson 's pattern hero , is indicated by his obsession with mortar , creating a little heaven on the earth of his estate . |
| 2 | The second reason for the dispatch of Dzerzhinsky to Siberia was to clear up the situation after the Civil War , and to deal with Siberian peasant revolts . |
| 3 | This correlation argues for the possibility of synthesis of platelet activating factor precursors in cells sensitive to gastrin stimulation . |
| 4 | The collapse of the English plan had opened the way for the possibility of marriage within Scotland , to Arran 's son . |
| 5 | And for teachers already using ( or wanting to adopt ) the approach described here , it acknowledges and reflects their wider concerns , offering a framework which allows for the possibility of building in collaboration as an integral feature of teaching and learning across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 6 | Our understanding of certain phenomena , it would seem , does have to allow for the possibility of God at work . |
| 7 | Note , 0.0Z versions of packages wih no later versions are not hard copied to allow for the possibility of deletion by validate . |
| 8 | On March 11 , opposition groups led by George Serban drew up the Timisoara Declaration , a document calling for the banning of ex-communists from public office , a purge of the bureaucracy and democratic reforms . |
| 9 | The IBA was made of sterner stuff when the Foreign Secretary called for the banning of Death on the Rock . |
| 10 | The driving force behind the idea is the Cranfield Institute of Technology , which already supplies teaching and research for the Ministry of Defence at the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham . |
| 11 | Michael , a chef for the Ministry of Defence at Catterick , won the culinary art section while Gillian , of Grove Farm , Bradbury , won for her ideas in kitchen planning . |
| 12 | A TYNESIDE man who has worked for the Ministry of Defence for nearly 30 years will be awarded a medal on Thursday . |
| 13 | A customised robust variant of it has been designed for the Ministry of Defence under quality-assurance procedures . |
| 14 | The company first emerged in the Second World War , supplying electrical components for the RAF , and much of its advanced scientific work for the Ministry of Defence in ‘ Electronic Systems ’ remained ( like that of very many Defence suppliers ) in the South , co-ordinated from national headquarters in Ilford ( Greater London ) . |
| 15 | We , we kept on er making or doing repairs for the Ministry of Works for about ooh seven or eight years after the war finished , which kept a lot of men working in Galashiels when we , you know , when they were n't very sure if they could come back to their old jobs . |
| 16 | During the war Montagu worked for the Ministry of Information in the film division . |
| 17 | Jakobson 's essay thus constitutes as strong a claim as can possibly be made for the relevance of linguistics to literary study . |
| 18 | This suggestion , that stylistics should characterize comparatively the language or style of texts and leave it at that , would seem to constitute a sort of minimal claim for the relevance of linguistics to the study of literature . |
| 19 | Other satellites , such as the European ERS-1 and the Canadian Radarsat , are scheduled for the period 1990–1995 and will provide radar imagery of the Earth for the monitoring of storms at sea and the tracking of iceberg movement in Arctic waters . |
| 20 | Secondly , if the polytechnic in question had deteriorated in resource provision and management to the point suggested , this pointed to the lack of an early warning system through the Inspectorate , who had a responsibility for the monitoring of standards in non-university institutions . |
| 21 | The accusation ( the first to be made against Barry publicly and under oath ) came as Lewis pleaded guilty to two charges of conspiring to purchase crack , as part of a plea bargain in which the prosecution dropped a further 15 charges in return for the assistance of Lewis in investigating Barry . |
| 22 | a more specific power to appoint a British consul or his deputy as a special examiner may be exercised where a Civil Procedure Convention subsists between the United Kingdom and the relevant foreign country providing for the taking of the evidence of any person in that country for the assistance of proceedings in the High Court ( the unspoken assumption being that any such Convention will permit consuls to act ) ; and |
| 23 | However , Nuttall has shown that this creates considerable problems for the interpretation of results in relation to , for example , class size . |
| 24 | The compression of child bearing has had important implications for the participation of women in the formal labour market . |
| 25 | Examples of the influence of the liquid — or solvent — on the solubility of a particular gas are clearly shown by the values for the solubility of oxygen in table 6.2 . |
| 26 | Although he denied it , at the time he fled to Damascus where the Syrians — never slow to take advantage of those in need — offered him protection and later supported him in his successful candidacy for the presidency of Lebanon in 1970 . |
| 27 | Camille Chamoun 's power was ultimately founded upon his Nimr ( Tigers ) militia , commanded by his son Dany , who was himself to be a declared candidate for the presidency of Lebanon in the aborted 1988 elections . |
| 28 | Which novelist ran ( unsuccessfully ) for the presidency of France in 1848 ? |
| 29 | Hun Sen proposed in a speech delivered on Oct. 17 that the party support Sihanouk 's candidacy for the presidency of Cambodia in the future elections . |
| 30 | The rationale for the inclusion of B in the money equation is that governments may finance expenditures which they are reluctant to pay for through taxes by methods which expand the money stock . |