Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] of [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts by the Orthodox clergy to convert the indigenous peoples , mainly shamanists , to Christianity were in some case approved of by the authorities , but generally in the period under study there was a reluctance to permit the baptism of natives , since they then ceased to pay yasak . |
| 2 | There certainly is n't any light to speak of in the windows . |
| 3 | Nigel did n't get any attention to speak of for the rest of that day . |
| 4 | New clause 4 simply asks that the Scottish Transport Group staff pension fund and the transport operatives pension scheme — TOPS — continue in operation and that it should be a condition of sale that any new company operating any undertaking disposed of under the Bill should participate in them . |
| 5 | Outside Senegal and the Ivory Coast there was very little press to speak of in the pre-independence period : illiteracy was even higher than in the British territories , and the small , educated élite could not easily sustain newspapers . |