Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what has outraged all of us is the spectacle of attempts to make you the scapegoat for failures of the criminal justice system , the cause of which , however defined , lay outside your control or responsibility . ’ |
| 2 | But at least give that person whose turn er , on the Management Committee for representing er , another committee , give him the opportunity to s either speak on it , or to say whether or not he wishes to carry on and of course to see what the vote people would take , and to put himself forward even so , which unfortunately , I was n't er , able to do so . |
| 3 | " You could of course tell her the truth , " Jane suggested . |
| 4 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 5 | Volleyball : Chelmsford Partners women 's volleyball side are banking on a wealth of experience to give them the edge this Sunday in their first English Volleyball Association Cup Final.The team has an average age of nearly 34 , but they still fancy their chances of defeating a younger Sheffield Wednesday at Riverside ( start 1.30 pm ) . |
| 6 | It was held that the settlor had retained an interest in the accumulated income because the payments of income gave him the benefit of being able to withdraw his capital deposited at the bank . |
| 7 | He was immediately dispatched to the scene , where his energy , intelligence and presence of mind made him the chief decision-taker in the first days after the explosion of reactor number four . |
| 8 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 9 | Young people differ in their interests and aptitudes , and we need a range of schools to offer them the best opportunities . |
| 10 | Now that you are completing the preliminary studies and will shortly be embarking on the more complicated part of the syllabus , I feel that , at this stage , it would be of benefit to give you the following lessons in an endeavour to press home to you the importance and value of your continued perseverance . |
| 11 | After a short time the Duke of Grafton sold them the Rope Walk , a building where the old village craft had been carried out and where Ted Smith 's coach garage is now , and so they moved . |
| 12 | The beautiful Thai holiday paradise of Phuket gives you the opportunity of combining the holiday of a lifetime with a top class international marathon and 10km . |
| 13 | ‘ residential occupier , ’ in relation to any premises , means a person occupying the premises as a residence , whether under a contract or by virtue of any enactment or rule of law giving him the right to remain in occupation or restricting the right of any other person to recover possession of the premises . |
| 14 | 1 ( 1 ) In this section " residential occupier " , in relation to any premises , means a person occupying the premises as a residence , whether under a contract or by virtue of any enactment or rule of law giving him the right to remain in occupation or restricting the right of any other person to recover possession of the premises . |
| 15 | Gartmore investors will have to wait until the end of January to know who the new owners will be although it will almost certainly be an overseas based group . |
| 16 | Fans of volleyball reckon its the fastest … hardest court game of all … this week two of the world 's top teams Latvia and Lithuania have come to town to take on the might of England and the pick of the nation 's universities … on tuesday … wednesday … and thursday they 'll be battling it out in the gym at Iffley Road in Oxford and then on Friday they they head for the finals at the american airbase at Upper Heyford |
| 17 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 18 | Reuters news agency , quoting Chinese sources , reported on Feb. 6 that a group of workers calling themselves the China Free Union Preparatory Committee had posted out 2,000 copies of their anti-government manifesto for the organization , modelled on Poland 's Solidarity . |
| 19 | But the majority of policemen and women we encountered were not like this and did not engage in little acts of subterfuge to limit what the field-worker saw or heard because either they had nothing to hide or , more rarely , they were not concerned to conceal it . |
| 20 | From the time that my colleagues in the House of Commons did me the honour of electing me to be their leader I have felt that I was in the position of a trustee ; and even throughout the war the one thing that I have aimed at constantly has been to preserve . |
| 21 | DEF is well known to us and would be a different sort of purchaser giving you the German influence . |
| 22 | The process is rooted in what has happened already , in the past ; the Boo– of Changes allows you the luxury of seeing how the process will continue in a hypothetical future — in this case , if you shoot Auntie Flo . ’ |
| 23 | Foreign Agriculture is full of evidence to suggest what the cynical reader must have already suspected , and what the open minded reader may well be beginning to suspect . |
| 24 | I hoped a phone call late last night was going to be the chairman of Liverpool offering me the job of manager at Anfield . |
| 25 | It makes your body pour out masses of adrenalin to give you the strength to draw on your reserves to protect yourself and fight off the danger . |
| 26 | As a challenge the chief of the Poltava guberniia Department of Education offered him the directorship of this residential school for war-orphans . |
| 27 | A press of bodies developed which the guard were unable or unwilling to clear . |
| 28 | But plenty of people thought it the height of irresponsibility to allocate £11 million to having a fling . |
| 29 | Now a lot of people leave them the bonuses in there to accrue for tax or whatever , new car or holidays . |
| 30 | At least the rabbits wo n't know that Frank Cauldhame did what he did to them , the way a community of people knows what the baddies did to them , so that the revenge ends up having the opposite effect from that intended , inciting rather than squashing resistance . |