Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | The data from Study 2 for the 60 films was compared with the new ratings to see whether this holds for the full set of 60 films . |
2 | At Liverpool University , almost 1,600 of the 9,000 students are over 21 . |
3 | The CED is the most consistent , with 12 of the 15 scores being in the 60-70% range , and a standard deviation of 4.57 . |
4 | A study of people using a shelter in Boston found that although 30 of the 68 respondents were suffering from a psychosis , only five had been admitted to hospital for longer than a year in total . |
5 | Some 32 of the 1987 suicides were by people aged 15-24 : more than 500 per 100,000 males of this age . |
6 | In 1938 Young Communist League membership stood at 4,500 compared with a total Party membership of 16,000 , while at the Birmingham Congress of that year 226 of the 539 delegates were under the YCL age limit of 30 . |
7 | The state of health of 605 of the 610 patients was determined ; the remaining five were lost to follow up , but their deaths had not been reported to the NHS Central Register . |
8 | Eight of the new ministers were admirers of fascist Italy and/or Nazi Germany ; seven were not . |
9 | Here only eight of the 3,000 communicants were Nonconformists . |
10 | For instance , the London Borough of Southwark remained under Labour control after the May 1982 local elections , but two-thirds of the Labour councillors were new , following ‘ de-selections ’ and defections to the newly formed Social Democratic Party . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Twenty six of the 101 subjects were known to have non-insulin dependent diabetes , and non-insulin dependent diabetes was newly diagnosed in one subject by the investigations of this study . |
14 | In the century from 1862 to 1961 six of the eight archbishops were former headmasters of public schools . |
15 | The population was distributed in a very uneven pattern with the concentration in four county boroughs of the south providing a contrast to the scattered and declining population of north and mid-Wales : ‘ six of the thirteen counties were experiencing falling populations and most of the others were only just holding their own ’ ( Wood 1976 : 117 ) . |
16 | The Netherlands plan had also envisaged that full EMU could start when only six of the 12 states were economically and politically ready ( rather than seven or eight as proposed by others ) . |
17 | Six of the listed mosaics are from Chadworth ; seven are from Newton St.Loe ; four are from North Leigh ; four are from Stonesfield ; seven are from Withington ; and at least ten ( nearer twenty , if fragments are accounted for ) from Woodchester . |
18 | This time six of the smaller regions were un-opposed . |
19 | ( Six of the 21 senators were designated by the President , nine by the government and six by the Leader of the Opposition ) . |
20 | Nineteen of the 25 children were reported never to have established a regular sleep pattern , and 22 were classified as having severe sleep problems . |
21 | Thirteen of the high-risk subjects were diagnosed as schizophrenic . |
22 | Prasad Pillai , secretary of the International Squash Rackets Federation , said 10 of the 16 quarter-finalists were checked for drugs during the World Open in Kuala Lumpur in October . |
23 | In the second stage of gubernatorial , congressional and local elections held on Sept. 8 , the ruling Justicialist Party ( PJ — the Peronists ) built on their success in the first stage in August [ see p. 38388 ] by winning 10 of the 13 governorships being contested and gaining seven seats in the Chamber of Deputies , although this was still insufficient to give the PJ an outright majority . |
24 | Filling three of the six slots were some interesting cards . |
25 | The fact that three of the six sectors were nationalized — coal , electricity and railways — helped . |
26 | In accordance with the creation in February of the Democratic Liberal Party ( formed from an amalgamation of Roh 's ruling Democratic Justice Party with two opposition groups — see p. 37247 ) , three of the new ministers were former members of the opposition . |
27 | By midsummer 1992 , according to a poll carried out for the newspaper The European , only in three of the twelve countries was there support for the Maastricht Treaty of over 50 per cent . |
28 | And it is easy enough to answer the question : ‘ Why bother at all with the B arrangement , which is wasteful of paper , since three of the four versos are left blank ? ’ |
29 | Only one of the infants with these malformations was delivered by elective caesarean section ( the one with Vater syndrome ) ; three of the four others were not recognised as presenting by the breech until labour was established , which limited the scope for prenatal diagnosis . |
30 | Three of the four employees were formally accused of fraud and forgery , and Fuji admitted to having suffered losses of 27,100 million yen ( about $200 million ) as a result of the scheme which had begun in 1987 . |