Example sentences of "of [prep] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I tell you what we used to have a dresser like this in front of of of a of a h of a of a at home and er mother used to make a a jelly and she used to put it underneath the dresser and put a plate on on top of it in case the mice would get it . |
| 2 | We see the creation of of of the confederation of the Rhine . |
| 3 | So er a few other little aspects of the er of of er the congr of of of the holy all of of of the er Vienna settlement which is sometimes underplayed . |
| 4 | So er a few other little aspects of the er of of er the congr of of of the holy all of of of the er Vienna settlement which is sometimes underplayed . |
| 5 | of of of the |
| 6 | So , he 's only had the same length of time doing this as you have so , by the end of the afternoon you ought to be in the position to print out a really neat final version of of of the letter . |
| 7 | Erm and what I would like to do , that paper was written by Mr , erm our research officer and perhaps after I 've made one or two general remarks , he could give you the flavour erm of of of the difference as we as we see , if that would be acceptable to you ? |
| 8 | Now I I 've chosen an example w with a Conservative Secretary of State and the Labour majority , but I ask the Noble Lords on all , in all parts of the House to think it could work the other way round , because a Labour Secretary of State could exercise exactly these powers in an area where with a er Conservative majority on on er on on the local council or councils and I ask the House to think of this , not in a party er as a as a party issue between Labour , Conservative or Liberal Democrat , I just ask you to consider whether it is right for a Secretary of State of any political persuasion to er secure by appointment to a police authority a political control from the centre of that police authority , because that is what the Government 's presents proposals would still achieve and er it is our view and it is the view of which is which is finds expression in Amendments five , eight and eleven that the we should return to the tripartite system of p of policing which policing is a partnership between the Chief Constable er the local authority in the area and the Home Secretary , that er tripartite arrangement has worked extremely well for thirty years , there have been minor conflicts in some parts of the country , but nothing to justify the wholesale removal of of of the partnership which is now proposed . |
| 9 | interest tax relief , it 's M I D A S right , so let's not start talking about the benefit of public sector housing and to show the financial illiteracy of of of what 's actually been proposed if you understand the government regulation about the ring fencing o of of of the housing revenue account and and the way in which housing benefit is now having to be subsidised by those other council house tenants then what 's actually going to happen when your poor people inhabit those houses , those public sector houses and they need the housing benefit that David 's been talking about . |
| 10 | Erm , basically we 've got a very poor deal from the government this year in terms of of of an increase in our spending allowance . |
| 11 | A and it is this stupid business of of in a way you know the whole idea that er it 's beyond us you know . |
| 12 | Ring contraction also occurs in the reaction of with with the loss , in this case , of just one SN unit . |
| 13 | The equations are often studied for different values of in with a and b held constant ; Lorenz 's original paper { 21 } took . |
| 14 | Mockbeggar Theatre Company , the North 's long-estestablished disabled people 's theatre company , visits Kirby College , Middlesbrough on February 26 as part of its national with a production of In Through The Out Door . |
| 15 | Erm whereas kind of in in a situation like this , people lapse into the formal repertoire . |
| 16 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 17 | But now the naturists are coming out of from behind the bushes in growing numbers . |
| 18 | Its actual meaning here corresponds therefore to an interception of to at the final point of its movement . |
| 19 | The potential meaning of to with the infinitive can therefore be diagrammed in the following manner : The potential meaning of to as described above fits in with that of the bare infinitive in the following very simple way : the latter evokes that which defines the end-point of the movement denoted by to . |
| 20 | In order to discern the reason for the use of to with the infinitive in passive sentences of the type just mentioned , we must begin therefore by trying to observe the kind of meaning which these sentences express and the type of context in which they are used . |
| 21 | What is more , the use of to with the infinitive seems to betoken , as with prepositional to , a relation involving a spatial entity : a preposition relates an element conceived as a spatial entity ( a substantive or pronoun ) to something else . |
| 22 | At the same time as the non-past is undergoing this shift , the use of to with the infinitive is being extended beyond its concrete directional sense to cover all cases of subsequent potentiality and subsequent actualization , for which the bare infinitive had formerly been adequate : " … the use of the to infinitive in the place of the bare or plain infinitive increased rapidly during the late Old English and early Middle English periods " ( Visser 1966 : 948 ) . |
| 23 | The only explanation proposed to date for the absence of to after the modal auxiliaries ( Mittwoch 1990 : 127-9 ) is , by the author 's own admission , " entirely syntactic " : to is analysed as a modal itself , and since the grammar " must include a constraint against two modals in sequence in order to rule out examples such as * If John agreed to baby-sit , we would can go " , it follows that to and the modals can not co-occur . |
| 24 | Comments on the meaning of this construction bring out an interesting contrast between the infinitive and a that-clause , which will help to explain the use of to before the infinitive here . |
| 25 | This , it will be argued , corresponds in fact to the way allow ( and also permit ) represent permission , a way of viewing this notion which calls for the use of to before the infinitive . |
| 26 | Oh I see so sort of on on the funeral day they they would n't even be in the house . |
| 27 | The Beverly Hills Diet , by Mazel and Schultz , was a good example of on of the fad diets emanating from the USA . |