Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In short , ‘ the dispositions and manners of man ’ have their causes in motions , the complexities of which are the province of natural philosophy . |
| 7 | From love the soul learns a thousand manners of culture , such culture as can not be found from the schools . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 , . |
| 10 | I write to say how appalled I was at the bad manners of BAIE members at the Editing for Industry awards dinner in Torquay . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The clumps of colour grow in size until they become visible and are held together whilst the water evaporates . |
| 13 | Snow lay in dark hollows below occasional clumps of rhododendron . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Dodging through prickly gorse and clumps of bracken , we hurtled onto the jetty . |
| 16 | And those clumps of green ; cypress trees |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Ye injur 'd fields , ye once were gay , When Nature 's hand displayed Long waving rows of willows grey And clumps of hawthorn shade ; But now , alas ! your hawthorn bowers All desolate we see ! |
| 19 | But the slopes are grassy , and thickets of brambles , stands of alexander with dark , shiny green leaves , clumps of elder and the Japanese spindle , offer shelter to migrating birds . |
| 20 | Away to their left , the bank sloped down again into clumps of alder , among which the stream could be heard chattering over gravel . |
| 21 | The funding was running down , clumps of weed had pushed up between the paving slabs , and whole layers of rendering were falling off the façades of the buildings , giving them a seedy , leprous aspect . |
| 22 | They peered over ant-hills and looked cautiously round clumps of teazle . |
| 23 | She looked grotesque , a little ridiculous , with thin clumps of hair sticking out of her mouth as if she was munching . |
| 24 | Some of the scenery is very Scottish-looking with clumps of birch and hawthorn by the roadside and a scatter of tiny farming villages . |
| 25 | As I gazed out of the window I could see several groups of red deer in the distance , and in the foreground the brown ferns with clumps of heather here and there ; it was a wonderful sight . |
| 26 | Sunlight probed reticently through the thick green canopy , dappling random clumps of fern underfoot . |
| 27 | The foreground is given over to common land , undulating , uncultivated , with clumps of fern and whin , gorse and bramble . |
| 28 | This is now a popular cruising link and the water quality in the Tame Valley canal improves markedly from here with the only weeds being small clumps of watercress along the edges . |
| 29 | Dark clumps of water hyacinths floated downstream like tiny islands cut adrift . |
| 30 | But still Flupper continued in the wrong direction , heading for the greyish clumps of mould and fungi . |