Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average weight of cows is 400–450kg and the average milk yields , with very little feeding of concentrates , are about 4,000kg . |
| 2 | An understanding of ‘ mass ’ in choreographic terms only means how to organise and manipulate the dancers within that mass of objects . |
| 3 | For a start , you need a bricklaying trowel for spreading the mortar bed in which each course of bricks or blocks is laid , for buttering mortar on to the end of each brick before you place it , and for trimming off excess mortar afterwards . |
| 4 | The treatment is based upon a discovery , made in Oxford , that absorption of fluids from the intestine of the rat is stimulated and improved by adding these sugars to the intestine . |
| 5 | They had done very little swapping of horses , mainly because Nails refused to and Hoomey , having become accustomed to the feel of Bones 's hulk beneath him , was terrified by what he called the ‘ slippery ’ ponies — Midnight and Firelight — and could not make Spot move at all . |
| 6 | It seemed impossible that anyone could survive in the middle of that storm of blades . |
| 7 | In Section 3 union membership is analysed , and a membership demand curve ( relating membership to each level of wages ) is developed . |
| 8 | And that 's beginning to show er up in the chemistry of the lakes and streams , some recovery of some lakes are already recovering in response to that reduction of emissions , but not all by any means . |
| 9 | Example 2:1 Parcels clause of office suite ALL THAT suite of rooms on the floor of the building known as ( excluding the outer faces of the walls enclosing the said building and its roof and roof structure but including the structure supporting the floor of the said rooms ) and for the purpose of identification only edged in red on the attached plan Example 2:2 Parcels clause of open land ALL THAT parcel of land in and numbered on the Ordnance Map ( 1968 edition ) for the said district a copy of which is attached hereto ( including the entirety of the hedge and ditch on the western boundary of enclosure number but excluding the entirety of the hedges and ditches on the northern boundaries of the said enclosures and the entirety of the road on the southern boundaries thereof ) Example 2:3 Parcels clause of building excluding airspace ALL THAT building known as shown edged red on the attached plan but excluding the airspace lying above the existing roof of that building together with a right for the tenant with or without workmen to enter that airspace for the sole purpose of inspecting the building or carrying out any works for which the tenant is liable under this lease Example 2:4 Parcels clause with details of boundaries ALL THAT the floor of the building known as ( " the property " ) including ( i ) all non-loadbearing walls situated wholly within the red edging on the attached plan ( ii ) one half ( severed vertically ) of all non-loadbearing walls separating the property from any other part of the building ( iii ) all plaster or other decorative finish applied to any wall bounding the property and not included in paragraphs ( i ) or ( ii ) above or applied to any column or loadbearing wall within the property ( iv ) the whole of all doors door frames windows window frames ( including mastic joints or seals ) bounding the property ( v ) all ceilings bounding the property and any void between any suspended ceiling and the structural slat above ( vi ) all floor finishes and floor screeds including raised floors and floor jacks supporting such floors ( vii ) all light fittings and air conditioning units incorporated in any ceiling but not any other part of the air conditioning system |
| 10 | Before he could be consulted , writs were issued against the banks by the companies and the shareholders in accordance with resolutions purporting to have been passed by each board of directors consisting of members of the Crawley family , but the receivers of each of the companies did not give their consent . |
| 11 | Each board of directors should report : |
| 12 | Do you think at the moment society in Britain , in Scotland takes proper account of that variety of options , or do you think undue stress is put on one er one or other ? |
| 13 | ‘ That variety of horrors art has spread at the bottom [ of Coalbrookdale ] ; the noise of the forges , mills , etc. , with all their vast machinery , the flames bursting from the furnaces with the burning of the coal and the smoak of the lime kilns , are altogether sublime . ’ |
| 14 | This produces that variety of note-successions so typical of the total-chromatic usage of serialism ( Example 140 ) : This exercise has been written in such a way as to reveal the considerable difficulty which inevitably occurs when using several serial forms at the same time . |
| 15 | Then came the two saviours of modern Aegina , tourists and that prince of nuts , the phistiki , alias the pistachio . |
| 16 | The solution they adopted was to assess , in respect of each category of problems identified , what would constitute ‘ … a risk of substantial loss or disadvantage which would be important for the individual concerned . ’ |
| 17 | The accord also resolved , reportedly in favour of the NATO position , the question of a " sufficiency rule " — the proportion of the permitted total in each category of weapons held by any one country . |
| 18 | How could she through that snout of teeth sealed with syn-skin , even if she wished to ? |
| 19 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 20 | Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries . |
| 21 | Each case of cattle theft has the same value as the murder and the gang robbery . |
| 22 | After the peace and while the priest receives the sacrament , the layman reflects on that love which is the reflection of God in society and constitutes the peace ; love of God , proper love of self demonstrated in the harnessing of both spiritual and physical energies to serve God , and love of society — " alle manere of men " . |
| 23 | By constitution we mean , whenever we speak with propriety and exactness , that assemblage of laws , institutions and customs , derived from certain fixed principles of reason , directed to certain fixed objects of public good , that compose the general system according to which the community hath agreed to be governed … |
| 24 | It points out that the licensing functions were lowly regarded and observes that protection of investors by definition requires a ‘ rigorous and inquiring approach ’ . |
| 25 | One possibility is that , with all its institutional faults , the spiritual church offers some form of communication with that part of women that maintains contact with the power of fertility . |
| 26 | More realistically , though , he conceded that as beautiful as it was as screen art it nevertheless belonged to that category of films ‘ which would not enrich their producers ’ . |
| 27 | They , among other things , have put Westminster into that category of parliaments which can and do exercise a significant degree of influence over the formation of policy . |
| 28 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |
| 29 | For scent , you ca n't beat Daphne odora ‘ Alba ’ with its winter flowers that smell of roses . |
| 30 | Between 1959 and 1969 poetry production was to triple , thanks to the industrious imagination of such as Phyllis Webb , Eli Mandel , Daryl Hine and not least that battery-hen of poets , Irving Layton , to name but a few . |