Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can
2 Rather more than 20 years ago , over a lunch in Staff House , I was persuaded by three eminent lecturers of this University to allow them to nominate me for the Council of Consumers ' Association .
3 Nathan told them about the can of beans , the shotgun hold-up , the brutal thrashing in the back yard .
4 The more frequently graded tests are used , the better will be the understanding of those who are to rely on them for the selection of candidates .
5 It recognized that there was a National Health Service and a private sector and , rather than arguing that one should be taken over by the other , proposed sensible cooperation between them for the benefit of patients .
6 An experienced producer at a major London agency was recently asked to list them for the benefit of newcomers .
7 Both bodies publish application forms recommended for use when applying to them for the appointment of experts or arbitrators : copies of the forms are reproduced in Appendices G and H. The Law Society has also published its requested procedure : see [ 1986 ] Law Society 's Gazette 2542 , reprinted in Appendix B. It is important that applicants follow the procedure of applying on prescribed forms .
8 How if we draw from the records of our knowledge to find a way to drive this ship of yours without the use of machines ? ’
9 It became increasingly difficult to pay insurance and assistance benefits and at the same time keep them below the level of wages .
10 The only disadvantage I find with them is that there are so many bits to take apart and wash and , as with most plastic bowls it is difficult to rid them of the smell of onions .
11 erm it 's it reminds me of the kind of embarrassments that we experience on a number of levels actually .
12 The detection of word boundaries in written text is relatively simple ( due to the custom of leaving spaces between them despite the absence of pauses in speech ) however the segmentation of a word into its constituent characters is difficult .
13 erm and I wonder if our traditions have disappeared because we have had to adapt to working lives and changes in lives , and I wonder if men have held onto theirs in the face of women being a threat to them in working environments and other aspects of their life .
14 And yet the story which the people of Dodona will tell about the black dove from Egypt becoming their oracle would surely arise because the foreign woman 's language would sound to them like the twittering of birds .
15 Thank you for the bouquet of flowers sent to me on behalf of all our local branch AND Thank you for my other flowers later , ‘ when maybe I needed them even more ! ’
16 JOHN Major 's income tax cut which Labour described as a bribe should be in the people 's pockets in mid-May , but he should be able to provide an even greater post-election thank you for the majority of voters in the form of a stabilised housing market .
17 But there is nothing on land that can prepare you for the profusion of shapes and colours of the corals themselves .
18 Now when it asks you for the sample statement , ah done it , right before , it will ask you for the sample statement er over what period would you like to estimate this equation , right instead of pressing the return key which gives you the default , right , if you specify nineteen twenty three to nineteen forty sorry just a a dash between it like that nineteen twenty three space nineteen forty okay it asks you for the number of observations to be used in the structural stability tests , right , erm if you er press the default er if you press the return key then it should give you the maximum number available right five observations in this case right and then it will perform the regression over the entire sample period , those will be the results you obtain , right , it will also er present Chow erm test statistics .
19 All provide a leaflet telling you about the range of services on offer .
20 All provide a leaflet telling you about the range of services on offer .
21 ‘ But for this you should really have at least £50,000 and preferably £100,000 — and a stockbroker to guide you through the minefield of stocks and shares . ’
22 DesignaKnit will warn you of this and will also advise you of the number of stitches and rows needed for the best result , in terms of both detail and proportion .
23 And even if you tore the guarantee up and threw it away erm a you 've still statutory rights , anyway , given to you under the Sale of Goods Act .
24 ‘ My son was very cross with me for burdening you with the basket of flowers . ’
25 These disks will help you in the design of publications or word-processor files under the Windows 3.1 .
26 ‘ Supposing that 's the case , what led you to the Skein of Geese in the first place ? ’
27 Provision for the effects of transfers of employees and liabilities in respect of them under the Transfer of Undertakings ( Protection of Employment ) Regulations 1981 and transfers of pension rights .
28 It is essential that we should do all that we can to take as many schools as possible out of local education authority control and place them under the control of governors and parents .
29 And he took off his glasses , tucking them into the pile of clothes , and ran down to the edge of the water .
30 We prop the grating open with another branch and spend the next half-hour pulling fallen branches and logs from all over that part of the hill , dragging them into the clump of bushes and throwing them into the shaft ; we snap dead branches off trees and bushes and haul and peel living ones off ; we scrape together armfuls of dry leaf litter and throw those over the edge of the chimney , too ; everything goes under the grating and down into the shaft .
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