Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were certainly regions where this situation was developing — the new cotton districts of south Lancashire for example , and in the Potteries where females unknown in the industry before 1760 could earn from 12s ( 60p ) to £2 a week by the end of the century . |
| 2 | The lead managers of all Heron 's bonds are to meet at the offices of Credit Suisse in Zurich on Monday to plan a concerted response after hearing outline proposals from the company in London last Friday . |
| 3 | One of the major attractions of southeast Antrim as a petroleum prospect lies in its combination of good reservoir rocks with excellent cap rocks provided by the several thick salt units within its Permo-Triassic sequence . |
| 4 | I have taken my children to the battlefields of north-east France as a result of which their grandfather died because of the foolishness of politicians . |
| 5 | A friend — Professor Ingastina Ewebank — used the words of poet Shelley for 34-year-old Mrs Howe : ‘ great , good and joyous , wonderful and wise ’ . |
| 6 | Prior coalification maps of N.W. Germany with corresponding oil and gas deposits have been published for the Mesozoic ( M. and R. Teichmüller 1958 , 1966 ; Bartenstein , M. and R. Teichmüller 1971 ) and for the boundary Westphalian C/D ( Bartenstein , M. and R. Teichmüller 1971 ) . |
| 7 | He was one of the six sons of rabbi Moses of London , active as a businessman and in communal affairs from around 1240 onwards and writer of an authoritative work on biblical punctuation , and his wife Antera , the daughter of Jacob . |
| 8 | The correspondent of The Times in Riga , with access to both current Western and Soviet sources , picked up the discrepant views of M. Litvinov at the Hague and L. Krasin , the Commissar for Trade in Moscow . |
| 9 | Archaeology has shown that customs recorded here and in later chapters reflect the known social and cultural patterns of north Mesopotamia in the 2nd millennium BC . |
| 10 | It was agreed at the meeting that MCC would contribute £25,000 towards a coaching trip to disadvantaged areas of south Africa by former West Indian batsman Conrad Hunte . |
| 11 | The DUP councillor said yesterday that there was always a heavy police presence in the more run-down areas of south Belfast like the Donegall Road and Taughmonagh . |
| 12 | Aoun 's forces launched a fresh tank-led assault on LF controlled areas of East Beirut on Feb. 15 , and the next day Gen. Aoun claimed that his troops had " liberated " Ein Rumaneh and Furn Al Shebbak districts . |
| 13 | Some of these rock types are quite exotic — for example the rare porcellanite from Northern Ireland — whereas others , such as the granite type known as dolerite , occur in many different areas of upland Britain including Wales . |
| 14 | Chemical Bank guaranteed Chemco 's obligation to Barclays ; and the obligations of Virgin Atlantic to Chemco were guaranteed by the Virgin Group and County Bank . |
| 15 | The plan was announced as a UN spokeswoman in Zagreb said Serb commanders had provisionally agreed to allow safe passage for Moslem civilians out of Cerska and other beleaguered pockets of east Bosnia at the weekend . |
| 16 | Speaking in Moscow Tun Razak denied that he had arrived to obtain the official approval of the USSR for the neutralisation of Southeast Asia ‘ because the responsibility for this rests with the countries of Southeast Asia themselves , acting on a collective basis ’ but he hoped that ‘ according to the extent of progress of the countries of Southeast Asia on this path towards our goal the Soviet Government will show sympathy and understanding towards us ’ . |
| 17 | Even for most of the 1950s contact was minimal , although under the San Francisco peace Treaty agreements were reached with the countries of Southeast Asia concerning Japanese reparation payments . |
| 18 | On May 3 Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu became the first Japanese head of government to issue an unambiguous apology to countries of south-east Asia for Japan 's actions during the Pacific War . |
| 19 | A lead of sorts has been given by the national archives of north America with the Center for Electronic Records of the National Archives of the United States having already archived in access of 10,000 records or wearying size and complexity , and with the Canadians also pursuing an active of storing governmental records in machine-readable form ( National Archive 1991 ; National Historical Publications 1991 ) . |
| 20 | I first encountered Morina longifolia in the mountains of east Nepal on a ridge within sight of Kanchenjunga . |
| 21 | It was here in Chambers Street that Benjamin and Elizabeth Titford were living — probably , we may guess , as guests of brother Thomas at no. 11 — when they took their little son for baptism at St Mary Whitechapel in the March of 1809 , a few days short of his first birthday . |
| 22 | Shellfire Memories ( North Kent Books , 44pp , illus , sbk ) complied by David G Collyer , is very much a book of personal reminiscences of East Kent from September 1938–June 1940 . |
| 23 | Configuring the cables of Shuttle Columbia with well over 7 million possible results is a good example of a problem conventional programing just would not have been able to tackle cost effectively . |
| 24 | Much of the West 's money is laundered through its huge concentration of banks ; its registered shipping clogs the sea-lanes of half the globe ; its duty-free stores ( once the repository of Peruvian silver ) now hold immense quantities of electronic goods from the East ; and its beaches and airports bear daily witness to the transfer of cocaine from the impoverished producers of South America to the insatiable markets of the North . |
| 25 | Darwin was soon offered the position of naturalist aboard HMS Beagle , which was being sent to chart the waters of South America under Captain Robert Fitzroy . |
| 26 | Mr. Stern : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he intends to make any proposals to alleviate the impact on the ports of south Wales of proposed barrage schemes . |
| 27 | Unlike the capitalist social relations of interwar France in which the writer/intellectual was set apart from his/her real and potential reading public , a distant and alienated specialist " , the new social relations of Soviet society appeared to provide the writer/intellectual with a pivotal role in social construction . |
| 28 | Sims toured the slums of south London for articles in the Pictorial World entitled ‘ How the Poor Live ’ . |
| 29 | Ever wonder what happened to the ‘ security experts ’ who used to accompany the likes of Run DMC on stage , permanently scowling , arms folded ? |
| 30 | Salwar Kamiz is like a national dress of Punjab , worn both by the Muslims of Pakistan and Hindus and Sikhs of East Punjab in India . |