Example sentences of "of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also signed by two captains , Javier Licona and Jesus George Balma , known to be unhappy at recent promotions of majors loyal to the general , at the expense of officers considered of questionable loyalty . |
| 2 | The structures of majors and independents are determined by the size of the repertoire each company handles . |
| 3 | ‘ It was pigs of majors like you . ’ |
| 4 | Blades to cover all sorts of fastenings ; slot-head , Phillips , Posidrive , hex head , Torx and eyescrews . |
| 5 | Of raptures and rendings . |
| 6 | Formal observation techniques and equipment are designed to reduce this discrepancy to a minimum but the nursing process depends on much more than can be obtained by this means ; therefore it is important for the teacher to have some understanding of the factors that affect the formation of percepts so that she can help the nurse to make accurate judgements where these are possible and to be sufficiently receptive and mentally flexible to consider more than one possible judgement as basis for action . |
| 7 | Concepts are formed from numerous percepts of similar things , and are the way by which we deal with the millions of percepts we form daily . |
| 8 | Tom Langton , a campaigner on behalf of adders , has managed to find only one adder colony in the whole of Greater London . |
| 9 | Over to Mary 's quarters he went , while Alice remained locked in her apartment for fear of the plague of adders which her husband assured her infested the grounds . |
| 10 | Under a recent amendment to the Wildlife and Countryside Act ( 1981 ) it became an offence to kill or injure adders — this is in addition to previous legislation prohibiting the sale of adders . |
| 11 | And now Scottish Natural Heritage has asked the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology , Banchory , in liaison with the Scottish Agricultural Statistics Service and Biosphere Consultancies , to do a study to determine the current status of adders in Scotland . |
| 12 | The public are being enlisted to help by filling in a short questionnaire which will provide information on the distribution of adders . |
| 13 | I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had . |
| 14 | Often during a site visit measurements will be taken and checks made on supply of gas , electricity and position of drains . |
| 15 | They can take measures for the burning of the heaths , the clearing of drains , and the repair and maintenance of the Forest pounds : these measures they carry out through the agency or with the permission of the Forestry Commissioners . |
| 16 | It really appears to me that almost the only thing in the world which other men do but which Frenchmen can not , is the making of drains and sewers . |
| 17 | The disposal of run off from most types of terrace needs careful construction of a system of drains and channels usually designed on the basis of calculations ( or informed guesses ) on the probability of the intensity and duration of storms . |
| 18 | There are two basic systems of drains ; the ‘ separate ’ system whereby foul waste water is kept entirely separate from rainwater , and the combined system where they run together in the same pipe . |
| 19 | The construction of drains , as Hornung et al. ( 1987 ) have discussed , tends to reduce the residence time of water in the soil or peat . |
| 20 | However , this was not to be since their drains were either late , abandoned , or non-existent , while promises of building sites were made and then had to be broken because of the absence of drains ! |
| 21 | This is a cheese which is expensive , smells of drains — it is marketed in wrapped wedges so you do not find this out until you get it home — and in consistence is more suitable for mending tyres than for the cooking pot . |
| 22 | What remains is released into an elaborate system of drains , penstocks , pumps , flumes , and concrete-sided irrigation ditches , from which it emerges at the Mexican border , severely depleted and laden with salts and pesticides . |
| 23 | There was a vague smell of drains in the still air , of a cesspool somewhere . |
| 24 | A total of over 12 km ( nearly 8 miles ) of fencing , 43 km ( 27 miles ) of kerbing , 6 km ( 4 miles ) of safety barriers , 27 km ( 17 miles ) of drains and 17 hectares ( 42 acres ) of asphalt surfacing have been provided . |
| 25 | It may be that there is no actual overflowing , but rather a strong smell of drains — particularly by the front gate . |
| 26 | Large-scale improvements to the sewer system are also to be undertaken , with 5,000 km of drains to be built . |
| 27 | a mere skeleton , legs a mass of sores . ’ |
| 28 | He also had a number of sores . |
| 29 | Athelstan hardly recognised him : his face was a mass of sores , his hair long and matted with filth and vermin . |
| 30 | M E Tralbaut recounts the story of Vincent 's actual departure from Belgium 's black country , as told to him by his old friend Louis Piérard , who knew the widow of the pastor of Warquignies well . |