Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the secrecy , and hence perhaps the vicious quarrel with Brampton , the rather effete manners of Master Buckingham , as well as the fact that Sir Thomas did not sleep with his wife . ’ |
| 2 | My lasting impressions of Plas-yn-Rhiw are of the great clumps of Fuchsia magellanica , its soft hazes of scarlet toning so well with the grey wall ; of an old pear tree and forsythia growing through the roof of the ruined dairy ; of the superb Magnolia campbellii mollicomata , planted by the Keatings in 1947 ; and of squeezing between box hedges down narrow grass passageways and ducking under arching pink rhododendrons and car-mine camellias as I followed the curving stone and cobbled paths . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In Costa Rica , the size of clumps of Cryosophila guagara palms corresponded to the size of light gaps created by fallen trees . |
| 5 | Stachys canata ( " Lambs Ears " ) is a perennial whose flat carpets look attractive in the garden alongside clumps of Helichrysum angustifolium ( the curry plant ) . |
| 6 | If we are serious about making the risks of HIV transmission common knowledge , and I believe we have to be , then we need to ensure that every section of society has full access to the information that is available . |
| 7 | The only way of effectively cutting out the risks of HIV transmission is by having safer sex with all your partners . |
| 8 | His deafness debarred him from lectures , and he was unable to avail himself of the help of tutors , but he persevered and he graduated in 1911 , overnight becoming front-page news as the only deaf man ( then ) to achieve the academic distinction of Master of Arts of Cambridge University . |
| 9 | In the spring of 1968 there was much rethinking within the CRA [ Civil Rights Association ] leadership ; the tactics of Martin Luther King in America had been absorbed inasmuch that it was felt by some that only public marches could draw wide attention to what we were trying to achieve by normal democratic means . |
| 10 | The patience of the black people , however , was running out and Selma was the last major victory for the non-violent tactics of Martin Luther King . |
| 11 | CONSUMERS who fell foul of the hard sell tactics of SureStyle Windows have been promised their cases will be chased up vigorously . |
| 12 | The far-sighted politician must do a ‘ thought experiment ’ and apply the test of war : would the British ever be willing to see British troops fight and die at the behest of the successors of M Jacques Delors , without the British Government giving the final yea or nay ? |
| 13 | This brought a titter , although not from the ‘ chair ’ , who had herself been educated by the successors of Miss Beale and Miss Buss . |
| 14 | Many of the disputes in which the English Catholics were involved during Petre 's lifetime were about the place of lay power in an increasingly clericalized church or , as John Milner , bishop of Castabala [ q.v. ] , one of Petre 's most bitter critics , put it , ‘ whether the nomination of our Pastors shall be with Lord Petre or the successors of St Peter ’ . |
| 15 | Such characteristics of United States elections are well known . |
| 16 | Variations in the source characteristics of Labrador Sea Water can be traced across the North Atlantic , with a circulation time of 18–19 years between the Labrador Sea and Rockall Trough . |
| 17 | One of the most striking features of the data was the abundance and extreme characteristics of Labrador Sea Water ( LSW ) in the western part of the survey . |
| 18 | These characteristics are similar to the characteristics of Nottinghamshire practices as a whole . |
| 19 | The characteristics of P. anserina were reviewed by Esser ( 19 ) . |
| 20 | The only important road works that had to be carried out on the Penge lines comprised widening and strengthening the bridge over the railway at Anerley Station , cutting back the forecourts of Penge Police Station and property adjoining Penge Station ( I.B.S.C. Railway ) . |
| 21 | In spare half-hours he would wander in the market-place and streets and shops of Bishop Auckland and talk with the people . |
| 22 | Insp Best left the inner city problems Stoke Newington , north London , for the glitzy offices of Trafalgar House , ensconced between Piccadilly and the stylish shops of New Bond Street . |
| 23 | The affluent clients of the smartest shops of Hong Kong , Paris , New York , London or Tokyo respond to the same qualities in ivory as those which attracted Palaeolithic mammoth hunters up to thirty thousand years ago and have continued to beguile all who have since had access to the material . |
| 24 | In 1823 he commenced an apprenticeship to George Stephenson [ q.v. ] , working for two years in the shops of Robert Stephenson & Co. at Newcastle and then in the drawing office . |
| 25 | There are two sorts of Mudhoney show : the one where they piss about all night and sceptics just scratch bonces and bugger off , and the one where they rip through their best songs , old and new , with hardly a murmur and plenty of bovver . |
| 26 | They sing the songs of Florence Reece , who wrote Which Side Are You On , and of Sarah Ogen Gunning , author of such great songs as I Hate the Capitalist System . |
| 27 | And the Hilliard Ensemble with London Baroque have produced Songs of Sundrie Natures , a whole record of Byrd 's English-texted domestic music , sacred as well as secular , using period pronunciation ( EMI CDC 7 47961 2 ) . |
| 28 | Congratulations , then , to the Hilliard Ensemble for attempting Songs of Sundrie Natures . |
| 29 | His book of songs and madrigals has similarities in style with the Songs of Sundrie Kindes ( 1604 ) by Thomas Greaves [ q.v. ] , and both end with a group of five-part madrigals . |
| 30 | The diverse areas covered include : the songs of Robert Burns , the politics of pre-revolutionary Russia , the political leaders of the Weimar Republic , the Atlantic slave trade , the Treasury and Health Policy in Scotland in the early 20th Century , the New Age Movement , the philosophy of law , the Japanese and the Jesuits , medieval German literature and culture , photographic archive of the War memorials in Europe , and violence on television . |