Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Clearly , however , the needs we have identified at Stirling for the transmission of documents , images and so on are also arising at other sites — and between sites as well . |
2 | Several companions followed Peregrine through the congestion of officers and baggage . |
3 | WHEN delegates of the Whitbread Merit Table clubs took time off from their deliberations over leagues last week to enjoy a day out at the University Match , they took the opportunity to complain to Cardiff about the legions of players who have made the journey to the Arms Park in recent months . |
4 | Disturbed by the evidence of an increase in organized hostility towards the Jews during 1938 , Neville Laski used his contacts with Special Branch at Scotland Yard to employ a recently retired inspector to penetrate the NL for the Board of Deputies . |
5 | On Jan. 14 it was announced that the government had reached agreement with the United States for the rescheduling of repayments of debt principal and interest totalling US$47,000,000 , due between June 1 , 1991 , and June 30 , 1992 ; part of this — US$18,700,000 due to the US Agency for International Development ( USAID ) — was to be postponed for 10 years , while the rest was to be subject to a six-year grace period . |
6 | Prema Seva Sadan is a project run by Fr Theo Raijmakers for the rehabilitation of street-children . |
7 | David Chambers of Le Meridien was responsible for the foie gras starter , Vaughan Archer of the London Hilton for the broth of scallops , Martin Davies of Brown 's Hotel for the wild salmon stuffed with tomato and cream courgettes . |
8 | The successful sale to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1991 of a group of Greek and Etruscan jewellery by Robert Haber in partnership with Artemis has led the company to invite Mr Haber onto the Board of Directors , indicating their continued commitment to this field . |
9 | The Royal Shakespeare Company 's tour to Brussels with The Comedy of Errors was made possible by support from Guinness . |
10 | This latter attack , widely held to have been the work of a Tamil Tiger suicide squad , again called into question India 's desire after the IPKF withdrawal to remain at arm 's length from the Tamil conflict in Sri Lanka — a major security issue , with India such a short journey from the LTTE 's Jaffna stronghold across the Palk Strait , or from Mannar along the string of islands at Adam 's Bridge . |
11 | Anthony Irving inside the House of Pipes he founded at Bramber , in West Sussex , which closed yesterday after more than 16 years because of his ill-health . |
12 | Thus ( TES 1991a:14 ) : part-time governors are in no position to replace LEAs in the running of schools , says Ann Holt , director of the support group Action for Governors Information & Training ( AGIT ) . |
13 | Suzannah was strangled by Downey in the block of flats where they both lived . |
14 | Prior to her appointment Martin had represented Illinois in the House of Representatives for 10 years . |
15 | In addition to Saudi Arabia 's installation of the east-west ‘ Petroline ’ linking the huge Ghawar oilfield to the Red Sea coast , Iraq had also laid a strategic line to enable oil from its southern fields to be sent out via Syria in the event of difficulties in the Gulf . |
16 | For many abolitionists emancipation was celebrated by raising Buxton to the pantheon of heroes . |
17 | Mandeville Roe , an ex-member of the British Fascists and the BUF , also submitted reports on the NL to the Board of Deputies in 1939 . |
18 | Hephaestus was crippled and ugly , having had the temerity to interfere in a quarrel between his tempestuous parents , and been flung from Olympus to the Island of Lemnos below for his pains . |
19 | The committee also discussed the continued disputes between the WFP and the FAO over the distribution of programmes , resources and responsibility , and endorsed a UN suggestion that an " eminent person " should be appointed to consider the relationship between the two organizations . |
20 | It is interesting to note that , the exposure and greater control of FBI activities do not appear to have placed the United States at the mercy of subversives . |
21 | In the great days of Suleiman the Magnificent the sultan 's armies reached the gates of Vienna in 1529 , having already subdued Hungary at the battle of Mohács three years earlier . |
22 | By the time that the decision was taken to challenge the United States by the installation of missiles in Cuba ( probably in early July 1962 ) the USSR had been forced to revise its optimistic view . |
23 | Unfortunately no biographical details concerning the author appeared with the original article , I understand from Francis Treuherz of The Society of Homœopaths that Dr. Schore edited a journal entitled Homœotherapy which began in 1982 and ran to 8 volumes . |
24 | The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Science at the University of El Salvador argues that , |
25 | Joe had written to me suggesting that there was a post for me in Japan ( available through the good offices of Stephen Spender , who had just returned from there with a commission from the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Tohoku University ) to go and teach English , in the poet-teacher tradition for which it was famous . |
26 | Dr Nurhan Atacey , Dean of the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University , and a leading expert on Turkish and Persian miniature painting , Iznik pottery and Turkish textiles , is curating the exhibition and writing the catalogue . |
27 | Alan Johnston , the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates , and Brian Adair , the president of the Law Society of Scotland , told the Scottish affairs select committee in London that the changes were unjustified . |
28 | At the National University of Singapore the small Stirling delegation was invited in by Professor Ernest Chew , Dean of the Faculty of Arts in Singapore , to address senior staff on the subject of the semester system . |
29 | ‘ We still have trouble convincing people across ICI of the value of partnerships . ’ |
30 | Do the Government have figures for Scotland about the number of students involved and the cost to local authorities of trying to collect this tax ? |