Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sunlight probed reticently through the thick green canopy , dappling random clumps of fern underfoot . |
| 4 | But even the safest-seeming science is going to be obsolete sooner or later ; obsolete taxonomy , like that of Swainson or Agassiz , is as dead as the dodo , and those who took the risks of Darwinism usually found it interesting and fruitful . |
| 5 | Many practitioners come to use LM potencies when treating cases which need more care because of risks of aggravation e.g. patients who are very sensitive to remedies , those with very low vitality , cases with severe pathology , history of suppressive treatments etc . |
| 6 | ‘ The defendant had been personally negligent in that he had failed to take such steps and make such inquiries as would have revealed to him the defects in his structure and the risks of fire thereby occasioned . ’ |
| 7 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 8 | I think that he will learn the tactics of Opposition rapidly . |
| 9 | There are two sorts of camp on , just like two sorts of call park . |
| 10 | My Lord first it was always open to notify and eradicate this problem entirely , secondly there 's the European court make clear the V D S , these sorts of consideration however valid do not of any circumstances provide exemption from the competition which have different objectives and names |
| 11 | There are two sorts of sorrel commonly grown as herbs : the English and the French . |
| 12 | It was felt that they might get into all sorts of trouble abroad , so we were , informally , encouraged to marry rather than burn , as it were . |
| 13 | The first one in the morning often has all sorts of rubbish in . |
| 14 | Jane Goodall 's chimpanzee , Figan , and Bernard Rollin 's police dog are the sorts of example particularly favoured by enthusiasts anxious to elevate the moral status of animals . |
| 15 | Parents and teachers , like writers of computer programmes , build certain sorts of information more deeply and irreversibly than others into their systems ( children ) ; in the idiom of computer engineers they hard-programme them . |
| 16 | To keep our individual definitions as simple as possible we will define two sorts of program mutually . |
| 17 | And , yes , smelling of centuries of privilege too , of aloof refined seclusion . |
| 18 | For the popular protestant version , one which is still shared probably by a majority of clergymen within the protestant denominations of the North , the church re-emerges after centuries of misguidance only with the Reformation . |
| 19 | The tunnels were built in the reign of George the third … but engineers say they 've stood up to two centuries of wear remarkably well . |
| 20 | The old rascal is still very much alive and kicking — he is 330 years old on 9 May this year — and looks forward to several more centuries of roguery yet ! |
| 21 | Can most easily be distinguished from Tree Pipit by voice ; legs of adult generally dark flesh-pink , hind claw longer ; those of immature and of Tree Pipit flesh-pink . |
| 22 | A government resolution aiming at a solution of the cash crisis , reported on May 15 , included the introduction of non-cash methods of payment exclusively for transactions worth over 10,000 roubles ( 1 rouble=US$0.5646 at the official rate as at May 18 , 1992 ) . |
| 23 | Information on the credit terms and methods of payment currently applying to particular business sectors in the foreign market . |
| 24 | Pre-Romanesque Europe produced buildings of considerable interest and capability and created methods of construction certainly not all due either to Roman , Byzantine or later Romanesque knowledge as our forefathers believed . |
| 25 | The different purposes of assessment require different kinds of assessment ; the changing content and methods of assessment also require different methods of reporting achievement . |
| 26 | Monod , in his book Chance and Necessity , stressed one consequence of the methods of control just described . |
| 27 | Older methods of farming only caused surface damage to archaeological sites by ploughing , but modern intensive farming destroys sites much more quickly . |
| 28 | Care should be taken with these figures because of the different methods of collection already cited , and there are discontinuities which derive from the absence of non-responses in the job-centre area data for 1981 . |
| 29 | The new methods of production now emerging required an educated labour force , who participated consciously in the process of production rather than playing the role of brute labour . |
| 30 | Outlined below are methods of measurement commonly used by surveyors ; it should be noted that some methods have more merit than others . |