Example sentences of "[conj] [num] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dairyman Crick milked six or eight of the difficult ones with his own hands . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) Cases within the county court 's equity and probate jurisdiction ( ie those mentioned in s 23 , 24 or 32 of the 1984 Act ) fall outside the remainder of these rules , as do proceedings which , in accordance with the rules laid down in arts 9 and 10 , have no quantifiable value ( art 7(2) ) . |
| 3 | It is estimated that in south-east Asia , some third or two-thirds of the residual trees are damaged irreparably while up to a third of the area is left as bare ground , often compacted by the forestry machinery . |
| 4 | ‘ Five or six of the younger lads will be fixed up in Australia , New Zealand or South Africa to further their education in the fame , and we usually reckon to have two or three players on international tours . |
| 5 | All patients leaving psychiatric hospitals have a right to after care services , not just those who have been detained under sections 3 , 37 , or 47 of the Mental Health Act . |
| 6 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
| 7 | This will make it extremely hard for some players to get more than two or three of the 11 games in Australia — and that would not be long enough to evaluate the newcomers ' test qualifications . |
| 8 | This situation is illustrated in Fig. 3.5 , where the peak static torque for two or three of the five phases excited is about 1.6 times the peak static torque with only one phase excited . |
| 9 | I 'll come up with two or three of the other men and knock on the door . |
| 10 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |
| 11 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 12 | And for children ⅕ of the amount of those benefits stated for adults are payable except in the case of a fatal accident where 1/50 of the total benefit would be paid . ) |
| 13 | Keeler 's conclusion is that a weed must bear 10 or 11 of the tell-tale traits to be seriously weedy . |
| 14 | Secondly , where an exemption clause is not invalidated by section 2 , the buyer may be able to sue the seller for breach of contract and to defeat the exemption clause by virtue of sections 6 or 3 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 15 | Where one of the insured persons has died abroad , the policy provides cover for funeral expenses or the cost of transporting the remains to the U.K. In such instances the wishes of the deceased 's family are of paramount importance and they must be consulted very closely . |
| 16 | This is an area of some controversy at the moment in psychology , where one of the holy grails is the attempt to provide empirical evidence for the intuitively reasonable idea that there can be a dissociation of behaviour from consciousness . |
| 17 | In addition , the effectiveness of certain other types of clause is limited by statute where one of the contracting parties deals as a consumer ; for instance , the Consumer Arbitration Agreements Act 1988 restricts the enforcement of an arbitration clause against a person who makes a contract as a consumer , unless certain conditions are fulfilled . |
| 18 | The NCLE survey discussed earlier in this volume suggests that little prominence is given to linguistics topics such as ‘ Description of Language ’ , ‘ Language Variation ’ and ‘ Language and Disadvantage ’ , with only four or five of the 21 institutions reporting these in their courses . |
| 19 | However , long before Pete Dye 's Ocean course was planned , other big names in the world of golf course design had made their mark with courses at Osprey Point ( Tom Fazio ) , Marsh Point ( Gary Player ) , where 13 of the 18 holes are framed by water , and Turtle Point ( Jack Nicklaus ) , which is rated among the top ten in South Carolina ( Golf Digest , a leading U.S. golf magazine , refers to it as one of America 's top resort courses ) . |
| 20 | The College proposes that this should apply to a small group of patients who are repeatedly admitted to hospital under sections 3 or 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and who require long-term support and supervision in the community , but are known to have a history of failing to co-operate with treatment ’ |
| 21 | In some cases you can only include one character of a certain type in your army , or one of a specific unit . |
| 22 | In some cases you can only include one character of a certain type in your army , or one of a specific unit . |
| 23 | In some cases you can only include one character of a certain type in your army , or one of a specific unit . |
| 24 | Your studio , hotel or apartment will be allocated on arrival and will be one of those featured in the brochure or one of a similar standard . |
| 25 | For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique . |
| 26 | Although accountants may be on hand , the surveyor at partner level in a growing practice , or one of a substantial size , may find himself in the anomalous situation of spending the major part of his time on management for which he received no training rather than on technical matters , in which he is expert . |
| 27 | There was no other way in except to walk through the priory , but a stranger would be stopped by the porter and seen by any of the community , be it nun or one of the lay workers . |
| 28 | And in a minute , we 'll see the prime example of that , or one of the prime examples of that . |
| 29 | Add a page printer like the HP LaserJet , Canon A1 or one of the Ricoh-based products to a good word processing packages such as WordPerfect , Microsoft Word , Wordcraft or the latest incarnation of Samna and you have an instant solution . |
| 30 | The indigenous population , comprising Christian Armenians and Islamic tribesmen of mainly Central Asian , Turkish and Persian origin , were alternately subjected to periods of persecution and forced conversion ( or extermination ) , depending on whether Christian Russia or one of the Islamic countries was in control ; this culminated in the widespread slaughter and deportation of the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War . |