Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] of [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information sessions will cover the first year of the pilot and one college 's experience of offering the additional assessment . |
| 2 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 3 | In September he startled Italians by lashing out at one of Sicily 's most popular fighters against the Mafia , Leoluca Orlando , an ex-mayor of Palermo , who was guilty in Mr Cossiga 's mind of damaging the Christian Democratic Party . |
| 4 | The longer the race went on , the better Devon Loch jumped , and as he soared over Becher 's Brook on the second circuit no runner was going better : the Queen Mother 's dream of winning the Grand National was about to come true . |
| 5 | As a housewife and knitting club member , she ‘ took the plunge ’ and opened Woolwork nearly ten years ago and Meryl reckons the success of the shop is due to Lena 's attitude of giving the same smiling service whether the customer wants a cone of yarn or the latest machine . |
| 6 | If the Government 's record of managing the public services has been indifferent , the Tories and the Tories alone have acted bravely and imaginatively to achieve better public services by the only credible means — managing resources through private sector standards and disciplines . |
| 7 | Can can I just say that I think it 's interesting that Mao 's sort of targeting the local tyrants and the erm the evil gentry I mean because you could , you could ar argue that basically the landlords are only trying to get a return erm which is , which is equal to what they can get if they invest all their money in or you know erm or whatever or big cities |
| 8 | SCOT Colin Montgomerie 's chance of adding the Moroccan Open to his European Tour honours disappeared on the windswept Kings Course here yesterday . |
| 9 | For a start , he continued Dej 's policy of distancing the Romanian military from the Red Army : he discouraged contacts between Romanian Army officers and their Soviet counterparts , insisting that Romanian soldiers be trained in Romania . |
| 10 | The government 's policy of dividing the different ethnic groups among the African population has in some cases encouraged particularist nationalisms , nowhere more so than in Kwazulu , where the ‘ Zulu nationalism ’ of the Inkatha movement has contributed to a polarization of black society in Natal , with highly detrimental effects on the education system and on the lives of young people ( Chapter 13 ) . |
| 11 | Being ostensibly part of the Conservative Government 's policy of controlling the internal running of trade unions , her role has inevitably been seen as being both political and provocative . |
| 12 | Mokhehle had strongly opposed the King 's policy of allowing the African National Congress ( ANC ) of South Africa to operate from bases in Lesotho . |
| 13 | But it remains to ask again why the state 's policy of pursuing the common interest always fosters the political interest of the ruling class . |
| 14 | The North Korean government outlined three preconditions for progress on this question : ( i ) the abandonment of the South 's policy of linking the nuclear issue with inter-Korean economic exchange ; ( ii ) the scrapping of the joint US-South Korean military exercises ; and ( iii ) the repatriation of Li In Mo , a North Korean army officer captured by the South during the Korean War . |
| 15 | of Labour voters , support my right hon. Friend 's policy of reducing the standard rate of tax from 25p to 20p in the pound ? |
| 16 | Brooke-Rose distinguishes her novel from the plethora of ‘ fiction about the writing of fiction ’ in that its purpose is to play with ‘ the reader 's habit of trusting the reliable narrator ’ ( 1976k:4–5 ) . |
| 17 | MMC endorsed AEA 's objective of breaking the Civil Service link and introducing a unified structure . |
| 18 | Only spirited defending of the highest order and considerable good fortune enabled Manchester United to progress beyond Silesia in 1968 : despite losing 1-0 to Gornik , Sir Matt Busby 's vision of winning the European Cup was still intact as the result of a two-goal advantage from the first leg . |
| 19 | Albert 's love of recording the essential transitoriness of irritation , mere human annoyingness , gives an almost stream-of-consciousness effect in the Lewis Papers . |
| 20 | Pursuant to Falkenhayn 's scheme of grinding the French Army to pieces by sheer weight of artillery , the Fifth Army 's guns had orders to move up to new positions as soon as the enemy first line had been overrun . |
| 21 | The Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , has rejected Lady Thatcher 's idea of lifting the United Nations arms embargo on Bosnia saying it would prolong the conflict . |
| 22 | Woosnam is aiming to equal Nicklaus 's feat of winning the 32-nation tournament 's individual title three times . |
| 23 | The biology may not be very convincing in this argument , but it is nevertheless a useful distinction to make , given Freud 's purpose of understanding the emotional structure of human groups . |
| 24 | Matthew 's way of expressing the same point is this . |
| 25 | For the moment we shall focus on Weber 's way of introducing the individual elements . |
| 26 | Cronenberg 's way of filming the unfilmable has been to arrange his material in a pulp noir format , laced with hallucinations , corrupt characters , and local colour ( local being studio-recreated Tangier ) . |
| 27 | But , more than anybody , Powell recognised that whatever the business opportunities Event presented , it was also Branson 's way of exorcising the journalistic instincts — the excitement of chasing stories and airing issues — which had been thwarted by the failure of Student . |
| 28 | Sceptics — myself included — questioned Bingham 's wisdom of picking the 33-year old Reading striker ahead of one of our more mobile midfielders such as O'Neill or Black . |
| 29 | When you accept these books , you not only save £21.51 ( and the Lotto Game comes free ) ; you automatically become a member of this celebrated Club with over twelve years ' experience of recommending the best children 's books . |
| 30 | DURHAM WASPS ' dream of becoming the first British League team to win a European game abroad ended in a 10-1 defeat here last night after Robert Herckerrath had opened the scoring for Gunco Pandas of Rotterdam in the second minute . |