Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recognising the rough apology contained in this speech for the dour ill manners of her spouse , Theda smiled warmly . |
| 2 | I really must apologise for the ill manners of my associate . |
| 3 | as if he 'd absorbed some of the invisible layers of antiquity , some of the manners of his ancestors . |
| 4 | Byng wrote partly to enhance and prolong his pleasure in ‘ tourism ’ , but also to preserve details of ‘ the manners of our travelling , the rates of our provisions ; and of castles , churches and houses ’ . |
| 5 | With more recent developments such as currency swaps and loans based on a basket of currencies , they have been able to lower their cost of capital and reduce the risks of their asset exposure in multiple currencies . |
| 6 | Prosecutions for offences defined under the Merchant Shipping Acts had almost uniformly failed , and shipowners had escaped altogether from the provisions of the Employers ' Liability Act 1880 in which employers had been made responsible for insuring employees against the risks of their calling . |
| 7 | You may be versed in necromancy , and steeped in alchemy , and schooled in the ancient cruel arts of your realm . |
| 8 | Okinawan-te , as karate was first known , was introduced into Japan by a mild-mannered Okinawan schoolmaster named Gichin Funakoshi , an expert in the punching and kicking arts of his island homeland , where his teacher was a great master named Azato . |
| 9 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 10 | Many were already suffering from pellet wounds inflicted by the shotguns of Chuck 's hunters , and the last dregs of their resistance crumbled before the menacing line of armed men . |
| 11 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 12 | She stared into the dregs of her gin and tonic . |
| 13 | She flings the dregs of her champagne over the balcony railing . |
| 14 | The first thing she would have to do was to raise some capital so that she could rescue something from the dregs of her father 's business . |
| 15 | He hoovered up the dregs of his coffee and scurried out of the cafe . |
| 16 | He stirred the dregs of his coffee with a brooding intensity she could feel all through her . |
| 17 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 18 | Its roots among workers were shallow and the tactics of its leadership weak . |
| 19 | SureStyle Windows , which has called in the receivers , hit the headlines after revelations about the hard-sell tactics of its NorthEast sales staff . |
| 20 | As with Hitler 's nazis , Blackshirts argued that in using weapons they were merely copying the tactics of their opponents . |
| 21 | And once he had become Head of Government , the need to detach himself in public from the distasteful gutter tactics of his activist anti-Semites was prompted above all by foreign political considerations as well as by the necessity to avoid gratuitous alienation of the conservative German establishment around Hindenburg , whose own ingrained anti-Semitism nevertheless stopped short of arbitrary open violence . |
| 22 | He had been put under the tutelage of Sergeant Bragg , a great bear of a man , a man whose principles would not allow him to stoop to the self-serving tactics of his superiors . |
| 23 | His successors of whatever party will not be bound by anything the Noble Earl may say this afternoon , it is inconceivable that a Home Secretary in five or ten years time , also what Lord say in February nineteen ninety four , I really must n't do whatever er I thought of doing in er that given the fact that the Noble Earl Lord gave certain assurances , he will do whatever he considers on that occasion to be right |
| 24 | It is similar in many ways to its more aristocratic relative , but the characteristics of its wines are less well defined . |
| 25 | With support from the Royal Institute of Public Administration and the Society of Local Authority Chief EXecutives in planning and execution , the research studies the genesis of the role , its development over time in response in different and changing environments , its present status , problems and fitness to needs , the characteristics of its occupants , and directions in which the local government executive function might most aptly develop to meet postulated future needs of local communities and environmental change . |
| 26 | To take a simple instance : in the heyday of the Enlightenment , Homeric poetry would have been treated primarily like its Virgilian equivalent — as a work of a certain kind ( epic ) , embodying given characteristics of its genre or of poetry as a whole . |
| 27 | This applies both to the origins of sociology and to the characteristics of its practitioners since the beginning . |
| 28 | By recalling the strength of these beliefs and the cultural , especially literary , achievements this order produced , the Anglo-Saxon world could see more clearly the common need to defend those essential characteristics of its civilisation against the barbarous foe . |
| 29 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 30 | True , her book is devoted mostly to the early characteristics of her subjects , the brief biographies she provides for them ending in their mid-twenties . |