Example sentences of "[noun prp] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 9 ECOMOG accused the NPFL of forcibly disarming peacekeeping troops . |
| 2 | The 0-4-4T loco has had a chequered restoration history since arriving back from a stay in the United States of more than 20 years . |
| 3 | In my warm , sleepy contentment I expected it to be Toby , the Toby of before . |
| 4 | THE brother-in-law of James Guerin , the US industrialist accused of defrauding Ferranti of more than £150m , pleaded guilty in US court yesterday to two counts of bribery in America 's WedTech defence scandal . |
| 5 | The ministers could not agree on rules for the return to Germany of illegally exported waste . |
| 6 | The climate was not improved by the exposure in March of further North Korean tunnelling under the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) separating the two countries . |
| 7 | A DISGRACED professor who contrived a scheme to defraud the University of Stirling of almost £15,000 escaped a prison sentence yesterday after a sheriff heard he had paid the money back . |
| 8 | In last month 's analysis of She 's Got It Bad by Shaun Ward of Simply Red , the second half of bars 12 and 16 should read Gn , G♯ , A , not G♯ , A , A♯ . |
| 9 | Our first difference arose over the Biafran War , which began in July 1967 and in which , by the time it ended some three years later , there had been a civilian death toll alone in Biafra of over two million people . |
| 10 | Written records attributed to the Hittites of Asia Minor of 1500BC contain references to wine , and its use is familiar from Homeric legends onwards . |
| 11 | It had declined substantially by the late thirties but was still a thriving place compared with the Baldersdale of today . |
| 12 | The study of both Cramlington and North Shields is therefore not just a matter of the comparative examination of interestingly contrasted localities , but involves consideration of the way in which the real relationships between these localities constitutes the Tyneside of today . |
| 13 | On the issue of over-production , Aziz accused Kuwait and the UAE of recently implementing an " international scheme to glut the oil market " by exceeding their quotas . |
| 14 | He had never dreamed that his enemy would dare show his face in the army , and Lord John 's presence seemed evidence to Sharpe of just how the cavalryman must despise him . |
| 15 | Turkey announced on Dec. 19 that it had decided to raise the representation in Ankara of both Israel and Palestine to embassy status . |
| 16 | This is why Leavis recommends that students be prescribed a piece of extended work dealing with the process of change by which " the England of the seventeenth century " became the " England of today " . " |
| 17 | The Psittacidae , he always claimed , was ‘ the first book of the kind drawn on stone in England of so large a size , & … one which led to all Mr Gould 's improvements . ’ |
| 18 | The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Annual Report ( 1986 ) in the UK quotes that there are 5700 deaths and 3 million people injured each year in home accidents at an annual cost to the NHS of about £350 million . |
| 19 | A sample by OPCS of over 1000 couples divorced in 1979 showed that about one-third of both divorced husbands and divorced wives had remarried within two and a half years ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | The real Scotland of today knows exactly where it stands : on its own in defence of its national rights and determined that Scottish votes will count in future . |
| 21 | On Jan. 10 , the export from Russia of about 60 products , including food and consumer goods , was banned . |
| 22 | A strike by machinists at Boeing Co. in October 1989 [ see below ] and the resultant decline in exports produced an increased deficit in November , but the end of the strike in November and the resumption of the export sale of aircraft , coupled with a fall in oil imports , produced a deficit in December of only $7,200 million , the lowest in five years . |
| 23 | From temperatures during the day in Darwin of over 100 degrees , it was minus three when they arrived in Tasmania . |
| 24 | K. S. Karol points out that it was the same meeting of the Central Committee ( on 11 July ) which both endorsed Khrushchev 's announcement on 9 July of virtually unlimited economic aid to Cuba and approved his decision to withdraw all Soviet economic aid from China , and argues that the Cuban affair gave Khrushchevan unexpected internationalist alibi' for his anti-Maoist campaign ( Karol : 1971 , p. 204 ) . |
| 25 | Brigitte 's grand reunion with her new found family came after a separation from Nicolas of more than 10 years . |
| 26 | De Maizière , who had also accused the CDU on Aug. 27 of enriching itself to the tune of DM26,000,000 at the expense of the east German party ( an allegation he later withdrew ) , on Sept. 11 accused Kohl and the CDU of deliberately discrediting him . |
| 27 | A clear disparity exists between the guideline in England and Wales of 20-plus years ' imprisonment and the practice in Northern Ireland of about 13 years ' imprisonment before murderers of soldiers and policemen are released . |
| 28 | This old this old lad he was called James Graham of long ago . |
| 29 | Since the picnic , the young man by the river had joined her twice ; she herself , interestingly , had not been the Helen of today but her own younger self and indeed not even that — some other girl who was both alien and deeply familiar , a doppelgänger , a mirror-Helen . |
| 30 | ( A smaller complication is the presence near Addis Ababa of nearly 20,000 Falashas , black Jews whom the Israelis may now be tempted to rescue in an Entebbe-style commando raid . ) |