Example sentences of "of the [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And and means the face of the sheep cotes . |
| 2 | This intensification of the sheep enterprise has enabled farmers to increase the acreage released in several ways and on average the percentage increase on the farms adopting the new methods has been an increase of 23% cereals , 21% sheep and 14% cattle . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Reproduced by kind permission of The Sheep Farmer , . |
| 8 | Hon. Members have expressed deep concern about the plight of the sheep farmer , especially the hill farmer , on whom milk quotas have a direct effect . |
| 9 | But those to be educated were still divided into the sheep and the goats , the most goatish of all doing no examinations before they left school , the best of the sheep doing examinations in none but theoretical or language-based subjects . |
| 10 | The noise of the sheep pounding across the field was loud , like horses in a film . |
| 11 | By now it was October and the month of the sheep sales . |
| 12 | ‘ With an asking price of just £47 per acre we had enormous interest in the property which hit the market just as details of the sheep quota system were emerging in August . |
| 13 | ‘ It would be no exaggeration to say that the future prosperity of the sheep industry in Wales depends to a large extent on satisfying the palates of diners in Paris , Rome and Madrid . ’ |
| 14 | JIMMY WHITE was forced to pull out of the £25,000 Benson and Hedges snooker tournament in Glasgow yesterday because of an illness in his family . |
| 15 | CHICAGO Blackhawks have won the Molson Challenge and a large share of the £25,000 prize , beating Montreal Canadiens 2-1 after a scoreless period of extra time and two penalty shoot-outs . |
| 16 | Both played superbly , clinching the Australians £20,000 of the £25,000 prize money on offer from Texaco and doing almost as they liked with the England bowlers in a perfectly-timed run chase . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | First , s402(6) allows Target to pay up to £100 as consideration for the surrender to it of the £100 group relief , which would be sufficient to meet Newco 's interest obligation . |
| 19 | The legal fall-out of the £190million scandal and the criminal cases which have resulted from it mean that , on grounds of fairness alone , it would not be right to pre-judge the trials due to start next year . |
| 20 | Top of the folk bill for example are such notables Maighread Ni Dhomnaill , Puck Fair ( with special guest Jimmy Faulkner ) , Kieran Goss , Frances Black , Skylark , Vinnie Kilduff , Steve Cooney plus a plethora of folk club , set dancing evenings and , of course , Seisuns . |
| 21 | Thus even in a situation where Creole is permitted , none may in fact be spoken — or if it is , it may be limited to ritualised tokens such as the tags man , guy and star , which , though they lie within the boundaries of the folk concept " Patois " are best seen as part of the language of black-influenced youth culture . |
| 22 | It 's something I like to do because it 's part of the folk tradition too , to storytell and to put characters into songs to document and record . ’ |
| 23 | This proposition goes under the name of the Folk Theorem in the theory of repeated games . |
| 24 | Notation is a negation of the folk mode . |
| 25 | Thus ‘ all the main characteristics of recording echo those of the folk mode ’ ( ibid : 287 ) , though qualitatively transformed ( for instance , any sound is available ) . |
| 26 | The best-known of the folk heroes was Kraljević Marko , son of ‘ King ’ Vukašin ( Mrnjavčević ) , who ruled at Prilep until his death in 1371 . |
| 27 | She is just back from the States where she was on-stage singer with the Cincinnati Ballet 's production of the folk ballet ‘ Sergeant Early 's Dream ’ , with musical partners The Chieftains . |
| 28 | The idea was that Davis would be the anchor man , the resident musician , and every week we would have one paid performer who would be highlighted as performer of the week , a tradition that was kept up throughout the history of the folk club and the Arts Lab . |
| 29 | The sky was studded with stars , and the lilting voice of the folk singer at the barbecue drifted over the floodlit lawns . |
| 30 | 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 . |