Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MY gratitude to the people of Liverpool for the wonderful reception and kindness shown to myself and my old comrades . |
| 2 | ‘ The people of Amantani after the Incas . ’ |
| 3 | She had read , ‘ Art forms are made by the people of Luctia from the preserved arms and legs of the people of Vascar . |
| 4 | We , the readers of the narrative , have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers : ‘ These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho . ’ |
| 5 | So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency . |
| 6 | I have had the immense privilege of serving the people of Worcester over the past 30 years . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you know , ’ I asked a market trader as I met the fine working people of Motherwell over the weekend , ‘ that this country 's public sector borrowing requirement expressed as a percentage of Gross National Product is running at a completely unacceptable level ? ’ |
| 8 | He seeks consistently to mislead the people of Scotland about the reality of what he and his Government have been about in Scotland in the past 12 to13 years . |
| 9 | Along the British leg of the journey Richard Groom , Richard Lang Burns and Shaun Williamson collected signatures from mayors and other civic dignitaries for a scroll sending a message of goodwill from the people of England to the other European countries . |
| 10 | The Minister knows of my concern about the attitude of this Government and previous Governments and that of the people of Britain towards the disabled . |
| 11 | On 24 July , at the end of a triumphal progress through the province of Quebec , de Gaulle addressed the people of Montreal from the balcony of the city hall . |
| 12 | Carmichael saw the Association as a ‘ Royal ’ Commission on the affairs of the island with the people of Lewis as the members of the Commission . |
| 13 | For his generous relief to the people of Lewis during the great famine of the late 1840s , he was made a baronet in 1850 . |
| 14 | A 15ft long bronze sculpture on the wall next to the store entrance depicts the history and main occupations of the people of Frome from the late seventh century until the present day . |
| 15 | Princess Victoria waved to the people of Swanage from the little window within the pediment . |
| 16 | It is clear that prophecy was part of the experience of the people of God in the Bible ( see Numbers 11:20,1 Samuel 19:20 , Joel 2:28 , Acts 2:18 ; 15:22 ; 19:6 ; 21:9 , 1 Corinthians 11:4–5 ; 12:28 ; 14:1 and 24 , Ephesians 4:11,1 Thessalonians 5:20 for just a sample of instances ) . |
| 17 | Jesus gathered a small band of followers and , through God 's power , they were to become the people of God in the kingdom of God . |
| 18 | The gift of the messianic Spirit , promised to the people of God in the end-time , depends upon the Messiah accomplishing his mission . |
| 19 | We know that a nation 's sense of its own identity can become bound up with material objects , the identity of the British with the Crown Jewels , that of the Greeks with the Elgin Marbles , that of the people of Hungary with the Crown of Stephen . |
| 20 | Not only am I aware of that dependence ; I am aware of the debt that we owe the area and of the real contribution made by the people of Plymouth to the Royal Navy and the Royal Marine Commandos , among other units involved . |
| 21 | The oak tree , which marks the centenary of the club , was presented to the people of Darlington by the Naturalists ' president , Margaret Port . |
| 22 | Can my right hon. Friend find time during his busy day to congratulate the management and staff of Rover on the fact that over the past 12 months not one single minute of production time has been lost through industrial disputes ? |
| 23 | O. tertium can easily be distinguished from the other two species of Ophiotrema by the covering of the disk and the shape of the ventral arm plates . |
| 24 | O. rosea can be distinguished from the other species of Ophiacantha by the following characters : the arrangement of the papillae on the jaw the shape and arrangement of the adoral and oral shields ; the large tentacle scales and their number on the proximal pores . |
| 25 | O. globifera can be distinguished from the other Atlantic species of Ophiomitrella by the shape of the disk granules which are much less rugose than those of O. clavigera . |
| 26 | There are a number of species of Nilssonia from the Jurassic distinguished on the form of the leaflets . |
| 27 | Among the clubs frequented by the gentry of London in the eighteenth century was the Wig Club which owed its name to a wig , reputedly made of the pubic hair of the mistresses of King Charles II . |
| 28 | He signed the petition of the gentry of Yorkshire to the king ( 28 July 1640 ) , although the printed list by John Rushworth [ q.v. ] omits his signature . |
| 29 | Interestingly , I have a pair of Kribensis in the tank , but they have not shown any interest in the fry . |
| 30 | They are down to a pair of Bananaramas after the departure of Jacqui O'Sullivan . |