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

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1 No but the national accounts department is set up to deal with the head offices of of the key multiples and national accounts .
2 The talk drifted away to food , shortages of in the G.D.R .
3 Unlike the " Great Russian " and the authors of To the Young Generation , Zaichnevskii made no bones whatever about using violence .
4 The regime was less keen to placate intellectuals than it was to calm the gentry , but despite the alarming pronouncements of " the Great Russian " and the authors of To the Young Generation and Young Russia , it had less need to do so .
5 And now to illustrate aspects of Save The Children 's Fund and its long term health work , here now is a short video shot on location in Lesotho in Southern Africa and in Pennywell in Sunderland .
6 This by the way is er Donald who is making sound recordings of in the school today .
7 The Hong Kong stock exchange plummeted as Mr Patten , criticised by businessmen in the colony for rocking its relationship with Beijing 's power brokers , called an end to months of behind the scenes wrangling .
8 One of the events arranged to mark the Library 's Tercentenary in 1989 was a bookbinding competition , in which binders were invited to design appropriate bindings for copies of For the Encouragement of Learning : Scotland 's National Library , 1689–1989 .
9 I 've actually got thirty one copies of at the moment .
10 How can you develop schools for children and curricula for developing intellectual , social and personal schools skills , in collaboration with parents , teachers and pupils if those in power neither consult nor trust , nor show any signs of respecting the opinions of those persons most intimately involved .
11 Your Royal Highness ladies and gentlemen the foundations of Save The Children .
12 The chicks are placed on a surface scattered with a mix of food grains and pebbles of about the same size and colour of the food .
13 What reputation did the have with other areas of at the time ?
14 But like everything else they 'll only work with the cooperations of of the of the er motoring public .
15 For instance , if we happen to witness the fall from the cliff-top proposed above , there are many other ways in which we might think of the action apart from using the word acrobatic ; we might describe it as athletic , agile , amazing , swift , cat-like , or we might employ any of an indefinitely large number of similes along the lines of with the speed of a gibbon .
16 Not that he was short of offers , but most of them , before the banal fashion for numbered sequels , were on the lines of After the Graduate , Another Graduate , Shadow of the Graduate , The Graduate Comes Home and Song of the Graduate , leading inevitably to Son of the Graduate .
17 Leonard argued the case through the columns of Over the Hills for Spring 1930 , in reforming ignorance of the emerging Nazi appropriation of the Germanic pastoral dream :
18 The heroes of Under the Net and Lucky Jim follow a broadly similar path , bemused at lit by false starts and coming by the end to see the social world as it is : various , unstereotypable , kaleidoscopic and as fast-shifting as the shades of an opal , but in the end a place to settle into and improve rather than a system to defy .
19 Diametrically opposite from the impact centre of the Caloris basin lies an area of lumpy terrain , consisting of hillocks about 2 km tall and hollows of about the same depth .
20 They also undertake two days of on the job experience in a restaurant , giving them an insight into what is involved , and allowing McDonald 's to assess their suitability .
21 The Killinghall bypass er does bypass some of the severe bends of at the southern ends .
22 Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time .
23 The Lettrists and the Situationists had used ‘ pre-existing elements ’ for their own ends , and so the editors of the Boston text and the curators of On the Passage have , they feel , a certain entitlement to do the same .
24 To test this prediction rigorously Lucas should estimate equation ( 6.6 ) for his 18 countries jointly , imposing the restriction implied by his model that the β 1 coefficients are negatively related to the estimated variances of v. The Lucas model could then be tested along the lines suggested in chapter 3 , by testing for the validity of this restriction .
25 Most natural minerals are brittle because they are more or less homogeneous but it happens that a few have cleavage planes of about the right strength .
26 YORKSHIRE Television yesterday launched an agreed £30.4m takeover bid for Tyne Tees Television , ending years of behind the scenes courtship .
27 ( ii ) Tyndall blue , though uncommon , occurs in some Odonata and is due to the scattering of the shorter wavelengths by particles with dimensions of about the same size as the wavelengths of light .
28 Well when and he was n't on he was n't on , but he he at the towards the end they gave the three of them thirty seconds to describe the go , you know , the qualities of of the
29 The most accomplished of the Benin castings are the high relief plaques of around the 17th century .
30 If members allowances are a hundred and eighty thousand this year which is somewhere around there , Mr may correct me but I think I 'm not too far out , we 've already upped those this year to a hundred and eighty- nine , so next year there 'll be a hundred and seventy-one and the thirteen thousand cost of this will reduce it to a hundred and fifty-eight I actually do n't think that is possible , we ca n't afford it within the terms of of the present set up , unless someone 's going to dramatically reduce the length and the number of meetings in this council , which I think is highly unlikely , I think we 've got to set a good example to our employees , I think that this would give completely the wrong message .
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