Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of my friends went to the City They 're better paid — but spare your pity ; There 's more to life than pounds and pence — My quality of life 's immense : A cosy office , nearly new , Equipped with latest PS2 . |
| 2 | The fishhouse ( an early dream ) went up in 1977 , and most of my pennies went on the building , so that staging was designed around a 48″ tank size . |
| 3 | Every February , like thousands of others artists up and down the country , I have to decide which of my paintings to submit to the Royal Academy ; you are allowed to send in a maximum of three works for which you pay a fee of £9 each . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend will be aware that many of my constituents work in the knitwear industry and are grateful for the steps already taken by the Government . |
| 5 | I mean lot of my children go over the limit but erm they stir up too much . |
| 6 | I was accorded a degree of respect appropriate to a man who had been under arms , which was as well as , after rumours of my predilections spread through the warehouse , there were not many willing to share with me . |
| 7 | Erm I would like to remind you of my objectives quoted at the time in th in the quality manual . |
| 8 | I must append an account of the subsequent policy of the conquerors and their method of universal rule , as well as of the various opinions and appreciations of their rulers entertained by the rest " ( 3.4.4–6 ) . |
| 9 | The Hurricanes had to be shorn of their wings to get through the tunnel but the Fulmars went through with wings folded . |
| 10 | Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected . |
| 11 | It is suggested , instead , that political images are particularly significant — the personalities of the leaders , their projections of competence and of their capacities to deal with the nation 's problems . |
| 12 | The rest of the major clubs in Scotland , meanwhile , have given unselfishly of their players to compensate for the mass withdrawal from Ibrox . |
| 13 | Firstly , ‘ participating policyholders ’ who have all or part of their policies invested in the with-profits ( the ‘ participating ’ ) fund . |
| 14 | Your statement that ‘ the green parties in Europe — having had most of their policies co-opted by the bigger , slicker parties — are beginning to fade away ’ ( News of the Earth , October ) can not go unchallenged . |
| 15 | At least half a dozen of their comrades lay on the ground behind them . |
| 16 | For a gentle corrective one could do worse than go back to H.L. Mencken who opined that Alexander Graham Bell — the progenitor of the institution in which Penzias holds sway — and Thomas Alva Edison had done more than any of their contemporaries to add to the sum of life 's damned nuisances . |
| 17 | The poverty of their lives played across the silvered windows like a back-projection in a film , lending perspective and contrast to the satiated self-indulgence of his . |
| 18 | Still today virtually all insects at some stage of their lives take to the air . |
| 19 | The fire raging , greedily licking into the timbers and beams , while the sisters , the serenity of their lives shattered by the roaring flames , fled for safety . |
| 20 | The 15 most heavily indebted developing countries ( see p. 37017 ) in 1988 as a group increased the surplus of their merchandise exports over their imports to nearly dollars 28,000 million ; the dollar value of their exports rose above the 1981 peak for the first time since the onset of the Third-World debt service problem , although the GATT report pointed out that this trade performance needed to be seen against the background of rising interest charges and continued lack of fresh capital inflows . |
| 21 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 22 | Many of their concerns go beyond the scope of the original NWICO to include , for example , the relationship between the natural and human-made cultural/communication environments . |
| 23 | During the Pilgrimage of Grace , Robert Aske talked of the northern abbeys in terms of the particular social needs of the North , and was alarmed at the prospect of their lands falling into the hands of men from the South ( 73 , pp.34 , 123 ) . |
| 24 | As a result , most social science experiments have been carried out by psychologists rather than by sociologists , though many of their experiments overlap with the interests of sociology . |
| 25 | Only a maniac , he said , would think that the wretched pittance of the industrious poor should be wrung out of their pockets to pay for the follies and profligate expenses of anyone . |
| 26 | But the Germans did not relent ; indeed the height of their efforts came in the years 1900–9 . |
| 27 | All the company 's research , development and manufacturing takes place in Abingdon , but less than 10 per cent of their products stay in the U K. |
| 28 | British producers have little choice but to go for the home market , because the lion share of their budgets comes from the B B C , I T V or Channel Four who commission the programmes in the first place . |
| 29 | Second , the NHS would focus more on acute hospital care ; thus chronically sick patients , who lack media appeal and who have never been able to compete successfully for resources within the NHS , would have a substantial part of their budgets protected within the proposed community care grant . |
| 30 | Advertisers said they were delighted to see many of their proposals reflected in the Government 's approach . |