Example sentences of "of [det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 the economic ties of the old British Empire were tightened during this period and Britain remained at the centre of that group of countries ' trade and finance
2 Yeah , erm , right , yeah , that 's all the other items , erm what 's been er been going through my head recently is , is er the , looking at the pattern of the meetings and the way the meetings are arranged and , and how , erm , at the last meeting we had a speaker er and that I think , we all found that quite interesting and the one , one from Central America that things and I feel we ought to have that much more frequently than we do have er , a , either a speaker or a focus of some sort of meetings erm , so I think that 's something I 'd like to raise and get the A G M at the next meeting I think similar thing we ought to consider there .
3 " We shall yet talk of this day in ladies ' chambers , " said the Count of Soissons at the Battle of al-Mansurah .
4 The logical consequence of this view of consumers ' use of advertising is that there is a far greater chance of involving potential customers in the ads for more complex and expensive products .
5 The object of this sort of servants ' hall talk is invariably some butler who has come to the fore quite suddenly through having been appointed by a prominent house , and who has perhaps managed to pull off two or three large occasions with some success .
6 Today , with the winning of the vote and civil rights for women , changes which the Catholic church opposed at the time , the secular aspect of this argument of women 's inferiority is muted in Catholic pronouncements .
7 So you 've got two of these sort of sessions er er to go through , that 's really the only point .
8 Now confidence has manifested in lots and lots of ways and its appealing to that confidence as much as the insecurity , er that makes the advertiser 's and the manufacturer 's of all manner of products er , their huge profits , now I guess we all spend money on , on various products and er , do you , do you worry about how much you spend on the body beautiful or just the body ? , do you or , I mean does any , I wonder if you think you spend too much on it ? , let me ask you that , do you spend too much money on your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no .
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