Example sentences of "of the [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as on the domestic front , firms are exploring new ways towards greater efficiency and profitability , so too larger firms are looking beyond the frontiers of the UK to the opportunities which present themselves overseas . |
| 2 | It should also be stressed that it is perfectly possible to have reservations about , or even to reject , both these schools , and yet to accept that there has indeed been a major shift in the economy and geography of the UK since the mid-1960s ! |
| 3 | Dynastic publishers mirror this aspect of our public affairs more obliquely , and Richard Davenport-Hines 's study of the Macmillans down the centuries , from the crofts of Arran to the corridors of Downing Street , offers a fascinating examination of the genre . |
| 4 | It is the day when gossip is exchanged , slander is perpetuated , goods are bought and sold , refrigerators , deep freezes and wine cellars are replenished , bubblegum stuck to the more inviting parts of old ladies ' dresses , and money transferred from the coffers of the DHSS to the tills of the Red Lion in joyous cacophony . |
| 5 | Civic Forum and PAV leaders expressed a wish to include Jan Carnogursky , Deputy Premier in the outgoing government and a leading figure in the CDM , but the CDM initially refused to join the government because it felt that the poor showing of the CDU/CDM in the elections would prevent the implementation of anything in its programme . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most admirable characteristics of the Masai in the eyes of the men whose job it was to administer them were their honesty , directness , and highly developed sense of justice . |
| 7 | He prophesies a war of the Masai against the townies . |
| 8 | There has been a series of trials within the Engineering Branch of the RAF of the technologies related to expert systems over the past 5 to 10 years . |
| 9 | The interest of the USA in the affairs of Latin America ( pp. 143 ff ) and the Far East was never in doubt during the so-called isolationist period . |
| 10 | Ironically , Yahweh 's final victory came with the destruction of the Temple at the hands of the Babylonians in 587 BC . |
| 11 | As regards the numbering of their years , the Jews used the same era as the Seleucids of Syria from the time they came under their rule , in the second century BC , until the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD . |
| 12 | 3 Before you dare to enter , draw a sketch plan of the Temple from the clues in the Key . |
| 13 | The murmur of chanting voices carried above the far-distant thunder of the Grand Trunk Road , the old Mughal highway linking the farms of the Punjab with the bazaars of Delhi . |
| 14 | Morgan was the first to learn of the Armistice in the trenches , where he intercepted instructions from the German GHQ ordering the generals to lay down their arms . |
| 15 | However , it found that funds donated by miners in East Germany , Hungary and the Soviet Union were highly likely to have contributed to a trust held on behalf of the NUM by the Miners ' Trade Union International , a forerunner of the Paris-based International Miners ' Organization ( IMO — of which Scargill was president ) , and that the NUM had not received any benefit from this trust , although the IMO had received " substantial advantages " at the NUM 's expense . |
| 16 | The role of the FO in the discussions was both crucial and disastrous . |
| 17 | Contracting out has also become a more prominent feature of the NHS under the Conservatives . |
| 18 | A chance to explore the monastery of the Madonna of the Caves . |
| 19 | Following Aelfwine 's death in the battle of the Trent against the Mercians in 679 or 680 ( HE IV , 21 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) ( see below , p. 117 ) , Deira was ruled from then on directly by the Bernicians ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.1 ) . |
| 20 | The Cambrian itself will lose the Cambrian Coast Express from March with the withdrawal of the Intercity from the arrangements to pay for the train west of Salop . |
| 21 | West of the Irtysh in the woodlands along the northern edge of the Kazkh steppe lived the west Siberian Tatars and their neighbours in the Ural foothills , the Bashkirs . |
| 22 | They have favoured the marked expansion of the Woodcock on the Downs in recent years , and also provide the Grasshopper Warbler and Yellowhammer with one of their principal nesting habitats . |
| 23 | If you would like your own free copy of the BWC Through The Ages booklet , write |
| 24 | The next , Jo Richardson , Joan Lestor , Margaret Beckett and myself were out on the terrace of the Commons among the cameras , the microphones , and the reporters , like rare butterflies pinned on a specimen board . |
| 25 | Was it to establish a quasi-religious movement , one of such moral earnestness as would in the minds of the Owens among the Owenites exercise a compelling influence for beneficial change , one which would establish first alternative and exemplary societies where amity and reason would prevail , and hence would point inevitably to the creation of a co-operative commonwealth ? |
| 26 | I personally do believe that it would have been much better if ministers had had a number of discussions about the Falkland Islands in the period preceding the invasion of the Falklands by the Argentinians . |
| 27 | This competition was exacerbated by the factionalism of the PLO during the years 1983–6 . |
| 28 | All this was foreshadowed at the height of the war and in the heart of the Fens by the testimonies of two passionate and knowledgeable countrymen , one a bird-watcher , the other a farmer . |
| 29 | The founding of the NLSC in the mid-1980s coincided with dramatic changes in the City . |
| 30 | It would be difficult to build water-gathering reservoirs of the size of those found in other Parts of the Pennines in the Dales because of the many eaves and potholes that would carry the water away . |