Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And throughout the evening , making you almost afraid to blink in case you miss anything , Ninagawa fills the stage with a constantly shifting sequence of such pictures — including a magnificent riverside landscape with clumps of reeds bleached by the light of an enormous moon . |
| 2 | Probably hidden in one of those clumps of trees standing two hundred yards away from the road across the fields . |
| 3 | With high K + solution in the bath and NaCl solution in the pipette , single channel events were seen in subconfluent clumps of cells studied 4 to 8 days after culture , but never during days 9 to 15 after culture when cells seemed to be fully confluent . |
| 4 | ( ix ) Allow clumps of cells to settle to the bottom and then make a trial preparation by allowing one drop to evaporate onto a microscope slide . |
| 5 | Sometimes a few stones stick out of the grass to indicate this , but clumps of nettles give a general indication of former areas of occupation and of dung in houses and farmyards , because of the build up of phosphates in the soil . |
| 6 | Underfoot , last year 's leaves had rotted into a soft mould which gave off a pleasant nutty scent , and small clumps of primroses nestled amongst it . |
| 7 | Not only are our brains equipped by nature to assess risks of things in a short time ; they are also equipped to assess risks of things happening to us personally , or to a narrow circle of people that we know . |
| 8 | Our brains are probably equipped by nature to assess the risks of things happening to ourselves , or to a few hundred people in the small circle of villages within drum-range that our tribal ancestors could expect to hear news about . |
| 9 | Marital strife , early , abnormal or unwanted pregnancies , anxiety , depression or drug dependency can compound the risks of parents abusing their children . |
| 10 | This is self-defeating unless you believe that being constantly quashed by the talk tactics of others means that you 'll go to heaven . |
| 11 | The declared characteristics of tribunals specified in the Franks Report were ‘ cheapness , accessibility and freedom from technicality , expedition and expert knowledge of the particular subject ’ and stated that the objectives of tribunal procedure are ‘ openness , fairness and impartiality ’ . |
| 12 | The outward characteristics of religions have an inner meaning which brings them from their very separate and distinct starting-points towards an appreciation of the Mystery at the heart of religion where paradoxically the distinctions merge . |
| 13 | Experimental models in which the oestrogen stimulated rat uterus was seen to develop smooth muscle cell alterations resemboing the ultrastructural characteristics of fibroblasts emphasised the relation between the two cell types and the presence of intermediate forms , and these studies also documented the production of connective tissue proteins by such transformed smooth muscle cells . |
| 14 | The characteristics of women segregated into different types of occupation will be analysed in terms of their previous work histories , their attitudes to work , their occupational status and family circumstances . |
| 15 | Such factors include levels of provision , ‘ secondary ’ organizational factors ( that is , at levels other than that of the team ) , worker idiosyncrasies , and demographic characteristics of areas served . |
| 16 | Special characteristics of services include : |
| 17 | The semantic characteristics of adults talking to children are that adults talk about objects and events in their immediate surroundings and they frequently focus on topics identified in the child 's talk . |
| 18 | The characteristics of hackers have now been described a number of times . |
| 19 | It is difficult for us to imagine the characteristics of wines described by critics writing a mere generation ago , let alone those of wines described centuries ago . |
| 20 | Qaddafi writes about constraints , compulsion , oppression , but as characteristics of states based on political rather than on social ( ‘ natural ’ ) bonds . |
| 21 | Having mapped out the general social and drug career characteristics of users interviewed in the four snowball samples , the following section will discuss why these users had not come into contact with the various voluntary and statutory bodies expected to deal with the ‘ heroin problem ’ . |
| 22 | The only available detailed information about the social characteristics of persons involved in cattle stealing was published in the Hue and Cry . |
| 23 | The penultimate chapter examines selected features of crime in general , especially the social characteristics of persons thought to be responsible for various offences . |
| 24 | The third stage is particularly concerned with how systematic variation in the characteristics of events affects the way in which they are categorised . |
| 25 | One of the more obvious characteristics of partnerships has been that educational partners are generally the poor relation — at least they usually behave as if they are — probably because partnerships are measured essentially in terms of cash rather than other kinds of resource such as accommodation , talent , expertise , knowledge and creativity . |
| 26 | It is observed that the characteristics of readers determine readings as much as the characteristics of texts . |
| 27 | Many characteristics of organizations work against teams . |
| 28 | A more realistic alternative is to deduce which characteristics of organizations have the most impact on accounting . |
| 29 | To what extent unobserved characteristics of individuals effect the interpretation and modelling of the data . |
| 30 | Gordon ( 1966 ) discussed the characteristics of individuals needed under different combinations of predictability and urgency , the former referring to the extent to which the administrators of a project feel that the steps necessary to achieve their research objectives are predeterminable , and the latter to the need of the organization for rapid research results . |