Example sentences of "a [n mass] of [noun pl] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also note that [ F , R ] 3 causes the 3-cycle of edges to vanish and leaves just a pair of 2-cycles of corners . |
| 2 | Power was to have been supplied by a pair of Ne–330s of 2,290lbs thrust . |
| 3 | These barriers were identified by references to those outlined in the 1985 White Paper , " Completing the Internal Market " , and by a series of surveys of businesses in the EC . |
| 4 | Headlines such as ‘ No hiding place for Woodlice ’ signalled the start of a major operation to attempt to control woodlice in a series of blocks of flats in Ardrossan , Ayrshire . |
| 5 | Perhaps we can say that capitalist equilibrium is made up of a series of moments of dis-equilibria . |
| 6 | If the structure is parallel to the coast drowning will result in a series of lines of islands representing the old ridges and long narrow arms of the sea along the old valleys , as in the Yugoslav coast ( Fig. 9.2 ) and the coast of southern Chile . |
| 7 | Finally , in February 1957 a series of meetings of experts and foreign ministers was held in Paris , culminating with agreement of the six premiers on the last points at dispute . |
| 8 | Seeing the tide running in his direction , Havelock Wilson renewed his campaign in a series of meetings of sailors and firemen all over the country , declaring that a majority of the shipowners of the United Kingdom were favourable to a National Board and that " it will come if the seamen are united and demand it " . |
| 9 | These were first written down maybe in the twelfth century , but now survive , often in a fragmentary state , only in the Icelandic prose sagas of the thirteenth century and later , the most famous of which is Heimskringla , a series of lives of kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson ( d.1241 ) . |
| 10 | Two works calculated to cause great affront are the reconstructed histories , a series of reproductions of engravings of celebrated moments in American history , which Kelley has defaced with pictorial graffiti of faeces and erect penises , and felt banners ( 1987–88 ) . |
| 11 | Grassmuck believes that this communication barrier between parents and children led to a series of killings of parents by their sons . |
| 12 | Its advice on planting incorporated some from other writers , but the bulk of the book is a series of descriptions of plants ‘ suitable in any way for the British flower garden ’ , among them many new introductions . |
| 13 | Lately he has been working on paintings of trees , large-sized drawings of nudes , painted low-reliefs in wood and a series of portraits of poets in which snippets from their work are inscribed ( Beats Alan Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appear in the show ) . |
| 14 | He is currently working on a series of photographs of buskers — he simply approaches them in the street and asks them to come to his studio . |
| 15 | The activities of Naxalite left-wing terrorists continued throughout the year , particularly in Andhra Pradesh , where Naxalites of the People 's War Group of the Communist Party of India ( ML ) carried out a series of kidnappings of politicians and local council leaders . |
| 16 | So , I 've gone through a series of examples of exotoxins I want to just er , as far as is possible summarize the general properties of exotoxins . |