Example sentences of "[vb pp] of the [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WATCHING the collapse of the opinion polls ' projections of a hung Parliament early last Friday morning , I was reminded of the 1970 General Election . |
| 2 | The reader is constantly reminded of the two main assumptions which Petrey takes to be central to the theory : that language depends on social conventions rather than on any individual 's intentions , and that language is used to do things rather than to represent things . |
| 3 | Ephraim Patel , the vice-preseident of the new South African Rugby Football Union , and Professor Fritz Eloff , a former IRB chairman , are the only two who have travelled of the four official nominees invited . |
| 4 | Producer Curt Hamilton said : ‘ You 've heard of the six million dollar man — this is the 10 million dollar bum . ’ |
| 5 | What would the grand old man of travel have made of the thirty nine days scheduled for the 1991 world tour ? |
| 6 | Because none of the men formally lodged complaints , the authority was not told of the three extra cases until after Mr Dear 's purge . |
| 7 | Ten miles from Kathmandu we pulled into Bhaktapur , the best preserved of the three ancient cities of the valley . |
| 8 | After the usual shots of the day 's decisive football matches some highlights were shown of the Million Sterling Tournament at Sandwich , with a good puff for the dramatic finish awaiting viewers on the morrow . |
| 9 | The effects are shown of the three basic character.handling instructions , each of which specifies the address of a descriptor word in its operand field . |
| 10 | It seems that the idea is to get rid of the 14 Minor County sides as quickly as possible , but the time has come to make cricket 's oldest limited-overs competition into a proper knockout contest , instead of a half-baked one as at present . |
| 11 | The make-up did a terrific job , but could n't get rid of the two deep creases that ran from the corners of her mouth to her jawline , or the network of lines on her brow . |
| 12 | In the smallest yet most intensely populated of the two main lowland regions , the St. Lawrence , lies the city of Montreal , an island in the St. Lawrence River itself . |
| 13 | What was left of the three dead ones was by the fence . |
| 14 | If they are not within 15 per cent of each other a third valuation will be obtained and the average taken of the two closest valuations from all three . |
| 15 | His Excellency showed me a film he had taken of the three northern islands of the Tonga group which — being some 300 miles north of the main island — are invariably overlooked by such few visitors as Tonga receives . |
| 16 | The APEC group was composed of the six ASEAN countries — Brunei , Indonesia , Malaysia , the Philippines , Singapore and Thailand — and Australia , Canada , Japan , South Korea , New Zealand and the United States . |