Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the norms and manners of Londoners may be closer to those of people in Boston , Mass. than in Belfast ; and if customs and ideas in Birmingham are rather different from those in , say , Barcelona , they are more like those in Barcelona today than in Birmingham when its oldest inhabitant was born . |
| 2 | The mining grants empowered the group to search , dig , try and melt all manners of mines and " ures " of gold , silver , copper and quicksilver in a number of counties which included Lancaster , Cumberland and Westmorland . |
| 3 | They were also fond of aping the grand manners of servants to aristocratic households and rich farmers . |
| 4 | This deals with physics ( with ‘ bodies natural ’ ) , with moral philosophy ( with the ‘ dispositions and manners of men ’ ) , and , finally , with political philosophy ( with the ‘ civil duties of subjects ’ ) . |
| 5 | They are , in their order of dependence : moral philosophy or ethics ( which deals with ‘ the dispositions and manners of men ’ ) , and political or civil philosophy ( which deals with ‘ the civil duties of subjects ’ ) . |
| 6 | A monologue that centred on hunt balls , riding to hounds , polo and the disgraceful decline of the manners of Guards officers were hardly subjects about which they were often invited to give an opinion . |
| 7 | Her eyes fell on two empty jam jars standing on a shelf , and then her mind flew to the clumps of snowdrops she 'd noticed blooming near the entrance to the shearers ' quarters . |
| 8 | Rather forbiddingly he saunters along the lower rink , past the clumps of families , the young mothers , the babies ' cries . |
| 9 | And throughout the evening , making you almost afraid to blink in case you miss anything , Ninagawa fills the stage with a constantly shifting sequence of such pictures — including a magnificent riverside landscape with clumps of reeds bleached by the light of an enormous moon . |
| 10 | Also hoover the substrate and remove any loose clumps of algae . |
| 11 | FROM WHICHEVER direction you approach Mothecombe , whether along the winding wooded valley beside the ever widening River Erme , or down the road from Battisborough Cross and through the clumps of hydrangeas , or by sea around Butcher 's Cove to its sandy bay and up the secret combe strewn with bluebells and daffodils , the first sight of it takes your breath away . |
| 12 | Tall firs form a copse at the back of the house and great clumps of rhododendrons and laurels surround the lawns to the south , conserving the safe , dark Victorian atmosphere of the place . |
| 13 | Other insects hear through clumps of hairs or special antennae which work by detecting the movement of the vibrating air molecules instead of picking up the pressure waves of sound . |
| 14 | It is always possible to be kinder to the earth , but it is not saving clumps of trees from the bulldozers which will matter in the next century . |
| 15 | To the north , where Poitou borders on the Vendee , shapely clumps of trees are almost the only punctuation marks on widespreading marshy landscapes ; to the south it bubbles with little rolling hills . |
| 16 | Despite ploughing , despite the ravages of age and elm disease on park trees , the essential features of parks often survive — namely , the encircling shelter belts and individual clumps of trees , and the lakes . |
| 17 | Even before I met him I 'd admired a North Shore picture of his which showed the Kam Highway as it meandered out of the hills and down into Haleiwa , flanked by pineapple plantations and clumps of trees , and in the distance the Pacific , rippling with big waves . |
| 18 | As they drove through rolling hills topped by Mohican clumps of trees and moved into the leafy green tunnels of Petersfield , his bride , who 'd been primed by Drew , put her hand on her husband 's cock and suggested that it would be more fun to stop and have their picnic in a field than join the crowds at Cowdray . |
| 19 | Wracked with longing , Luke drove through the grey lunar landscape , only broken by occasional white towns or ebony clumps of trees . |
| 20 | Probably hidden in one of those clumps of trees standing two hundred yards away from the road across the fields . |
| 21 | The road , a single car 's width , now heads south on a tortuous journey of ups and downs and ins and outs through a tangled landscape of low hillocks , gneiss outcrops , peat bogs and small lochans that lap the roadside verges , furnished with occasional clumps of trees and bordered by heather and gorse : an undisciplined maze yet endowed with infinite beauty . |
| 22 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 23 | The role of of in particular , is to relate two noun-expressions together , and the former of these expressions is always an abstract noun — if we include as " abstract " geometrical and topographical nouns like " the straight line of the flat shore " , " the devious curves of the stream " — and collective nouns such as " a group of barren islets " , " two small clumps of trees " . |
| 24 | It takes me another two hours to reach the top , which provides a view down into the crater which looks , from this height , like a small , almost perfectly oval park with artfully sited clumps of trees and lakes . |
| 25 | Finally we crossed a low pass and descended into the wide depression of the oasis where straggling clumps of trees and patchy cultivation marked the first springs . |
| 26 | This might be a good time to spend half an hour in the gardens , sketching shadowy clumps of trees and bushes , she decided . |
| 27 | She looked back briefly at the house behind her , low and grey with its long eighteenth-century windows and its sheltering clumps of trees , then she picked up her skirts and began to run up the slope towards the sea . |
| 28 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
| 29 | Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above . |
| 30 | Their front was protected by the Glen , and the foothills in which they deployed their forces , low though they lay , were well-grown with bushes and clumps of trees almost to the waterside , and afforded a clear field of vision before them . |