Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] of [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My View of the Floods October 1993 |
| 2 | Margaret Brasnett in her Story of the Citizens advice Bureaux in 1964 talks of the ‘ need for people who are good at keeping papers in order and seeing that information material is filed and kept up-to-date ’ . |
| 3 | On the Saturday evening she dressed carefully in her favourite of the outfits Thomas had bought her : the white silk shirt with its lace collar and cuffs and a full blue skirt . |
| 4 | Committal proceedings are supposed to test the soundness of the prosecution 's case but , on the whole , nothing of the kind is achieved because defence lawyers prefer to reserve their probing of the police case for the trial , where they may deploy the tactics of surprise to greatest effect . |
| 5 | In order to support the Guinness share price during its takeover of the Distillers Group criminal acts of theft , false accountancy and conspiracy were committed . |
| 6 | Perfect Strangers ( 1945 ) , which he directed for MGM , seemed glib in its presentation of the changes war had brought to a married couple , changing him from timid clerk to authoritarian naval officer , and her from drab housewife to confident member of the WRNS , but the film was popular nevertheless . |
| 7 | Those expatriate Conservative voters in Singapore must have choked on their gin slings last week when they opened their copy of the Straits Times . |
| 8 | She dismissed Swan with a smile and , having fumbled in her shoulder bag for her copy of The Times House of Commons , turned to Arden . |
| 9 | Is it part of the supporters club ? |
| 10 | The 1966 World Cup winner , starting his caretakership of the Potteries club , said : ‘ I have not been a vulture on Mick 's back — and he knows that . ’ |
| 11 | Mark Stevenson , of Lambeth Road , Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , visited Cleveland Police 's traffic unit at Cannon Park , Middlesbrough , to hand over his picture of the police car of the future . |
| 12 | He is unsparing in his criticism of the arms-for-hostages operation ( though he is disappointingly brief about the linked support for Nicaragua 's contras ) . |
| 13 | De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " . |
| 14 | It was this conversation , most probably , which made Eisenhower so suspicious at the end of his presidency of the armaments lobby and its effect on policy . |
| 15 | In his History of the Abbots Bede says that Ecgberht , king of Kent , sent a certain Wigheard to Rome where he wished him to be consecrated archbishop , and only subsequently in the Ecclesiastical History does Bede report that Oswiu and Ecgberht consulted together on what action to take about a successor to Deusdedit and that they agreed on the choice of one of Deusdedit 's clergy , Wigheard , whom they sent to Rome to be consecrated ( HE III , 29 ) . |
| 16 | Yes , this , this is your , your neck of the woods Debbie , what 's , what 's happening ? |
| 17 | We chose the following three dads as the winners of our Top of the Pops Competition because they either warmed our hearts or made us laugh . |
| 18 | We chose the following three dads as the winners of our Top of the Pops Competition because they either warmed our hearts or made us laugh . |
| 19 | Your introduction of a letters page to the match programme should be congratulated . |
| 20 | The terms of engagement letter should aim to set out unambiguously our understanding of the clients requirements and the nature of the services and assistance we intend to provide . |