Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : I stepped out of my chariot to walk across the meadow and whom should I spy but your humble servant , Mr. Williams . |
| 2 | They had refused the instructions of their government to return before the war . |
| 3 | They are using it as part of their module to train for the real business world by setting up their own venture and running it for the school year . |
| 4 | In the face of their impotence to deal with the apparent all-embracing power of those ranged against them , the parents decided this was their only weapon . |
| 5 | Similarly , although trusts were reminded just one year ago of their obligation to abide by the manpower approvals procedures relating to non-consultant career grades , some have established posts clearly intending them to be outside the controls incorporated in Achieving a Balance . |
| 6 | The ministers who like the House either do so because , in their opposition days , they enjoyed its fellowship and had few other contacts in London , or they feel so confident of their capacity to score off the Opposition that they like revealing their talents . |
| 7 | In most Latin American countries the Communist parties are now an accepted part of the political scene , largely because of their willingness to engage in the horse-trading of Latin American politics . |
| 8 | Ten of the 16 autonomous republics within the RSFSR made a joint declaration of their wish to stay in the RSFSR on Aug. 29 . |
| 9 | No one must be false to that oath , but in order to return a collective verdict , the verdict of you all , there must necessarily be argument , and a certain amount of give and take and adjustment of views within the scope of the oath you have taken , and it makes for great public inconvenience and expense if jurors can not agree owing to the unwillingness of one of their number to listen to the arguments of the rest . |
| 10 | This 100 ( or such lesser number as existed at any time ) were to elect 28 of their number to sit in the new House . |
| 11 | There were at most twenty-two Jacobite peers in the House of Lords , ten of whom were Scottish representative peers , who owed their places to the Union of 1707 ( under the terms of which , the Scottish peers as a whole elected sixteen of their number to sit in the upper chamber at Westminster ) . |
| 12 | All the adults pronounced the name of Balmoral with a unique excitement ; the cousins were soberly proud of their duty to play with the royal children . |
| 13 | Here , too , you have to be careful and weigh the advantages of their appearance against the disadvantages of their potential to distract from the message . |
| 14 | The petitioning creditor must prepare for the hearing a list of all those creditors who have given notice of their intention to appear at the hearing and hand it in at the hearing(r6.24) . |
| 15 | ‘ We need electricians and plumbers willing to give up two weeks of their time to work in the hospital and also fundraisers to help raise the cash to fund the work . ’ |
| 16 | The right of a widow , widower or resident member of their family to succeed to the tenancy on the tenant 's death . |
| 17 | Blyth 's decision comes as a surprise because of their opposition to the pyramid during the Eighties , while Northallerton 's letter is indicative of their ambition to progress beyond the Northern League . |
| 18 | Those that lie in local spaces having intersections with other spaces will be forced to have an association , if only in terms of their need to cohabit within the same region of the geometric domain . |
| 19 | Stanley Mill has survived , largely because of its ability to adapt to the changing needs of the market . |
| 20 | All that they wanted was the full recognition of their king 's sovereign rights in the duchy , a moderate enough approach in which they had the support of the papacy , now becoming increasingly aware of its obligation to help in the diplomatic negotiations between the two countries . |
| 21 | The procedure is that : LCH gives notice of its decision to consolidate to the relevant exchange , the selling member and the buying member ; the seller is charged with the conduct of LCH 's case against the buyer ; and the buyer is charged with LCH 's case against the seller ; copies of all pleadings being supplied to LCH and LCH retaining the right to submit its own arguments to the arbitrators . |
| 22 | It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness . |
| 23 | It was understood that growing US concern about the failure of its economy to respond to the stimulus of lower interest rates had been impressed upon G-7 Finance Ministers and central bank governors by US President George Bush during talks on April 28 , ahead of the opening of the formal session . |
| 24 | Hungary 's preliminary announcement at the June meeting of its intention to withdraw from the Pact by the end of 1991 opened the way for Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland to announce in January 1991 their withdrawal with effect from July 1 , and Romania and Bulgaria also announced plans to leave the organization [ see p. 37979 ] . |
| 25 | All the difficulties were symptoms of her struggle to cope with the development of what the business had become , ’ Carolyn believed . |
| 26 | Tom Fish looked back over his shoulder with a grin and a wink for his friends as his hand slid down the curve of her back to rest on the plump roundness of her buttocks . |
| 27 | DAZZLING Diana puts on an eye-catching show as she steps out of her car to go to the opera . |
| 28 | It might be part of her job to parade through the ballroom but she surely did n't want to have to prattle facts and figures for what she was wearing now , a skin-tight concoction of bugle heads and sequins that probably cost more than she 'd make for the entire year . |
| 29 | The question sometimes arises whether in fact the plaintiff will be able for the rest of his life to obtain outside the National Health Service the facilities that he requires . |
| 30 | There will be a liaison judge in the Crown Court who will see it as part of his function to liaise with the lay magistrate and to meet them and to discuss erm such matters as erm sentencing principles with them . |