Example sentences of "of the [adj -er] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have mentioned relative to the ignorance , the immorality , the grossness , the obscenity , the drunkenness , the dirtiness , and depravity of the middling and even of a large portion of the better sort of tradesmen , the artisans , and the journeymen tradesmen of London in the days of my youth , may excite a suspicion that the picture I have drawn is a caricature . |
| 2 | The young Francis had been educated with the sons of the better class of tradesmen . |
| 3 | Boehm 's group began work in 1979 at the research reactor at the Institut Laue Langevin ( ILL ) in Grenoble , but the researchers have since moved their apparatus to take advantage of the higher flux of neutrinos from the more powerful commercial reactor at Goesgen in Switzerland . |
| 4 | The university list is longer than the polytechnic/college one partly because of the greater range of degrees , and partly because of the greater number of more specialized degrees in the universities , although it should be remembered that specialized patterns of options may exist within broad degree programmes . |
| 5 | ( 1987 ) concluded that there was no significant difference in overall dementia prevalence between the sexes ; the increased rates among women were simply an artefact of the greater age of women studied . |
| 6 | A few are ‘ trying out ’ policing by joining the reserves first , although the common view amongst the reserve police is that it is harder for them to transfer to the regulars than it is for someone without experience to sign up straight away because of the greater number of reasons the police authorities are thereby given for turning them down . |
| 7 | In this case it is clearer , because of the greater number of possibilities , that the substitutes for table which normalise the sentence ( lit , buffet , journal , balcon , etc. ) have no common semantic properties which distinguish them from items ( such as chaise , bibliothèque , revue , assiette ) which do not remove the oddness : |
| 8 | ( The former is , of course , a reflection of the greater longevity of women , often left alone after bereavement . ) |
| 9 | The way this kind of doubt is expressed is only a symptom of the deeper problem of premises , and there is no final remedy unless the root cause is dealt with . |
| 10 | His closeness to the king and his enthusiasm for the war would have ensured him a place as a leader of the younger generation of nobles , and his death was yet another misfortune for the king . |
| 11 | Most of the younger generation of farmers had good basic skills but there was still a need for technical updating and the acquiring of new skills . |
| 12 | Firstly , they achieve purposes less central to the main tasks of policing because of the narrower range of settings in which they are used . |
| 13 | In particular , both women considered that the attitudes to them was part of the broader set of links made between Catholicism and the status of women who should be based in the family and the home rather than in the world of work . |
| 14 | In addition it was suggested that only about a quarter of the earlier sample of women had used birth control methods other than withdrawal compared with 57 per cent of the latter group . |
| 15 | In some cases she suggested that there had been coalescence of settlements , with the abandonment of the earlier pattern of hamlets and combining of lands and holdings . |
| 16 | First there were a series of general review papers sometimes based on inaugural or presidential addresses and these included a review of Man and the Natural Environment ( Wilkinson , 1963 ) ; advocacy of the need for study of anthropogeomorphology because of the earlier deficiency of studies of the form-creating activity of man and of the influence of man in natural phenomena ( Fels , 1965 ) ; and a revival of the title used by Sherlock for a review by Jennings ( 1966 ) in which he stressed that ‘ Man as a Geological Agent ’ is significant because studies of contemporary processes are nearly always heavily biased by anthropogenic effects . |
| 17 | Later he paused at the top of the shorter flight of steps until he was sure it was safe to pass the Bogeyman 's door , then tip-toed along the corridor to his room . |
| 18 | Bourne was young , one of the newer breed of policemen ; a graduate and mildly contemptuous of most things antedating the computer . |
| 19 | Our ‘ witchcrazed ’ ancestors , as so many of the older school of historians are apt to paint them , were of course no more crazy and no more mystical than the Zande — nor were they any less rational . |
| 20 | As in the aftermath of abolition there were signs of a consolidationist ’ outlook at least amongst some of the older generation of reformers and those parliamentarians like Buxton who felt bound to support the legislative compromise solution of 1833 . |
| 21 | In some ways it was good , though a lot of the older generation of vets did n't like it much . |
| 22 | The Liberal loyalties of the older generation of miners ' officials had been challenged not merely by the idea of independent labour representation but also by the notion of direct action , based on industrial power and leading to a system of " workers ' control " which would supplant parliamentary institutions . |
| 23 | The clinching argument for Clarkson himself , however , and probably for many of the older generation of abolitionists , was the providentialist one . |
| 24 | A total number of 3,288 of the larger description of tanks and 385 guns , varying from 50 to 189 tons each , were dealt with , together with approximately 13,937,000 tons of government traffic . |
| 25 | Thus it may well be that French Canadian is derived historically by the addition of an adjectival sufffix to the geographical term French Canada , but it is clear that in the mind of most users the adjective is used to take a subset out of the larger class of things or people Canadian , as shown , for instance , by the general refusal in Canada to use the historically natural opposite term English Canadian otherwise than for those descended from inhabitants of Great Britain and in particular England ( see Orkin , 1971 ) . |
| 26 | Over the same period the cost of these schemes has risen from £10.63 million to £24.81 million , partly the result of the larger number of schemes , the increasing cost of materials and labour and perhaps also the increasing scale and thoroughness of many of the schemes carried out . |
| 27 | The pagan Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are much easier to date because of the larger number of artefacts found in them as grave-goods . |
| 28 | Turnover rose from £424.2 million to £521.8 million , while earnings per share fell only 2 per cent , from 40p to 39.2p , because of the smaller number of shares in issue . |