Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 2 | With the death of Fisher , ended the association of Halling with the Bishops . |
| 3 | Puffer , a nineteenth-century female psychology graduate thinking of applying for an academic post , is told by her college president , ‘ the rumor … concerning your engagement may have … affected the recommendation I sent ’ . |
| 4 | As well as running workshops and training events in different parts of the country to help individuals and couples plan constructively for the future , it also offers one-to-one counselling advice to those thinking of embarking on a new career . |
| 5 | Entitled ‘ See Yourself in Hair d-sign ’ this video is aimed to encourage those thinking of starting in the business from scratch . |
| 6 | There was a good deal of plotting in the Cabinet , and amongst the dissident ex-Coalitionists . |
| 7 | It is unlikely to be in exactly the same position , even if she could find it , for during the night there is a great deal of jostling among the youngsters and any one of them may have moved about eighteen inches or so . |
| 8 | Following the war , a great deal of redrafting of the official creed took place , and Scouting for Boys was repeatedly updated so that not only was militarism explicitly disowned , but the earlier racial imperialism was swapped for international brotherhood and goodwill . |
| 9 | There has been a great deal of crossing with the Charolais . |
| 10 | For example , we might have 10000 cattle distributed over 100 farms ; a simple random sample of 200 cattle is likely to involve most of these herds , resulting in a great deal of travelling by the investigators . |
| 11 | It was disappointingly empty of anything I could comprehend ; mainly there was local news , with a great deal of editorializing about the German Constitution . |
| 12 | Self-directed learning takes a great deal of planning by the teaching team , and teachers are reluctant to let go of the responsibility of being the main teaching resource . |
| 13 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |
| 14 | At the Hammersmith Schools at West London Stadium , the ground was always packed and there was a lot of enthusiasm and a good deal of betting on the races going on . |
| 15 | Table 4.4 Recent trading history on MATIF , main contracts The Government Bond futures and options contracts account for the bulk of trading on the MATIF . |
| 16 | The point is that black people are not only at a disadvantage in the job market on account of their colour , they also perceive sharply that this is so and , despite Johnson 's tongue-in-cheek addendum , the consciousness of belonging to a group which feels itself to be at a disadvantage is clear enough . |
| 17 | The poems reflect the life and times of the people who created them , their moral values , their understanding of their own history , their hopes and fears for themselves as individuals , and , above all , their consciousness of belonging to a community under threat from alien forces . |
| 18 | A consciousness of belonging to a coherent professional group was both expressed and strengthened by the appearance , from the mid-nineteenth century onwards , of guides and yearbooks which for the first time listed the diplomats and foreign office officials in the service of most of the European states . |
| 19 | The defeat of Flown in the Smurfit Champion Hurdle proved costly for many punters . |
| 20 | Fathman ( 1975 ) also uses speed of learning as the explanatory variable for younger people learning more effectively , but she points out that the order of acquisition in second language learning does not change with age . |
| 21 | This does not provide a big enough buffer stock to allow each group to vary its speed of working through the day to a significant enough degree . |
| 22 | As the experiment wore on , however , there was clear evidence that loss of sleep was beginning to dominate the results , there being a progressive increase in fatigue and decrease in the speed of shooting at a target . |
| 23 | fatigue ratings , the speed of shooting at a target , and the rate of urinary excretion of adrenalin are shown in fig. 4.1 . |
| 24 | With regard to the quality of actual provision in school libraries , the level of understanding of libraries and the use to which they are put , and the adequacy of resourcing across the country , give cause for much concern . |
| 25 | The operation has to be performed within limits of 1 mm and any deviation from this may have disastrous consequences , resulting in total loss of hearing in the ear being operated upon . |
| 26 | The lighting of one hundred beacons , from Jersey to the Shetland Isles , the street parties and special events and the climactic procession by the Queen along a processional route lined by one million people waving Union Jacks under a murky grey sky — all of this implied an attempt to reclaim something permanent and enduring a sense of national pride — which had been systematically eroded by Britain 's loss of standing as a world power , and by some dark and mysterious incoming tide which carried with it the flotsam of unemployment , inflation , rising crime and social decay . |
| 27 | Tendinitis ( constriction of the nerve tissues caused by over development of arm muscles , leading to loss of feeling in the hands ) is a regular paddock malady . |
| 28 | The Aussies , under the guidance of Andy Slack ( ‘ out best entertainment has nothing at all to do with rugby ’ ) quickly got to grips with their imported beer after the disappointment of losing to a late Welsh try in one of the opening games . |
| 29 | ‘ The disappointment of losing in the final has gone . |
| 30 | The disappointment of losing by a stroke in the centenary Open was soon to be forgotten for Tip and Arnold Palmer , with victory at Royal Birkdale just one year later in 1961 . |