Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mixed-farming central area differed from the north-west corner mainly in having rather fewer poor , even on the prime wheatlands of Chelmsford and Ongar hundreds , but , with few men of the richest sort , average wealth was lower , especially towards the north . |
| 2 | They imagine torments more atrocious for the bakkra ( which is what the bosses are called ) than they have themselves received at the order of mistresses who wear bonnets and corsets and use the civilised manners of Liverpool or Birmingham or London — ; |
| 3 | I refer , of course , to manners of thought that have become formalised , certain convolutions , the consistent combination of apprehensions with little twistles of kinaesthetic intimation , d'ye follow me ? ’ |
| 4 | Through the letters and poetry there runs a strong current of paedophilia , which has an erotic strain ; but it is tempered by a humane appreciation of the freshness and generosity of children not yet tainted by the manners of society . |
| 5 | Non-European countries were more and more to take up the methods and manners of Europe . |
| 6 | However , once this is conceded the basis of Oakeshott 's theory is challenged since he views these two forms of association as categorially distinct moral conditions and as shaping two wholly different manners of government and two profoundly different characters of human identity . |
| 7 | Indeed , the norms and manners of Londoners may be closer to those of people in Boston , Mass. than in Belfast ; and if customs and ideas in Birmingham are rather different from those in , say , Barcelona , they are more like those in Barcelona today than in Birmingham when its oldest inhabitant was born . |
| 8 | However , as Patrick Parrinder has pointed out , most of these approaches — in their concern with methodology rather than with the aims and purposes of English studies — have led to changes in manners of interpretation rather than in the choice of texts : they do not usually lead to any significant reconsideration of the worth of pursuing the interpretation of texts as such . " |
| 9 | Parliament 's role has not been executive , but supervisory — it has sought to subject the executive to certain limits and controls , to protect the liberties of the individual citizen against the arbitrary use of power , to focus the mind of the nation on the great issues of the day by the maintenance of a continuous dialogue or discussion , and by remaining at the centre of the stage to impose … ‘ manners of behaviour ’ on the whole political system . |
| 10 | In short , ‘ the dispositions and manners of man ’ have their causes in motions , the complexities of which are the province of natural philosophy . |
| 11 | From love the soul learns a thousand manners of culture , such culture as can not be found from the schools . |
| 12 | As dean , Smith attempted to revert to the practices and manners of Hall 's great predecessor Cyril Jackson [ q.v. ] , but he lacked the ability to manage those with whom a dean of Christ Church had to deal . |
| 13 | The mining grants empowered the group to search , dig , try and melt all manners of mines and " ures " of gold , silver , copper and quicksilver in a number of counties which included Lancaster , Cumberland and Westmorland . |
| 14 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 15 | They were also fond of aping the grand manners of servants to aristocratic households and rich farmers . |
| 16 | As a whole the reading calls to mind that of Del Monaco ( Karajan/Decca ) , and is none the worse for that , but misses the better manners of Pavarotti ( Solti/Decca ) and Domingo ( Maazel/EMI ) . |
| 17 | This deals with physics ( with ‘ bodies natural ’ ) , with moral philosophy ( with the ‘ dispositions and manners of men ’ ) , and , finally , with political philosophy ( with the ‘ civil duties of subjects ’ ) . |
| 18 | They are , in their order of dependence : moral philosophy or ethics ( which deals with ‘ the dispositions and manners of men ’ ) , and political or civil philosophy ( which deals with ‘ the civil duties of subjects ’ ) . |
| 19 | I write to say how appalled I was at the bad manners of BAIE members at the Editing for Industry awards dinner in Torquay . |
| 20 | A monologue that centred on hunt balls , riding to hounds , polo and the disgraceful decline of the manners of Guards officers were hardly subjects about which they were often invited to give an opinion . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Her eyes fell on two empty jam jars standing on a shelf , and then her mind flew to the clumps of snowdrops she 'd noticed blooming near the entrance to the shearers ' quarters . |
| 23 | The sea cabbage Senecio candicans was in full bloom along the top of the beach and the white-headed clumps of nassauvia , a plant endemic to the Falklands , were dotted among the sand dunes . |
| 24 | The clumps of colour grow in size until they become visible and are held together whilst the water evaporates . |
| 25 | Snow lay in dark hollows below occasional clumps of rhododendron . |
| 26 | Though the big R100 BMW has been designed as much for cross-country work as for the road , the wheels bucked and skidded in the grey waterlogged soil as Trent fought the handlebars , weaving between scrub bush and clumps of hagara grass . |
| 27 | Dodging through prickly gorse and clumps of bracken , we hurtled onto the jetty . |
| 28 | Rather forbiddingly he saunters along the lower rink , past the clumps of families , the young mothers , the babies ' cries . |
| 29 | And those clumps of green ; cypress trees |
| 30 | There were green lawnmowers too , with coats of arms on the grassboxes ; clumps of cane , tied with brown twine ; rolls of wire-netting , and white enamel bowls with blue lines round the rim . |