Example sentences of "of a [n mass] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
| 2 | All I had was a promise of a pair of boots from Jack Riordon , a quartermaster in the Green Howards Regiment . |
| 3 | The tour will show you the whole manufacturing process by following the progress of a pair of shoes from start to finish around the factory . |
| 4 | We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied . |
| 5 | ( 4.7 ) unc The sequential composition of a pair of assignments to different lists of variables may be reduced to a single assignment using this law with 3.2 and 3.3 . |
| 6 | Each was wearing one half of a pair of tights over his head . |
| 7 | It was a ‘ wonderful ’ few days until the glint of a pair of binoculars across the river Dee spoilt their idyll . |
| 8 | These were compounded by my recollections of a series of visits to Moorfields Eye Hospital and at least one incarceration there when I was about four . |
| 9 | Contests over web sites consist of a series of bouts during which the spiders are increasingly likely to attack each other if the contest persists . |
| 10 | In the United States the theory that evolved was based on ‘ pitch phonemes ’ ( Wells , 1945 ; Pike , 1945 ) : four contrastive pitch levels were established and intonation was described basically in terms of a series of movements from one of these levels to another . |
| 11 | On Jan. 25 King Hussein discussed peace proposals with Pakistani Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif , in the midst of a series of meetings on Jan. 22-28 between Sharif and government leaders in Iran , Turkey , Syria , Egypt and Saudi Arabia . |
| 12 | Diplomats from Israel and East Germany on Jan. 29 , 1990 , held the first of a series of meetings in Denmark , aimed at restoring relations . |
| 13 | The food we eat is broken down by means of a series of enzymes in the mouth , stomach and small intestine to its simple component molecules which can then be absorbed into the bloodstream . |
| 14 | Perhaps we can say that capitalist equilibrium is made up of a series of moments of dis-equilibria . |
| 15 | He is one of a series of Scholars in Residence who have run courses there since Schumacher College was started two years ago , with the support of the Dartington trustees , by Satish Kumar , the ever-busy founder of the Small School in north Devon , and editor of Resurgence magazine . |
| 16 | The third part of Mrs Thatcher 's strategy of creating an enterprise culture , which massively rewards those at the top while penalizing those at the bottom of the income pile , has been the launching of a series of reforms of the welfare state . |
| 17 | But in fact we can see in process in the nineteenth century a quite clear creation of a series of beliefs about male sexuality , beliefs which were inextricably linked to concepts of male self-expression and power . |
| 18 | This squared up modello , which reveals unusual cut-and-paste revisions , was a design for one of a series of frescoes in Assisi . |
| 19 | The present exhibition is the first of a series of selections with prices starting at around £2,000 . |
| 20 | Renoir 's La Parisienne , ‘ The Blue Lady ’ is one of a series of masterpieces by the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists bequeathed by the sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies , grand-daughters of a Welsh coal magnate |
| 21 | It is part of a series of revisions to existing WHO guidelines on the quality of drinking water which are due to be made public in mid 1993 . |
| 22 | The woman who was seventy nine and a widow became the victim of a series of errors by medical staff shortly after entering the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon in September 1990 . |
| 23 | It is certified that the transaction effected by this Assignment does not form part of a larger transaction or of a series of transactions in respect of which the amount or value , or the aggregate amount or value , of the consideration exceeds 30,000 . |
| 24 | It is certified that the transaction effected by this Agreement does not form part of a larger transaction or of a series of transactions in respect of which the amount or value , or the aggregate amount or value , or the consideration exceeds £30,000 . |
| 25 | It is certified that the transaction effected by this Agreement does not form part of a larger transaction or of a series of transactions in respect of which the amount or value , or the aggregate amount or value , or the consideration exceeds £30,000 . |
| 26 | 8 IT IS CERTIFIED that the transaction effected by this Agreement does not form part of a larger transaction or of a series of transactions in respect of which the amount or the aggregate amount or value , or the consideration exceeds £30,000 . |
| 27 | 21.1 It is certified that the transaction effected by this Agreement does not form part of a larger transaction or of a series of transactions in respect of which the amount or value , or the aggregate amount or value , of the consideration exceeds £30,000 . |
| 28 | IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the transaction hereby effected does not form part of a larger transaction or of a series of transactions in respect of which the amount of value or the aggregate amount of value of the consideration exceeds thirty thousand pounds . |
| 29 | It is hereby certified that the transaction hereby effected does not form part of a larger transaction or of a series of transactions in respect of which the amount or value or the aggregate amount or value of the consideration exceeds £60,000 . |
| 30 | This , the first of a series of articles into the existence of an underlying geometrical pattern which governs our countryside , starts with an investigation as to whether the Circles of Churches discovered by Messrs David Wood ( Genisis ) and Henry Lincoln ( with Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail ) have a basis in fact . |