Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the archival evidence shows that if the Masai did not change it was not for want of trying on the part of the administration , it was convenient in some quarters to suppose that it was . |
| 2 | It is not for want of trying on the part of The International Tennis Federation . |
| 3 | As can be seen from Table 6 , there is a significant main effect for level of processing for the recognition scores . |
| 4 | I ca n't hear the Playhouse spoke of without trembling ; and shall not dare to look into a News-paper , for fear of meeting with the Name of Cibber |
| 5 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |
| 6 | She warns against what can sometimes be a knee-jerk support of abortion technology for fear of playing into the hands of the right wing . |
| 7 | After months of teetering on the brink , David Reed has filed for protection from his creditors . |
| 8 | And so , despite the undeniably galling aspect of being asked to rejoice in so meagre a victory after decades of hammering on the hallowed portals of power , I believe it would be foolish to look this particular gift-horse in the mouth . |
| 9 | Oman is placing an order for three patrol craft with French shipbuilders after weeks of waiting in the hope that a buyer might be found for the Tyneside yard . |
| 10 | After years of dealing with the likes of dullard and truculent supermarket purchasing managers , Horsley was suddenly meeting all manner of fascinating and powerful people . |
| 11 | After years of plotting against the Russians , he found it difficult to trust any of them . |
| 12 | And the decision means Tranmere 's second string will finally have quality opposition after years of languishing in the Midlands Senior League . |
| 13 | Chatting in the bar at the festival centre , the 30-year-old writer/director shows a few signs of wear ( a bad back , a persistent cold ) but is obviously still riding the adrenaline rush of getting his movie made after years of struggling on the margins of the film industry . |
| 14 | Next week parents are due to receive ballot papers to vote on whether they want to push for grant maintained status after years of waiting for the council to convert promises into action . |
| 15 | A suicide note revealed they were desperate after years of caring for the seriously handicapped daughter . |
| 16 | After days of fighting between the army and the people in Togo , where President Gnassingbé Eyadéma has ruled for 24 years , a truce was agreed in mid-April . |
| 17 | It was utterly dull and repetitive , day after day of filing for the Inland Revenue . |
| 18 | Would to God the dear girl had had the smallpox in a mortifying manner , then she 'd be lovely in the excellencies of her mind only and out of dangers of suffering from the transient beauties of countenance . |
| 19 | Within a couple of minutes of going over the destroyer 's port side , Donald Roy 's kilted Scotsmen were attacking the pumphouse 50 yards from the caisson ( 'H' on diagram p. 41 ) . |
| 20 | The chief source of confusion , briefly , is a conflation of the criteria of sameness of meaning with the meaning of " sameness of meaning " . |
| 21 | The probable sequence of events in erecting such a structure would begin with the excavation of the flat-bottomed wall-trenches dug into the chalk which , judging from the evidence of signs of pecking on the trench sides , were made with a pointed tool . |
| 22 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 23 | LVTA is the result of years of lobbying by the SMMT on behalf of its Specialist Car Manufacturers ' Group , chaired by Caterham 's Graham Nearn and consisting of seven companies which number Marcos , Westfield , JBA and Jago Automotive — all kit car makers — among them . |
| 24 | The law , the result of years of lobbying by the Roman Catholic church , bans abortions in private clinics and puts strict limits on them in public hospitals . |
| 25 | GARY Wolstenholme no doubt arrived at Augusta with a set of expectations borne of years of reading about the Masters , watching the final stages on television and latterly imagining what it will be like , for he is playing in the US Masters as an automatic invitee after winning the 1991 Amateur Championship . |
| 26 | Above this number the staff-student relationship , vital in medicine , deteriorates rapidly , with concomitant loss of quality of teaching at the bedside and in the laboratory . |
| 27 | We have a number of ways of dealing with the elderly in Western societies . |
| 28 | ‘ We are studying a number of ways of dealing with the problem . |
| 29 | It is rather one of lack of understanding on the part of others , of ignorant if well-meaning insensitivity towards a sensitive child and adolescent . |
| 30 | We crossed the huge market square where a great throng had gathered to witness the execution of two brothers found guilty by the Judges of Assizes of plotting against the King . |