Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paragraphs 474–489 of the Latey Report make it clear that doctors felt difficulty in accepting the consent of someone under 21 ( the then age of majority ) to medical treatment , even though parental consent might be unobtainable or , for reasons of the minor 's privacy , undesirable . |
| 2 | Similar divisions among the nobility , and the confusion into which it seems to have thrown the English leaders , might well explain why national armies were raised infrequently and achieved little , especially if there was dispute over the best policy to adopt , for reasons of the sort outlined above . |
| 3 | The wholesale nature of the grants also threatened the interests of men not recognized as opponents of the regime , something which Gloucester was careful to avoid elsewhere . |
| 4 | The wholesale nature of the grants also threatened the interests of men not recognized as opponents of the regime , something which Gloucester was careful to avoid elsewhere . |
| 5 | Because they have seen the future they can not or will not speak of what they know so the Phoenix Guard are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in all the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 6 | They are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 7 | The same may be true of the Prinias horsemen , but the relief there is rather low , and an alternative is that they turn their eyes on us as guardians of the house : the ‘ terror-mask ’ , a concept we shall meet again . |
| 8 | During the nineteenth century the ulama became increasingly critical of the Wahar dynasty and found themselves acting in effect as guardians of the people against the governments ; but they did not seek to govern themselves . |
| 9 | Executorships and trusteeships are , of course , commonplace and will ( save perhaps where there is a family connection ) nearly always be effectively treated as activities of the firm . |
| 10 | The tour of the exhibition will provide an opportunity to talk with major producers on the latest developments in roofing materials , and there will be a technical briefing on the implications for specifiers of the introduction of CEN standards , the Construction Products Directive , quality assurance and guarantees . |
| 11 | There is a saying , although it is accepted by smokers as being mildly humorous , ‘ Dope will get you through times of no money , but money wo n't get you through times of no dope . ’ |
| 12 | There is a saying , although it is accepted by smokers as being mildly humorous , ‘ Dope will get you through times of no money , but money wo n't get you through times of no dope . ’ |
| 13 | The first is a study of variation in cocoliche , the reduced form of Spanish spoken by Italian immigrants to Argentina ; the second is a more general discussion of the appropriate way to study syntactic variation , which includes a re-analysis of the alternation between tenses of the subjunctive , the conditional and the indicative . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're asking me for secrets of the confessional . ’ |
| 15 | As late as 1885 , the agents of the Russian Commercial Company lived there almost as prisoners of the Amir . |
| 16 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 17 | Wothorpe House , because of its ruinous state , its unusual design and its proximity to the site of Wothorpe nunnery , is also a victim of such mythology , but it was merely a dower house for widows of the earls and marquesses at Burghley . |
| 18 | The relatively plentiful supply of physicians in Scotland and the attraction of the university medical schools for sons of the gentry made the medical officers ’ appointments in the army and navy almost as attractive as the similar appointments in the service of the East India Company . |
| 19 | The growth of single interest groups , the loss of confidence in specialists , and anxiety over the apparent failure of education to deliver a variety of ‘ goods ’ , may all be regarded as manifestations of the weakening of common purpose . |
| 20 | In the eyes of such politicians , industrial managers were not seen as the creators of the nation 's wealth , and the providers of job opportunities for the people , but as despoilers of the environment ; obsolete men , peddling obsolete views , who did n't really fit in with the new social scheme of things . |
| 21 | In the Amarna Letters , a library of correspondence dating from XVIIIth dynasty Egypt , Pharaoh is routinely addressed as ‘ King , Lord , Sungod of the lands , the Sungod from heaven ! ’ and throughout ancient and modern polytheism we encounter worship of the sun and identification of divine kings as sons of the sun . |
| 22 | Table 12.2 uses fiscal and monetary policies as illustrations of the difference between objectives , targets , and instruments . |
| 23 | The clubs will wriggle like eels to try to get round whatever restrictions are formulated so the punishments for transgressions of the regulations have to be just as clearly defined as the crimes , and in their application those punishments have to come down as decisively as a guillotine . |
| 24 | Turnover is a consequence of frequent molecular exchanges between copies of a family . |
| 25 | ( For definitions of the behaviour categories see page 26 . ) |
| 26 | In principle , autobiographies can refer to the experience of later life at three main points : through distant childhood memories of grandparents , through accounts of a parent s last years , or most directly , through reflections on the writer 's own ageing . |
| 27 | The order was not one for the recovery or preservation of trust property but called for information and for copies of the defendants ' documents which , so far as compliance might incriminate them , the defendants were entitled to disregard . |
| 28 | In the January 1972 hearings of the Select Committee on Expenditure of the House of Commons , repeated requests made by Members of Parliament for a list of the programmes subject to analysis and for copies of the reports so far prepared were denied . |
| 29 | Councillor Ian MacDonald and former Councillor Spencer Rosie made a number of requests to officials for copies of the document . |
| 30 | Therefore , please take this response as agreement with your requests for copies of the video and book and for incorporation of your company name on the end credits of the video and in the acknowledgements in the book accompanying the video . |