Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] of the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Massed Pipes & Drums The Scots Guards — 350 Years The Massed Pipes and Drums together with the Pipes and Drums from Adelaide University , Australia Massed Scottish Dancers The Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines The Band , Pipes and Drums and Corps of Drums of the Scots Guards Music of the Massed Military Bands
2 Then we all moved out to watch the ceremony of Beating Retreat by the Band and Corps of Drums of the Grenadier Guards .
3 ( For example , in December 1989 the Sunday Times reported that a MORI poll showed that 75% of members of the Church of England supported the idea of women priests . )
4 He said : ‘ The killings at Castlerock are a further grim addition to the statistics of terrorism of the past few days .
5 Whereas the majority of respondents from the six CCAB bodies favoured the principle of rationalisation by means of reduction of the number of bodies , 58 per cent of ICAS respondents did not .
6 The discussion in this section has developed the key points about inter-organizational practice by means of consideration of the rules-discretion dichotomy .
7 They wonder why , if the private key is the means of authentication of the holder 's rights , should the rules contemplate the possibility of an erroneous transmission .
8 These new schedules will reflect the following means of revision of the new subject structure and listing :
9 The mineral phases predicted at equilibrium are being compared to the actual assemblage as a means of verification of the thermodynamic codes .
10 Rarely seen as professional participant , she believes woman as subject was the essential means of attainment of the male sculptor .
11 Women as subject was however an essential means of attainment of the ideal for the male sculptor .
12 He may hand over the means of control of the goods , e.g. the key to the premises where they are housed .
13 The renewal of one production cycle now depends upon the results of the previous one , i.e. , to start this production cycle there must be produced means of production of the correct quantity and quality with which to repeat the process .
14 As has been seen clearly from the English and Welsh experience , the initial sales of subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group may be only the beginning of a long and complicated saga .
15 Several species of ant of the genus Aphaenogaster use tools to carry soft , or semi-liquid foods .
16 The baby dinosaurs were an unknown species of hadrosaur of the duckbilled variety .
17 There are many species of bacteria of the Bacteroides fragilis group that are able to degrade these substances and thereby release free sulphate which would then become available for utilisation by sulphate reducing bacteria .
18 Two months ago the Musée des Beaux-Arts inaugurated the first phase of its renovation scheme with the opening of thirty-one new rooms devoted to painting and works of art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries .
19 The Roman marmorarii ( marble-cutters , sculptors , mosaic workers ) next to the calcarii ( the lime-burners ) were the worst enemies of ancient Roman monuments , destroying them for materials , but the fund of material was plentiful and out of their pillaging emerged some of the great works of art of the thirteenth century .
20 When a pair of instruments of the same sort is to be used in unison , the passage is marked ‘ a 2 ’ .
21 Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop .
22 Their most useful contribution has been a fresh appraisal of his later work created at Moret-sur-Loing where his art culminated in the marvellous series of depictions of the south-west facade of the town 's church ( 1893–1894 ) .
23 His famous series of posters of the distraught zookeeper and his mischievous animals carried the line — My Goodness , — My Guinness — and scored another smash hit with Guinness fanciers .
24 On to this exceptionally high tide were piled waves of over 6 m ( 20 ft ) amplitude so that wave attack was absolutely excessive ( a series of accounts of the damage is given in Geography , 1953 , pp. 132–89 ) .
25 Soviet writers contended that the Gulf initiative had been ‘ positively appraised by the statesmen of the series of countries of the region of the Indian Ocean as corresponding to the vitally important interests of the developing and non-aligned states ’ .
26 Despite his intensive activity on both bibliographical and scholarly fronts , he wrote numerous other works and started a series of facsimiles of the printed sources of western art , for which he collected both books and water-colours .
27 This approach flourished through into the 1830s , when a series of illustrations of the argument from design was commissioned in the will of the Earl of Bridgewater .
28 The facial features , as seen from the series of illustrations of the painting in progress , were put in last .
29 The third part of Mrs Thatcher 's strategy of creating an enterprise culture , which massively rewards those at the top while penalizing those at the bottom of the income pile , has been the launching of a series of reforms of the welfare state .
30 What is meant by quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect in Article 30 of the Treaty has been the subject of a whole series of decisions of the European Court to which the attention of the Court of Appeal ought to have been drawn .
  Next page