Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond Philadelphia , the farmland became vaguely English in the fading light with neat fields and little clumps of trees at the corners . |
| 2 | It is always possible to be kinder to the earth , but it is not saving clumps of trees from the bulldozers which will matter in the next century . |
| 3 | The food plant for both the small tortoiseshell and the peacock is the stinging nettle , so to stand the best chance of finding their caterpillars , start inspecting large clumps of nettles about the middle of May . |
| 4 | The relative isolation of women from the public world of their husbands does not just have an impact on their access to relatives and friends but also , not surprisingly , on their use of leisure facilities outside the home ( see also chapter 10 , section 10.3 ) . |
| 5 | Then , assisted by Ram and Mohammed , he had built a crude furnace of bricks on the verandah in which to heat up the shot . |
| 6 | If you want to know more about a rug you already own , or simply want to develop a general interest in the subject , study the design schemes ( described in Chapter IV ) , and the characteristics of rugs from the various producing countries ( Chapter V ) . |
| 7 | I would like to draw your attention to several characteristics of statements of the kind listed above . |
| 8 | The problems and costs of organizing transactions depend on both their nature and the assumed characteristics of decision-makers in the model . |
| 9 | The pretreatment characteristics of patients in the two groups were similar ( table I ) , although the median time from original diagnosis of colorectal cancer to entry was slightly longer for patients with chemotherapy ( 8.5 ( range 0 to 61 ) months ) than for those who received supportive care alone ( 5.5 ( 0 to 22 ) months ) . |
| 10 | Dynacord 's bass research has concentrated largely on speaker technology , and these units represent the company 's answer to the relatively slow response characteristics of speakers in the low frequency range . |
| 11 | This project considers the characteristics of individuals in the same households in a study of migration between 1966 and 1970 and between 1970 and 1971 . |
| 12 | THE US state department is being accused of trying to sabotage a recent conference in Vietnam that was called to discuss the long-term effects of the spraying of defoliants on the country 's forests by American planes during the Vietnam War . |
| 13 | All cars of this batch were withdrawn from service with the reorganization of services in the summer of 1927 . |
| 14 | There was also a minor reorganization of ministries including the merger of the Ministry for Relations with Parliament and with that for Relations with Political Parties . |
| 15 | Climbed over the railings when the place was shut and did all sorts of things to the statues and the balconies . |
| 16 | Wildlife experts working on Rhum were very keen indeed to introduce all sorts of things to the island , including sea eagles from Norway . |
| 17 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 18 | He continues : ‘ I started off putting all sorts of things into the first rough attempts , birds in one , Greek columns in another , Victorian oil lamps ; I even tried buildings and finally helicopters and an aeroplane , but gradually came to see that the designs were hopelessly confused . ’ |
| 19 | But you have to admit , it 's for the dog 's own protection to wear muzzle , as they can pick up all sorts of things in the street which can poison them . |
| 20 | However , I use all sorts of things in the early stages of a painting . |
| 21 | And if this is so we get the delightful result that instead of there being at least two radically different sorts of things in the world , sensory states and material objects , there is only one sort of thing , sensory states , and all putatively other sorts of thing are reducible to complexes of actual and possible things of the first sort . |
| 22 | The purser gave them part of the ship where they could do " all sorts of things in the morning — singing , drawing , competitions " . |
| 23 | Of course , these things can happen really , er especially if er , one of two of the guests , I 'm not suggesting your mother 's guests er over-imbibed , but one or two of the guests do have a few jars over Christmas and they get up to all sorts of things in the house do n't they ? |
| 24 | You 're able to do all sorts of things in the sky . |
| 25 | Mam got 'em from the nuns — you could get all sorts of things from the convent in them days . |
| 26 | Great houses have many different sorts of gardens in the total plan . |
| 27 | As to the judiciary , the prevailing Home Office belief was that the need was simply to get the judges to grasp the facts , revealed by criminological research and the experience of the prison and probation services , about the suitability of various sorts of offenders for the different forms and lengths of sentence which were at their disposal . |
| 28 | All sorts of shoes from the West . ’ |
| 29 | Well , they can come in to the church , as many of them do , erm and I just say to them well , you know , do you respect this place and fine , it 's a place where we do n't chuck anybody out who comes into church for all sorts of reasons during the day when the church is open , you know , people come in , and there are many people like the ones we 've been talking about , who are in desperate need , and we just ask them to respect certain fairly mild rules they can always go out in the churchyard and smoke , but in the building itself we say no smoking and no drinking . |
| 30 | The ethos of the force therefore lends itself to gender differences in police work , and so popular are beliefs about the different capabilities of policemen and women , that some policemen shy away from handling these sorts of cases on the view that they are less able than women colleagues , and many policewomen adopt these notions as self-typifications . |