Example sentences of "mainly of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Founded in 1890 , the ARF had ruled Armenia from 1918 to 1920 , but had latterly comprised only some 40,000 members , mainly of the countries of the Armenian diaspora . |
| 2 | Knowesouth provides a locally based service for the population of the Eastern Borders which consists mainly of the towns of Jedburgh , Hawick and Kelso . |
| 3 | Around 5% of the Auvergne is designated as Zone de Piedmont and this consists mainly of the foothills and uplands transitional between the lower lying land areas and the mountain proper . |
| 4 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 5 | With grandparents who were visited , quite often the memory is mainly of the occasions when visits took place , or of the setting : of ‘ lovely times ’ staying with grandparents at Christmas , or of playing games — ‘ beggar my neighbour ’ and ‘ old maid ’ with a grandmother , dominoes and stories with a grandfather . |
| 6 | With the 8 mm clasts , slight chipping resulted after 4 hours , mainly of the roots of the incisors . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's an album with snapshots , sir , mainly of the children — ’ Gerry at five years ’ , ‘ Gina at four months ’ — that sort of thing . ’ |
| 8 | Many well-set , geometric mosaics can also be considered , along with these elaborate mosaics : these are mainly of the designs visible in pls. 44 and 45 ( at Woodchester and Withington ) — some of which are , again , conspicuous at Stonesfield . |