Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was responsible for the exploitation of the mineral rights of the Crown — for example , for finding , mining and smelting iron in the forest of Chippenham and in the Forest of Dean and lead in the Forest of the Peak . |
| 2 | The Forest Of Shadows encompasses most of the principality of Ostland and lies to the north of the Middle Mountains . |
| 3 | Their opponents have been through the mangle recently , going out of two cup competitions courtesy of Bangor and seeing their lead at the top of the table cut to a slender one point . |
| 4 | Although from West Bay to Abbotsbury the main shingle ridge hugs the coast , it departs from the coast south-east of Abbotsbury and leaves between it and the mainland the elongated lagoon known as the Fleet . |
| 5 | This expression is derived from the fuller analysis of Mooney and Ewart as follows . |
| 6 | Emissions which currently amount to nearly 500,000 tonnes per year will be cut to 73,000 tonnes as a result of modernization to be carried out on the plants , in the towns of Nikel and Monchegorsk on the Kola peninsula . |
| 7 | Florian stopped his theatrically narrow-eyed scrutiny of Maria and grinned at Luke , who must have been telling the truth because he was all attention , no less than riveted . |
| 8 | The 1920 Treaty of Sèvres provided for this , and for the Kurdish vilayets , or provinces , of Kirkuk and Mosul to join ‘ Kurdistan ’ , if they wanted to . |
| 9 | In a series of subsequent , apparently conciliatory , gestures reported on Dec. 16 , Kurdish leaders agreed to appoint an inquiry into the alleged massacre of 60 Iraqi soldiers in October [ see p. 38548 ] after the government announced that it had lifted restrictions on the acquisition of property by Kurds in the oil-producing town of Kirkuk and issued a decree exempting Kurds from swearing allegiance to the ruling Ba'ath Party . |
| 10 | C. In Cheshire and Merseyside the directors of ICI and Shell Oil have found all the advantages to build the main chemical industries of Britain . |
| 11 | The latest award is in the Borough of Sunderland and starts in February . |
| 12 | I read with interest an article in the Summer '91 issue of BLESMAG and felt the subject could be usefully mentioned in Air Mail . |
| 13 | Support was fraying at the edges of the realm promised in 839 : the bishop of Toul , and the archbishops of Besançon and Tarentaise with their suffragans , all acknowledged Lothar in August 840 . |
| 14 | Now they came to King Michael 's white city of Ledyen and raised their tents beneath its walls . |
| 15 | As a particular form of Re , the Aten , initially as a hawk-headed god and then in the form of a sun disk with rays terminating in life-giving hands , returned to a more basic idea of the sun 's power to offset the growing influence of Amun and re-emphasise the political position of the king . |
| 16 | They are the first known lords of the manor of Cosmeston and gave their name to the village , Costentinstune ( the place of the Costentins ) . |
| 17 | It is evident from the analysis of Sankoff and Laberge that the Marxist concept of class is less easily operationalized than the stratificational one . |
| 18 | Greene King already owns 28% of Morland and has been promised a further 14.9% . |
| 19 | They were shadows that she could never have imagined when , as a young girl , she had run along the cold sands of Northumberland and watched the east wind flatten and fold the dunes as she dreamed of a bigger , more exciting world beyond — and away from her mother 's influence . |
| 20 | I understand you acted on behalf of local residents in the old docklands area of Cardiff and secured protective clauses for them in the Act of Parliament which now permits the Cardiff Bay Barrage to be built . |
| 21 | Colchester police issued a photograph of Lisa and appealed for any sightings of her to be reported . |
| 22 | Mortimer and Isabella tried to cultivate support for their regime by lavish grants to the deposed king 's half-brothers the Earls of Norfolk and Rent : Rent , for example , was granted Despenser 's forfeited lands in Leicestershire . |
| 23 | She took out a bottle of Glenfiddich and poured a wine-glassful . |
| 24 | He attended the Liverpool School of Pharmacy and began work at a pharmacy in Blackpool where he met his future wife Betty . |
| 25 | These include statements of general and specific aims , learning experiences , various forms of knowledge and areas of experience ( e.g. the cognitive-based analysis of Hirst and Peters and the HMI areas discussed earlier ) , skills , and modes of expression ( verbal and non-verbal ) . |
| 26 | But just in case the bed failed to live up to his claims , Dr Graham wisely installed a more familiar sexual stimulus in the form of Emily Lyon , who took the form of Hygeia and danced naked for the clientele . |
| 27 | On the car radio , U2 's old single ‘ Out Of Control ’ appears , mixing uneasily with the laminated noises of Britchart and Eurosong contest-type jollity . |
| 28 | Bob Cools , the town 's socialist mayor ( who spells his first name the ordinary way ) , complained about a show of Antwerp as seen by foreign photographers ; he said locals could have done the job better . |
| 29 | There has , however , been some revival of the device , especially with modern private presses affecting a fondness for the past and for the great days of the colophon , beginning with the great Mainz Psalter of Fust and Schoeffer in 1457 . |
| 30 | The Collection spearheads a Conran Octopus gardening promotion beginning at the end of March and co-ordinated by Limelight PR . |