Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time it should be noted that while 14% of authorities fell into this group , 26% of the total sample had establishments of less than 100 , so that not all small libraries found this an insurmountable problem . |
| 2 | About half of all firms of solicitors fell within this profile , while about one in six firms have five or more partners ( Benson Commission , 1979 , vol. 2 , Section 16 ) . |
| 3 | The zig-zag stripes of trench-systems lay on either side like the skin shed by a massive snake . |
| 4 | Confidence in the civilising effect of the study of literature waned during this period . |
| 5 | British companies had to build their lines between revolutions and had to be prepared to accept the damage to bridges , track , and stations caused by civil war and insurgency , but the opportunities presented in the wheat-growing and stock-rearing of Argentina , the coffee , rubber , and minerals of Brazil , the gold , silver , copper , nitrates , and sheep-farming of Chile , the cattle of Uruguay , and the sugar , coffee , cocoa , tobacco , cotton , and cattle of Venezuela seemed at that time limitless . |
| 6 | Section 1 of the 1944 Act gave tremendous responsibilities to the Minister : ‘ It shall be the duty of the Minister of Education to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose , and to secure the effective execution by Local Authorities , under his control and direction , of national policy for providing a comprehensive educational service in every area . ’ |
| 7 | It shall be lawful for his Majesty to appoint a Minister whose duty it shall be to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose and to secure the effective execution by the local authorities , under his control and direction , of the national policy for providing a varied and comprehensive educational service in every area . |
| 8 | According to the 1944 Education Act the Secretary of State has a duty to ‘ promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose … ’ , although effective control was , at the time of the Tyndale dispute , devolved to the LEAs . |
| 9 | In the twelfth century , when the issue of coin had in many areas ceased to be a royal prerogative , this sort of charge was known as seigniorage — a valuable perquisite of controlling a mint . |
| 10 | The member of parliament saw in this ambition an opportunity to strengthen his own interest in the burgh by detaching the schoolmaster 's brother-in-law , the bailie , from the opposition party in the council , for the bailie was at that moment firmly attached to that faction by a promise from Dempster 's rival that he would procure a kirk for the bailie 's son . |
| 11 | Lorence R Fizia of Bathgate sent in this shot of a cruiser at Fort Lauderdale in December 1991 — this has to be form a Boeing 307 Stratoliner ! |
| 12 | The group of proteins encoded by these transcripts includes the three described glial growth factors ( ref. 22 , and A.D.J.G. et al. , manuscript submitted ) and several proteins ( heregulins and Neu differentiation factor ) that have various activities on cultured breast tumour cells . |
| 13 | Williamson 's got five million years of more or less continuous deposit , which he can date pretty accurately erm and he 's got twenty one species of mollusc fossilised in that material . |
| 14 | For us two the war meant , as for so many others , a break in physical contact : but if , as Simone Weil said , ‘ every separation is a link ’ , such a break is not a breaking off , but a period in which , at least in my case , that ties of friendship continued in another form . |
| 15 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |
| 16 | The ‘ winter of discontent ’ and the subsequent return of the Conservatives for what proved to be a very lengthy period of rule seemed to most observers to mark a profound watershed . |
| 17 | The invention of Ruritania led to many descendants , all declaring their ancestry in the ‘ a ’ suffix , from Buchan 's Evallonia and George Birmingham 's Lystra to countries invented for young readers like Frances Hodgson Burnett 's Samavia , Noel Streatfeild 's Livia , Serraillier 's Silvania , Adnan Alington 's Rumelia and Harnet Graham 's Zoraya . |
| 18 | To create a sense of occasion that is in keeping with the depth of emotion felt at such times is very difficult without recognized formalities and strong ritualistic content . |
| 19 | But the preparatory sketches he made throughout his life , 300 of which are on display at this exhibition , show that a careful process of synthesis lay behind each work . |
| 20 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 21 | The industrial and commercial development of England had by this time succeeded in ‘ ruralizing ’ the countryside by reducing the economic viability of much small-scale manufacture and domestic handicraft and transferring it to the new system of factory production in the towns . |
| 22 | The success of the Anglo-Catholics and the revival of the Church of England produced by both Evangelicals and High Churchmen did not fit into the plan prepared for the new century : it is no coincidence that both Anglo-Catholicism and the new Free Church Councils were mainly confined to England 's towns and cities . |
| 23 | Although there are differences between them , each addresses in its own way the range of concerns sketched in this Introduction . |
| 24 | William I was succeeded by one of his sons , William II , who was crowned King of England , whereas the Duchy of Normandy passed to another son , Robert , who had sometimes sided with King Philip I of France , and that presented many of the Norman Barons in England with divided loyalty . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the affidavit sworn on 24 May 1990 of Mr. Richard Small , the defendant 's counsel at the trial , deposes that on 29 July 1982 the Director of Public Prosecutions of Jamaica issued to all Crown counsel and clerks of the court a memorandum which stated : |
| 26 | The mysterious irony of salvation lay in this paradox : Jesus , the only one who kept the law in its entirety , paid the penalty of lawbreakers , by being exposed upon that accursed cross and subject to the judgment of God . |
| 27 | An air of antiquity hung over that pathway , which , followed to its logical end , ran down to the river , as if the ancient Britons had used it first and it would go on being used even after the Bomb fell . |
| 28 | After all , the laws of war existed in some form long before the idea of the modern multilateral treaty had been invented . |
| 29 | Above that were two windows which opened every hour and a procession of Apostles appeared in each window . |
| 30 | The map of Wessex included in each volume was prepared from a drawing supplied by Hardy . |