Example sentences of "of [noun] of [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My friends have other sports but I like the boxing even though I get a bit of stick of my friends about being hard . ’ |
| 2 | One superintendent , keen to control the length of hair of his men , used to shout angrily at his probationers and young officers : ‘ are you trying to get a bloody transfer to join those long-haired yobs in the drug squad ? ’ |
| 3 | In the afternoon we visited the Priory ruins where we prayed for unity and for the Decade of Evangelisation and finished off with a lusty rendition of Faith of our Fathers ! |
| 4 | Mr R. Newcombe was pleased to report that agreement in principle had been reached with Mrs Davies for the use of part of her premises in Bull House , Bull Street , Bishop 's Castle as a Bishop 's Castle Railway Museum . |
| 5 | The Foundation shall preserve the international vocation and character of the Collection encouraging the periodical exhibition of part of its masterpieces outside Spain . |
| 6 | Work in the organisation provides individuals with a career and so is the main or sole source of income of its members . |
| 7 | It is likely that Sky and Eurosport will be taking the role of host broadcaster , which will guarantee sponsors some form of exposure of their products during the Games , from July 14-25 , 1991 . |
| 8 | In an intergenerational perspective , the question is what right one generation has to limit the freedom of action of its successors , and why the latter should feel bound by constraints laid down by their ancestors . |
| 9 | In Titus 3:5 the Holy Spirit is said to be the one who not only regenerates us , but who renews us ; and this work of renewal of our natures from within is stressed in Romans 12:2 ( as we present our bodies a living sacrifice to God ) and in Colossians 3:10 . |
| 10 | When the find spots are plotted by king or tribal grouping it is reasonable to infer that the area of circulation of their coins , especially when these are of low value , reflects the territory of a king or tribe . |
| 11 | He also published a number of books of his designs , which doubtless served to publicize his name . |
| 12 | They also agreed to relax the state of readiness of their forces and to reduce military exercises . |
| 13 | Wrathfully indignant at his mother 's lack of appreciation of his efforts as a mechanic , an idea which had long been in his mind , that of writing a novel , had crystallized . |
| 14 | In this sense , government growth means passing more laws which affect an increasingly large number of aspects of our lives . |
| 15 | Transport Secretary John MacGregor , MP for Norfolk South , has been approached by the family of Bondone of his constituents and is believed to be making his own contact with Sir Nicholas . |
| 16 | They were now thirty-odd miles away from the Manchester slums where they had been brought up , a distance that put them beyond the range of mobility of their families , who could not afford to visit them . |
| 17 | Timescales refer to the date of receipt of your instructions in writing . |
| 18 | In this article there was a degree of modification of his views on ‘ war communism ’ , since he was arguing in it that it was an emergency policy , rather than the high-road to socialism . |
| 19 | For many thousands of children experiencing actual separation and the consequences of divorce of their parents , it is likely to be a continuous process of change and adjustment and of considerable anxiety as their parents try to resolve the different stages identified above . |
| 20 | To be out of range of your bombs . |
| 21 | But writing now was not easy for him : he had begun to suffer with arthritis in the year following his retirement , and had had to give up his violin owing to lack of flexibility of his fingers , and as the condition developed , he found writing more and more difficult . |
| 22 | On one occasion Mozart was locked in a room to compose in order to convince the Archbishop of Salzburg of his abilities as a composer . |
| 23 | What had he meant about the last couple of lines of her notes ? |
| 24 | If those who profit from the sale of descriptions of their investigations and speculations about matters of public interest are not restrained by fear of appropriate penal or financial consequences from publishing defamatory statements which are false , it is likely that some of them would publish so much in the nature of defamatory allegations against public organisations , and the men and women who run those organisations , that the public , if there was no effective process for determining whether the charges were substantially true or not , might cease to be greatly concerned about the charges save for such amusement as the stories might provide . |
| 25 | The majority opinion emphasises the subjective condition that the General Assembly must be satisfied of the need for the wider powers , but does not make the power of granting oral hearings rest upon the precondition of failure of its duties by South Africa . |
| 26 | He went no further either because of ideological conservatism , or because of lack of courage of his convictions . |
| 27 | We are facing a new kind of leader of our workers . |
| 28 | The only group to have come close to this sort of vetting of its members is the charity Action for Victims of Medical Accidents ( AVMA ) . |
| 29 | Babies are n't very nice for the first couple of years of their lives either , though it is modern to say the opposite . |
| 30 | In the 19th Century the working classes , exasperated by their plight and the lack of initiative of their employers , formed into trades unions to give themselves the corporate strength which individuals lacked . |