Example sentences of "[num] of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's hundreds of the bloody things int there ? |
| 2 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 3 | Transfer can not be ordered where an Act or statutory instrument other than the 1981 Rules , eg s 17 of the Married Women 's Property Act 1982 , requires the matter to be commenced in a particular court ( Ord 16 , r 3 ) . |
| 4 | Such notice might also be given in an originating application under s 17 of the Married Women 's Property Act 1882 . |
| 5 | In accordance with the recommendation of the Select Committee of The House of Commons ‘ on Foreign Office reconstruction' ’ , made in their Report , dated 13th July last , ‘ ‘ that a preference should be given to the successful competitors in the erection of the New Foreign Office , it is the intention of the Government to employ as the architect of the proposed building , in the event of the necessary funds being voted by Parliament in the ensuing Session , Mr. George Gilbert Scott , one of the successful competitors ' ’ . |
| 6 | Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country . |
| 7 | The bell of St Mary Le Bow began to toll the curfew , the sign that all trading should cease , as four urchins pulled a huge yule log up to the door of one of the great merchants ' houses . |
| 8 | He 's not standing this time and has been replaced by one of the Liberal Democrats ' top backroom boys Sir William Goodhart . |
| 9 | One of the Liberal Democrats ' best chances of winning a new seat in next week 's general election lies in Hereford . |
| 10 | It remains a mystery to me why we should have had to wait as long as this for a recital disc , and why it should not have appeared on one of the major companies ' labels ( all credit to Delos ) . |
| 11 | He was sent to the remote town of Weewak — scene of one of the Japanese forces ' final stands in World War II — where a new European Hospital was being built to help the impoverished natives . |
| 12 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him . |
| 13 | Mr. J. C. Moult now became Vice-Chairman , and Mr. W.A. Kershaw was elected as one of the Old Stopfordians ' nominees on the Governing body . |
| 14 | This is partly because fishing rights erm were written in erm to the , to the European Community system erm as part of in a sense the agricultural policy , erm because they were regarded as part of food policy , and it was thought that you must have , if you 're going to have a common agricultural policy , and that was one of the important points erm of the negotiations for setting up the European Community , then a common fisheries policy went alongside with that . |
| 15 | One of the numerous tradesmen 's debating clubs of market-town life , the White Hart Evening Club , provided the first forum for what became an increasingly devastating critique of the corruption of English government , and Paine was the most frequent recipient of the Headstrong Book , given to the most obstinate debater at each meeting . |
| 16 | The film was based on a saucy Twenties stage comedy by Robert Munro , better known as the late comedian Sonnie Hale , and it was not one of the Boulting Brothers ' best , despite the presence of some great British character actors . |
| 17 | And that must be the underlying , one of the underlying themes i i in considering er this this in considering this review of the area around York . |
| 18 | Fifty-two people were killed when shells slammed into a makeshift hospital in the enclave , one of the United Nations 's six ‘ safe areas ’ for Bosnia 's Slavic Muslims . |
| 19 | My particular role erm in the operation was to carry one of the ballistic shields erm and I also erm during the briefing was informed that I would be the first person through the front door and consequent consequently to the door of the master bedroom . |
| 20 | In 1989 only two of the Progressive Democrats ' six TDs were elected by votes given exclusively to their party . |
| 21 | In an effort to boost agricultural exports , the Economy Minister reached a " fiscal pact " with two of the main farmers ' organizations , the Argentine Rural Society ( SRA ) and the Argentine Rural Confederation ( CRA ) , on March 18 . |
| 22 | ‘ We call for explicit guarantees of media and press freedom in the constitutions of all African countries as stipulated in Article 19 of the United Nations ' Declaration on Human Rights , ’ they stressed . |
| 23 | With the establishment in July 1988 of the Palestinian Women 's Higher Council , Palestinian women took a very important step in ensuring the consolidation of their advances . |