Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His flashy marketing campaigns have done little for the success of Midland 's new products . |
| 2 | At the moment we know little about the realm of infrasound and how animals exploit it . |
| 3 | Despite this agreement we know little about the identity of Glasgow 's property owners , the scale on which they operated , or their social and economic status . |
| 4 | We filled a great many notebooks with testing data but learnt very little about the strength of materials . |
| 5 | The reason : The provincial government paid Mount Providence , operated by Roman Catholic nuns , 75 Canadian cents a day each for the care of orphans — for mentally retarded children it paid 2.75 dollars . |
| 6 | The wide-ranging programme includes twenty-five fellowships of $10,000 each for the study of history of art , awarded primarily to scholars who have had limited access to western art historical research libraries and museums . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll bear that as the yoke of God . |
| 8 | Was that as the result of comments ? |
| 9 | In the case of the housewife there are two possible discrepancies which might be connected with dissatisfaction : that between the status of housewife and the status of the husband 's work , and the discrepancy between the status of the housewife 's own present or previous employment work and her status as a housewife . |
| 10 | The first edition was produced some twenty years after the death of Mohammed — a much smaller gap than that between the death of Jesus and the emergence of the New Testament ! |
| 11 | In 1971–76 their overall growth rate was already considerably in excess of that for the rest of Britain , but subsequently the gap has widened , particularly since 1981 . |
| 12 | For our purposes , it is sufficient to note that for the majority of economists , the use of these concepts of surplus is a legitimate way of analysing the benefits ( and losses ) that arise under differing competitive conditions . |
| 13 | The situation for chiropody at home was mid-way between that for the receipt of home help and GP visits , with the ratio for elderly men living alone being 2.7 times higher than for elderly married men . |
| 14 | A successful applicant is normally admitted as a candidate for the degree of MPhil but may apply at a later date to transfer his or her registration to that for the degree of DPhil . |
| 15 | The procedure is much less public than that for the passage of Acts of Parliament . |
| 16 | If one comes to the are northeast of Flaxton , I believe that for the avoidance of coalescence , one ought in the case of a village which has a rather wide boundary conservation area , for historical reasons basically , one ought to take the coalescence distance from the edge of that conservation boundary . |
| 17 | In that context , the designation by article 5(1) of the Convention of the courts for the place of performance of the obligation in question expresses the concern that , because of the close links created by a contract between the parties thereto , it should be possible for all the difficulties which may arise on the occasion of the performance of a contractual obligation to be brought before the same court : that for the place of performance of the obligation . |
| 18 | That after the conquest of Norway Swegen was put in charge of it under his mother 's tutelage reinforces this conclusion . |
| 19 | ‘ I would n't miss this for the whole of Christendom . ’ |
| 20 | Both factors meant that bureaucrats had every incentive to try to maximise the budgets of their own service without any regard to the larger implications of this for the scale of state activity and public expenditure . |
| 21 | Case studies of three examples of corporate reorganisation consider the way in which corporate structures have changed during the last two decades , and the implications of this for the geography of service production . |
| 22 | What were the implications of this for the process of commercialization ? |
| 23 | According to the Middle East Economic Digest of July 21 the actual deficit was unlikely to be as high as this as the Ministry of Finance consistently overestimated its budget deficits . |
| 24 | They have used this as the input of capital to develop industries ( see page 16 ) . |
| 25 | Walks on the Howardian Hills include a 4-mile one around Byland Abbey , one around the White Horse at Kilburn and another through the forest of Yearsley . |
| 26 | My bet is that it was started by one cave dweller stalking another through the gravel of Peking or Java , his stone club at the ready . |
| 27 | Well , yes , I want to find out some about the history of Kuwait . |
| 28 | Juxtaposed to each detail from the Passion sequence is another about the life of Christ which sets the Passion in the context of the scheme of salvation . |
| 29 | ‘ Most South Africans are tired of confrontation and wish to speak to one another about the road of prosperity and justice for all , ’ he said in a nationally broadcast statement . |
| 30 | The Prince of Wales has an obvious love of the countryside and for 20 years he has somehow found some private time to express this through the medium of watercolour painting . |