Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mixed-farming central area differed from the north-west corner mainly in having rather fewer poor , even on the prime wheatlands of Chelmsford and Ongar hundreds , but , with few men of the richest sort , average wealth was lower , especially towards the north . |
| 2 | They imagine torments more atrocious for the bakkra ( which is what the bosses are called ) than they have themselves received at the order of mistresses who wear bonnets and corsets and use the civilised manners of Liverpool or Birmingham or London — ; |
| 3 | I refer , of course , to manners of thought that have become formalised , certain convolutions , the consistent combination of apprehensions with little twistles of kinaesthetic intimation , d'ye follow me ? ’ |
| 4 | However , once this is conceded the basis of Oakeshott 's theory is challenged since he views these two forms of association as categorially distinct moral conditions and as shaping two wholly different manners of government and two profoundly different characters of human identity . |
| 5 | The mining grants empowered the group to search , dig , try and melt all manners of mines and " ures " of gold , silver , copper and quicksilver in a number of counties which included Lancaster , Cumberland and Westmorland . |
| 6 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 7 | But the slopes are grassy , and thickets of brambles , stands of alexander with dark , shiny green leaves , clumps of elder and the Japanese spindle , offer shelter to migrating birds . |
| 8 | Some of the scenery is very Scottish-looking with clumps of birch and hawthorn by the roadside and a scatter of tiny farming villages . |
| 9 | The foreground is given over to common land , undulating , uncultivated , with clumps of fern and whin , gorse and bramble . |
| 10 | There are a number of species related to this one in coral reefs and clumps of Jurassic and later age The specimen is from Nattheim , Germany ; related species of Stylina occur in Jurassic limestones in Europe , eastwards into Asia Minor , and in the US . |
| 11 | But still Flupper continued in the wrong direction , heading for the greyish clumps of mould and fungi . |
| 12 | Tall firs form a copse at the back of the house and great clumps of rhododendrons and laurels surround the lawns to the south , conserving the safe , dark Victorian atmosphere of the place . |
| 13 | Other insects hear through clumps of hairs or special antennae which work by detecting the movement of the vibrating air molecules instead of picking up the pressure waves of sound . |
| 14 | The horses took clumps of gorse and two stone walls in their stride ; they ripped through a copse . |
| 15 | As they drove through rolling hills topped by Mohican clumps of trees and moved into the leafy green tunnels of Petersfield , his bride , who 'd been primed by Drew , put her hand on her husband 's cock and suggested that it would be more fun to stop and have their picnic in a field than join the crowds at Cowdray . |
| 16 | The road , a single car 's width , now heads south on a tortuous journey of ups and downs and ins and outs through a tangled landscape of low hillocks , gneiss outcrops , peat bogs and small lochans that lap the roadside verges , furnished with occasional clumps of trees and bordered by heather and gorse : an undisciplined maze yet endowed with infinite beauty . |
| 17 | It takes me another two hours to reach the top , which provides a view down into the crater which looks , from this height , like a small , almost perfectly oval park with artfully sited clumps of trees and lakes . |
| 18 | Finally we crossed a low pass and descended into the wide depression of the oasis where straggling clumps of trees and patchy cultivation marked the first springs . |
| 19 | This might be a good time to spend half an hour in the gardens , sketching shadowy clumps of trees and bushes , she decided . |
| 20 | The road curved and climbed and went through all the antics of a mountain pass to persuade you that the land was n't rather flat , and small clumps of trees and farmhouses aided the illusion . |
| 21 | The small meadow in which the Brownies met was dotted with clumps of bushes and young trees , and most other parts of Longreen Park were wooded , so it could be understood why a pilot should choose what looked like a clear open green space to land his plane on . |
| 22 | The young man came over the tops of the dunes , whistling and casually whacking clumps of reed and grass with a stick . |
| 23 | Well before noon , beside a small church whose roof sagged under clumps of grass and willow-herb , they came to the bridge over to Grandtully and looked across at the dense little settlement , lumpish houses made of undressed river boulders with brown smoke streaming through their heather thatch , hovels of branches littered through the trees , a few solid cottages with level roof-trees . |
| 24 | He also rubs his scent glands , located just behind each horn , on to clumps of grass and bushes . |
| 25 | Dig out the clumps of roots and divide them into smaller portions to replant or pot-up . |
| 26 | Girls wishing to avoid such a fate should shun wearing or passing near fairy flowers , such as clumps of harebells or love-in-idleness . |
| 27 | The German Federal Bank raised its discount rate from 6 to 6.5 per cent on Jan. 31 to combat the risks of inflation and the costs of unification . |
| 28 | Helping the sufferer to take the risks of self-disclosure and to acknowledge the need for emotional and practical support and help from others . |
| 29 | Clearly , the issue of injecting , important as it was prior to the arrival of HIV infection , because of the risks of hepatitis and other disorders , is now of paramount importance to the whole international community . |
| 30 | If we turn our attention briefly to tobacco , much is made ( and quite rightly ) of the health risks of smoking and we are constantly reminded of the cost to the National Health Service for treating patients with smoking-related diseases . |