Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has had to make do without his familiar retinue of civil servants and , as plenty of critics from his own side have pointed out , he neither looks nor sounds like a prime minister . |
| 2 | Every surface was covered with photographs , many of them old , but all of them of women with babies . |
| 3 | ( p44 ) is a multi-activity centre , excellent for families , running both Dinghy and Windsurf holidays , together with plenty of activities for non-sailors . |
| 4 | With plenty of shareholders on his side , Mr Berlusconi seems to think he will stand a better chance of resisting a political challenge to his television empire . |
| 5 | with plenty of holes in it |
| 6 | Subsequent chapters of this book will provide us with plenty of reasons for doubting that claim . |
| 7 | And the bookshop had made the connections : Marovitz and the Cochrane theatre people ; Haynes and Jack Henry Moore , with plenty of contacts in Scotland , in Europe ; Burroughs and Ginsberg and Corso and Ferlinghetti ; Simon Vinkenoog in Amsterdam ; and through the art gallery Indica had access to the British avant-garde . |
| 8 | With plenty of contracts for British firms . |
| 9 | By 18 months your thoughtful livewire will be coming up with plenty of ideas of his own . |
| 10 | Here we are then with plenty of ideas for an easy and simple English lunch ; potted tongue or game followed by a simple hot egg dish ; or smoked salmon paste with butter and brown bread to precede grilled lamb chops , or oven-baked sole , or fillet steak if you are rich . |
| 11 | It also yielded the rare Sphecotheres maxillaris or southern sphecotheres , and a fine specimen of the southern fig bird ( Sphecotheres vieillori ) among others ; and provided Mrs Gould with plenty of ideas for botanical backgrounds . |
| 12 | The care he took , as well as his natural good looks , continued to provide him with plenty of pick-ups in his early forties . |
| 13 | The Parcs are described in terms that seem to be reserved exclusively for brochures , with plenty of references to ‘ lifestyle ’ and ‘ experience ’ . |
| 14 | Breeding is best achieved in a three foot tank with plenty of retreats for the female to use during the preliminary courtship , during which the male can become quite violent towards her and any other tank occupants — including the unwary fishkeeper 's fingers . |
| 15 | You , you just see what each other are doing , because I 'm going to put you into lots of groups in a minute . |
| 16 | Turned out the girl was not just a devout Catholic who was only interested in improving her English but also the daughter of some big-shot industrialist with lots of connections at the Embassy … |
| 17 | Earlier this century it had a reputation as a treacherous mountain , with lots of accidents on the summit ridge — and it still claims lives . |
| 18 | We used to do needlework and we had to make a needlework apron in gingham , with lots of pockets for your buttons , and your thread , and your bottle of gin and all that … . |
| 19 | You sometimes expect MPs ' houses to be reeking of power but this was a nice family house with lots of bicycles around the place . |
| 20 | Now you know , wi with lots of experts in this field and so we 're we only simply put that forward as a , a general suggestion whether it should be one-third from them and two- thirds from the pension funds , you know , I do n't think is a matter of great importance to us , but we do think that the should perhaps be a bit spread , spread a bit more widely than just into the pension funds . |
| 21 | Norwegian coach Egil Olsen was a side-commentary for the match and he called Spurs play ‘ cowardly ’ — Olsen 's philosophy is the opposite of the south-american style that Spurs play : when you win the ball at the opponents midfield you should come forward with lots of players at great speed and you should always go for the goal — if you have the oppurtunity you should always try to go past your defender — NOT pass to a player behind you or keep the ball in play for minutes at midfield . |
| 22 | The first priority is a good steam iron with lots of holes for the steam . |
| 23 | She is also rumoured to have turned her attention to acting , and is reportedly starring as Joan of Arc in a new film about the dangers involved when you get tied to a wooden stake with lots of sticks around it which is then deliberately set on fire by your political opponents . |
| 24 | But with lots of others in the same hot water it 's great fun . |
| 25 | There was the little beard , and the smiling mouth with lots of teeth in it . |
| 26 | The interior was dull and decrepit with lots of layers of ancient wallpaper . |
| 27 | You 've got a number of things here , you would take off the outer layer and you would bring it close to your body , if you , if you just pick it up with lots of layers around it you 're insulating it are n't you , to keep it cold , so you cuddle it close to your body right , and you remove outer layers of cloths Melanie said something about room temperature , right you raise the room temperature , okay ? |
| 28 | We have had a beautiful autumn , with lots of walks in a countryside really ablaze with colour . |
| 29 | It 's a way of bringing together and mixing people , with lots of opportunities for candid camera shots of folk with their everyday guards down . |
| 30 | Because I just in my normal sort of intelligent way asked the librarian to come up with lots of cuttings on environmental health and let me have a quick little read , this was probably about twenty to three or something you know I probably needed about three weeks to do it . |