Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A meticulously restored 10th century farmhouse situated near Sevenoaks is the nerve centre for the broadcasting exploits of Kent 's favourite gardening expert , Harry Smith . |
| 2 | But the term " Tithonian " , though not quite so lacking in respectability as the " Urgonian " , is usually reserved for the carbonate facies of alpine Europe , and is still disputing with the " Volgian " the honour of being the accepted international term for the topmost stage of the Jurassic . |
| 3 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc , which wants to separate its regulated and unregulated businesses , has set an initial stock offering for the wireless operations of its PacTel Corp subsidiary , which is to become a separate company by year-end ; the amount to be raised in the offering has yet to be determined , but it has already said it plans to up the capitalisation of the wireless operations by raising at least $750m through public or private sources . |
| 4 | He criticised the way the selection of referees for the knock-out stages of the World Cup had been made , conveniently ignoring the fact that René Hourquet had been selected , only to turn down the appointment . |
| 5 | He concludes , therefore , that for the twin reasons of the capitalist 's desire to force high output from individual labourers and to prevent labourers from setting up in competition , a pattern of work organisation emerged in the early cotton industry that was characterised by intensive working in factories , with individuals performing fragmented tasks . |
| 6 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |
| 7 | In other words , support for the education policies of the church were the quid the Irish party had to give in order to obtain the quo of the bishops ' endorsement of the party as the genuine political representatives of the Irish people or nation . |
| 8 | ESTEFANIA KNUTH , a former winner of the World Junior Championship , finished six shots clear of the other 31 qualifiers for the match-play stages of the French Women Juniors ' Championship , here yesterday . |
| 9 | Four of the victorious Walker Cup side qualified for the match-play stages of the U.S. Amateur at Merion . |
| 10 | Ironically , the best hope for the pilot whales of the North Atlantic is that they are becoming unsafe for humans to eat . |
| 11 | Values for the absorption coefficients of several different gases in water at s.t.p. are shown in table 6.1 . |
| 12 | The above design conclusions have profound implications for the construction details of my chair . |
| 13 | In 1972 a research paper by American scientists showed that the stable isotope ratios for oxygen and carbon in white marble varied from quarry to quarry , and more extensive research since then has confirmed that such measurements provide a ‘ signature ’ for the marble quarries of Italy , Greece and Turkey , which were the main sources of Classical marble . |
| 14 | A company has set up fair value provisions for the reorganisation costs of a subsidiary it acquired last year . |
| 15 | This surely suggests that in the more distant demes — Eleusis with its great sanctuary and fortifications , or Rhamnous and Sounion with their temples of Nemesis and Poseidon ( ML 53 = Fornara 90B for the treasury accounts of Rhamnousian Nemesis ) — the city 's magnetic pull was less strong than in a deme close to the city , like , say , Kolonos . |
| 16 | ( 6 ) In accordance with the constitution of the Labour Party the General Committee of this party or the executive committee of a nationally affiliated organisation shall by resolution formally accept responsibility for the election expenses of the prospective candidate selected and a copy of such resolution shall be attached to the application of the constituency party to the National Executive Committee for endorsement . |
| 17 | A telegram arrived saying I was booked on a flight the next day , to be filmed at Pinewood Studios for the title sequences of the James Bond film ‘ A View to a Kill ’ . |
| 18 | Now this is the centre for the government offices of the civil service , the law courts and the cathedral . |
| 19 | To some , street tranquillity signified popularity , deference , and respect , a ‘ thank you ’ for the service practices of the patrol officer . |
| 20 | We think that the er residents of a new settlement will still look to York as the natural centre for employment , for er provision of most employment , retailing and entertainment , and if you compare it with something like er Easingwold , erm which is of a similar size , erm this has achieved a degree a degree of self containment and balance , but this has occurred through erm a long period of development and a gradual growth of erm social linkages and economic linkages , however , even with such erm a gradual growth erm it 's not got a high degree of self containment , erm recent developments in er transport and changes in lifestyle have reduced this even further , and it 's difficult to believe that er a proposal , such as a new settlement er which is explicitly intended to cater for the development needs of York , located only ten miles from York can achieve the same level of self containment . |
| 21 | In battle none could stand against them , for the Dragon Princes of Caledor were fearsome mages as well as mighty warriors , and their steeds were terrible to behold . |
| 22 | Tyrion is tall , proud and fair , a master of weapons , a match for the Dragon Princes of old in battle-prowess and skill . |
| 23 | Thank you for the sending copies of the above planning applications . |
| 24 | Britain 's main clearing banks are reviewing their lending policies in the light of a draft EC directive which would make them liable for the clean-up costs of their industrial clients , should the latter go into liquidation . |
| 25 | If I may speak for the Law Officers of the Crown , we are scrupulous in bearing that vital principle in mind . |
| 26 | There 's no room here for the individualist ideals of post Thatcher Britain . |
| 27 | Although most of the reports on the subject had been cut out , probably for the colour pictures of Imam Khomeini , we gathered that the EC countries had suspended relations with Iran and that the whole situation had grown completely out of hand . |
| 28 | ORRELL , the North West 's sole representative in Courage Division One , will this month exchange the lush turf of England for the sand pitches of the Middle East . |
| 29 | In 1904 the line was across the Zambezi and crossing Northern Rhodesia ( Zambia ) for the copper deposits of the Congo . |
| 30 | Sidonius Apollinaris ' lines et te Massiliensium per hortos sacri stipitis , Arbiter , colonum ( Carmen 23. 155–6 ) " You , Petronius , who in the gardens of Marseilles were the worshipper of the sacred tree-stock " are given as evidence for the Massaliote origins of Petronius . |