Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's funny , I 've spent most of my life thinking of advertising as a sort of dirty business , but in fact the same mechanisms work : you get input from someone , you get inspired and you give back . |
| 2 | ‘ One of my course tutors at college . ’ |
| 3 | Nevertheless the ridding of my skin complaint by necromancy coincided with a shift in emphasis as far as my instruction was concerned . |
| 4 | I saw some of my school friends on tiptoe , straining their necks to see . |
| 5 | The kindness of my Kildalton friends in thinking of me for their minister is encouraging as showing that no truly earnest , honest . |
| 6 | It goes against all of my training doctrines for fear and not trust is introduced into the relationship — to its detriment from that moment onward . |
| 7 | Currently , production personnel spend nearly 4 per cent of their working time in training , but the figure can be as high as 25 per cent in the case of new nuclear power stations . |
| 8 | Like many animals , birds build up a mental map of their home area from sight , sound and other cues . |
| 9 | ‘ This will particularly help those chronically ill patients who have to travel out of their home districts to specialist treatment centres . ’ |
| 10 | They bear thick ice in winter and their flow is strongly seasonal ( Table 4.1 ) , especially so in those that rise or have much of their catchment area in tundra or boreal forest . |
| 11 | Councils can spend a quarter of their capital receipts from council house sales however they want . |
| 12 | The Chancellor also used his statement to close the loophole whereby companies acquired other businesses merely to take advantage of their capital losses for tax purposes . |
| 13 | At the same time students will be preparing under supervision the results of their field research for presentation as a dissertation and will be attending classes on how to write up anthropological research . |
| 14 | However , Jesus ' free association with the poor and despised should not be interpreted to indicate their automatic admission into the Kingdom by virtue of their downtrodden position in society . |
| 15 | Tyne Tees , after profits of just £200,000 , will pay £15m and both will have to pay a percentage of their advertising revenue on top of that . |
| 16 | They reckon that 90% of their advertising revenue from baseball each season is generated during post-season play . |
| 17 | Campaign ( 15.6.90 ) shows that various media receive between 6.5% ( women 's weeklies ) and 0.1% ( quality dailies ) of their advertising revenue from tobacco : most types of media receive less than 2% from tobacco . |
| 18 | Local authorities have been forced to sell the best of their housing stock into owner occupation , and to agree to the transfer of houses remaining in the rented sector to alternative landlords . |
| 19 | Similarly , their moral careers need placing in the context of their class position in employment , as well as in the physical and social context in which they live . |
| 20 | In fact , because of the inadequacy of their quality control in production of condoms , and their inability to produce a contraceptive pill , abortion soon became the only normal form of birth-control . |
| 21 | It is just that they show a very late timing of their sleep/wake rhythm with respect to normal time-cues . |
| 22 | In their northward migration toward the tundra these peoples encountered the Nenets Samoeds and adopted many features of their reindeer-herding way of life , so that a northern type of Khantyn Selkup and Ket culture developed . |
| 23 | And the possibility , particularly for husbands , of losing a significant part of their pension rights on divorce will focus their minds on the value of those rights . |
| 24 | The paper homed in on its discovery that councils could use 5 per cent of their pension funds on risk ventures . |
| 25 | Freeborn men and small landowners , they were in theory able to ‘ dispend of their owne land in yearlie reuenue , to the summe of fortie shillings sterling , or six pounds as monie goeth in our time & commonlie liue wealthilie , keepe good houses and travell to get riches ’ . |
| 26 | Umpires David Shepherd and John Holder chivvied them several times , but although the players might deny it suited them tactically to keep as many of their batting overs in hand for the next day when better weather was promised , it is difficult to dismiss the thought that the level of fines was so derisory that they did not give it a thought . |
| 27 | Further , the managers may wish to dispose of their Target shares for cash in order to free their resources and obtain tax-efficient borrowings to acquire their shares in Newco . |
| 28 | For a real wage rate w 1 , utility maximizing households would be willing to exchange of their labour services in exchange for goods . |
| 29 | The Estonian parliament agreed to postpone discussion of provisions of its election law amid disagreement over demands by Russians for a second chamber to represent local minorities . |
| 30 | The Estonian parliament agreed to postpone discussion of provisions of its election law amid disagreement over demands by Russians for a second chamber to represent local minorities . |