Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I write to say how appalled I was at the bad manners of BAIE members at the Editing for Industry awards dinner in Torquay . |
| 2 | A monologue that centred on hunt balls , riding to hounds , polo and the disgraceful decline of the manners of Guards officers were hardly subjects about which they were often invited to give an opinion . |
| 3 | Dark clumps of water hyacinths floated downstream like tiny islands cut adrift . |
| 4 | Wood anemones and celandines studded the damp ground of hazel and alder carr ; and clumps of king cups , a first bluebell and the tiny barren strawberry flower . |
| 5 | … as soon as the Empress saw a place which was totally wild with virtually unclimbable rocks everyone got out of the carriage and she set out , armed with a stout walking stick , to beat a path over huge rocks , clumps of juniper bushes , enormous ferns as high as shrubs . |
| 6 | I usually skied on the 35 miles of groomed valley trails that meander over icy , mumbling streams and through clumps of pine trees whose branches sag under dollops of snow . |
| 7 | Clumps of pine trees sat in hollows , and an icy wind blew around the bottom slopes of the mountain , whose top was covered in snow . |
| 8 | Thérèse because she was indifferent to the acid jab of nettles , Léonie because she liked to see that little corner of the grounds turned untidy and wild , the gateposts swarming with weeds and grass in their crevices , clumps of Michaelmas daisies . |
| 9 | Lift and divide large clumps of pond plants and marginals . |
| 10 | He revealed ‘ encouraging ’ figures on arrests and ejections of home supporters in the aftermath of Boro 's final home league game this week . |
| 11 | The occurrence of convulsions carried risks of bone fractures and of other injuries , but ingenious psychiatrists encouraged the development of standardized preparations of curare which could be used clinically to prevent the muscular component of the electrically-induced seizures . |
| 12 | But the study also reported for one of the five countries that babies of teenagers were at higher risks of birth defects , sudden death and other problems of birth and early infancy than were infants born to women in their early 20s . |
| 13 | It removes the need for surgical exploration and the risks of side effects . |
| 14 | A good example of this is provided by the tactics of Treasury officials in the preparation of the 1947 autumn budget [ Rollings , 1985 ] . |
| 15 | CONSUMERS who fell foul of the hard sell tactics of SureStyle Windows have been promised their cases will be chased up vigorously . |
| 16 | Proliferation and survival in culture of fetal endodermal cells , which have the pluripotent characteristics of stem cells , however , are enhanced by mesenchymal support . |
| 17 | Important characteristics of expert systems are that they provide advice in problem-solving based on the knowledge of experts , facilitate learning through experience and allow the use of natural language processing . |
| 18 | This will provide a basis for an analysis of the main characteristics of privatisation decisions , and processes of public accountability . |
| 19 | More recently software has been produced which combines the characteristics of viewdata screens with the sort of search capability usually found on databases . |
| 20 | But arguments of this nature , often plausible and just as often highly speculative , give some indication of the enduring characteristics of elite arguments that make such arguments readily comprehensible , and convincing in a synthetic manner , but lacking either the pretensions to analytic rigour of behaviouristic pluralism or the steam-roller systematic explanations of Marxism . |
| 21 | The physical characteristics of weathering profiles depend upon the rock type and its structural properties and mineralogy as well as the intensity and nature of the chemical weathering processes . |
| 22 | This is much more difficult , because one of the most important characteristics of case studies is that there is n't necessarily only one right answer . |
| 23 | Our investigations of characteristics of user establishments were made only for the private sector , since we assumed non-market forces to be of too great importance in the public sector to permit most of the relevant propositions to be tested . |
| 24 | It represented an attempt of a small group of working professional women to make a nationwide survey of the conditions of town life in England which might be held responsible for particular characteristics of wartime evacuees . |
| 25 | The previous programme provided ECU 0.342 million over three years to the School of Conservation of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen to develop a standard test to evaluate the stability characteristics of metal objects from archaeological sites . |
| 26 | Cell division , and the processes by which the characteristics of parent cells are reproduced in their offspring , was one such field . |
| 27 | To study whether demographic , social , drug related , or immunological factors influenced the development of bacterial pneumonia among drug users , the characteristics of drug users who seroconverted but did or did not develop bacterial pneumonia were compared . |
| 28 | The importance of systematic observation and empirical study is underlined by the additional need to monitor the changing characteristics of drug users , particularly the geographical areas and social groups in which new users appear , and the popularity of injection as a method of using heroin and other drugs . |
| 29 | Guerrilla warfare shared many of the characteristics of resistance movements in the Second World War . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the characteristics of pill users no longer observed were similar to never users no longer observed , so comparison between contraceptive groups also remains valid . |