Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is now a popular cruising link and the water quality in the Tame Valley canal improves markedly from here with the only weeds being small clumps of watercress along the edges . |
| 2 | Beyond Philadelphia , the farmland became vaguely English in the fading light with neat fields and little clumps of trees at the corners . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Furthermore , our data suggest that we can not be complacent about the risks of tuberculosis in the white population . |
| 6 | One obvious way to reduce the risks of conflict between the powers was to encourage the formation of an ‘ ultra-imperialist ’ consortium of powers to open up new territories like China . |
| 7 | The only sure method of reducing the risks of AIDS in the users of intravenous drugs and hence in others is to get the sufferers from addictive disease into continuing recovery through the Anonymous Fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous so that they have progressively less craving to use addictive drugs . |
| 8 | In trying to account for overall trends it is helpful to start with the sequences of factors which control the immediate risks of fertility for the individual and without which births can not occur : natural fecundity ( the physiological capacity to conceive and bear children ) , exposure to intercourse within and outside marriage , and evasion of the consequences of intercourse through contraception and abortion . |
| 9 | He 'd fallen in love with the decorative arts of France of the 17th and 18th centuries and wanted to furnish his house in that style . |
| 10 | … while Men 's Heads are busied with the arts of money-jobbing between the Exchange and the Exchequer , they will be drawn off from the solid arts of honourable traffic ; which alone can prove nationally and permanently lucrative . |
| 11 | Yanto drained the last dregs of cider from the stone jar and watched Molly clear up the remains of the picnic . |
| 12 | Either the Psalm gives a very different version of the events of 167 or it refers to some other trouble which has left no trace in our tradition , for instance during the wars of the successors of Alexander at the end of the fourth century . |
| 13 | ( This type of motion is in the borderland that one may or may not choose to call turbulent , but it shows sufficient of the characteristics of turbulence for the present purpose . ) |
| 14 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 15 | Lewis and Townsend describe the North-South divide as ‘ one of the distinctive characteristics of Britain in the 1980s ’ . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | I would like to draw your attention to several characteristics of statements of the kind listed above . |
| 18 | The problems and costs of organizing transactions depend on both their nature and the assumed characteristics of decision-makers in the model . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | For clearly one of the principal characteristics of sculpture in the round is that the spectator is able , and is indeed often encouraged or compelled , to walk around it and study it from all angles . |
| 21 | The characteristics of LSW near the source show considerable variation within tens of years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When we denounce the anti-Semitism and let the Fascism take care of itself , we are fastening on what is prepolitical or sub-political , and refusing to engage ourselves on the plane of politics where , as Olson insists , we 're required to vindicate our own sorts of polity against the Fascist sorts . |
| 25 | Climbed over the railings when the place was shut and did all sorts of things to the statues and the balconies . |
| 26 | Wildlife experts working on Rhum were very keen indeed to introduce all sorts of things to the island , including sea eagles from Norway . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , I use all sorts of things in the early stages of a painting . |