Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Musselburgh , there was a beach game ( called fitba ) in which the goals were of little sticks and the ball a dried bladder of seaweed flicked with the middle finger to score . |
| 2 | For through the seemingly substantial chest of his great-great-grandfather he could glimpse the hazed , refracted image of the Ywe Lung , the great wheel of dragons broken by the planes of his ancestor 's body . |
| 3 | Reports in late January suggested that the United Kingdom Defence Ministry might have been aware of the export of components used in the manufacture of the Iraqi " super-gun " [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390-91 ; 37471 ; 38361 ] . |
| 4 | MINIS , when properly developed , could identify and measure the performance of departmental cost centres , and thereby provide a potential for the comprehensive reorganization of departments based upon the principle of decentralization to managerially autonomous accountable units . |
| 5 | The association of thrust faulting on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau with normal faulting in its highest regions has been interpreted as suggesting that it has attained its maximum elevation , and that consequently it is tending to grow outwards rather than increase in altitude . |
| 6 | Last week the head teachers association of Cambridgeshire wrote to the county council to say that because of critical shortages of books , equipment and facilities and because of oversized classes , it would have serious difficulty providing the national curriculum . |
| 7 | Thus an association of features leads to the attribution of all of them to a common agency , rather like the association of subglacial channels with eskers in a different context . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , do shut up ! ’ said Molly , thinking of Jacqueline left in the sole care of Giovanna . |
| 9 | A light , high tang of fuel lay on the air . |
| 10 | By this valley of the Glen water Douglas had surely intended to make his way back to Kelso , for he had brought his army out of the cleft of Wooler close under the hills , bearing west , and only when they were clear of the town and close to Homildon village had they become aware of the English army drawn up facing them , closing this route , and in a position also to deny them access to the more easterly route by the Till . |
| 11 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |
| 12 | The elections to a new 205-member House of Representatives resulted in a victory for the Nepali Congress , which formed a new government in late May , and marked the final stage of a 15-month democratization process which had resulted in the destruction of the old panchayat system , under which political parties had been banned and most political power had rested in the hands of the monarch , King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva [ see p. 37856 for chronology of events leading to the adoption of a new constitution in November 1990 ] . |
| 13 | In a number of countries including France and Italy , it is also apparent that a good deal of prominence attaches to the central union federations . |
| 14 | And I will also give you a good deal of freedom to look at the sea . ’ |
| 15 | School press officer Adrea Menzies , said : ‘ The school gained a great deal of experience related to the issues of a general election and into voting procedures as well as taking part in a nationwide children 's election . ’ |
| 16 | They will have a great deal of expertise to offer within the administrative support function . |
| 17 | But he said they would present the designs to Reflection , these very sketches , and there would be a great deal of acclaim given to the Gnomes as a result . |
| 18 | In industry it often happens that a great deal of thought goes into the design of a project , when the real problem is finding the right person to run the project . |
| 19 | As is usual with a carnival , it started with a Fancy Dress Procession around the parish , which finished at the Shady Bower Field , and a great deal of thought went into the entries . |
| 20 | Finally I 'll just say this to him , I agree that we have a great deal of things to learn from the United States , not in the way he suggests but it is a fact that er over the economic cycle of O E C D between seventy nine and eighty nine er America the United States saw growth of twenty six percent which created eighteen and half million jobs in their free enterprise economy . |
| 21 | As a result , a great deal of material related to the running of a business will fall within the ambit of the law of confidence . |
| 22 | I also did a great deal of amateur acting with the Progress Theatre in Reading . |
| 23 | Some people have great difficulty in solving problems and making decisions and waste a great deal of time ruminating on the same thoughts without ever coming to a clear conclusion . |
| 24 | And that was someone from Nottingham University who spent a great deal of time grumbling about the bus service from Mansfield to Edwinstowe . |
| 25 | Even though , as readers of the fabliaux , we may spend a good deal of time smiling at the preposterous ingenuity of gross deceptions and misdeeds — in other words things that are generically wrongs in terms of conventional Christian morality — we have already seen that substantial elements of positive Christian spirituality and conventional morality are widely represented amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 26 | ‘ At my age you do n't need much sleep by night , and I spend a good deal of time sitting by the bedroom window , smoking my pipe and watching the sea … |
| 27 | Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance . |
| 28 | He says there has been a great deal of interest shown in the firm because virtual reality is seen as an exciting new technology with a lot of potential . |
| 29 | The potential we could receive here , erm the kind of people who live here , the numbers of people who live here now and in the future , the types of housing and housing again , in the future and all in all a g a great deal of study went into the area . |
| 30 | There is a good deal of industry associated with the city , but for the most part it is not heavy industry . |