Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've almost given up on the London Borough of Bromley because the land , the areas that they 've offered us have been quite impractical and although we 've got , you know , croquet is a cheap sport . |
| 2 | In 1830 he was elected for the government borough of Rye and the following year was active as Tory assistant whip . |
| 3 | The religion of Moses and the Prophets has never avowed that the father was killed . |
| 4 | There were strict controls over the export of capital and the City 's ability to invest abroad ( outside the group of countries known as the Overseas Sterling Area and consisting to a large extent of former members of the Empire ) was restricted . |
| 5 | In its foreign policy activity the Soviet state purposefully opposes the export of counter-revolution and the policy of oppression , supports the national liberation struggle , and resolutely resists imperialists ' aggression in whatever distant region of our planet it may appear . |
| 6 | Odours from the following activities have been found to amount to a private nuisance and the remedy of an injunction and , or damages granted : odours from a fried fish shop , in close proximity to a dwellinghouse ; odours from stables ; odours from smoke and effluvia from a factory chimney ; odours from a gasworks affecting the plaintiff 's plantation of trees ; odours from a sewage disposal works , and odours from the spraying of cars and the burning of tyres . |
| 7 | In 1071 , this conflict resulted in the capture and exile of Garcia and the subsequent division of his lands between Sancho and Alfonso . |
| 8 | But now , building on the long-running links with the English and Scottish Volleyball Associations , the Badminton Association of England and the Hockey Association , BBD 's Centralised Banking Services is to offer special loan schemes to some 145,000 members of those associations . |
| 9 | Further , the Compacts of Free Association of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands preserve in the United States the subjective power to determine those security and national interests . |
| 10 | Contemporary expressions of this sense of ‘ The North ’ include the northern group of Labour MPs , the Northern Association of Councils and the Northern Development Company . |
| 11 | Plato 's intimate association of time and the universe led him to regard time as being actually produced by the revolutions of the celestial sphere . |
| 12 | These courses , which are organised in collaboration with the Small-Scale Miners ' Association of Zimbabwe and the Intermediate Technology Development Group , are designed to give intensive practical training in basic geology , gold prospection , surveying , sampling , orebody evaluation , business and financial planning as well as covering mining law , mine engineering , beneficiation methods , etc . |
| 13 | This was made in cooperation with the Terrence Higgins Trust , the British Association of Counsellors and the Centre for Aids Counselling . |
| 14 | Many of the statements on strategy and thinking of Clausewitz or the earlier Chinese military authors are as applicable to competition in the business world as they are in military matters . |
| 15 | But from the pope 's point of view the boundaries of his influence had been extended by the coronation of Johannitsa and the influence of the patriarch of Constantinople and the Greek Church decreased . |
| 16 | If there is no workable defence of insanity , it is surely wrong to convict a grossly disordered killer of murder when the less stigmatic offence of manslaughter is at hand . |
| 17 | There was a great deal of noise and the shouts of ‘ Cover ! ’ and ‘ Touchee ! ’ were as loud as any Australian Test Team appealing for L.B.W. and often with the same lack of justification . |
| 18 | These were , first , that ‘ there is a good deal of concern that the planning system should permit town centre and residential development that is sometimes strikingly out of scale or sympathy with the area affected ’ . |
| 19 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 20 | Predicating a theme involves using an it-structure ( also called a cleft structure ) to place an element near the beginning of the clause , as in It was the book that received a great deal of publicity in China , it was a great deal of publicity that the book received in China , or It was in China that the book received a great deal of publicity . |
| 21 | For example , In China the book received a great deal of publicity and The book received a great deal of publicity in China would be analysed in the same way . |
| 22 | I believe that that would be useful , because some aspects of the proposals that have been put forward , not least on the Scottish convention , bear a great deal of scrutiny and the real choices have not been put forward . |
| 23 | Sien was causing him a great deal of worry as the year wore on . |
| 24 | Discussions of academic topics typically involve a great deal of thought and the production of novel utterances , rather than a series of well-practised utterances like ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ How are you ? ’ . |
| 25 | Indeed , such a " quasiautonomous " status for English in education makes a good deal of sense when the wider strategic and social context of the Report is taken into account . |
| 26 | This story should not imply that there was not still a great deal of grief to be expressed by the children , but it serves to demonstrate that enforced anticipatory grief can do a great deal of harm if the timing of it is interfered with . |
| 27 | Eastern Europe has been the focus of a great deal of attention since the near-impenetrable Eastern Bloc unfolded into a series of heterogeneous markets . |
| 28 | Software revenues rose by 1.1% to $2,520m , but maintenance was off 5.1% to $1,800m ; services were the star performer , rising 48% to $1,900m , but the jury is still out and there is a great deal of scepticism that the company can actually make money on all those facilities management contracts . |
| 29 | Software revenues rose by 1.1% to $2,520m , but maintenance was off 5.1% to $1,800m ; services were the star performer , rising 48% to $1,900m , but the jury is still out and there is a great deal of scepticism that the company can actually make money on all those facilities management contracts . |
| 30 | Conversely , it may take a great deal of time before the vendor actually makes money on the deal . |