Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is understandable that the previous isolation of the disease results in a sense of amazement in early recovery on the discovery that other people have not only shared similar experiences but also similar thoughts and feelings . |
| 2 | Acquiring the products to be exported from India was not so simple ; the Company directors had to put down the ‘ investment ’ , mostly in silver bullion though public pressure made them include some English products as well , and had to finance a good deal of the running costs of the textile production that they were encouraging . |
| 3 | But there is no doubt that the real organizational flair , the risk-taking , and the shrewd perception of the profit opportunities in catering belonged to members of the Salmon and Gluckstein families , and the real power in the company lay with them . |
| 4 | The bulk of the textile manufacturers in northern France at the same period were similarly children of what could already be considered the middle strata ; the bulk of the mid-nineteenth-century Nottingham hosiery manufacturers had similar origins , two-thirds of them actually coming from the hosiery trade . |
| 5 | Despite this , the vast red sandstone bulk of the cathedral towers above the severely damaged and consequently modern city , the impression it creates little affected by the trolley bus wires which cross the tourists ' line of vision . |
| 6 | ENGLAND claimed the bulk of the judo medals in the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland but the Commonwealth Tournament at the National Sports Centre , Cardiff , this weekend will be more open . |
| 7 | Both the long and short meditations are presented as prayers in which Rolle counterpoints awareness of the suffering caused by sin in the events of the Passion with a growth in horrified consciousness of the death blows of sin in the self , for which the only remedy is that love manifested in the death of Christ working in man : what Julian will call " the werkyng of mercy " , which lasts as long as sin pursues man , and of grace which works our " dredful faylyng " into solace and our " shamefull " " falling " to resurrection . |
| 8 | Defeat of the Axis troops in Tunisia marked in Churchill 's words ‘ the end of the beginning ’ but for the enemy the beginning of the end and was indeed the turning point of the Second World War . |
| 9 | The affinity of each repressor mutant was estimated by serial twofold dilution of the cell extracts across the range where retardation of the DNA fragments was observed . |
| 10 | On August 24th 1804 , William Spies of the parish of Harlington was admitted as an in-patient on the recommendation of the parish officers of Westoning . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps he is taking to assure himself of the adequacy of the funding arrangements for local management of smaller primary schools ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 12 | He could not avoid it , he took a lungful of the diesel fumes from the taxi as it pulled away . |
| 13 | As well as £2,000 , and a trophy presented by the Duchess of Kent , he has won a place in the Eurovision Young Musician of the Year heats in Brussels in June . |
| 14 | James P. Wilkerson , president of the Star Stations of Indiana Inc — a chain of five radio stations in the mid-West — had no idea of his daughter 's political leanings , and was on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean . |
| 15 | ‘ Rassilon had become the first President of the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |
| 16 | An examination of the development of a fire in high-racked storage is fundamental to the appreciation of the design requirements of a protective system . |
| 17 | Overfishing , combined with the effects of the cyclical change in currents known as El Nino ( which can cause widespread collapses in the marine food-web ) , resulted in the collapse of the anchoveta stocks in 1972 , when catches fell to less than one-twentieth of that in the 1970 season . |
| 18 | Therefore they were not major features of metropolitan counties , although Strathclyde suffered disproportionate losses from the closure of the vehicle plants of Peugeot-Citroen and Massey-Ferguson . |
| 19 | In quick succession the city was faced with plans to cut the last of its rail links to Belfast and the closure of the ferry services to Heysham and Glasgow . |
| 20 | Dungannon Chamber of Trade and Commerce replaces the former Chamber of Trade , and the first major issue it will tackle is the continued closure of the security barriers around the town centre . |
| 21 | Although achieved briefly , it was not until the closure of the street routes in the early Sixties , that the fleet was centralised on this depot . |
| 22 | Missing from the letter , however , was any mention of the reform efforts of the previous eighteen months — a record which one recent historian has fairly characterized as " a more significant advance on the past than Labour 's creditable six-year record in post-war Britain " . |
| 23 | It is significant that the insurgent peasants of Essex in 1381 demanded the abolition of the hunting privileges of the landowners , and made no mention of the Forest laws of the Crown . |
| 24 | Diaz et al have shown homozygous or hemizygous loss of the interferon genes in 29% of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia , but it is unclear whether the critical target gene is one of the interferon genes or another locus nearby . |
| 25 | They are facing formidable opposition in the shape of last year 's winner , Rosa Mota , who sees London as a warm-up for the Olympics , where she 'll be defending her title and looking to put the disappointment of the World Championships in Tokyo last year behind her . |
| 26 | For instance , this is a transcript of the opening moments of a small group discussion of a poem |
| 27 | Only within the last 20 to 25 years has there even been an identifiable cohort of ageing disabled adults ; first , life expectancy for many types of impairments prior to this was low ; second , people who became disabled as a result of injuries received during the Second World War are now entering older age ; third , many children and young adults disabled as a result of the polio epidemics of the late 1940s and early 1950s are now in their 50s or older . |
| 28 | It gained ground as a result of the election results of the 1970s and the development of the adversary politics thesis . |
| 29 | These petroleum exploration ‘ parameters ’ have been developed as a result of the exploration activities of the late 1960s . |
| 30 | I hope that the panel will feel that it has had as a result of the position statements before it , and the discussions over the last few days , sufficient information to decide whether to exclude certain sectors . |