Example sentences of "in [noun sg] of [pos pn] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am surprised that he did not cite as evidence in support of his case the moral philosophy of his own Monklands District Council . |
| 2 | If we are going to deliver to the people to whom we as elected members owe the highest duty , that 's the people who are in receipt of our services the sort of quality service that we , that they deserve then I have to say that we can have as many reports of this nature as we like , but you have got to acknowledge the need to change and you have got to stop resenting the rights of parents and governors to run schools , you 've got to stop being obstructive to competitive tendering and you have got to stop arguing for the retention of services where it 's patently obvious that there 's over provision . |
| 3 | In consequence of his death the wedding was very quiet . |
| 4 | In spite of its name the exhaustive ballot is not a single ballot but a series of ballots . |
| 5 | In spite of my umbrella the shoulders of my trenchcoat were soaked , not that it bothered me . |
| 6 | In spite of our hopes the weather appeared to be deteriorating with a freshening wind and rising sea . |
| 7 | In spite of his skill the Gloucestershire player was replaced by the all rounder Alec Stewart , for what turned out to be a disastrous tour of India and this summer 's Ashes series against Australia . |
| 8 | Trooping the colour on Horse Guards Parade each year in front of Her Majesty the Queen is one of the major events in the Brigade of Guards ' calender |
| 9 | Some executives of the company wanted to expand into the travel business , but in 1900 the testy head of American Express , James Congdell Fargo , was still adamantly against it , ‘ I will not have gangs of trippers starting off in charabancs from in front of our offices the way they do from Cooks ’ , he stormed . |
| 10 | Certainly what Devon Loch heard at that moment was not a noise which he had heard before , and it was some noise — a raucous surge of patriotic fervour as the Royal horse galloped to certain victory in front of his owner the Queen Mother and her daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret , a rapturous climax befitting what was about to be one of the greatest moments of racing history . |
| 11 | Obviously Rune must have thought she harboured some grudge against him and had been anxious to prevent a potential display of hostility in front of his colleagues the next day . |