Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We therefore decided to concentrate our analysis of the characteristics of users of temporary workers on private sector establishments . |
| 4 | I would like to draw your attention to several characteristics of statements of the kind listed above . |
| 5 | My husband has knitted over 250 of these ( yes , this must be a record for one person ! ) from all sorts of scraps of yarn , on his standard gauge machine . |
| 6 | Statements such as , ‘ I did n't see it previously ’ ; ‘ I 've just noticed something new ’ ; I can see all sorts of things of interest which I had n't seen before' ; ‘ I was n't interested in that before … suddenly it has a very significant part to play ’ ; ‘ the painting is actually changing for me ’ ; ‘ I 'm just discovering it ’ ; ‘ I 've started now to appreciate … ‘ , abounded . |
| 7 | As I rummaged through the chest , gathering up as much as I could carry without dropping any , I found knitted scarves , blankets , gloves , socks and all sorts of garments of varying sizes . |
| 8 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 9 | Precisely the same sorts of divisions of opinion plague policy making in less developed countries , though in many the lines of demarcation may lie along racial lines or involve the role of the traditional elites . |
| 10 | ‘ In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately Palace , encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground within a wall , wherein are fertile meddowes , pleasant springs , delightful streames , and all sorts of beasts of chase and game , and in the midst thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure , which may be moved from place to place . |
| 11 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge had been reading Purchas 's His Pilgrimage after taking some opium : In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately palace , encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground with a wall , wherein are fertile Meddowes , pleasant Springs , delightful Streames , and all sorts of beasts of chase and game , and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure . |
| 12 | And these sorts of initiatives of of people organizing together you know sort of . |
| 13 | It includes all sorts of conditions of people in its audience , and it links them — in the cliche beloved by trade union spokesman — at that moment in time . |
| 14 | A picture that you 'll find to sort of try and ex give you an example of some of the l a the text books have got some great pictures on these particular sorts of examples of the laws in practice . |
| 15 | What we feel is that by going at it like a bull in a china shop , we all sorts of accusations of widespread privatisation has actually backfired . |
| 16 | People get all sorts of images of you , but the truth is , they do n't know you . |
| 17 | they do all sorts of combinations of things in India combined to make their lifestyle different but they would , some people in |
| 18 | We get a specific grant , sorry for the jargon , we get a specific grant from the Department of Health for all sorts of aspects of the management of our department and training our staff and so on . |
| 19 | ‘ Neither do I. Opens up all sorts of avenues of interesting speculation , does n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | my Lord I , I suppose the answer to that is yes , it could be on the facts , it could be that if there was in a free market then they 'd be all sorts of varieties of clause whereby the name and kept the agent funds , erm maybe |
| 21 | erm The response has been for that authority then to groin its bit of beach , and so we end up with a situation today where along the Sussex coast practically the whole of the coast is groined , except for the areas which are backed by high cliffs , erm where we have the sorts of rates of erosion that I mentioned . |
| 22 | Erm at previous County Council and the previous committee , together with the officers , planned extremely thoroughly and er the funding that was provided for this year both internally within the County Council and externally from the government was sufficient to provide the sorts of levels of service that we , we anticipate . |
| 23 | And there are all sorts of methods of sort of cheating the system , if you 're a timber industry in Ghana . |
| 24 | So if you go to your local pub at night for a er an evening social and you have a drink no doubt you 'll look round your public house and you 'll see all sorts of pieces of fire equipment . |
| 25 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 26 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 27 | For ‘ Be aware ’ this analytic faculty will be the final court of appeal ; nevertheless , there are all sorts of ways of being aware . |
| 28 | As Edwards showed , there are all sorts of ways of getting in front of the bigger man . |
| 29 | There are all sorts of ways of sending messages in Morse code — flags , light flashes , pencil taps , whistling and so on . |
| 30 | And there were all sorts of ways of taking money away from the wealthy and stupid . |