Example sentences of "of [noun sg] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the period of field-work the sorts of crime that occurred in Easton under this heading included murder and major robbery , possession of drugs , breaking and entering , car chases for stolen vehicles , and the occasional sex-related crime . |
| 2 | Then , just as we were tying up the canoe , came the first heavy spats of rain on the leaves and with a roll of thunder the heavens opened . |
| 3 | So half the room was tiddly and the other half looked a little confused at the amount of noise the others were making . |
| 4 | Nor does cran — seem to carry any meaning into newly coined forms : we can make sense , for instance , of billy-giraffe and nanny-giraffe by analogy with billy-goat and nanny-goat , and also of foot the fees ; but creations like cranbeads and bilbeads convey nothing , although one might have expected some interpretation such as ‘ small round red beads ’ and ‘ small round purple beads ’ . |
| 5 | Aye it did a lot of damage the dykes and that . |
| 6 | After three decades of preparation the magicians enshrouded the island 's approaches in a maze of spells , illusions and treacherous shifting shoals and mists . |
| 7 | The brightest objects are of course the lights themselves , but wide shots also include the darker areas which reduce the average brightness of the scene . |
| 8 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 9 | If you then get a complete change in regime , as happened in nineteen forty-five , if you get re-education , if you get a completely new economic and indeed world , international situation , then of course the Germans become different people . |
| 10 | And with a of course the vegetables . |
| 11 | The only members of the hunt dedicated to the actual kill are of course the hounds , the huntsman whose job it is to train them to hunt , possibly a farmer whose stock has been damaged by foxes , and possibly the masters who are interested in controlling the fox population . |
| 12 | Chapter and Verse is probably most effective with smaller classes — where there is a chance for open discussion — but many of the activities , and of course the texts themselves will be relevant to students in larger classes or those working on their own . |
| 13 | Many details , such as the reproduction of type-script and the printing of a page askew as if that was how it came out of the type-writer , suggest the fiction that the novel is a draft , a preliminary version , but of course the pages are printed and therefore fixed . |
| 14 | But of course the users do n't know what they want , so they end up getting another duff system . |
| 15 | Of course the actions of carcinogens on methylase activity in a test-tube may not reflect what happens in tissues exposed to those chemicals . |
| 16 | And then of course when the First World , World War came along , th a lot of cars were remade into ambulances and er then of course the lorries began to be , come into their own . |
| 17 | Familiar ways in which such participant-roles are encoded in language are of course the pronouns and their associated predicate agreements . |
| 18 | Of course the supermarkets ' aim is to make fat profits and they are not really in the business of doing their customers favours . |
| 19 | Although it was common gossip that Zoia 's private life was deeply and messily unhappy , and that alcohol was a frequent source of consolation , and of course the stories about Nicu 's debauchery and coarseness were unparalleled , Valentin 's public reputation ( which is to say , the cautious whispers between friends about him ) was positive . |
| 20 | Now of course the stories are about people caught in this way . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course the streets near a station are always sordid . |
| 22 | Taylor said : ‘ Of course the players must now go back to their clubs and do their jobs , while all I have to focus on is our next match . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course the traffickers would do no such thing . |
| 24 | Unless of course the chaps in the secure wing of Rampton Psychiatric Hospital have at least decided that the old boy is an outstanding danger to modern life and pumped him full of Largactil . |
| 25 | Aye and of course the likes of milk tokens it Just like now , you know , they would come round the door and leave your milk there in the morning . |
| 26 | Usually this is so , but of course the lecturers they are very different in their approaches — some will use this illustration approach more than others . |
| 27 | ‘ And of course the Pistols will have to wait for the return of better weather . ’ |
| 28 | Paula Hamilton is renowned as the actress in the Volkswagen commercial , who storms out of the house and throws away expensive gifts from her lover , except of course the keys to a new car . |
| 29 | It was into this world that the movies , and of course the citizens of the twentieth century , were born . |
| 30 | Of course the citizens charter , as it applies to British Rail 's activities , will also be a means of taking forward the rights of passengers to ensure a proper response or compensation from British Rail if there is shoddy service . |