Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would need some encouragement from her husband and he would have to display some discipline , ( a ) to provide the information for preparation of the budgets , and ( b ) to accept the result of the exercise and implement any necessary restrictions in buying , etc . |
| 2 | Widower Mr Taylor retired as chairman of the governors at nearby Coxley School in July after 15 years service . |
| 3 | He also thoroughly enjoyed his duties as chairman of the governors of the Perse School . |
| 4 | However , observers believe the attack by Sir Michael over Mr Birt 's contract arrangement , means his position as chairman of the governors comes under increased pressure . |
| 5 | However , some observers believe the attack by Sir Michael over Mr Birt 's contract arrangement , means his position as chairman of the governors comes under increased pressure . |
| 6 | Always forward-looking , and abreast of industrial developments , he was a prime mover , as chairman of the directors , in the construction of the Newcastle–Carlisle railway . |
| 7 | There is one sporting knight in today 's list , John Smith , the chairman of Liverpool Football Club , whose is rewarded for his service as chairman of the Sports Council . |
| 8 | The blunt-talking Yorkshireman has been voted out as chairman of the Umpires ' Association by his fellow pros . |
| 9 | As chairman of the trustees , it fell to Herne to face the parliamentary attack of early 1698 on the fraudulent endorsements of these bills by ( Sir ) Charles Duncombe [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | He served as editor of The Times while unable to type , as chairman of the Arts Council while unable to drive , and was appointed to the Broadcasting Standards Council unaware that one of Britain 's most popular television shows was named Jim 'll Fix It ( ‘ Who 's Jim ? ’ he once asked ) . |
| 11 | The author presiding at his last meeting as chairman of the Arts Council in 1972 . |
| 12 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 13 | Even her departure had been delayed for weeks for want of the funds necessary to fit out her ship and escort . |
| 14 | It has high buttons , belted waist , big pockets and clever tailoring for freedom of the arms . ’ |
| 15 | How is a user to know which multi-word terms in a system have been inverted and which have not ; or , with three-word terms or more , which option for rearrangement of the words has been chosen ? |
| 16 | Jews were supposedly responsible for one-quarter of the casualties of the war . |
| 17 | On May 15 the government approved a revised budget plan allocating an extra ISl2,500 million to the 1990 budget specifically for absorption of the immigrants and including plans for 70,000 new houses to be built in 1990 . |
| 18 | After a transitional period of three years from 1 January 1992 , such companies will only be operable as part of a solicitors ' incorporated practice . |
| 19 | If the insured insists on the original invoice being returned to him the invoice should be noted and stamped to show that the GA have included this invoice as part of a claims settlement . |
| 20 | First , the division , as part of a telecommunications empire , has operations spanning a wide geographical area . |
| 21 | ‘ DBS was planned in terms of an economic competition with other European or American projects rather than as part of a communications policy : the problem was approached with a concern with the conduits not with the programmes , with the technologies involved , not with the services . |
| 22 | A study was undertaken by one of the authors in 1977 to investigate how trade exhibitions could be used more effectively as part of a communications programme , and the summary of the results of this study forms the remainder of this section ( Lancaster and Baron , 1977 ) . |
| 23 | The arrests of 26 people in Palermo , Milan and Modena on March 18 came as part of a police operation to break up what was alleged to be a network operated by the Sicilian Mafia . |
| 24 | During the Conservative Party conference in October David Howell , the Secretary of State for Transport , announced the return of the tram , as part of the plans to renew London 's docklands . |
| 25 | The presence of an independent standing group to advise the Home Secretary was no novelty since an Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders had been set up by Herbert Morrison as early as 1944 as part of the plans for post-war re-construction . |
| 26 | Where they are unduly complicated they themselves may be subject to scrutiny for fitness for purpose , as they could be considered as part of the goods supplied under the contract . |
| 27 | A mobile laboratory in a converted bus is touring North Wales as part of the Women into Science and Engineering programme sponsored by Nottingham Polytechnic . |
| 28 | As part of the changes in local government finance introduced in 1989 and 1990 , the method of distributing grant to local authorities was simplified . |
| 29 | Jorge Risquet Valdés-Saldaña , a seasoned diplomat hitherto seen as a rising star in the party , was removed from the seven-strong PCC secretariat as part of the changes but retained his seat on the politburo which advised the secretariat . |
| 30 | I would have thought it would have been better in the introduction rather as part of the minutes , would you not have thought so ? |