Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victory over also-rans Lithuania would put Charlton 's men two points clear of leaders Spain with just three more qualifying matches left to play making the dream of another appearance in the World Cup finals next summer a virtual reality . |
| 2 | Their homes are often sumptuously hung , not with the finest of eurocentric defined Fine Art , or even the craftiest of Crafts Council defined craft , but with Javanese batik , Indian embroideries , West African Adire , and selected ex-colonial produce . |
| 3 | This was reflected in the decisions of the courts , where slightly more than half of juveniles charges with indictable offences received a probation sentence in the 1930s . |
| 4 | Trekforce ( 071 498 0855 ) is run by Wandy Swales , ex-stalwart of Operations Raleigh and Drake , and plans expeditions in 1992 to Sumatra , Sulawesi and a two-part trip to Irian Jaya — the first major British scientific expedition there . |
| 5 | In the winter the Green Study on the first floor was used ; it was awesome for me following the master there — he was not fond of women novelists with the exception of Evelyn Wharton who had often come to stay at Lamb House . |
| 6 | Ardiles is believed to be top of Spurs chairman Alan Sugar 's wanted list to take over as manager and is expected to fly back from a holiday in Argentina to discuss a possible move later this week . |
| 7 | In any French town of any size at all we find perhaps three or four rival charcutiers displaying trays of shining olives , black and green , large and small , pickled gherkins , capers , home-made mayonnaise grated carrot salad , shredded celeriac in rémoulade sauce , several sorts of tomato salad , sweet-sour onions , champignons à la Grecque , ox or pig 's muzzle finely sliced and dressed with a vinaigrette sauce and fresh parsley , a salad of mussels , another of cervelas sausage ; several kinds of pork pâté ; sausages for grilling , sausages for boiling , sausages for hors-d'oeuvre , flat sausages called cré pinettes for baking or frying , salt pork to enrich stews and soups and vegetable dishes , pigs ' trotters ready cooked and breadcrumbed , so that all you need to do is to take them home and grill them ; cooked ham , raw ham , a galantine of tongue , cold pork and veal roasts , boned stuffed ducks and chickens So it is n't difficult for the housewife in a hurry to buy a little selection , however modest , of these things from the charcuterie , and plus her own imagination and something she has perhaps already in the larder to serve an appetizing and fresh little mixed hors-d'oeuvre . |
| 8 | ‘ Domestic Happiness is the greatest of things sublunary , ’ he had written to Southey earlier in August , ‘ and of things celestial it is perhaps impossible for unassisted Man to believe any thing greater . ’ |
| 9 | The problem is that so little of police time is devoted to it . |
| 10 | Continued on Page 3 Continued from Page 1 Asked if he thought the fans demonstrating outside the court were representative of Spurs supporters , he said : ‘ Tottenham has a following of 29,000 people I only saw 25 . ’ |
| 11 | Even so , one could argue that it is necessary for sociolinguists at least to attempt such a distinction between folklinguistic stereotype and linguistic fact : particularly when the stereotypes in question are both ludicrous and contemptuous of women speakers . |
| 12 | The most obvious line is that of Engineers Slabs ( VS 4c , 4c ) . |
| 13 | Labouring poets carried a stigma comparable to that of women writers . |
| 14 | These were the men and women who no doubt complained that in Nice the cost of unfurnished houses had risen between 1858 and 1876 from £64 to £100 per year , and that of women servants from £8–10 to a scandalous £24–30 a year . |
| 15 | Much of the work under discussion gives some consideration to the issue of subject specialization : the character of science education will , therefore , be touched on in this chapter , but a fuller discussion of this topic , and that of humanities education , will be found in Chapter 3 . |
| 16 | Art Deco , another Salon de Mars strong point , will also be on show on six stands , including that of first-timers Couvrat-Desvergnes from Paris . |
| 17 | Although his solo records were strong , his work partnering singers like Thriller U and Cocoa Tea was explosive and gradually his status soared over that of rivals Ninjaman and Chaka Demus . |
| 18 | The L1 resembles somewhat that of Strongyloides spp . |
| 19 | There have been some exceptions ( again , perhaps because insufficient phase-one training was given ) ( Arnoult 1953 ; McAllister 1953 ; McCormack 1958 ) but for the most part the test performance of control subjects has turned out to be inferior to that of subjects pre-trained with the relevant stimuli ( G. Cantor 1955 ; J. Cantor 1955 ; Cantor and Hottel 1957 ; Smith and Means 1961 ; Hendrickson and Muehl 1962 ) . |
| 20 | The success rate of lawyers was consistently better than that of trades union representatives and of individuals representing themselves over the four years from 1979 to 1982 covered ( DoE , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | The simple guilloche decoration of mosaic 7 appears slightly cruder than that of mosaics B or C. The more complicated three-strand guilloche of the former , however , is not significantly inferior to the four-strand guilloche of mosaic C. The former appears to be " stretched " , but then the latter seems to be cramped ( although " loose " ) . |
| 22 | President Aylwin has been careful to keep the issue of military corruption quite separate from that of human-rights offences . |
| 23 | If Scotland is to maintain the highest level of research capability to match that of universities south of the Border , then research money must follow quality as judged by the same standards throughout the UK ( however imperfect these measurements are ) . |
| 24 | In Thailand in 1991 the falling incidence of chancroid approached that of herpes genitalis for the first time , reaching 0.22/1000 compared with an incidence of herpes genitalis of 0.18/1000 . |
| 25 | I mention this to illustrate the basic professional pilot background that is typical of Ops Inspectors of AIB . |
| 26 | News of Venables ' defeat was greeted with fury by hundreds of Spurs fans outside court , amid pledges that they would picket matches to discourage other supporters , until he was reinstated . |
| 27 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 28 | Police have seized hundreds of pounds worth of drugs at the spot where an illegal rave party was due to have been held . |
| 29 | Hundreds of pounds worth of instruments , including kettle drums and trombones , were damaged in the blaze at the Hetton Silver Band hall in South Market Street , Hetton-le-Hole . |
| 30 | Burglars stole hundreds of pounds worth of antiques after workmen left a ladder outside a house in Guisborough Road , Great Ayton . |