Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst of the lodgings in Rhyll consisted of one dirty room with decaying plaster and a leaking roof , over a coal merchant 's in the narrow part of the town . |
| 2 | They had been arrested on Dec. 17 and held at the premises of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance in Abidjan accused of the possession of documents supporting a group calling itself the Democratic Convention of African People , material considered hostile to the Eyadema regime . |
| 3 | The Roehampton Institute in Surrey consists of four component colleges ( Digby Stuart , Froebel , Southlands , Whitelands ) . |
| 4 | In 1811 he won the competition for a complex of buildings in Plymouth consisting of a hotel , assembly rooms , and theatre ; and , his success with this important commission establishing his local reputation , he moved to Plymouth and remained for twenty-five years the leading architect of the neighbourhood . |
| 5 | Reports in December spoke of mounting concern over the effects of UN sanctions following government claims that up to 80,000 Iraqi children had died as a result of severe shortages in food and medicines . |
| 6 | For example , in 1981 31 per cent of households in the Federal Republic of Germany and 29 per cent in Denmark consisted of a single person ( CSO 1989 ) . |
| 7 | Everyone in Scotland knows of the famous Glasgow case involving a female complainer who took out a private prosecution in such a case . |
| 8 | New uses are emerging for that space and new governmental and administrative forms and processes are being created which facilitate its reordering in a way which is analogous to the use of enclosure to expel a surplus peasantry , of the New Poor Law in England to dispose of a surplus of rural proletarians , of clearance to reorder the Highlands of Scotland for capitalist sheep farming , and of the Poor Law , eviction and the failure to relieve famine which was intended to transform the congested districts of Ireland from peasant to large-scale landlord-led capitalist farming . |
| 9 | I did two rabbit sculptures for an exhibition in Yorkshire made of cow much on a metal frame . |
| 10 | And a word of warning — when you arrive in Hye-on-Wye beware of the second-hand bookshops . |
| 11 | Lt Col Carthew in Silvertown spoke of the |
| 12 | The ‘ barrique scandal ’ brought him a lot of attention — Ostertag was the first , although not the only , winemaker in Alsace to think of using new oak . |
| 13 | The Lords in Morris disapproved of the reasoning in Dip Kaur v Chief Constable of Hampshire [ 1981 ] 1 WLR 578 ( DC ) . |
| 14 | It would be surprising to those who witnessed Arazi 's incredible run through the field to win the Breeders ' Cup Juvenile in November to learn of any decline . |
| 15 | His ethnographical observations in Greenland remained of permanent value . |
| 16 | These were the writers and newspapermen , paid hacks of the propaganda machine and tools of ‘ Anastasie ’ , the censor , who from their comfortable offices in Paris wrote of the nobility of war in the terms of Déroulède ; of the brave boys dying beautifully pour la Patrie ; who described the piling up of ‘ mounds of German dead ’ at each attack at Verdun , to the accompaniment of ‘ negligible ’ French losses ; and who published photographs of the grands mutilés with such captions as ‘ A Soldier Who Has Lost Both Feet , Yet Walks Fairly Well With Clever Substitutes , ’ or ‘ Who Has Lost Both Hands , Yet Can Handle a Cigarette and Salute as Before . ’ |
| 17 | … To 4 caravan holidays in Nailsea To share of petrol to same … |
| 18 | BGS work in Colombia consists of a large mineral exploration project , the Pacific Coast Precious Metals Project , which was completed during the year . |
| 19 | The subject of a flat in Harwich had of course never been raised again . |
| 20 | For many years we in Britain thought of church growth as building bigger buildings for more people . |
| 21 | What are people in Britain to make of this as you come here to present yourselves as a a future er lottery operator ? |
| 22 | 1984 ; Schmitt 1982b ) but the one most often used in Britain consists of two pads of wire mesh that are placed on the child 's bed with a sheet separating them and another sheet on top for the child to lie on . |
| 23 | After Caldwell Lord Roskill in Seymour spoke of a very high risk of death , but he said that in the context of manslaughter caused by a car ( " motor manslaughter " ) in order to distinguish that offence from causing death by reckless driving , or at least such is the construction put on his words in Kong Cheuk Kwan v R , and Lord Roskill did uphold the trial judge 's direction which included a reference to an obvious and serious risk of physical injury . |
| 24 | There 's erm there 's always a tension for those of us who are parents , particularly those of us who erm send our children to the state schools , as to erm what 's in the best interests of our own particular individual child and what might be in the best interests of all the children in the area in which we live , and erm this vote was an invitation to think only , very selfishly , of what might be the situation for our children , and I 'm very glad that erm many parents in Banbury thought of children in general living in North Oxfordshire and erm realise that you ca n't just take one limb of an education service and send it off spinning into its own orbit and not expect the rest to suffer . |
| 25 | This influences the expectations that the public in Easton have of the police , and of their role in the community — a point which one constable made by explaining that one resident in Easton , upon finding himself locked out of his home , called at the station asking for the duplicate set of keys to his house which he thought the police would routinely possess for the residents ' benefit ; phone calls from the public asking for air and train information also sometimes occur . |
| 26 | Therefore , the opinion ordinary law-abiding residents in Easton have of the police is good , as one elderly lady without prompting told the researcher : ‘ Easton police always give a very good service . |
| 27 | The learning method in Wisard consists of remembering examples . |
| 28 | Three soccer fans from in Jail in Turkey accused of trying to use forged fifty pound notes will learn their fate today . |
| 29 | Three soccer fans from who are in jail in Turkey accused of trying to use forged fifty pound notes , will learn their fate today . |
| 30 | Their new abode was in a small , intimate street of 26 houses ; the Titfords in the male line were second generation immigrants from Somerset , but their neighbours there in Islington consisted of families who had been born anywhere other than London — a cosmopolitan mixture of Geordies , Lancastrians , people from Essex , Suffolk , Shropshire , Kent , Wiltshire , Somerset and Norfolk . |