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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1	It meant a new way of looking at reading errors , seeing them as evidence of children 's use of linguistic knowledge .
2	The Housing Repairs and Rents Act , 1954 , reduced subsidies for general needs , but retained them for clearance of slums ; two years later subsidies for general needs were totally abolished , leaving the general housing need to be met by private enterprise .
3	After abandoning an appeal against the decision , Barclays agreed to reinstate the women and compensate them for loss of earnings .
4	The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship .
5	They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures .
6	I had just received a telephone call from the barracks which informed me that officials from Horseferry Road magistrates court had phoned demanding to see me about nonpayment of fines .
7	Well they can physically do it to you with use of fists , use of hands and whatever else they 've got and they can mentally do it to you like put you in jail that or all sorts of things like when I was on sick leave , they came and lifted me .
8	Well it is because that actually does , with the pie chart , lead you into sort of chunks of work area
9	I mean , there are only about thirty of you in Formula One , and there 's no denying that the Press turn you into sort of demi-gods … ’
10	Are you in favour of parents teaching their own children ?
11	Are you in favour of parents teaching their own children ?
12	Why are you in charge of clinics in both places ? ’
13	As soon as you make a nervous slip , he explodes with anger — humiliating you in front of colleagues .
14	Christianity got me young and inculcated me with fear of devils , and with guilt , and with a notion that God spied on me always , and that I was a worthless shit because Jesus had been killed .
15	But they put me in mind of trees in November .
16	It is not as if conditionals of the two sorts were near to being sufficiently problematic or obscure as to make it unprofitable to use them in elucidation of causes and effects , causal circumstances and effects , and — to look forward — nomic correlates .
17	To run this system the king had not only his ealdormen ( later , earls ) but also reeves , some of them in charge of shires , who looked after royal estates and aspects of the judicial system , and sometimes led armies .
18	Mr Vitty said an earlier court judgment against him for non-payment of rates while he was Mayor was a result of Unionist opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement .
19	In keeping with the book 's leitmotif , however , let's ignore all that and focus instead on the rich images of Lamb in shock at the lunch interval after weathering 22 bouncers among the preceding 24 balls ; of Dexter losing interest after fielding all day in 90 degrees at Karachi ; of the normally taciturn Peter May sounding off about the regime which followed him as chairman of selectors ; of the ‘ terror of spin ’ and the West Indian ‘ throat-theory ’ reign of terror , attributed in part to the meatiness of their backsides .
20	As political conditions in China became increasingly chaotic in the decade after World War I Aglen found his responsibilities becoming not only more onerous , but also more difficult to carry out without coming into conflict with one or other of the Chinese factions making demands upon him as custodian of revenues of which he was in sole charge .
21	During his eight-day visit , Pohl inspected conditions in a number of Iranian prisons and was greeted on Jan. 23-24 by sit-ins outside the UN office in Tehran by the families of political detainees , demanding to be allowed to provide him with evidence of abuses .
22	Even if they ca n't inflict any wounds they can still swamp him with weight of numbers .
23	His will , made on 30 November 1679 and proved on 1 April 1680 , shows him in possession of lands in Essex and Ireland ; it made modest but adequate provision for his wife Martha , daughter of John Ireland of Hale in Lancashire , and for a son and three daughters .
24	The inquisition post mortem held after his death shows him in possession of lands worth over £60 a year .
25	His personal troubles sent him in search of analysts for both himself and his wife , sometimes with disastrous consequences .
26	However much , privately , she may have hated seeing her husband drink , or hearing him swear , she would never rebuke him in front of others .
27	Shamir would have preferred to have formed a broad coalition government with Labour , but this became impossible for him in view of statements made by Labour Ministers suggesting that they supported contacts with the PLO , and in view of pressure from hardline Likud members such as Ariel Sharon to form a right-wing government .
28	A corresponding duty is imposed on him in respect of lettings of offices and shops ( Offices , Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 , ss9(1) , 42(6) , 43(4) ) .
29	Love and nature both advised her to have him without thinking of complications , to delight in passion without considering future pain .
30	‘ In the first place , there is the doctrine , which may now perhaps be regarded as a rule of evidence , that , if a voluntary disposition in favour of the husband is impeached , the burden of establishing that it was not improperly or unfairly procured may be placed upon him by proof of circumstances raising any doubt or suspicion .