Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It aims to finance a minimum level of services , to equalize taxable resources between different local authorities , and to relieve the domestic ratepayer of part of the local tax burden . |
| 2 | This is now a popular cruising link and the water quality in the Tame Valley canal improves markedly from here with the only weeds being small clumps of watercress along the edges . |
| 3 | Beyond Philadelphia , the farmland became vaguely English in the fading light with neat fields and little clumps of trees at the corners . |
| 4 | It is always possible to be kinder to the earth , but it is not saving clumps of trees from the bulldozers which will matter in the next century . |
| 5 | The food plant for both the small tortoiseshell and the peacock is the stinging nettle , so to stand the best chance of finding their caterpillars , start inspecting large clumps of nettles about the middle of May . |
| 6 | Few , however , reflect the kind of commitment to effective professional service which inspired McClellan 's system in the borough of Tottenham in the 1950s . |
| 7 | In 1593 he was returned to Parliament for the Yorkshire borough of Beverley on the interest of his kinsman Lancelot Alford . |
| 8 | CCG HAS started a new contract to provide school meals for the London Borough of Wandesworth over the next four years . |
| 9 | He represented the borough of Northampton in the Parliaments of 1624 , 1625 , 1626 , and 1628–9 . |
| 10 | Ltd v. Heller & Partners Ltd and Anns v. London Borough of Merton as the authorities which give rise to this proposition . |
| 11 | Not all cases known to the indicator agencies were examined , but only those who were resident in the Borough of Wirral during the specified time period . |
| 12 | Why should the export of capital from the UK after 1979 have been expected ? |
| 13 | This results in an export of capital from the UK of K1-K2 , corresponding to the capital stock increase in Germany of K3-K4 . |
| 14 | The architecture shows the influence of the Italian colonisation ; the modern harbour harks back to the healthy export of livestock to the Gulf States ; and the large scale agricultural activity in the adjacent fertile valley now lies dormant with equipment and crops stolen and even the electricity pylons stripped of their cables . |
| 15 | The squalor remained through the troubles of the Civil Wars until a new prosperity was built on the growing export of corn in the later seventeenth century . |
| 16 | Production from the field will mark the first export of gas from the UK . |
| 17 | The immediate cause of this switch was a ban on the export of walnut from the Savoie region of France — the principal source of the wood for the English industry — by the French government in 1720 . |
| 18 | Furthermore , our data suggest that we can not be complacent about the risks of tuberculosis in the white population . |
| 19 | One obvious way to reduce the risks of conflict between the powers was to encourage the formation of an ‘ ultra-imperialist ’ consortium of powers to open up new territories like China . |
| 20 | The only sure method of reducing the risks of AIDS in the users of intravenous drugs and hence in others is to get the sufferers from addictive disease into continuing recovery through the Anonymous Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous so that they have progressively less craving to use addictive drugs . |
| 21 | In trying to account for overall trends it is helpful to start with the sequences of factors which control the immediate risks of fertility for the individual and without which births can not occur : natural fecundity ( the physiological capacity to conceive and bear children ) , exposure to intercourse within and outside marriage , and evasion of the consequences of intercourse through contraception and abortion . |
| 22 | He 'd fallen in love with the decorative arts of France of the 17th and 18th centuries and wanted to furnish his house in that style . |
| 23 | … while Men 's Heads are busied with the arts of money-jobbing between the Exchange and the Exchequer , they will be drawn off from the solid arts of honourable traffic ; which alone can prove nationally and permanently lucrative . |
| 24 | Yanto drained the last dregs of cider from the stone jar and watched Molly clear up the remains of the picnic . |
| 25 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 26 | A well-known Serbian-American historian , Michael Boro Petrovich , considers that the most far-reaching effect of the Ottoman occupation was the isolation of Serbia from the main currents of western thought and western social development . |
| 27 | The relative isolation of women from the public world of their husbands does not just have an impact on their access to relatives and friends but also , not surprisingly , on their use of leisure facilities outside the home ( see also chapter 10 , section 10.3 ) . |
| 28 | In pursuit of diplomatic support , Baker met Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen at the UN in New York on Nov. 28 and invited him to Washington , effectively ending the diplomatic isolation of China by the USA in force since the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 29 | It was startling to discover that a race which was identifiably mutant had laws for the suppression of mutations , and he guessed that the origin of cause and principle alike lay somewhere in the lost time of the isolation of Tarvaras from the Empire . |
| 30 | Then , assisted by Ram and Mohammed , he had built a crude furnace of bricks on the verandah in which to heat up the shot . |