Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week the head teachers association of Cambridgeshire wrote to the county council to say that because of critical shortages of books , equipment and facilities and because of oversized classes , it would have serious difficulty providing the national curriculum . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , do shut up ! ’ said Molly , thinking of Jacqueline left in the sole care of Giovanna . |
| 3 | By this valley of the Glen water Douglas had surely intended to make his way back to Kelso , for he had brought his army out of the cleft of Wooler close under the hills , bearing west , and only when they were clear of the town and close to Homildon village had they become aware of the English army drawn up facing them , closing this route , and in a position also to deny them access to the more easterly route by the Till . |
| 4 | The treatment was as diverse as the geographical distribution , from the simple four-part settings of the complete Psalter in Polish by Mikolaj Gomolka ( Cracow , 1580 ) , employing tunes drawn from plainsong , Protestant song , and the popular music of Eastern Europe generally , to the astonishing collection of settings of Marot-Bèze published by the Dutch master Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( 15621621 ) in four books ( Amsterdam , 1604 , 1613 , 1614 , and Haarlem , 1621 ) . |
| 5 | The confrontation became heated and a force of Gardai came on the scene . |
| 6 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 7 | Quite simply , not only do we and they not share common objectives , but we do not even make similar appraisals of world events , as the President of France demonstrated at the time of the coup in Moscow , when he seemed willing to negotiate with the coup 's leaders . |
| 8 | Charlie read and re-read his banal offering , aware that although he extolled Tommy 's courage during the battle he made no mention of Trentham fleeing from the enemy . |
| 9 | On one such incident I was in command of Venturous patrolling in the Straits of Dover at the end of a very busy Bank Holiday , during which we had followed a suspect yacht from just outside Calais , and handed her over to our special unit in Dover . |
| 10 | The sonnets may announce a compatibility between poetic convention and authentic expression ; or the sonnets may be the result of Astrophil staying within the muse 's domain , writing in imitation of familiar poetic norms and abandoning the muse 's advice to look for an authentic writing from the heart . |
| 11 | This was the background to an attempt by president Nkrumah of Ghana to break through the impasse . |
| 12 | An unusual photograph of Joseph presented to the U.S. National Assembly by General Miles . |
| 13 | I carefully pasted the photograph of Joe waving on the front , and inside , in his best handwriting , he wrote , ‘ Happy Father 's Day , Dad . |
| 14 | It happens that the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland began during the age of the dinosaurs . |
| 15 | In the US the Carnegie Foundation has established a Centre for the Study of Societal Ageing at the University of Michigan . |
| 16 | The Mayor of Bedford wrote to the Board expressing the concern of the Justices of Peace about the state of insubordination in the workhouse . |
| 17 | The Countess of Donnington stood at the window of the first-floor sitting room , intent on the street below . |
| 18 | It is only a slight exaggeration to say that , at this extraordinary historical moment , the future of Poland depends on the Germans ; the future of Europe depends on each behaving a little more like the other . |
| 19 | THE FUTURE of Antarctica turns on the outcome of an international conference which Michel Rocard , the French Prime Minister , opened yesterday with a speech that set the tone for what will be a fiercely political debate . |
| 20 | Some 10,000-15,000 supporters of Yeltsin rallied outside the Russian Supreme Soviet building , known as the White House . |
| 21 | Stress position may vary for one of two reasons : either as a result of the stress on other words occurring next to the word in question , or because not all speakers of RP agree on the placement of stress in some words . |
| 22 | ‘ Was the Thane of Wessex harassed by the Danes ? ’ |
| 23 | Both the Brut and the Chronicle of London commented on the youth of those who attended , and Gloucester , Arundel , Devon , Warenne and Huntingdon excused themselves on grounds of age and infirmity . |
| 24 | Each day 's performances began with a sacrifice and libations ; the priest of Dionysus sat in the centre front of the audience ; the image of the god , normally kept in the temple adjacent to the theatre , had been carried in procession and placed in the theatre ; in the centre of the orchestra was an altar . |
| 25 | They were on the brow of a little hill and Sara walked farther on to look down on the county spread in front of her , idly trying to recognise familiar landmarks — It was a travel-ad view — neat lush fields , trim hedgerows , a farmhouse nestling in amongst its windbreak of trees , a sheet of yellow on the far hills where a field of mustard was in bloom , and for the rest , a thousand different shades of the greens of high summer , a piece of England basking in the sun and as beautiful as any foreign strand . |
| 26 | It is a good idea to put a tiny piece of Blu Tack beneath the strip at both ends to stop it slipping out of place . |
| 27 | In allowing the Commissioner 's appeal , Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle referred to the decision in IRC v Hong Seng Bank Ltd [ 1990 ] and the dictum of Atkin LJ in Smith & Co v Greenwood [ 1921 ] : ‘ I think that the question is , where do the operations take place from which the profits in substance arise ? ’ |
| 28 | The sales side of Mercia merged with the contract division of Stoddard to form Stoddard Mercia Contract . |
| 29 | Yes it 's been understood that it was a routing thing to put them at the right side of Southwell to drive through the middle of it . |
| 30 | We praise you , O God , that the light of Christ shines amidst the darkness of our world and that the darkness has not overcome it ; and we pray that his light may shine more and more into our own lives , illuminating our minds with the knowledge of the truth and enabling us to walk in the way of holiness and love ; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord , |