Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In some respects , Hardwick and Whinney Banks have more in common with the inner London borough of Islington than they do with the rest of Cleveland , ’ says the report . |
| 2 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 3 | To the scribe of a recently discovered source of his Stabat mater , the composer was ‘ John Browne of Oxford ’ ( ‘ Oxoniensis ’ ) ; corroboration of Oxford as his working milieu is offered by the text of his eight-part O Maria , salvatoris mater , which includes among its invokees St Mary Magdalen and St Frideswide , the Oxford saint . |
| 4 | The isolation of prisoners and their rights became less severe . |
| 5 | We have demonstrated the feasibility of coelocentesis and its potential for prenatal diagnosis before 10 weeks ' gestation . |
| 6 | These five people promised ‘ before the Majesty of God and his congregation to … maintain , set forward and establish the most blessed word of God and his Congregation … and forsake and renounce the congregation of Satan , with all the superstitions , abominations and idolatry thereof … ’ . |
| 7 | Attempts to set up a national printers " union in Scotland date from 1836 , but both the General Typographical Association of Scotland and its successor , the Northern District Board of the National Typographical Association , came to grief after only a few years . |
| 8 | Harmony has a special fascination for many of us , but once again I would warn students against thinking of harmonies before they have conceived the melody . |
| 9 | In brief , Locke followed Thomas Hobbes in thinking of language as something to be understood in terms of thoughts . |
| 10 | Many salespeople who , to an outsider , seem naturally quick-witted have developed this skill through careful preparation beforehand , imagining themselves as buyers and thinking of objections that they might raise if they were in such a position . |
| 11 | I wondered if we were both thinking of Charlie as we did it . |
| 12 | She was silent a moment , thinking of Oreste and her journey to England and the future of her family and how it rested largely at the moment on Mr Landor 's £30 a year . |
| 13 | But many anonymous individuals whose traits of basic humanity had not been eradicated even by years of Nazism revealed through small acts or gestures of kindness of sympathy that they were out of step with mainstream Nazi attitudes towards the Jews . |
| 14 | The withdrawal of earlier death has been so marked that today most English people will have no direct experience of the grief of bereavement until they lose their own parents , when they are themselves well into middle age . |
| 15 | One of the new archbishop 's first public duties was the coronation of Edward and his queen in August 1274 . |
| 16 | CHESHIRE housewife Tamara Kennerley , a girlfriend of Clinton when he was at Oxford , was among the first to offer her congratulations . |
| 17 | Further specialist assessments by other members of the team may take place at any time during the episode of care if they are considered necessary . |
| 18 | Monaco also have six players within one yellow card of suspension as they travel to Rotterdam hoping to become the first French finalists in the Cup Winners ' Cup . |
| 19 | The staff who work in the reservation section have a great deal of responsibility and it is their task to see that all reservations are dealt with promptly and efficiently . |
| 20 | There was a great deal of activity as they landed . |
| 21 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 22 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 23 | Islington could have saved its council and charge payers a great deal of money if it had just asked the advice of a local geography teacher and been told that it is better to go to France to learn French . |
| 24 | The next two owners were wealthy Shrewsbury drapers , each of whom lost a great deal of money when their London connections went bankrupt and were forced to sell again . |
| 25 | The old videotapes lost a great deal of money because they were immediately taken and sold in pirate copies . |
| 26 | ‘ I have a great deal of trust and I leave everything to fate . ’ |
| 27 | The acrobatics need a great deal of skill but anyone fancying a ride need n't worry if they have a weak stomach , they 'll probably leave that behind after the first manouvre anyway . |
| 28 | This called for a great deal of judgement because there are about forty different species of rot , and the damage which they do varies and is not necessarily proportional to the visible effects . |
| 29 | Her visits were a cause for much speculation and a great deal of dread because her power was infinite . |
| 30 | There was a great deal of excitement while we were getting ready . |