Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Geological Survey was one of the very few organizations employing men of science in Britain — Greenwich Observatory was one of the others — but their status was about that of clerks in the Civil Service , and this rankled . |
| 2 | For nearly a century and a half after the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 there was a tendency for the ratio of casualties to total numbers engaged in West European wars to fall and for that of prisoners to dead and wounded to rise . |
| 3 | A rapid review such as this of theories of knowledge and the curriculum can not hope to do justice to the various concepts and models , and risks inducing a kind of conceptual vertigo . |
| 4 | The National Farmers ' Union proposed a licensing system to curb straw burning , after hundreds of complaints about smoke pollution at the end of the harvest . |
| 5 | After hundreds of miles of open river , the gorge seemed unreal . |
| 6 | But after hundreds of years of colonisation and settlement , of population shifts and absorption , how could it have been otherwise ? |
| 7 | After hundreds of years of embattled resistance the Dwarf city of Karak Eight Peaks falls to attack by Orcs , Goblins and Skaven . |
| 8 | Ian Wyllie , who studied cuckoos extensively in Cambridgeshire reed-beds , saw it just three times over a period of six years after thousands of hours of observation . |
| 9 | The kitemakers art has been stretched to its limits , after thousands of years of design modification . |
| 10 | You could do worse than to sign up with Armed Response , which looks after thousands of homes in middle-class Johannesburg North , a rich hunting-ground that Gary Whittaker , a director of Armed Response , calls ‘ the captured area ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths ? ’ |
| 12 | In too many cases the draughtsman finds it quicker to design a new part than to search through hundreds of drawings for one that fits his task . |
| 13 | He went through hundreds of pounds of his mother 's money in a spending spree , buying friends extravagant gifts like computer games and going to amusement arcades . |
| 14 | Filtered through hundreds of feet of layers of purifying sand , shale and rock , the rain water has been enriched with natural minerals — the most beneficial of which are calcium , for building bones , magnesium and sodium , an important constituent of salt . |
| 15 | After shifting through hundreds of pics of your gorgeous guys we found one that was in real need of a Hollywood make-over ! |
| 16 | Liz spent hour pouring through hundreds of issues at the Illustrated News library and was finally rewarded with the original drawing of the dress . |
| 17 | It has provided stability and created opportunities for hundreds of girls through decades of disruption . |
| 18 | With infrasound , their auditory maps could extent for hundreds of kilometres around their home . |
| 19 | But the communists in Russia were er th all this er Gulag Arli Archipelago and secret police have been in existence in Russia for hundreds of years before the com er communists came in . |
| 20 | Thus , for hundreds of years before the formation of the first Yugoslav state in 1918 , the South Slav peoples were subjected to different forms of political and cultural pressure . |
| 21 | Where I come from , erm most of the the the fish , the fishing part of the community , up until just two , three years ago we had a tradition of women 's working practices which were handed down for hundreds of years from the female side . |
| 22 | Pilgrims then came on foot and horseback for hundreds of miles across many countries to pay homage to these relics and churches were erected along the routes to such pilgrimage centres . |
| 23 | But there was a feeling of peace and quiet in those old towns , a silence that was almost tangible , and it was impressive to stand alone beside the fast flowing river and know that one was surrounded by deep forest for hundreds of miles in all directions . |
| 24 | The fact that seeds could be carried for hundreds of miles by strong winds allowed the supporters of dispersal to explain any case of anomalous distribution by invoking such an accidental circumstance . |
| 25 | Mr Tony Bridge , Chairman of the Governing Body proposed a toast : ‘ Napier University ’ and this was the signal for hundreds of balloons to be let loose from the parapet of Merchiston Tower . |
| 26 | But they have spread some way beyond their original site , and suckers and seedlings ( including a wonderful cherry-plum with round , thick , orange fruit ) crop up for hundreds of yards along the hedge . |
| 27 | He has an unshakeable self-confidence , which no doubt dates back to when he sold his first paintings at nine years old , these early Koonses going for hundreds of dollars in Henry J Koons Interiors , his father 's furniture store in a small town in Pennsylvania . |
| 28 | Born-again rockers can choose between hundreds of albums with titles like ‘ Psycho Surgery ’ , ‘ Bishop of Souls ’ and ‘ Prophet of Idiocy ’ , while family values conservatives can dance to lyrics like ‘ Thank God the world 's been saved/ Marx is in his grave ’ . |
| 29 | Households of professional status had a mean non-asset income of 252% of that of households of unskilled manual status but the percentage rose to 369 when the annuitized value of assets was added and to 382 when the value of employer welfare benefits in kind was further added . |
| 30 | But the desert lizard , Sauromaulus , loses only 5 per cent of that of crocodilians through the skin . |