Example sentences of "of the [n mass] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And and means the face of the sheep cotes . |
| 2 | This did not mean the end of large-scale sheep-farming , which was still the basis of large fortunes in the nineteenth century : migrant merino flocks still passed from summer pastures in the Sierras along the sheep roads to Estremadura and the south ; but with the destruction of animal stock in the War of Independence , the disruption of the sheep routes , and the general decline of wool the great transhumant flocks persisted only in those regions where no other method of feeding was possible — in the more remote parts of the bleak province of Soria for example . |
| 3 | The performance of the sheep flocks has been maintained or improved with no increase in fixed costs , the ewe flock having risen to 668 ewes/man . |
| 4 | Green gave an interesting account of how this fine bird suffered at the hands of the sheep farmers who had lost lambs and so had to destroy it . |
| 5 | ‘ As you can see she 's not a juvenile and we only got her because she was caught in a trap set by one of the sheep farmers and broke a wing . |
| 6 | ‘ Gentleman ’ was applied to , for example , the cadets of eminent families : thus four of the £100 assessments in Rutland belonged to the younger brothers and sisters of Francis Brown , Esq. , of Little Casterton . |
| 7 | The best-known of the folk heroes was Kraljević Marko , son of ‘ King ’ Vukašin ( Mrnjavčević ) , who ruled at Prilep until his death in 1371 . |
| 8 | The Second Symphony is still widely known as the ‘ Little Ruissian ’ because of the folk songs from that area which Tchaikovsky uses in the first and fourth movements . |
| 9 | They spent hours pulling the handles of the fruit machines and appeared unusually lucky in their winnings , which they immediately spent buying souvenirs at the PBX shop . |
| 10 | A daily check of the fruit trees is necessary to ensure you manage to collect fruit at its peak harvest condition . |
| 11 | My earliest memories were of the fruit trees . |
| 12 | In this ‘ promiscuous culture ’ the triple-canopy growth freckled the earth with green shadows — from the clear young lime of the fruit trees to the mineral and ancient duskiness of the olive . |
| 13 | The history of the domestication of many of the fruit trees of the tropics may therefore never be disentangled , though it is known that some of them at least , like the duku and lanseh , forms of Lansium domesticum ( Meliaceae ) , are apomicts . |
| 14 | • At least one of the $630,000 Cizetas will be coming to Britain this year — to be crashed . |
| 15 | Domestic US investors form the largest part of the holders of the US$ CDs issued in London , probably accounting for around three quarters of all holdings . |
| 16 | If you are working on a flat surface , you could use any of the 100L airbrushes from Morris and Ingram , possibly the 100-4-SS airbrush set , which comes with a fine and medium assembly and needle and colour cups . |
| 17 | For example , suppose we had two fields ( or character strings ) in the store at addresses 300 and 350 , as shown in Figure 2.20 ( a ) ; the addresses are those of the right.hand characters of the fields , and the characters whose word mark bits are set are indicated by underlining . |
| 18 | 1803 " From a statement to this Meeting of the Desertion of the Militia men or non appearance ; which they consider as Disgracefull to the Inhabitants of Islay . |
| 19 | The one on the north wall is for the men of the cavalry regiments from the Krems area who fell in the First World War . |
| 20 | After the shopping Denis would sit in the orderly room , watching his father write in ledgers twice as wide and twenty times as thick as his school exercise-books , or he 'd gaze longingly at the Royal Irish Constabulary uniforms of his father 's colleagues with their shining buttons and belts hanging neatly from pegs on the wall , the caps , the spiked helmets and the little pill-box hats of the cavalry police lined up , as if on parade , on a table along with whistle-chains , handcuff-cases and batons . |
| 21 | Staff had forgotten to add the word ‘ imitation ’ to the description of the £3.50 ear-rings . |
| 22 | There was the remains of a quart of cider in front of the aspirin bottles on the shelf . |
| 23 | A forum to establish guidelines for a national statistics council is being organised by Ian Maclean , secretary of the Statistics Users ' Council . |
| 24 | A £16m rights issue from Addison Consultancy , the market research company , flopped yesterday with only 2.4 p.c. of the 151m shares on offer at 12p each taken up . |
| 25 | Reindeer moss , the staple diet of the deer herds , was also said to have disappeared completely . |
| 26 | Only six of the studies reported results for respiratory or diarrhoeal morbidity : three of the community trials , two of the measles trials , and one of the trials in very low birthweight infants . |
| 27 | Species roses As remarked with regard to the English roses above , and in addition to the crossing back of the new with the old , there has been a return to and seeking after the more simple and unsophisticated beauties of the species roses , their forms and near hybrids . |
| 28 | Finally , R. xanthina ‘ Canary Bird ’ is one of the most popular of the species roses , having 2 inch ( 5cm ) bright yellow flowers on 7ft ( 2m ) shrubs clothed with delicate fern-like foliage . |
| 29 | Each of the species accounts is laid out as follows : |
| 30 | " Basically I use a lot of different hostas and the alchemillas because the lovely bold shape of the hosta leaves goes with the finer stems of alchemilla . |