Example sentences of "of [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it 's going in and out at the right places but it 's also to do with childbearing O K. So George is changing the subject there completely kind of off the wall is n't he , er this comment ? |
| 2 | It spent four weeks at the top of Off the Record 's local artists chart last summer and after a recent re-release , sales topped 1000 . |
| 3 | Nigel did n't get any attention to speak of for the rest of that day . |
| 4 | As I looked at him , it seemed I had found a brother and sisters to love and be proud of for the rest of my life . |
| 5 | County butterfly recorder Steve Piotrowski said : ‘ Up to this year it has been virtually unheard of for the species to over-winter in Suffolk . ’ |
| 6 | The Cabinet is split from top to bottom over the Prime Minister 's policy of using Common Market grants for tax cuts instead of for the provision of help to deprived areas . |
| 7 | Through hard work by the local Historic Scotland works squad , cleaning paths and mopping up residual oil , it proved possible to open the monument for the season on 1 April as planned , with access to the entrances of the prehistoric buildings roped of for the time being . |
| 8 | It was quite unheard of for the White House to be so intimately involved in the appointment process so far down the administrative hierarchy . |
| 9 | Sort of for the series and then , then there 's a break . |
| 10 | One of the events arranged to mark the Library 's Tercentenary in 1989 was a bookbinding competition , in which binders were invited to design appropriate bindings for copies of For the Encouragement of Learning : Scotland 's National Library , 1689–1989 . |
| 11 | Obviously the balance lift will do twice the work , in the same time , and , beyond this , the power required to operate the lift , although of the same intensity , would be only usable during a small portion of the rise instead of during the whole . |
| 12 | The purchased goodwill attributable to Model Developments Ltd , which was disposed of during the year , was £227,000 . |
| 13 | Where subsidiary or associated undertakings are disposed of during the year , their results are to be included up to the effective date of disposal . |
| 14 | Where subsidiary or associated undertakings are disposed of during the year , their results are to be included up to the effective date of disposal . |
| 15 | No fixed assets were disposed of during the year . |
| 16 | This contained some very relevant names and addresses which the Pakistani owner had obviously tried to dispose of during the night , but in the confusion and darkness he had failed to realise it had not gone overboard . " |
| 17 | Why not take poison later instead of during the meal or the reading itself ? ’ |
| 18 | Now for example , these three , I 've got three on this one , you can see the bottom right-hand corner , I have three specific business goals that I 'm us , that I want constant reminding of during the month . |
| 19 | He placed Jock Lewes in charge of training , describing him as ‘ the best training officer I have ever been associated with or heard of during the war ’ . |
| 20 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 21 | And I wish to God that would just come back again , now there people would just treat one of our as they did it one of during the war 's years . |
| 22 | Both letters refer to a small section of between the end of the footway and the start of the flood bank proper . |
| 23 | A source close to Mr Saatchi confirmed yesterday that between 70 and 100 works from the collection — the largest of its kind in the world — had been disposed of through the New York art dealer Larry Gagosian for up to $1m per painting . |
| 24 | Here the plane of weakness is between two vertebrae , instead of through the middle of one . |
| 25 | Tonight the sun shone through elegant Regency stripes of red and cream instead of through the chintz which had hung at the window for the past month . |
| 26 | He is commonly spoken of as the keeper of the King 's conscience . |
| 27 | The Art Of The Musical will be led by the artistic director , Roger Redfarn and will explore the contention that , although America is thought of as the home of the musical , the Brits have been busy in the Eighties conquering Broadway . |
| 28 | They had sat in the area Wickham thought of as the chapel . |
| 29 | This plan is usually referred to as the " report " , since it is a report of the conclusion reached by the school 's library or curriculum development committee , but is more properly thought of as the proposal made by the school to the project coordinating committee in respect of the way in which it proposes that a project grant be used . |
| 30 | ‘ I take thee … to have and to hold … ’ was once thought of as the beginning of a romantic and loving vow , which women could hardly wait to take . |