Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know what to make of Jessica any more . |
| 2 | We have recently moved to an area of Norfolk that is infested with holiday homes : our village is rendered lifeless for half the year , and local people find it impossible to afford homes because prices have been forced up by the greater buying power of outsiders . |
| 3 | She suddenly felt as cold as the raw wind of March that swept the streets of London outside her office window . |
| 4 | Funar had ordered at the end of March that Hungarian or dual language signs in Cluj-Napoca be removed . |
| 5 | No I , I , but I 'm sure I 've got one more to pay but it 'll be the fifteenth of March that 'll be due . |
| 6 | According to Anthony Preece , director of operations at investment group Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers , speaking at last week 's conference , there were at least 13 different design concepts for the future Taurus system under discussion in the City as of March this year . |
| 7 | ‘ Administratively matters in Petersfield Magistrates ’ Court were dealt with in Alton but from the end of March this work has passed to Aldershot . |
| 8 | The company Directors Disqualification Act was seen to be starting to bit when figures produced in Impecunias , the magazine jointly run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and the Law Society of Scotland for insolvency specialists , showed a sudden surge in disqualifications in Scotland form just 49 by the end of April 1992 to 102 by the end of March this year . |
| 9 | By the end of March this had been " refined " further : from then onwards , Franco 's war of attrition was both a military inevitability and a punishment for the Republic 's resistance . |
| 10 | Park Foods is in fine fettle after selling off all none-core business identified in a refocusing exercise a move which has clearly had a beneficial effect on profits which soared by a third from £7.7m to £10.3m before tax at the end of March this year . |
| 11 | Never before has a member of the Royal Family stepped so far out of line and the Queen is not the only one who blames her for many of the misfortunes which have befallen the House of Windsor this year . |
| 12 | It gave the house of Foix some claim to the succession in Bigorre and , when Esquivat died without heirs in 1283 , a conflict broke out which was not to be resolved until 1307 . |
| 13 | They reckon it was all of Dawstone all of Corfe Mullen . |
| 14 | Have you seen anything of Sarah this weekend , is she alright ? |
| 15 | Paul and Bill have a glass of Bud each : Bill 's third , Paul 's fourth . |
| 16 | He gave Beaumont and David of Strathbogie some limited help in raising the money they needed to launch the invasion , and some time before the expedition left for Scotland he received Edward Balliol 's homage for the kingdom he hoped to conquer . |
| 17 | Trainees at the centre at Menro House , Colmore Avenue , won a commission from City Challenge to produce a portfolio of 400 photographs of the eastern area of Middlesbrough some of which were used in the documents and information backing up the successful bid . |
| 18 | SCHOOL pupils cleaned up parts of Middlesbrough this week . |
| 19 | Whereas in Aristotle 's day , and indeed for some two thousand years afterwards , it might have been conceivable that extremes of wealth and poverty , and even slavery , could coexist as part of a single society , by the time of Rousseau that was no longer the case . |
| 20 | The facility with which Protestants interpreted the Bible for themselves — opening , it seemed , a Pandora 's box of subversive opinions — led to a declaration at the Council of Trent that was to create particular problems for Galileo , seventy years later . |
| 21 | It overlooked the lights of Manhattan some 47 storeys below . |
| 22 | The purchase of MTM is likely to wipe out the second-half profits of TVS this year . |
| 23 | P SCOTTISH Ferries will be calling at the Norwegian port of Bergen this summer . |
| 24 | And he can play a bit , although he 's missing the support of Webb these days . |
| 25 | Several groups of Communes are in the LFA Zone de Montagne ; in the Rochefort-Montagne Commune of Puy-de-Dome much encouragement has been given to remembrement by M. Giscard d'Estaing who resides in the area and is in favour of ‘ progressive ’ agriculture . |
| 26 | Even in the post-war period Britain 's understanding of itself has continued to be fashioned by our taking a leading part in the containment of Germany that was the unspoken second function of the Nato Alliance . |
| 27 | Combined with the federal structure of Germany this means that services are de-centralized as far as the political and administrative levels of national state ( Bundesstaat ) , federal state ( Land ) , district ( Kreis ) and local authority are concerned and additionally dispersed over an almost indescribable multiplicity of semi- and non-statutory organizations . |
| 28 | Hodgskin concluded that if Britain was better governed than the states of Germany this was principally because of the greater freedom of expression in Britain and because the political education of the working classes had progressed further in Britain than in Germany . |
| 29 | She dreamed of Fincara that night , fierce laughter ringing in her ears , magic binding her like a cold sticky web ; and woke just before dawn , too afraid even to cry . |
| 30 | Indeed Christianity might even say that in Jesus of Nazareth those actions were God 's . |