Example sentences of "of the [adj] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the middle of the nineteenth century Faraday ( 1791–1867 ) , one of the wisest of men , could do no better than to say that the strength of solids was due to the cohesion between their fine particles and that the subject was a very interesting one . |
| 2 | England is full of the oddest of names : Yell , Wallcrouch and Ugglebarnby are just some examples . |
| 3 | DISNEY says it has a minor dispute with a few of the hundreds of contractors it has dealt with on the project . |
| 4 | Shown below is an orderly queue of some of the hundreds of instructors awaiting their turn to take the wheel of Ford 's Fiesta . |
| 5 | Walkowitz was one of the hundreds of artists from all over the world who flocked to Paris during the opening decade of our century and came away profoundly changed by the experience . |
| 6 | Of the hundreds of prisoners who had escaped from the orphanage there were still a number hidden in the surrounding countryside , but I did not know where . |
| 7 | McKendrick provides examples of the hundreds of hairstyles on offer in 1772 , or a pattern book for garments with 1,370 designs . |
| 8 | The supposedly jokey answers are illustrated by photographs of people sleeping outside covered by copies of The Independent : they look like some of the hundreds of visitors who come to St Botolph 's Crypt Centre for homeless people every day . |
| 9 | Of the hundreds of meetings that I addressed , the Commissioner of Police had notes on every one . |
| 10 | I thought of the hundreds of others of us who said something like that once or twice a week . |
| 11 | It is an avenue of delight between fragrant hedges and bonny braes and in two miles leads to the ancient broch of Dun Telve , one of the best preserved of the hundreds of brochs in Scotland . |
| 12 | As students they automatically become members of the union , and have the chance to join any of the hundreds of societies , from mountain climbing to chess . |
| 13 | He could have been anybody , one of the hundreds of saints ; but , later , Annabel informed her that he was known among the girls as Mr Billy Brown . |
| 14 | The Euro-sceptics think they have a small chance of ambushing the government with snap divisions on any of the hundreds of amendments already put down . |
| 15 | And I can also say sir , I think without fear of contradiction , that of the hundreds of enquiries that I have done , this is the only enquiry sir which will have la left a lasting impression . |
| 16 | ‘ She looked at every single one of the hundreds of photos and could n't stop smiling at the memory . |
| 17 | Capture the feeling of the city from the network of canals which thread their way through the city , visit some of the hundreds of temples which are scattered everywhere , and do n't miss the bustling floating markets . |
| 18 | Quite soon the loads on aircraft got too big for this method ( though shot-bags are still used from time to time for certain simple tests ) and nowadays the loads are applied by means of hydraulic jacks operating through very elaborate multiple lever or ‘ family tree ’ systems ; each of the hundreds of branches ends in a mechanical attachment to the wing surface . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've lost count of the hundreds of miles I 've covered and it has been pretty hectic . |
| 20 | Of the hundreds of universities in Japan , only three prominent ones are listed as offering courses geared to tourism : Rikkyo ( St Paul 's ) , Teikyo and YSD . |
| 21 | Out of the hundreds of pictures that my husband Bob Turner and I took , we decided to publish a book by ourselves of 130 images showing the life , culture and people of Calcutta . |
| 22 | Otherwise they could be hiding out at any one of the millions of properties in Britain . |
| 23 | Until the potential political power of the millions of women who are disadvantaged in relation to paid and unpaid labour and in retirement is realised , policies to combat the poverty of many of those aged 60 and over are not likely to be forthcoming . |
| 24 | Is that not a pertinent question in the context of the millions of pounds worth of drugs on the streets throughout the United Kingdom ? |
| 25 | So , as a company with considerable interest in the welfare of the millions of families we serve , we decided to discuss what was needed with Guardian Royal Exchange . |
| 26 | Even with this care , however , so great are the quantities of drift-net in use that the loss of some of the millions of kilometres of netting deployed each year is inevitable . |
| 27 | Unfortunately many of the millions of tonnes of maize pledged to Mozambique during the drought are only just arriving . |
| 28 | If economic catastrophe is added to the political disintegration , the consequences for Europe could be dire , not only in terms of the millions of refugees who are already predicted , but possibly through the sale of nuclear weapons to any body of people or any Government in the third world or elsewhere who have the hard currency to pay for them . |
| 29 | For Mordecai it was a symbolic birthplace , for he was a direct descendant from one of the millions of Jews who had been evacuated from the Middle East in 1990 . |
| 30 | That issue has been sharpened even further by the fate of the millions of Jews murdered in Nazi extermination camps — a fate for which centuries of Christian anti-semitism must bear at least part of the blame . |