Example sentences of "to the [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead it looked to our medieval buildings , our castles and churches , and to the wilds of Westmorland . |
| 2 | Are you off to the wilds of Illinois ? ’ |
| 3 | The frentic merger activity among the nation 's accountants ( or not , as the case may be ) has spread to the wilds of Yorkshire where the tiny firm of Rawlinsons is linking with the equally tiny Milne Booth . |
| 4 | Good books are now easy to find and reasonably priced — look for The RSPB Book of British Birds ( Macmillan ) , the Country Life Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe ( Collins ) , The Shell Guide to the Birds of Britain ( Michael Joseph ) and , above all , The Complete Book of British Birds ( RSPB/AA ) |
| 5 | Good books are now easy to find and reasonably priced — look for The RSPB Book of British Birds ( Macmillan ) , the Country Life Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe ( Collins ) , The Shell Guide to the Birds of Britain ( Michael Joseph ) and , above all , The Complete Book of British Birds ( RSPB/AA ) |
| 6 | ‘ My readers will easily imagine , ’ he wrote in his Handbook to the Birds of Australia , ‘ with what pleasure I descended the ship 's side and sallied forth in a little ‘ dingy ’ to procure specimens . ’ |
| 7 | Altogether , during the outward voyage and the return passage around Cape Horn , Gould , as he described in his introduction to the Birds of Australia , ‘ was enabled to obtain nearly forty species of petrel , being the finest collection of Procellaridae ever brought together ’ , as well as examining and preserving numerous other species that came by chance to hand . |
| 8 | In an extract from the introduction to the Birds of Australia , Gould describes the fate that befell these two men who lived and died at the mercy of the violent and contrary Australian climate : |
| 9 | Eventually Gould was to take Swainson 's point , and in 1865 published a Handbook to the Birds of Australia in two more manageable royal octavo volumes , with no illustrations and a revised text . |
| 10 | G. M. Henry , in his classic A Guide to the Birds of Ceylon , puts forward this argument to explain why the birds that have developed as separate species and subspecies are found in the southern , mountainous half of the island . |
| 11 | The best preserved building is the partly roofed chapel where , thanks to the efforts of Dr Fraser Darling , the original floor had been uncovered . |
| 12 | Where possible , the status of experiments is described : only for inhomogeneously broadened lasers are the experiments , thanks largely to the efforts of Lee Casperson and Neal Abraham , as well developed as the theory . |
| 13 | It has been open to the public since 1787 thanks to the efforts of Count Kinský , although its collections have not been added to since 1721 . |
| 14 | This was not so in 1946 , but thanks to the blatancy of Soviet hostility , to the efforts of Churchill and Ernest |
| 15 | The complex life of the wild gladiolus is a little nearer to being understood thanks to the efforts of Jon Stokes , a botanist . |
| 16 | In addition , due to the efforts of Woodhouse , Babbage , Herschel and Peacock from 1803 onwards , Leibniz " notation and methods in the calculus had gradually replaced Newton 's in England and as a consequence much of continental analysis had become available to the English . |
| 17 | Knowledge of the effects of urbanization , industrialization and poverty proliferated throughout society , partly due to the efforts of Nonconformists like Rowntree , Cadbury , Mearns and General Booth ; fears developed about the industrial competition from America and Germany ; demands grew within the Liberal party for more state action with regard to education , public health and housing . |
| 18 | Thanks to the efforts of Dalgety Agriculture , an Irish Moiled calf will be on its stand at Newry , Ballymoney , Ballymena , Saintfield , Clogher Valley and Enniskillen shows where the public will be asked to guess the weight of the animal . |
| 19 | They and the popular movement have their roots in both the growth of nationalist fervour in the late 1960s and early 1970s , which parallelled the growth of anti-colonial and ‘ Third World ’ nationalist movements elsewhere , and in the call from the leadership of the Catholic church during the same period for ‘ a preferential option for the poor ’ which gave a new focus to the efforts of church organizations in this predominantly Catholic country . |
| 20 | However , thanks to the efforts of Lord Dainton , and his rapport with Mrs Thatcher , whose tutor he was at Oxford , we are to get the New Library that in Bentley 's day could not be thought of , though the Victorians created an ideal solution for their day . |
| 21 | Like my hon. Friend , I pay tribute to the efforts of Lord Carrington and others within the Community who have been endeavouring to obtain a ceasefire , and to the efforts made by Mr. Cyrus Vance . |
| 22 | Constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and of the press arose in America in response to the efforts of George HI to suppress dissent through seditious libel laws and the licensing of the press . |
| 23 | Due to the efforts of Bruce Harris and Casa Alianza in Guatemala City and appeals from thousands of Amnesty International supporters the policemen were found guilty of his murder in March 1991 and sentenced to prison terms ranging between 10 and 15 years . |
| 24 | It would have led him badly astray here , had McEnroe suffered an unexpected lapse and succumbed to the efforts of Connors for once . |
| 25 | Mr Haydn Cook , chief executive of Northallerton health authority , was still confident the district would have its own scanner by Christmas thanks to the efforts of fund-raisers . |
| 26 | It 's only thanks to the efforts of walkers that we 've got so far . ’ |
| 27 | However , thanks to the efforts of Fred , Bob and a host of well-wishers , they have since been equipped with all the basics they need to start rebuilding the civilised kind of lifestyle they are obviously used to . |
| 28 | ‘ Our business in this market has grown impressively over the last five years , thanks largely to the efforts of Tony Hardacre and our agents , the Sumitomo Corporation , ’ said Juan . |
| 29 | According to the Independent on Sunday of Aug. 25 , the delay in taking this decision was due to the efforts of Gen. Varennikov , who had offered not to interfere in Ukrainian affairs if Ukraine accepted SCSE government . |
| 30 | In a preface to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , published in this year , he described the landscape of his childhood and speculated about the boy who remained within the adult and successful figure of Mark Twain — the boy who was called " Huck " and whom Eliot saw as a symbol of freedom like the Mississippi itself ; it was impossible for that boy r that river " to have a beginning or end — a career " . |