Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over and over Mrs Browning emphasised what a deal of trouble the Ogilvys were being put to on her behalf , by allowing their maid to do what she was going to do , and Wilson knew it was true . |
| 2 | D. In the new factories of the New Towns and the outskirts of Glasgow the products are mainly of small size and high value . |
| 3 | On signing these heads of agreement the shareholders of ABC shall not enter into discussions with any other party relating to the disposal of their interests in ABC for the period of 45 days unless the party to these heads of agreement withdraws or delays unreasonably progress towards completion . |
| 4 | In high concentrations of algae the meshes become clogged , and their filtering efficiency is reduced ; however , it is not usually difficult to estimate numbers of cells per cubic metre of sea water . |
| 5 | Immediately with a great flutter of wings the pigeons rose into the air and circled above the terrace . |
| 6 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 7 | Jot down on a piece of paper the names of three people whom you are close to . |
| 8 | The second of them in 21.4–9 recalls in its words of complaint the stories of Exodus 16 and 17 in particular , and also Numbers 11 : ‘ Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness ? |
| 9 | But when they are dealing with matters involving other branches of government the courts take a more restrained view of their role . |
| 10 | To assess the effect of age the patients were divided into those equal to or under 45 and those over 45 . |
| 11 | A larger proportion of middle-period Byrd has seen the light of day the songs always excepted but never in recitals that attempt to plot stylistic progress . |
| 12 | It 's it 's a long stretch of time the troops need pinning down with it that 's all I 'm saying . |
| 13 | ‘ Many of the first colonies were built at the expense of societies the settlers did n't understand because their cultures varied from Earth basic , ’ she said . |
| 14 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |
| 15 | In the first few months of independence the Poles came to realise that the lower reaches of the Vistula waterway — their economic lifeline to the coast — had in fact been badly neglected by the Germans . |
| 16 | After several months of discussions the leaders of 32 trade unions agreed in mid-July to join forces and sanctioned the creation of the National Trade Union Centre ( NATUC ) . |
| 17 | Neill LJ giving the judgment of the court said : ( 1 ) Where the parties are , or have been , linked by a contract of employment the obligations of the employee are to be determined by the contract between him and his employer . |
| 18 | The Gaussian theory is only adequate for small strains ; at higher values of strain the assumptions made in deriving the entropy break down and the more complex Langevin expression ( 6.16a ) is needed . |
| 19 | I can tell , by the dialects , which part of Ireland the shoppers hail from ; I have wilfully acquired a skill for accents . |
| 20 | Although explicable as an instance of context-specificity the results of this experiment have apparently put paid to the only explanation for the phenomenon that we have so far considered . |
| 21 | Soon after the change of government the heads of national radio and television and of the CTK news agency , as well as many newspaper editors , were replaced . |
| 22 | In a significant change of emphasis the governors ' meeting on April 13-14 agreed to abolish the ceiling of 6 per cent of bank lending which could go to the former Soviet Union ( corresponding to the Soviet Union 's 6 per cent holding in the EBRD ) , and to allow up to 40 per cent of the EBRD 's lending to go to former Soviet republics . |
| 23 | In the remainder of Cumbria the rates were higher than those for England and Wales . |
| 24 | While in the early history of the struggle for freedom of speech the restrictions were enforced by criminal prosecutions , it is clear that a civil action is as great , if not a greater , restriction than a criminal prosecution . |
| 25 | The first is that in cases of doubt the courts will construe the restriction contra proferentes . |
| 26 | Ford did not possess an electoral mandate of his own at all and in both houses of congress the Republicans were in the minority by large margins — in the Senate there were 56 Democrats and 42 Republicans whereas in the House there were 242 Democrats and 192 Republicans . |
| 27 | The level of work the children are introduced to is also being assessed . |
| 28 | Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals . |
| 29 | Rincewind tried to work it out , and decided that even if the box were crammed with star opals and sticks of auricholatum the contents would not be worth one-tenth the price of the container . |
| 30 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |