Example sentences of "[noun] [num] of the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps giving the opposition two-thirds of the likely overs erred on being generous but all credit to Felsted 's enterprising captaincy . |
| 2 | Section 1 , subsection 2 of the Public Registers and Records ( Scotland ) Act , 1948 , states : |
| 3 | On the main manor twenty-eight of the forty copyholders were half-yardlanders ; as a group the copyholders were distinct from the thirty-one freeholders , for only three men held land by both methods of tenure in any significant quantity . |
| 4 | ( As to the date alleged , see Practice Direction ( Bankruptcy 4/86 ) ( 1987 ) 1 All ER 604. ) ( c ) In the strictly limited case of substituted service by advertisement under r 6.3 of the 1986 rules , the date to be alleged is the date of the advertisement 's appearance or , as the case may be , its first appearance : see rr 6.3(3) and 6.11(8). 6 There is no need to include in the preamble to or at the end of the petition details of the person authorised to present the petition . |
| 5 | This is Dignan 's starting-point in his discussion in Chapter 6 of the legal problems of tax diversion . |
| 6 | In other words one of the traditional defences of private property which states that an optimal allocation of resources results from owners ( who it is assumed control their property ) pursuing their own self-interest could be invoked to justify insisting that the company was run in the interests of the shareholders alone . |
| 7 | I would argue therefore that the development of regional airports , instead of terminal five of the other airports of the South East would curtail this trend by cutting by , sorry , by increasing the number of long haul flights serving the regions directly . |
| 8 | A run of operated exploration successes has made LASMO one of the largest operators in Colombia and increased the significance of the country to LASMO 's international portfolio . |
| 9 | The uncertainty of the fat child or the onset of puberty which can make swimming baths one of the first circles of hell for the adolescent , so vividly evoked by Kathryn Ensall 's ‘ Girls in Line at the Swimming Baths ’ ( 1988 ) , or the terrifying prospect of the first day at school captured by Shanti Panchal are all expressions of modern sensibility and above all , of childhood and adolescent anxiety , constructed out of an acute embarrassment with themselves and their situation . |
| 10 | The conclusion on the whole matter seems to be that trustees , albeit only the representatives of ulterior beneficial interests , are assessable generally in respect of the trust income under Rule 1 of the Miscellaneous Rules applicable to Schedule D ; but that — just because they represent those beneficial interests they may have a good answer to a particular assessment , as regards some share or part of the income assessed , on the ground that such share or part arises or accrues beneficially to a cestui que trust in whose hands it is not liable to Income Tax , e.g. a foreigner under Case V , Rules 1 and 3 . |
| 11 | In the debate on the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill , he gave what was in effect one of the best arguments against a single economic authority that I have heard in Parliament . |
| 12 | It was constructed of raw red brick with yellow stone dressings , in a style that was no style , but something resembling public-house Jacobean and lavatory-gothic , with a Kubla Khan dome from the Prince Regent 's Brighton as a cultural stray added for good measure , and this cut one of the wooden gables in the most bizarre fashion . |
| 13 | But by the Ausgleich the Habsburgs took into partnership one of the racial groups of which the empire was composed . |
| 14 | G. One of the largest sources of energy , at present , in Britain and in the industrial areas astride the Pennines is oil . |
| 15 | These figures — achieved with a standard fit catalyst , remember — make the Volvo one of the quickest cars in its class . |
| 16 | As a result four of the seven stations proposed by Sir William Hillary in 1824 were functioning within six years , a very short time in reality . |
| 17 | In the first study four of the 26 subjects with symptomatic infections had influenza B and showed a 38% increase in the mean time taken for the variable fore period simple reaction time task , from 320 ( SD 24 ) ms when recruited to 440 ( SD 90 ) ms when symptomatic . |
| 18 | So far , BR has put into effect 19 of the 71 measures . |
| 19 | On the first day of the session 372 of the 426 deputies present voted to elect Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , hitherto Chair of the Presidium of the People 's Great Hural and a member of the Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) , as Mongolia 's first President . |
| 20 | In the trial of Clive Ponting the judge directed the jury that the phrase ‘ in the interests of the state ’ in s. 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 means ‘ in the interests of the Government of the day ’ . |
| 21 | Corbett should apply for the purpose not only of marriage but also for a charge under s. 30 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 . |
| 22 | Moves to dissolve the military alliance , which were first apparent at a Warsaw Pact summit meeting in June 1990 [ see pp. 37550 ] , were intensified after a trilateral meeting in January 1991 of the Foreign Ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland [ see p. 37979 ] . |
| 23 | The airfield was a ‘ prohibited place ’ under s. 3 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 . |
| 24 | She was chosen ad one of the 66 women and 66 men ( 66 being the Queen 's age ) , to mark her service to the church and community . |
| 25 | The morning after our big night out , Clay 's Aunt Dottie produced for lunch one of the best lasagnas I have ever tasted . |
| 26 | The idea that an industry could leave behind a polluting aftermath for longer than civilization has been in existence has made the waste issue one of the strongest strands in the antinuclear case . |
| 27 | During the nomination campaign one of the Democratic contenders , Bob Kerrey , a senator from Nebraska , had made the introduction of a national health insurance scheme a central plank of his campaign . |
| 28 | When Bruce Graham gets into work one of the first things he does is check his mail . |
| 29 | Her books , among them Wood and Garden ( 1899 ) , Home and Garden ( 1900 ) , and Colour in the Flower Garden ( 1908 ) , were widely read and followed in Britain and her ideas were taken up by Mrs Francis King , a founder of the Garden Club of America , who recognized her as having ‘ made the planting of gardens in the English-speaking countries one of the Fine Arts ’ . |
| 30 | An erudite work by an Oxford New Historicist , David Norbrook 's Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance , illustrates the structuralist truism that in a binary grouping one of the two terms tends to assume dominance . |