Example sentences of "and the [noun] [noun pl] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nights of fog and days of rain , cobbles and kerbs , and bagwash in a pram , land of the hard man and the wee hauf , the upper cottage flat and the fossil groves of tenements , where ships sailed by the end of the street , and the closes echoed with the cries of skelped weans and the rumble of passing trams . |
| 2 | We can use these microcomputers to build " intelligence " into appropriate parts of a computer system ( such as the transput devices ) , but they are increasingly finding applications outside conventional computing , for example in controlling washing machines and the ignition systems of cars . |
| 3 | PLANS for parents to be given details of schools ' truancy rates and costs and the work destinations of leavers have been condemned by the education committee of the Church of Scotland , writes Gary Duncan . |
| 4 | In his review of man , vegetation and the sediment yields of rivers Douglas suggested that little account had previously been taken of human influence and his studies of rates of erosion in a wide range of climatic conditions in eastern Australia suggested that the present sediment yields are far in excess of those which may have prevailed in the geological past . |
| 5 | Paul Scot Harris , who plays Catsmeat , my familiar , leaps off stage and runs across the seat-backs , zig-zagging his way to the rear of the auditorium and back , leaping over the heads of squealing delighted children and the ducking ones of parents . |
| 6 | The very high proportion premature ( over 28 per cent ) among short spaced births may offer an explanation of the ways through which birth intervals affect the viability of fetuses and the survival chances of infants ( see next section ) . |
| 7 | Each day they brought him cyclostyled sheets from their local agents , and the telephone numbers of friends ' relatives whose relatives ' friends had seen a board up somewhere . |
| 8 | The objects ( or designs ) depicted on shields — the charges — can be anything the armiger wishes and the granting kings of arms deem fit . |
| 9 | Before Morrissette , Robbe-Grillet had appeared to accept the chosiste label attached to him by Barthes on account of the supposedly flat and neutral representation of external reality and the minute descriptions of objects in his early novels , which seemed to be in accordance with the phenomenological position outlined in Pour un nouveau roman . |
| 10 | Later it was alleged that the RUC sprayed not only those who remained on the road but also groups sheltering in shop doorways and the first-floor windows of houses , some of which were open . |
| 11 | In Latin works of an important nature titles , headings and the opening words of chapters were largely based on Roman script forms , the majuscule style of writing ; and the body of the text written in an uncial form which , after the coming of the Normans and the spread of their influence , was gradually succeeded by a further uncial style . |
| 12 | Elected Members of Parliament , councillors and others interested have been dependent , like the general public , on press reports and the monitoring activities of groups such as the Scottish Campaign to Resist the Atomic Menace , Greenpeace and the Northern European Information Group . |
| 13 | The first of these is to establish the geographical pattern , at the national and local scales , and the land types of areas afforested during the last decade . |
| 14 | The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place . |
| 15 | The president 's efforts , early in 1977 , to eliminate arbitrarily some public works water projects dear to the hearts and the constituent interests of members caused uproar in Congress and legislators were heavily critical of the quality of Carter 's legislative liaison operation . |
| 16 | Having ranged rapidly through the materials that are datable by TL , we must not forget that it is also widely used in authenticity testing of both ceramics and the casting cores of bronzes . |
| 17 | Its famous traffic tower was surrounded by the heavy facades of department stores and grand hotels , and the pavement pitches of flowersellers . |
| 18 | by no means all general degrees are associated with low quality or ability , but some are , and the employment prospects of graduates of such courses appear to be relatively poor , with substantial proportions of them entering ‘ non-graduate ’ jobs ( see Harland and Gibbs 1986 ; Tarsh 1988 ) . |
| 19 | Competition from weeds , notably the grass Imperata which can inhibit forest regeneration , is also discouraged by these practices because of the fragmented pattern of bare ground and the shade effects of perennials which also contribute to the renewal of soil nutrient pools . |
| 20 | The sibling parents of parallel cousins are the same sex and the sibling parents of cross-cousins are of the opposite sex . |
| 21 | The manufacturer is likely to prefer one or the other depending upon the nature of uncertainty and the risk preferences of retailers . |
| 22 | It is not enough for this justification to be expressed in terms of a linguist 's model of language or language use : it must be expressed with reference to the professional needs of teachers and the learning needs of children . |
| 23 | The UK Serials Group , formed in 1978 , provides a forum for the interchange of ideas between the producers and the end users of serials . |
| 24 | The change in SSP causes no change in standard enthalpy changes and the entropy values of solids and liquids . |