Example sentences of "of [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it 's going in and out at the right places but it 's also to do with childbearing O K. So George is changing the subject there completely kind of off the wall is n't he , er this comment ? |
| 2 | It spent four weeks at the top of Off the Record 's local artists chart last summer and after a recent re-release , sales topped 1000 . |
| 3 | The German government 's aim of for a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 30 per cent on 1987 levels by the year 2005 is likely to fall short of expectations . |
| 4 | A typical example would be : How many uses can you think of for a brick ( or a paper clip ) ? |
| 5 | According to Institute statistics , it was almost unheard of for a member to go into an IVA until two years ago , but in 1991 23 IVAs were reported , last year the number soared to 56 , and by half way through January , the 1993 total was already into double figures . |
| 6 | The appointment of a slave to the office of Grand Vezir in 857/1453 , however , set the seal on the tendency to man the highest offices of the central administration , the vezirliks , with slaves ; and though it was by no means unheard of for a member of the ulema thereafter to hold a vezirlik , one begins to see the development of a separate hierarchy more or less confined to members of the ulema , the highest offices in which , known as were an end in themselves and not mere stepping-stones to high office in other areas such as the central administration . |
| 7 | The association has stated clearly that it is up to British Rail — and , perhaps , the Government — to take such dangers into account if they wish to increase railway speeds , as many of us would like , and to ensure that people can cross the line safely , even if that means the Government providing the money either for an underpass of for a bridge over the line . |
| 8 | ‘ Not to be thought of for a moment . |
| 9 | It 's unheard of for a two-year-old to race against older horses in America , but my horse has done well and I hope more will follow us over . |
| 10 | It is by no means unheard of for a band to be offered a deal on nothing more than a ‘ concept ’ . |
| 11 | that the he 'll be sort of for a right . |
| 12 | Nigel did n't get any attention to speak of for the rest of that day . |
| 13 | As I looked at him , it seemed I had found a brother and sisters to love and be proud of for the rest of my life . |
| 14 | The Cabinet is split from top to bottom over the Prime Minister 's policy of using Common Market grants for tax cuts instead of for the provision of help to deprived areas . |
| 15 | Through hard work by the local Historic Scotland works squad , cleaning paths and mopping up residual oil , it proved possible to open the monument for the season on 1 April as planned , with access to the entrances of the prehistoric buildings roped of for the time being . |
| 16 | One of the events arranged to mark the Library 's Tercentenary in 1989 was a bookbinding competition , in which binders were invited to design appropriate bindings for copies of For the Encouragement of Learning : Scotland 's National Library , 1689–1989 . |
| 17 | ‘ A method of poisoning which I learnt of during a sojourn in Bulgaria . |
| 18 | Obviously the balance lift will do twice the work , in the same time , and , beyond this , the power required to operate the lift , although of the same intensity , would be only usable during a small portion of the rise instead of during the whole . |
| 19 | The purchased goodwill attributable to Model Developments Ltd , which was disposed of during the year , was £227,000 . |
| 20 | Where subsidiary or associated undertakings are disposed of during the year , their results are to be included up to the effective date of disposal . |
| 21 | Where subsidiary or associated undertakings are disposed of during the year , their results are to be included up to the effective date of disposal . |
| 22 | No fixed assets were disposed of during the year . |
| 23 | This contained some very relevant names and addresses which the Pakistani owner had obviously tried to dispose of during the night , but in the confusion and darkness he had failed to realise it had not gone overboard . " |
| 24 | Why not take poison later instead of during the meal or the reading itself ? ’ |
| 25 | Now for example , these three , I 've got three on this one , you can see the bottom right-hand corner , I have three specific business goals that I 'm us , that I want constant reminding of during the month . |
| 26 | He placed Jock Lewes in charge of training , describing him as ‘ the best training officer I have ever been associated with or heard of during the war ’ . |
| 27 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 28 | And I wish to God that would just come back again , now there people would just treat one of our as they did it one of during the war 's years . |
| 29 | The fairly long seek times of CD-ROM , caused by its CLV retrieval system , can still cause pauses of between a half and one second while the read head moves from one part of the disc to another . |
| 30 | Another example is the occurrence of between a consonant and , or ; in RP we can find the following : ‘ pew ’ , ‘ tune ’ , ‘ queue ’ . |