Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 2 | Timothy Sainsbury , the Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , on March 7 insisted in the British House of Commons that the UK had no intention of giving up sovereignty of the islands and that the issue was not on the political agenda . |
| 3 | Despite being Motorola 's only volume outlet for 88000-based CPU systems , the company would n't dream , he says , of taking over fabrication of the part from its owner , in the same way that Silicon Graphics Inc is swallowing its chip supplier . |
| 4 | In the dispute with the Supreme Soviet , each side accused the other of taking over control of the paper in violation of the June 1990 USSR law on press freedom [ see p. 37541 ] . |
| 5 | Party chairman Sir Norman Fowler is also said to be considering renting out part of the building in Westminster . |
| 6 | The international treaty is aimed at saving the Earth 's ozone layer and commits member countries to phasing out production of the gases that destroy the layer . |
| 7 | Marshal Shaposhnikov said Russia 's Foreign Minister would be asked to open talks with the Ukrainian leadership on handing over part of the 300-ship fleet to Ukraine for a coastal defence force . |