Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | This is Dignan 's starting-point in his discussion in Chapter 6 of the legal problems of tax diversion . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But by the Ausgleich the Habsburgs took into partnership one of the racial groups of which the empire was composed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So far , BR has put into effect 19 of the 71 measures . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The morning after our big night out , Clay 's Aunt Dottie produced for lunch one of the best lasagnas I have ever tasted . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When Bruce Graham gets into work one of the first things he does is check his mail . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The enormous environmental turbulence of the 1970s called into serious question one of the established verities of organizational behaviour ; namely , that structure was the critical change dimension . |
| 21 | Tim Renton , Minister for the Arts , has caused a storm by calling into question one of the main dogmas of British arts administration , the so-called arm's-length principle ‘ government funding through semi-independent institutions ’ , as Lord Keynes , the architect of the Arts Council put it in 1945 . |
| 22 | He describes the case of Mutang'ang'i one of the leading informals who at that time made foreguards for bicycles , bicycle stands and cutting machines using a series of hand-built metalworking machines which he had designed and built himself . |
| 23 | Er to come before two o'clock we 've got part three of the strange things that people do around Nottinghamshire to pass the time . |
| 24 | Not only is there no requirement of connection with a Contracting State but article 2 of the Uniform Rules provides in terms that : ‘ Rules of private international law shall be excluded for the purposes of the application of the present Law , subject to any provision to the contrary in the said Law . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ … the person to whom this report is being issued in the United Kingdom is a single body corporate , a partnership , a single individual or a group of connected individuals ( as defined in Article 5 of The Financial Services Act 1986 ( Investment Advertisements ) ( Exemptions ) ( No 2 ) Order 1988 ) … ’ |
| 26 | According to a government report published on Aug. 9 , cases of espionage in Switzerland involving agents from Eastern Europe continued to increase ; 65 of the 91 cases recorded from 1980 to 1988 involved these countries , most of which desired technological rather than political or security information , and over the same period 17 of the 24 diplomats and officials expelled were from Eastern Europe . |
| 27 | MIDDLESBROUGH Liberal Democrat candidate Rosamund Jordan ( left ) is making constitutional reform one of the main planks of her campaign . |
| 28 | This can be illustrated by the early examples of protection for individuals in the special treaty provisions for minorities ; the inclusion of human rights in Article 1 of the United Nations Charter in the context of the maintenance of international peace and security ; and by the paucity of international mechanisms for the enforcement of those rights and freedoms . |
| 29 | I was crouching just feet away , terrified that at any moment one of the massive males would charge into me in the desperate struggle . |
| 30 | Thus , while Article Seventeen of the Thirty-Nine Articles incorporated the Reformed doctrine of predestination , its comments about the reprobate and the absolute assurance of salvation were left vague . |