Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Jackson , trading director of Martins the Newsagent , with 850 branches , said : ‘ Publishers are offering us inducements , advertising support money . |
| 2 | He looked tired and drawn and her heart went out to him , but when he caught sight of Belinda the smile was back on his face . |
| 3 | Here he caught sight of Aziz the janitor , who was standing at the back of the hall with his mop and bucket . |
| 4 | Nay , one must give Richard of Gloucester the benefit of the doubt — he is taking no chances this side of the coronation . |
| 5 | Laura moved round to the side of the kiln — it was a roughly built cube of fire-bricks the colour of pale sand , with a bricked-up Norman door-arch on one side and a narrow throat at the rear which led to a tall , cast-iron stovepipe wired for support to the studio wall and a bough of a late-flowering cherry tree across the yard . |
| 6 | Richard Duke of Gloucester , the late king 's soldierly youngest brother , was at his castle of Middleham in Yorkshire when he received news of Edward the Fourth 's death . |
| 7 | Because wh when , when we were looking at , at , at the I mean sort of things the implication to me seemed to be that , that this in itself is a successful policy , rent reduction , interest rate reduction methods improving er productivity , increasing input , in themselves are satisfying the demands of the peasantry and you would not need to go beyond that , I mean well did n't need to , he is n't the ideal , but he did n't need to go and he , he was doing very well out of it . |
| 8 | ‘ What about that man who kept buying copies of Fight the Good Fight by Angela Truebridge ? ’ |
| 9 | In eight major hoards found on French sites and containing coins of Charles the Bald , there are no foreign coins . |
| 10 | The child 's greed is obstructing awareness of consequences the facing of which would cause him to refrain ; therefore to let the impulse to refrain prevail over the impulse to eat is a causally necessary condition of obeying the imperative . |
| 11 | A purpose-built training facility , the IBM Information Centre , is being established to give members of staff the opportunity to enhance their own skills in this direction . |
| 12 | After successive days of heavy rain , the hollows before mentioned , become insufficient to receive the mighty volume of water which descends from the impending clouds upon them , and the maddening torrents are hurled from their rugged elevation with the awful roar of thunder : the grey rocks , occasionally tinted by pervading lichens , and still more beautifully enriched by many greened mosses resembling cushions of soft velvet , produce combinations of colour the most animated and superb , which , contrasted with the milky hue of the convulsed waters , form a picture of transcendent sublimity and beauty . ’ |
| 13 | Buy both Apollo XI and Apollo XVII videos at a specially reduced price of £18 the pair , and you will receive a free Apollo slide set worth £8.50 . |
| 14 | to distinguish them from the signs by which we are already combining elements of Q. The new symbols are sufficiently unfamiliar to remind us of their defining role but sufficiently similar to + and . |
| 15 | We are now suspected along with these Spidex people of double-crossing the Iranians . ’ |
| 16 | Where the systematic approach dictates the use of chemicals as the predominate form of energy the practical relationships with other factors extend beyond energy and time to include the equipment needed to apply the chemical if costs are to be minimised the general relationship is as follows — |
| 17 | The economic crisis following the Black Death had undoubtedly given men of enterprise the opportunity to better their condition , and there was probably more mobility of population in the fifteenth century than there had been in the thirteenth . |
| 18 | It was the first time in my life I had acted like a complete sod to other people , and I felt that my behaviour was worse because I had loads of advantages the lesser recruits did n't : I could speak French ; I was basically healthier and therefore found fitness much easier ; I was a north European Caucasian which endeared me to some of the more racist instructors . |
| 19 | The Parents ' Action Committee was sent lists of letters the department claimed to have forwarded to the children , with each addressee mentioned by name . |
| 20 | There , we believe , are constructed fragments of society the reality of which is unquestioned by the children who are its constructors and who know how to maintain it . |
| 21 | This makes Birds of Prey the most comprehensive ‘ plane-wise ’ flight simulator on the market . |
| 22 | However given the extent of monopoly ( and oligopoly ) in the NHS , the power of professional groups to win concessions , and the political need to guarantee equality of access the government has been forced to set narrow rules within which competition is allowed . |
| 23 | As long as he remained bishop of Rome the pope belonged in Rome . |