Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also fond of aping the grand manners of servants to aristocratic households and rich farmers . |
| 2 | Beyond Philadelphia , the farmland became vaguely English in the fading light with neat fields and little clumps of trees at the corners . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the site of fusion , cells leave the sheet and form two clumps of cells on either side of the neural tube . |
| 5 | To the east and back of the house there were lines of swordplants and small clumps of bushes with vivid scarlet and yellow flowers . |
| 6 | The food plant for both the small tortoiseshell and the peacock is the stinging nettle , so to stand the best chance of finding their caterpillars , start inspecting large clumps of nettles about the middle of May . |
| 7 | The eye begins eventually to see pockets and spaces within the greys , the whites , the after-images of after-images of vibrant , sumptuous colour : the bands then begin to buckle and warp , blend into each other ; a kind of visual melt-down occurs as the retina tries to encompass this searing tension . |
| 8 | Not only are our brains equipped by nature to assess risks of things in a short time ; they are also equipped to assess risks of things happening to us personally , or to a narrow circle of people that we know . |
| 9 | The costs of outbreeding may include the risks of infections from pathogens carried by the partner and the breaking up in the offspring of co-adapted complexes of genes found in the parents . |
| 10 | The columnists have keen noses for scandals and once their interest is aroused they follow the scent with sleuth-like pertinacity and commendable disregard of the risks of suits for defamation . |
| 11 | Schumpeter ( 1934 , 1939 ) explained the bunching of innovations which generated long-waves by the characteristics of entrepreneurs as industrial leaders . |
| 12 | The physical characteristics of blacks in America were traditionally defined as undesirable and associated with a range of negative qualities . |
| 13 | It is developed from research into the characteristics of companies at risk that best differentiated those which ultimately failed from those which were able to recover . |
| 14 | Although several differences in pretreatment characteristics of responders versus non-responders were observed , none of them was found to be significant . |
| 15 | If we are to understand the philosophical assumptions that motivate individualism , we must ask what individuals need to be like for their causal powers to exhaust the causal powers of groups , and for the characteristics of groups to be explicable in terms of the characteristics of individuals . |
| 16 | ‘ DIRECTIONAL characteristics of atmospherics at high frequency ’ runs the title of a paper published in the Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers just 50 years ago . |
| 17 | Although Ruellan ( 1971 ) distinguished between those researchers who attach great importance to the geomorphological processes of erosion and deposition ( allochthonists ) and those who attribute the major characteristics of soils to pedological processes ( autochthonists ) , Gerrard ( 1981 ) in his treatment of soils and geomorphology argues that soils are the results of the interaction of both sets of processes . |
| 18 | Demographic and social characteristics of adults with cystic fibrosis in the United Kingdom |
| 19 | Our study aimed to describe the social and demographic characteristics of adults with cystic fibrosis in the United Kingdom and the medical care they receive and to provide baseline data from which the impact of changes recently introduced into the National Health Service can be assessed . |
| 20 | The primary outcome of the project will be a descriptive account of the employment characteristics of establishments in British industry , which can be compared with the situation recorded by the 1980 survey , but it is also hoped to consider the findings in the context of current debates about labour market segmentation . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , in ordinations of vegetation , the regeneration characteristics of assemblages of species may give meaning to the observeddistribution of vegetation types , rather than the terrestrial features of the environment . |
| 22 | We therefore decided to concentrate our analysis of the characteristics of users of temporary workers on private sector establishments . |
| 23 | If you want to know more about a rug you already own , or simply want to develop a general interest in the subject , study the design schemes ( described in Chapter IV ) , and the characteristics of rugs from the various producing countries ( Chapter V ) . |
| 24 | I would like to draw your attention to several characteristics of statements of the kind listed above . |
| 25 | The use of nicknames to identify individuals arose in England in Anglo-Saxon times ( at the latest ) — there are the cases of Harold Bluetooth , Svegn Forkbeard , Eadmund Ironside , all highlighting personal characteristics of men with common names . |
| 26 | The problems and costs of organizing transactions depend on both their nature and the assumed characteristics of decision-makers in the model . |
| 27 | Characteristics of patients with carcinoids are indicated in Table IV . |
| 28 | Table III shows the characteristics of patients with gastric metaplasia ; although there were relatively fewer cases of metaplasia in patients taking NSAIDs , the differences were not statistically significant . |
| 29 | The pretreatment characteristics of patients in the two groups were similar ( table I ) , although the median time from original diagnosis of colorectal cancer to entry was slightly longer for patients with chemotherapy ( 8.5 ( range 0 to 61 ) months ) than for those who received supportive care alone ( 5.5 ( 0 to 22 ) months ) . |
| 30 | For our purposes it will be sufficient to draw attention to two fairly general and constant characteristics of words across a wide range of languages . |