Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] of [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you very much well it 's always a pleasure to hear of about the Seamanship Foundation and I 'm sure that , as you might be saying , and er the need for the foundation 's fundraising will be rather heightened this year as a result of last year 's drop but I 'm equally sure that you will get a tremendous amount of support from the members and on that note which I think is er also is an important method of concentrating our priorities and on the basis of we 're extremely lucky to be able to pursue a really very enjoyable pastime with relatively few problems and that if we can get those opportunities to many more , who would otherwise not be able to enjoy and in fact frequently do n't get to enjoy any other pastime , we should endeavour to do so and consider ourselves lucky that we can . |
| 2 | It said that the governors ‘ do not see the immediate necessity for applying to the Crown for a Royal Charter to be granted to this Institution ’ but that ‘ every facility ’ would be given to the veterinary surgeons ‘ for procuring an Act of Parliament to prevent certain grievances complained of by the Memorial , which could not be relieved by a Charter ’ . |
| 3 | Further , surrealist allegory for Benjamin is a method in which these figural signifiers are taken from ‘ the petrified and insignificant ’ , from what Breton spoke of as the ‘ dresses of five years ago ’ ( Sontag 1979 , p. 26 ) . |
| 4 | There certainly is n't any light to speak of in the windows . |
| 5 | Its name is derived from a remarkable Chase , the memory of which is preserved by the monuments spoken of in the second Part of the following Poem , which monuments do now exist as I have there described them . |
| 6 | For the local authority to sue in libel in respect of the same matters complained of by the individual would create a duplication of proceedings and an added burden upon defendants to the action . |
| 7 | He said he and his son ‘ emphatically deny the allegations of fraud in relation to the matters complained of in the charges ’ . |
| 8 | Attempts by the Orthodox clergy to convert the indigenous peoples , mainly shamanists , to Christianity were in some case approved of by the authorities , but generally in the period under study there was a reluctance to permit the baptism of natives , since they then ceased to pay yasak . |
| 9 | Through hard work by the local Historic Scotland works squad , cleaning paths and mopping up residual oil , it proved possible to open the monument for the season on 1 April as planned , with access to the entrances of the prehistoric buildings roped of for the time being . |
| 10 | The police began to believe that the dead man must have been a foreigner , killed on some ship visiting London 's river , his body disposed of in the darkness , leaving the ship to sail away . |
| 11 | Show the figure net of goodwill attributable to business disposed of before the balance sheet date . |
| 12 | ‘ So what has Liveseys ' business consisted of in the last ten |
| 13 | Nigel did n't get any attention to speak of for the rest of that day . |
| 14 | I wore jeans or the demure dresses approved of by the school authorities . |
| 15 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 16 | Further , the cases in question will be compared with a wide sample of cases disposed of under the 1964 Act . |
| 17 | Is the kingdom of God spoken of in the New Testament simply ‘ the moral organisation of the human race ’ , or does that conception owe more than the Liberals themselves realised to their own enlightened and optimistic view of the development of Protestant culture in their own day ? |
| 18 | There were different nuances in terms of what people thought of as the barriers and how they thought they could be overcome . |
| 19 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 20 | Gathering up the debris , she stuffed it into her pocket to dispose of in the galley bin below . |
| 21 | From the physical point of view , the human child is at its most vulnerable during and just after birth , and it remains ‘ at risk ’ , in the actuarial sense , throughout early childhood , particularly during what our society thinks of as the pre-school years . |
| 22 | Although there was a sort of medieval corporation , it did n't have a Royal Charter and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted , and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the Borough Commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in eighteen eighty one . |
| 23 | Although there was a sort of mediaeval corporation it did n't have the royal charter , and so in the end of the seventeenth century it was somewhat subverted and really there was no proper town government to speak of until the beginning of the nineteenth century with the borough commissioners and then later on with the Mayor and Corporation which was set up in 1881 . |
| 24 | ( v ) Most libels of any gravity directed at the conduct of a local authority would sufficiently identify the councillors or officers concerned in or responsible for that conduct so as to enable individual councillors or officers to sue for libel just as , in this case , Mr. Bookbinder has brought proceedings in respect of the libels complained of by the council . |
| 25 | If the court on review believes that the requisite situation spoken of in the statute did not exist then the conclusion reached by the tribunal will be a nullity . |
| 26 | As we have noted , many countries had no press to speak of at the time of independence , and in those that did the press has undergone a considerable amount of change . |
| 27 | Outside Senegal and the Ivory Coast there was very little press to speak of in the pre-independence period : illiteracy was even higher than in the British territories , and the small , educated élite could not easily sustain newspapers . |
| 28 | BRITISH actress Emily Lloyd is all smiles after watching the Hollywood premiere of In The Soup — but she 's nursing an aching heart . |
| 29 | New clause 4 simply asks that the Scottish Transport Group staff pension fund and the transport operatives pension scheme — TOPS — continue in operation and that it should be a condition of sale that any new company operating any undertaking disposed of under the Bill should participate in them . |
| 30 | Representing the operation of Laplace transformation by , it immediately follows that 11.5 ( a ) Unit step function delayed by time with respect to the origin of time , ( b ) unit pulse thought of as the difference between two unit step functions with differing delays and , ( c ) unit square wave thought of as a combination of unit step functions with delays that are multiples of half the period and ( d ) unit impulse function ( see text ) . |