Example sentences of "[num] of [art] [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The minority party , realising that they could take advantage of the troubles , persuaded the Duke of Cumberland to issue a warrant against three of the former Councillors for treason and they were committed to Perth prison . |
2 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
3 | It was in a sad little side street — one of a few survivors from the era of terraced housing before the sprawling council estate was built in the fifties . |
4 | The years in Lubyanka prison in Moscow transformed Wallenberg into a hostage of the Cold War , and then into one of the many errors of the Stalinist period whose truth became too ghastly to reveal . |
5 | Eventually they found a spot , away from the track but on the edge of one of the many glades in the forest . |
6 | Certainly we do not need to try to go into the whole causal history of an event in order to specify something — one of the many sets of things — that had the property of making the occurrence of the event necessary . |
7 | One of the many reactions to the decision of the House of Lords in Caldwell ( 1982 ) was that it went against DPP v. |
8 | Rostov the Great , Moscow , one of the many sites to be seen from Anna Karenina |
9 | One of the many proposals for using RIS in nuclear physics concerns the mass of the neutrino and its implication in the missing mass of the Universe ( New Scientist , vol 86 , p 308 ) . |
10 | Today it houses the Vigili Urbani , one of the many factions of the Italian police forces . |
11 | He seemed to be haunted by a fear of being forgotten by his friends and Gould became one of the many objects of an obsessive correspondence . |
12 | It was one of the many coves in Fethiye Bay where you can anchor up while the meltem , the locally variable north-westerly that is both the driving force and the cooling fan of the Lycian coast between May and September , does its stuff . |
13 | This is one of the many advantages of an ‘ open ’ system . |
14 | One of the many advantages of a delicensed black cab is that unless the cops know it 's delicensed , the chances of getting pulled for not wearing a seat-belt are fairly remote . |
15 | One of the many advantages in working with miniatures is that you can create an enormous variety of different visual effects according to the way in which you group the finished pictures . |
16 | This was only one of the many directions in which the Yakut people spread from their homeland on the Lena . |
17 | Above : A Lunula Butterfly is just one of the many inhabitants in Paul 's 250 gallon tank . |
18 | It is one of the many ironies in our provision for old people that we offer the fit elderly cheap transport ( which they take up enthusiastically to visit their relatives ) but make no provision to enable the relatives of the frail housebound to visit them . |
19 | The hotel is very modern and pleasant , and one of the many skyscrapers in the middle of Campinas . |
20 | ‘ Lyle carpets is also in the early stages of BS5750 ’ said Managing Director , John Stewart , as he described one of the many changes in progress . |
21 | First , a particular instance : one of the many cases of ‘ hypercorrection ’ that were noticed . |
22 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
23 | The water supply to the mill house comes from one of the many springs in the area and has always been known locally as Newent Spa Water . |
24 | One of the many clocks on display — and for sale — at the Dazzle exhibition |
25 | As ever , Omi was in , sitting patiently at the table , writing one of the many letters with which she kept the tattered network of Brombergs and Ritters precariously bound together . |
26 | This is a true story of one of the many tragedies of apartheid — a white South African policeman falls in love with a woman of mixed race , resigns from his job and goes to live with her in Cape Town . |
27 | This was just one of the many problems in getting ashore . |
28 | One of the many functions of local councils is the care and maintenance of local parks and commons etc , used by the public for recreation purposes . |
29 | One of the many dangers for South Africa 's evolution is that each move which President de Klerk makes will be discounted in advance by the opposition . |
30 | By the age of 5 the majority of children have now already attended one of the many forms of pre-school provision outside the family ( e.g. nursery school , nursery class , playgroup , day nursery , child minder ) . |