Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significantly , however , as Table 4 also reveals , very little of the replacement residential stock took the form of traditional hostel services : only 32 of the social services department 's additional 161 residential places were located in hostels . |
| 2 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 3 | It has been estimated that only 30 of the rufous hares survive outside captivity . |
| 4 | Only 6.3 of the potential interventions are truly prenatal interventions and therefore preventive in the commonly understood meaning of the word . |
| 5 | Only 10,000 of the necessary terminals are so far installed in shops , though the target is 20,000 by the New Year and 100,000 by the end of next year . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps one of the new singers would be better — that little creature who did small parts last year , dark hair , pleasant little tinkling voice ? ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps one of the tiny members of the creche may live to see the bi-centenary ! |
| 8 | In both England and France the need to make armies mobile was perhaps one of the major developments of the period , and shows how important versatility was coming to be regarded by the leaders of the day . |
| 9 | This appointment as adviser of a practising physician in charge of a big , busy clinic was perhaps one of the major factors in the evolution of a co-ordinated service throughout the country . |
| 10 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
| 11 | Polybius ' misgivings about the future of Rome had proved justified — and this was perhaps one of the main reasons why Posidonius decided to continue his work . |
| 12 | But perhaps one of the main reasons for abandoning monetary targets was the desire to prevent exchange rate fluctuations , and the use of changes in interest rates to achieve this . |
| 13 | Oil Mill was perhaps one of the under-capitalised mills for it still relied entirely on outdoor weavers . |
| 14 | Perhaps one of the Aquatic Societies will take up the challenge . |
| 15 | Certainly when they appear on the air using exotic callsigns Dxpeditions enable other , less adventurous , amateurs to share in their activities and that is perhaps one of the significant features of the hobby . |
| 16 | The Ahaggar massif was apparently one of the chief watersheds , for enormous wadis radiate from it in all directions . |
| 17 | Opposite One of the natural wonders of the world , the Grand Canyon attracts huge numbers of tourists to Arizona . |
| 18 | That is , in his work concerning modern society , the major critique of structuralism is not so much one of the relative weights of structure versus agency in the social world , but regarding the absence of objectivity , free-floatingness , transcendence in scientific and intellectual work . |
| 19 | So one of the great figures of mid sixteenth-century France was emphatically reminding Mary of her position as the crucial link between Scotland and France ; for that was where her importance would really lie even if she spent most of her life in France , and knowledge of Scotland therefore mattered greatly . |
| 20 | So one of the big problems with an historical figure , is that erm , you do n't even have that much data to go on , the data you have is gon na inevitably be , be selective and limited . |
| 21 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 22 | As they walked along one of the stone-flagged paths and came to the gate in the flint wall they saw a neat pile of mowings waiting , apparently , to be composted . |
| 23 | If one plucks a piece from one of these plants it will almost certainly break along one of the numerous joints that divide the whole plant into segments , right to the tips of the branchlets . |
| 24 | Here , the Dialectical Theologians took up afresh one of the prominent motifs in the thought of the Reformers : that the kind of religion that man works out for himself is in the end idolatry , for its real object is not the living God , but man 's own secret divinity . |
| 25 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 26 | She moved down one of the long aisles ; the body of the hall was in darkness and she stumbled a little as the floor sloped downwards . |
| 27 | In July 1947 , while Rank was in America negotiating with the five major companies , the British government responded to its own problem , a serious dollar shortage , by trying to slow down one of the major outflows and imposing a 75 per cent levy on remittable income from foreign films . |
| 28 | The Luggage came ambling down one of the other passages that radiated from the room . |
| 29 | Granny Smith , a neighbour of Mrs Dyer in Reading , swore that a brick found holding down one of the tiny cadavers was the same one that Mrs Dyer used to keep her flat irons on . |
| 30 | The entrance to her own flat was down one of the narrow corridors that led off from the rectangular landing , and as she stepped towards it she noticed with sudden uneasiness that one of the wall lights halfway down the corridor had gone , plunging the passageway into semi-darkness . |