Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were sent hundreds of letters of thanks like this one from an eminent diplomat , Sir Ashley Clarke : |
| 2 | Bate and Henry Kater [ q.v. ] worked on these models in 1825–6 , and subsequently Bate supplied hundreds of sets of standards to government and municipal offices throughout the United Kingdom and overseas . |
| 3 | Filtered through hundreds of feet of layers of purifying sand , shale and rock , the rain water has been enriched with natural minerals — the most beneficial of which are calcium , for building bones , magnesium and sodium , an important constituent of salt . |
| 4 | For those , talk of variables smacked too much of talk of causes with no place for the human being as agent . |
| 5 | Moreover , a comparison of the names of all rural oil workers with those of fathers of children with leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma in 1979–83 ( ascertained for another study ) produced only a single match . |
| 6 | I have been full of hate of men like you . |
| 7 | The media are full of stories of attacks in which black people are assaulted by gangs of white youths in the street or in which black families have their houses regularly attacked . |
| 8 | In recent weeks the Bangkok papers have been full of photos of bonfires of pirated audio tapes . |
| 9 | There was plenty of slate there but he he just slate mines would n't pay t to get these machines , and course this grant story this had you know millions of pounds of grants for these machines and that . |
| 10 | Anyway , a few tens of millions of dollars of profits in gold is small change for Mr Soros 's Quantum fund . |
| 11 | is just one of band of companies around the country , presenting their business plans to private investors . |
| 12 | On the morning of May 25th , in one of scores of meetings between the administration and House Democrats , Mr Clinton said he would countenance some form of entitlement caps . |
| 13 | This level of autonomy will result in a changed role for the school from one of administration of policies to one of management of local resources . |
| 14 | There were reports in late 1989 of maltreatment of prisoners at the Yaoundé central prison , where in December two former Army officers imprisoned after the 1984 coup attempt were reportedly beaten to death . |
| 15 | Kevin Earnshaw , of the Flanders Scottish Alliance , a war charity which took more than £1 million of aid to Romania three years ago and has since taken hundreds of thousands of pounds of supplies to the former Yugoslavia , said he agreed to the request but he needs help to keep his word . |
| 16 | The fires produced 20,000 to 40,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide as well as many thousands of tonnes of oxides of nitrogen . |
| 17 | But I mean to be fair we used to we , warehouse thousands of tons of potatoes in Leicestershire , you see what I mean ? |
| 18 | The colonisation of new land , and its demarcation into private estates , created thousands of miles of boundaries for the first time . |
| 19 | Mr Evans came under attack in yesterday 's report of the official Jockey Club inquiry for standing too close to the starting line , and thus being primarily concerned with escaping the thunder of dozens of pairs of hooves for his own safety , rather than waving his flag . |
| 20 | We have started all legal steps open to us , for example industrial tribunal claims , we have given the council dozens of examples of breaches of the contract by Tylers , but they do nothing . |