Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not a man to belie the magnificent world for the credit of his craft . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This time he imitates a man hanging from a tree , which Barat and Haimet take for the ghost of their hanged father , drop their booty and flee . |
| 4 | For the implication of his theory of power is that if we break out of the regime of sexuality then power will play through a new series of discourses . |
| 5 | A non-confrontational policy designed to persuade drug cartel leaders to surrender in exchange for the banning of their extradition to stand trial in the USA had some success in Colombia [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ; 37957-58 ; 38345 ] . |
| 6 | After being criticised by manager Mr Smith for the timing of his announcement , 24 hours before the Villa Park match , Beresford said : ‘ I do n't want to leave Pompey — in fact it 's quite the reverse . |
| 7 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 8 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 9 | THE MAKING of Nice Work , David Lodge 's adapation for the BBC of his 1988 novel which divides between academia and industry , required extensive filming in both a foundry and a lecture hall . |
| 10 | The abolition of the doctrine of common employment has rendered this area of comparatively little importance , as in most cases the employer will be vicariously liable for the torts of his employees . |
| 11 | The want felt for such an organization for the promotion of their intellectual , social , moral , temporal and spiritual welfare is very great ; there is a wide field of usefulness for the proposed union . |
| 12 | In that year he founded the Humanitarian League which became a channel for the promotion of his ideas . |
| 13 | The fourth department that purchases statistics does so for the preparation of its quantitative economic outlooks ; it uses sufficient statistics to justify use of an online facility as well as of hard copy . |
| 14 | Moreover the political parties would have to set up in every one of them the organization required for the preparation of their lists : an obligation they would be very unlikely to contemplate with enthusiasm . |
| 15 | Those sentenced to 13 years were Chen Zeming , a 37-year-old economist who had gone on hunger strike on Feb. 7 demanding more time for the preparation of his defence , and Wang Juntao , the 32-year-old editor of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly ( of which Chen had been the publisher ) . |
| 16 | In addition , rates have been increased for the minority of our policyholders who live in the larger cities because of the soaring number of thefts there . |
| 17 | Members are pressing for freer European access for the products of their petrochemical industries . |
| 18 | Members are pressing for freer European access for the products of their petrochemical industries . |
| 19 | Best-selling novelist ( Sin City , Penguin , £3.99 ) , poet , short story writer ( her story Hot Ice Cream first appeared in August SHE ) , Wendy is famous for the intensity of her prose and her frankness about sex and religion . |
| 20 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 21 | Both populations also competed for the prestige of their culture . |
| 22 | And so the A N C has to make sure that while it works for the aspirations of its people it must also protect the country and I 'm afraid in this context it means it has through negotiations and other means also conceded made concessions in order to save the situation and the only organization that is now working for the national interest even losing its own supporters in the country is basically the A N C and it 's quite a remarkable thing to see that leaders are prepared to l lose political support because they have to make sure that the country does n't . |
| 23 | Orthodox constitutional theory bestows on individual members the right of independent action and does not regard them as the representative of the party without which they would not have been elected ; over-solicitude for the wishes of their constituents would probably lead them into conflict with the party in parliament . |
| 24 | This important legal ruling that the untaught deaf and dumb could be held responsible for the crimes they committed helped to ensure that another uneducated deaf woman was punished for the infanticide of her child . |
| 25 | Perrier 's first explanation for the contamination of its water was that a worker at its French plant had mistakenly used the wrong sort of cleaning fluid on bottling equipment . |
| 26 | There is a professionally qualified Staff of three in the Learning Support Department , , who has had many years of experience here at Heriot 's , both in the Junior School and in Learning Support ; ; who has more recently joined us after several years experience in Learning Support in other schools ; and who , as Head of Department and an experienced educational psychologist , is responsible for the assessment of our pupils and for the planning of their programmes within the Department . |
| 27 | Scholars who are good at knowing where to look for the sources of their subject matter may not be good at knowing where to look for suitable software . |
| 28 | It is only after the Glorious Revolution — with the emergence of regular sessions of Parliament , when much of the ordinary business of government ( as opposed to just crisis situations ) came to be conducted along party lines , when Parliamentary divisions over a range of issues allow us to see the consistency of party allegiance amongst MPs , and when the parties came to develop fairly sophisticated organisational structures for the pursuit of their political goals — that it is possible to talk of a two-party system . |
| 29 | Northern Telecom Ltd 's Greenwich , London-based STC Submarine Systems has added another award to its collection from 1977 , 1983 and 1990 , for the installation of its turnkey submarine telecommunications systems . |
| 30 | The front fastening of her bra fell apart beneath his light touch and her breasts spilled out , full and round , aching for the brush of his lips across their creamy slopes . |