Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE NAPOLEON OF NORTH LONDON |
| 2 | I write to say how appalled I was at the bad manners of BAIE members at the Editing for Industry awards dinner in Torquay . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | In the minds of reformers , however , the service was only one of two policies designed to bring working-class youth under the purview of state agencies and their officials . |
| 6 | Only a very small proportion was published : Antony Holborne 's Pavans , Galliards , Almains and Morley 's First Booke of Consort Lessons ( both 1599 ) , Dowland 's Lachrimae or Seaven Teares figured in seaven passionate Pavans … ( 1605 ) , Rosseter 's Lessons for Consort ( 1609 ) , two fantasias which Byrd included in Psalmes , Songs , and Sonnets ( 1611 ) and John Adson 's Courtly Masquing Ayres ( also 1611 ) . |
| 7 | The mean of serum pepsinogen C values in five hypertrophic gastropathy patients with hyperpepsinogenaemia A was 296 ( 131 ) µg/l . |
| 8 | SOD and a combination of SOD and catalase significantly reduced ( p<0.05 ) the lesion area to 46.6% and 49.6% of the mean of control values . |
| 9 | This value is the mean of the group mean of Zollinger-Ellison patients ( 5.9 ) and the group mean of the other subjects together ( 3.5 ) . |
| 10 | Instead an exponential distribution is used , so that the actual arrival time of the next vehicle is x seconds after the previous vehicle , where x is a random variable sampled from an exponential distribution with a mean of r seconds . |
| 11 | In practise this approximates to the mean of moment statistics . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | Dark clumps of water hyacinths floated downstream like tiny islands cut adrift . |
| 15 | Wood anemones and celandines studded the damp ground of hazel and alder carr ; and clumps of king cups , a first bluebell and the tiny barren strawberry flower . |
| 16 | The characteristic signs of Alzheimer 's disease visible with a microscope are tangled clumps of nerve cell fibres in the brain and ‘ senile plaques , knobby patches of dying nerve fibres ’ . |
| 17 | Rain and rivers eroded the soft sandstones that had filled the lagoon basin , scouring them away so that today the reefs are exposed once more , high and dry , facing not the sea but desert covered with clumps of spinifex grass and stunted mulga trees . |
| 18 | … as soon as the Empress saw a place which was totally wild with virtually unclimbable rocks everyone got out of the carriage and she set out , armed with a stout walking stick , to beat a path over huge rocks , clumps of juniper bushes , enormous ferns as high as shrubs . |
| 19 | There is no sign of civilization , but herds of zebra and wildebeest and clumps of elephants marble the valley floor . |
| 20 | While he admittedly hooked off the tee , he was very unlucky to lose his ball in one of the tall clumps of reed grass that dot many of the bunkers . |
| 21 | I usually skied on the 35 miles of groomed valley trails that meander over icy , mumbling streams and through clumps of pine trees whose branches sag under dollops of snow . |
| 22 | Clumps of pine trees sat in hollows , and an icy wind blew around the bottom slopes of the mountain , whose top was covered in snow . |
| 23 | My lasting impressions of Plas-yn-Rhiw are of the great clumps of Fuchsia magellanica , its soft hazes of scarlet toning so well with the grey wall ; of an old pear tree and forsythia growing through the roof of the ruined dairy ; of the superb Magnolia campbellii mollicomata , planted by the Keatings in 1947 ; and of squeezing between box hedges down narrow grass passageways and ducking under arching pink rhododendrons and car-mine camellias as I followed the curving stone and cobbled paths . |
| 24 | Thérèse because she was indifferent to the acid jab of nettles , Léonie because she liked to see that little corner of the grounds turned untidy and wild , the gateposts swarming with weeds and grass in their crevices , clumps of Michaelmas daisies . |
| 25 | In Costa Rica , the size of clumps of Cryosophila guagara palms corresponded to the size of light gaps created by fallen trees . |
| 26 | Lift and divide large clumps of pond plants and marginals . |
| 27 | Stachys canata ( " Lambs Ears " ) is a perennial whose flat carpets look attractive in the garden alongside clumps of Helichrysum angustifolium ( the curry plant ) . |
| 28 | It was originally an overshot wheel of 10′ diameter and has left distinct rubbing-marks on the adjacent wall . |
| 29 | When tempted by didacticism , the writer should imagine a spruce sea-captain eyeing the storm ahead , bustling from instrument to instrument in a catherine wheel of gold braid , expelling crisp orders down the speaking tube . |
| 30 | Daredevil Diana races around the track at the wheel of go-kart No 1 . |