Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 He longed for the austerities of the mission field .
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3 For the chill of divine retribution , listen to Russ Brown 's 1986 track , ‘ Got ta Find A Way ’ : ‘ I must let you know that judgement is here below .
4 Led by Hepworth Band they march through the village to Scholes , with stops en route for the singing of hymns .
5 However the mass at Our Lady of Lourdes , Leasowe , on Saturday November 14 , will also be an occasion for the singing of Byrd 's Mass for Four Voices .
6 So we are all set up with booze , sex , unrequited love , thoughts of separation , ambiguous sexual status , a grand piano for the singing of old songs and a sniffy Law dispensing trifle with a gimlet stare .
7 IT WAS Wednesday 8 September 1943 , the second great festa of the year for the Madonna of Fontanellato .
8 The events are a good reason for the enthusiasts of this largely non-social past time to gather and renew acquaintances .
9 But the old religion had elements which prepared its adherents for the symbolism of the new : the death and resurrection of Osiris , the representations of the mother goddess Isis with her son Horus on her lap , the symbol of life in the form of a cross , the Egyptian ankh .
10 Mr B 's altered appetite — for improvements as distinct from ladies ' maids — is proof of his moral reformation , for the villainy of Lovelace in Clarissa ( 1748–9 ) is signified by his neglect of his country seat ; while the excellence of Sir Charles Grandison , Richardson 's pattern hero , is indicated by his obsession with mortar , creating a little heaven on the earth of his estate .
11 Susan Suleiman points out , however , that Iser 's claim for the multiplicity of ‘ correct ’ readings is in fact not borne out by his readings themselves ( Suleiman 1980:24 , cit .
12 He put the chicken in a roasting bag and felt in his pocket for the vial of thallium .
13 On the last day of 1921 the Party Central Committee appointed Feliks Dzerzhinsky , the head of the Cheka and Commissar for Transport , to the commission for the dispatch of food supplies and grain seed from Siberia and the Ukraine .
14 Once in Siberia he realized that estimates made on paper in Moscow for the dispatch of 250 wagons a day to the Volga were completely unrealistic .
15 The second reason for the dispatch of Dzerzhinsky to Siberia was to clear up the situation after the Civil War , and to deal with Siberian peasant revolts .
16 Six weeks should be allowed for the dispatch of tickets .
17 The US resolution was not supported by the PLO which had pressed for the dispatch of a mission reporting directly to the Security Council ( i.e. not to the UN Secretary-General ) .
18 At the time of the signing plans were already well under way for the dispatch of a UN Advance Mission to Cambodia ( UNAMIC ) .
19 I was keen to stay close to Harvey while he made preparations for the dispatch of this agent , but Harvey left the flat before breakfast .
20 He also used the flower as the starting point for The Tuft of Primroses — Poetical Works , v , p. 348 ff , written in 1807–8 .
21 He was not a man to belie the magnificent world for the credit of his craft .
22 By his statement of claim , the plaintiff alleged that on July 6 , 1932 , the defendants by their solicitor , a Mr. Kennard , verbally agreed with him that , if he would on July 7 , 1932 , pay the £208 in cash into a bank at Eastbourne for the credit of the solicitor 's firm at the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England , that payment would satisfy all sums that he owed them and a bankruptcy notice which they had issued in respect of part of the debt would not be served on him .
23 Except when they are earned by the professor as the supervisor of graduate students , as an academic adviser under the regulations for Recognized Students , or ( subject to the approval of the faculty board or boards concerned and the General Board , including approval as to the length of time for which the permission shall be given ) in respect of tutorial teaching for up to four hours per week ( exceptionally up to six hours per week ) , any fees received for lectures or instruction given by the professor in the University shall be applied towards meeting the expenses of the department of which he is in charge or , if he is not in charge of the department , shall be paid to the Curators of the University Chest for the credit of the University General Fund .
24 My mother must have made quite big money in tips , for the records of her savings , no longer a secret , show quite fabulous sums being stored away in the early sixties .
25 The same procedure for verification was followed as for the records of the meetings .
26 For the opponents of transmutation , this meant only that the ‘ centres of creation ’ had been active throughout the earth 's history .
27 Given that the Court had appeared poised to destroy Roe v. Wade , however , the result was generally interpreted as a defeat for the opponents of abortion .
28 As Webster points out , ‘ To dissever the week from the lunar month , to employ it as a recognized calendrical unit , and to fix upon one day of that week for the exercises of religion were momentous innovations which , until evidence to the contrary is found , must be attributed to the Hebrew people alone . ’
29 And now each time you breathe out think the word ‘ calm ’ in your mind … each time you think the word calm so the body will relax a little more , become slightly more heavy and sink down deeper and deeper into the chair … and just go on now in silence for a minute or so thinking the word ‘ calm ’ and relaxing the body in preparation for the exercises of relaxation … ’
30 These nonconformists or dissenters — were no longer , however , simply allowed to opt out and organize their own services , for the legislation of the Clarendon Code passed in the 1660s made any such unauthorized meetings for worship illegal .
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