Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , many modern historians do not take the trouble to understand this administrative structure , or the diplomatic of the documents they use , which limits their ability to move between record series and across departments . |
| 2 | And then we stayed a few days in London and we went to the Baths and we went to the zoo and we went to all the science , by either the old trams or the first of the buses that Cos they complete with tram-riding and that was rather exciting in London , seeing the all the top hats and people in coats , tails and things . |
| 3 | One might say the same about portrayals of American disc jockeys , leukaemia victims , Martians , cowboys , millionaires or the Last of the Mohicans . |
| 4 | His career was the subject of Bulwer Lytton 's novel , Rienzi , or the Last of the Tribunes ( 1835 ) . |
| 5 | Today , no reputable historian or biblical scholar would deny that the earliest of the Gospels was composed at least a generation after the events it describes . |
| 6 | At present it is only possible to guess that the largest of the villas , such as Woodchester , Bignor and North Leigh may have been owner occupied . |
| 7 | On the day that the last of the articles appeared , the Zionist Federation staged a demonstration outside the London offices of The Times , some of their supporters holding placards which announced that the paper was ‘ a new Arab secret weapon ’ and that the PLO would be the next owner of The Times . |
| 8 | In the light of the judgment in that case we would uphold the applicant 's objection to the proposed interview on the third rather than the first of the grounds put before us . |
| 9 | If this is the face of your soul , then you are more evil than the worst of the stories about you . ’ |
| 10 | As he travelled , so the last of the migrations travelled south past him — the arctic tern , the redwing , and some of the gulls . |
| 11 | Although a sixth of the clergy of the diocese 's 272 parishes were deprived because they refused to take the oath of allegiance to Elizabeth 's church , the remainder stayed on , modifying their public practices if not their private beliefs . |
| 12 | An occasion marked by a speech from the president himself , Peter Mead of Abbot Mead Vickers , which was noticeably defensive although a few of the jokes might have been considered mildly offensive by one or two sections of society ( indicating that the IPA , like kindred bodies , is still predominantly white , male and middle-class ) . |
| 13 | Some of the less professional search firms have been known to treat candidates shoddily , and even the leading firms would admit that a few of the candidates they had encountered would be justified in feeling hard-done-by . |
| 14 | But people do live there , though when I moved in it became clear that a third of the flats were empty . |
| 15 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 16 | A recent survey by the Consumers Association ( CA ) showed that a third of the tools hired from 32 randomly selected shops were found to be faulty when examined by experts . |
| 17 | This was further reflected by the fact that a third of the MPs did not keep up a house in London , confirmation of roots outside Westminster ; sessions lasted for only about thirty weeks a year and even during session the attendance of backbenchers was sometimes spasmodic . |
| 18 | The Government estimates that a third of the savings in public expenditure created by the abolition of these supplements was lost in a resulting increase in supplementary benefit payments . |
| 19 | The dealer 's response was that every one of the positions was tenable , depending on which aspect of the truth was considered more important . |
| 20 | No one would have guessed from that question that every one of the farmers affected has been paid regularly while we carry out the necessary tests to discover what has caused the problem . |
| 21 | Fewer than a fifth of the schools kept records of pupils ' achievements in science . |
| 22 | An unprecedented hunger strike took place in Tbilisi , the republican capital , in an attempt to block the changes ; more than a hundred of the demonstrators had to be taken to hospital . |
| 23 | For example , in the mid-1960s less than a third of the students at university were girls ; that figure has now risen to over 40 per cent and is probably still rising ( Blackstone , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 25 | In Morris ' study of the households of forty redundant steelworkers , kin were providing extra help — mostly in the form of food and clothes for the children — for less than a third of the families ( Morris , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | The great experiment would take place with MacDonald able to count upon less than a third of the members of the House of Commons . |
| 27 | High levels of unemployment , mortgage arrears and family break-ups are the chief causes of homelessness and more than a third of the properties will be targetted at those groups . |
| 28 | Even in his defence of Needham , Dr Chapman admits that at one mill more than a third of the apprentices died , absconded or had to be returned and only two out of 780 apprentices recruited were later employed as adult workers . |
| 29 | More than a third of the undergraduates never ordered books at the university bookshops , and less than a third of the grant provided by the Department of Education and Science was spent as it was supposed to be . |
| 30 | Less than a third of the teenagers questioned earned any extra money from part time jobs . |