Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Braille Alphabet consists of patterns of dots raised above the surface of the paper , arranged on 3 × 2 rectangular grids . |
| 2 | Much of Deerhurst parish consists of islands or near islands , rising above this floodable land . |
| 3 | Miss Hutton smelled of mothballs and good works . |
| 4 | The Greenham women complained of police brutality but , as Johnson points out , ‘ The press portrayed the blockading women as screaming harridans , contrasting us with what they had presented as the nice , well-meaning middle-class mothers and grandmothers the day before ’ ( Johnson , 1989:167 ) . |
| 5 | John Claudius Loudon wrote of statues in his great Encyclopedia of Gardening ( 1822 ) : ‘ They excite interest , often produce character … when a few are judiciously introduced ; but profusely scattered about , they distract attention . ’ |
| 6 | As mentioned previously , the Longman Corpus consists of superfields that are in turn subdivided into subfields . |
| 7 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
| 8 | Viscount Althorp said of reporters covering his engagement : ‘ They wanted to get back , bring me down , and make Victoria 's [ his wife 's ] life a misery . ’ |
| 9 | Sir Peter tells of men who , once in the desert — even now the location is not revealed — formed into small groups . |
| 10 | Mr Gaught tells of problems with the transitional reduction scheme , designed to help those faced with bills much higher than the previous community charge . |
| 11 | Geoffrey Beattie hears of businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags and learns the difference between a mobster and a muppet . |
| 12 | JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO STEP OUT , CATHERINE MOORE TELLS OF GIANTS , GHOSTS AND GHOULISH GOINGS-ON |
| 13 | One team consists of two chemists , Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons , in Salt Lake City ; the other group involving Paul Palmer and Steven Jones at Brigham Young University consists of physicists . |
| 14 | Skipper Lord Sterling warned of storms ahead unless interest rates are slashed . |
| 15 | The accommodation in La Penita consists of apartments which sleep 2–3 people , and are fully equipped with kitchenette , private facilities and either balconies or terrace . |
| 16 | Although Africans generally read tonic sol-fa and Europeans use staff notation , RSCM committees consist of Blacks , ‘ Coloureds ’ and Whites together . |
| 17 | Returning from the buffalo country , Nez Perce warriors boasted of battles with strange peoples : the Blackfoot and Gros Ventre of Canada , the Assiniboin and Crow of the central Plains . |
| 18 | Pauline Hoare knows of women who regularly travel from Kent to Durham to visit their husbands , and if a crime was committed in Scotland it would be normal to find families based in England or Wales having to travel up to Scottish prisons . |
| 19 | Lady Bell wrote of women in Middlesbrough in 1907 being ‘ curiously devoid of public spirit or interest in outside affairs ’ , and some 40 years later , Slater and Woodside described their female respondents as looking out on the world from their homes ‘ as from a beleaguered fortress ’ . |
| 20 | As long ago as 1911 Edmund Holmes wrote of schools that were ‘ ridden by the examination incubus ’ , arguing that everyone was cheated by a system whose merit-order and pass-lists were nothing but ‘ outward signs ’ . |
| 21 | Some years ago Edmund Wilson complained of writers of Gothic who could fail to lay hold on the terrors that lie deep in the human soul and have caused man to fear himself . |