Example sentences of "to the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Instead it looked to our medieval buildings , our castles and churches , and to the wilds of Westmorland . |
| 3 | Are you off to the wilds of Illinois ? ’ |
| 4 | Concealed amongst the coats , Frankie listened to the grunts of the animals and the low harsh voices of the men . |
| 5 | True , poverty often dwells in hidden alleys close to the palaces of the rich ; but , in general , a separate territory has been assigned to it , where , removed from the sight of the happier classes , it may struggle along as it can . |
| 6 | ‘ Indeed it could justifiably be compared to the palaces of ancient Babylon . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) |
| 13 | 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 ) |
| 14 | IF EAST GERMANY finally sets out on the path to reform without further bloodshed and repression , it will be largely thanks to the efforts of the Protestant church . |
| 15 | This was not so in 1946 , but thanks to the blatancy of Soviet hostility , to the efforts of Churchill and Ernest |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A RARE insight into the kindly nature of novelist Thomas Hardy has come to light , thanks to the efforts of a retired Dorset schoolmaster . |
| 18 | Areas like the Place des Vosges , the Place des Victoires , and above all the Place de la Concorde testified to the efforts of preceding French rulers to emulate the classical model . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 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 | Thanks to the efforts of the breeders , the stem of triticale is short so that the plant is more rigid in the wind ; grain size and quality are also vastly improved . |
| 22 | They claimed that despite the hundreds of years of Polish independence , ‘ the East ’ owed what little civilisation it could muster to the efforts of the Germans . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Thanks to the efforts of the people 's movements , the connection between the environmental clean-up of Rio and western proposals for the clean-up of the planet is becoming a little too clear . |
| 25 | Now , the average age has plummeted , in great measure due to the efforts of this remarkable character . |
| 26 | Although marketing is done centrally , the success of a franchise is also down to the efforts of the franchisee in drumming up business . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It 's only thanks to the efforts of walkers that we 've got so far . ’ |
| 29 | The fourth merit of Johnson 's approach is that it allows for mobility of jobs between categories , although he does not attach as much significance as Hughes ( 1958 ) to the efforts of the ‘ professionals ’ themselves in this regard . |
| 30 | THANKS to the efforts of thousands of persistent and courageous newsmen from all over the world , the war in ex-Yugoslavia that started in June 1991 may already be the most closely reported and copiously documented conflict in history . |