Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In consequence , there are many single wavenumber patterns , some of them of a complexity that makes them not instantly recognizable as such ; for example , one of them is a hexagonal pattern rather like Fig. 4.9 .
2 There is a lovely photo of her of the back of her C D's .
3 Erm was there any w part of it of the strike organized in the sense of you giving moral support within the lodge to people who were obviously wavering ?
4 A second general problem is associated with the esteem with which a profession is held by society as a whole and , as far as the public sector is concerned , the attitude towards it of the government of the day .
5 If the driver claims this right and then fails to provide the specimen duly required under section 7(4) , the sanction for that failure will be the use in evidence against him of the breath specimen which , ex hypothesi , proves an excess of alcohol above the statutory limit and accordingly in such case there will be no need , though it may be theoretically possible , to prosecute for a failure to provide a specimen without reasonable excuse under section 7(6) .
6 Yet in giving the judgment of the Divisional Court , Schiemann J. contrived to avoid the conclusion that the by-laws were as a result void and the convictions made under them of no effect .
7 One ideological guru was businessman , Sir Alfred Sherman , founder with her of the Centre for Policy Studies in 1974 .
8 Well , I 've read them pretty closely and though there 's no date or any positive indication in them of the order in which they were written , there does seem to be a progression of a sort .
9 Sea Change and its successors have something in them of the career novel , a popular genre in the first decades after the Second World War , as well as the more general intention of inspiring youth to purposeful activity and ambitions .
10 For centuries they were ‘ consecrated ’ by the first celebration in them of the eucharist : what made them holy was the use made of them .
11 But the smaller they are , the greater the probability within them of the sort of unacceptably crude proportionality that is furnished by the STV in Ireland and of consequent unfairness to all but the bigger parties .
12 I can not trace any acknowledgment from you of the memorandum I sent you on the twelfth of this month , regarding your talents and the scope for them in this office .
13 With the example before him of the exclusion from the succession of the line of Eorcenberht 's brother , Eormenred , and the murder of Eormenred 's sons , Aethelred and Aethelberht , Eadric , son of Ecgberht , may have feared exclusion by his uncle , Hlothhere ( see Appendix , Fig. 1 ) .
14 We do not in fact need this document to tell us that on these two sides we are in the presence of a different master from him of the west and south .
15 The precocity displayed by Ypres and Ghent in securing a candidate favourable to their industrial future was not to be imitated in the rest of France in the twelfth century ; still , other rulers , particularly those of Champagne , learned from it of the profit to be derived from allying with the increasingly powerful mercantile or industrial classes .
16 The structuration of the business class as a whole has , to a considerable extent , been determined by the hegemony [ dominance ] within it of the establishment families .
17 Beneath the surface of this gentle evening a complex and never-ending game , which had something in it of a duel , was being played , the players swimming in their milieu like fish , at different levels which they would occasionally switch , to make an attack or to retreat , to seize prey or to threaten .
18 Reporters and photographers recorded the images presented to them of a couple who smiled and carried out their duties professionally , but barely exchanged a word , a touch or a glance .
19 It is an important point of reference to banks because it is probably the best indication to them of the cost of raising immediate marginal funds .
20 Lamech takes two wives , and boasts to them of the murder he has committed , outdoing Cain .
21 ‘ Mrs. Bihi and the party she represents do not call for payment out to them of the sum presently in court .
22 On one occasion he complained to them of the insubordination of two of the officers .
23 If the application is made on the grounds that debts have been paid or secured and it is known that there are creditors who have not proved their debts , the court may direct that notice be given to them of the application and order the trustee ( or official receiver ) to advertise the application and , in the meantime , adjourn the application for not less than thirty-five days ( r 6.209 ) .
24 A pretty nest is selling puppies , he said , and sang to me of a nest ( not nurse ) from which puppies are hatched and sold , and there was a fireman and pedestrians with raincoats and walking-sticks , strolling the length of the roof as though it were an avenue , with a bright barber shop perched upon an antenna whose rust I could n't see .
25 An extremely fat and gummy bus conductress wobbles and frets and poddles and wets on the opposite seat to me of the bus 's lower , non smokers deck in fierce counterpoint to the holey road beneath .
26 In a more serious vein , the attribution to me of the statement that Super-SARA was a tremendous hindrance to negotiations for a LOFT consortium was a surprise to me and , I submit , to anyone who knew that the funds for Super-SARA had already been set aside .
27 MB and MC measure the marginal benefit to your neighbour and marginal cost to you of a tree of size S. The efficient size is S * where the marginal cost and benefit are equal .
28 The supplying to you of the tape at this stage limits the use of the tape to research purposes .
29 52 concerned the grant by the Shipping Controller of a licence to sell a ship under an unlawful condition as to the payment to him of a proportion of the sale price .
30 His final gift to him of the Mastership of Jesus College , Cambridge , resulted in scandal : Roger Andrewes was compelled to resign because he had embezzled college funds .
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