Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of a day to wait for the skilful of ecstasy … she sighed . |
| 2 | Thirty girls between the ages of six and ten slept , ate and did their lessons in rooms with noble proportions , blistered stucco and peeling paint ; they were each permitted the character-building company of one small pet and one pony , and slept on iron beds left behind from the mansion 's use as a hospital for the wounded of World War I. |
| 3 | Someone with a genuine concern for the wounded of World War One , the miners of South Wales , the unemployed , for , and homeless in general . |
| 4 | He maintained his strong links with the world of the deaf formed during his two years at the Institution by getting together with Matthew Burns , q.v. , and Alexander Blackwood to start Sunday services for the deaf of Edinburgh in June 1830 . |
| 5 | GREAT NEWS FOR THE YOUNG OF ALL AGES ! |
| 6 | However , her books , though absorbing to the adult reader , are difficult to revive for the young of another generation because of their preoccupation ( even greater than that of her female contemporaries ) with social status . |
| 7 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |
| 8 | In the case of levels , opting for the uppermost of a set of them seems less arbitrary . |
| 9 | This is to inform you all that me and my Companions have Unanamously agreed and likewise made Oath to Each other that if There is not a speedy Altaration made for the Good of the poore that you have corn thinking to make your fortunes of shall have it burnt to the Ground whether it Be in Stacks or Barns for the fire that took place Last Week was but the begining of your Troble , we know every Stack of Corn about this Country , and Every Barn that hath Corn concealed in it for the Purpos of starving the Poore But we are Determind if thare is to Be Starvation it shall be a General thing not a parcial one for both Gentle and Simple shall Starve if any Do . |
| 10 | The Wesleyan mission had been started in 1886 by the old boys of The Leys School as a settlement for the poor of Finsbury and it had the usual assortment of activities such as clubs , bands , and concerts . |
| 11 | By the end of the day the swear bag , as it is called , contained £25.35 for the poor of Adel . |
| 12 | Originally established in 1889 to ‘ provide for the poor of the neighbourhood … nursing in their own homes in maternity and other cases ’ ( Plaistow Maternity Hospital 1903 ) , it charged no fee for the attendance of a midwife where the husband 's wage was less than 21 shillings . |
| 13 | In Haiti in the early hours of 2 July 1990 Mariano Delaunay , founder of a night school for the poor of Port-au-Prince , was standing on a pavement outside the house where he was attending a friend 's wake . |
| 14 | His brother-in-law wrote in a memoir that on his return to Turvey in 1829 , Higgins was ‘ unremitting in his solicitude for the poor of the parish ’ . |
| 15 | The Assistance Publique originates from the middle ages and was , until around 1960 , essentially an organisation to provide health and social care of all kinds for the poor of Paris — including , for example , provision for abandoned children and material assistance to those in need . |
| 16 | Assistance Publique 's responsibility as the community hospital system for the poor of Paris is constantly in danger of being overwhelmed by its newer role as the country 's leading provider of tertiary referral services . |
| 17 | The graduated fill allows you to choose a number of colours in the fill , not just two , which means it is a great facility for the poor of taste to prove their shortcomings . |
| 18 | Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside . |
| 19 | Music for the run-through of Pamela was provided by a tape recorder on the prompt table , operated by the Director , Neil , with assistance from Gavin and occasionally from Joyce . |
| 20 | The issue is far from simple , particularly as that phrase can at best be only a convenient label for the resultant of many political pressures and influences . |
| 21 | Emma Cons was a pioneer and primary manager of the scheme , which spread to fifty locations around London offering hot refreshments , recreation rooms , and sometimes even beds for the deprived of various neighbourhoods . |
| 22 | Some of these are still in existence , and have resulted in flats being built for the elderly of the parish , and also housing for widows and daughters of clergymen . |
| 23 | There is greater awareness amongst those who work with and for the elderly of the ways in which we manufacture social and economic dependency . |
| 24 | ‘ A Christmas-shopping outing to East Kilbride was arranged for the elderly of the parish , with transport , tea and coffee laid on ’ . |
| 25 | Well so far we 've just been looking at the record of growth bands in this coral skeleton , but we can acquire a great deal of additional information by sampling the skeleton , and we sample the skeleton using a small drill and we can analyze the , the powders that we collect for the stabilized of oxygen . |
| 26 | The Rotonda is a large , simple brick structure , built in 1695 as a cemetery for the dead of Ospedale Maggiore . |
| 27 | However , the gradient in this high reflectance section is comparable with that for the Carboniferous of northwest Germany described by Teichmüller and Teichmüller ( 1981 ) . |
| 28 | The standard maturity-depth relationship for the data set is indicated together with the maturity-depth relationship for the Carboniferous of northern Germany ( after Teichmüller and Teichmüller , 1981 ) . |
| 29 | Their maturity-depth curve for the Carboniferous of northern Germany , including the Ruhr , is described from a similar geothermal regime to the Southern North Sea . |
| 30 | The Castle is renowned not only for its service and hospitality but also for the excellent of its cuisine . |