Example sentences of "[num] of [art] [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pateman naturally sought , and was given , assurances that his reduced salary , which was only one-half of the National WEA 's prescribed scale of £400 a year for District Secretaries , would be paid in full and on a regular basis throughout the year . |
| 2 | Andrew Large , chairman of the Securities and Investments Board , is expected to ask the Government for stronger powers to prosecute fraud when he completes his review in March 1993 of the regulatory body 's responsibilities . |
| 3 | All these men were volunteers for world-wide service with the Second Australian Imperial Force , which provided the prefix 2 of the 2nd Company 's number ( the First AIF had served in World War I ) . |
| 4 | The government also proposed to introduce debt-waiver on loans of up to Rs10,000 for small farmers and allocation of up to 50 per cent of available resources for investment in the agricultural sector and rural development--one of the National Front 's election promises . |
| 5 | The detailed and well-researched Most Wanted list includes EIGHT of the Premier League 's dynamic performers . |
| 6 | The ‘ Trinidad terms ’ , proposed in 1990 by John Major when he was Britain 's chancellor , write off two-thirds of a poor country 's debt incurred before a certain date , and reschedule the rest over 25 years . |
| 7 | The production of textiles was still going up ; in 1913 two-thirds of the whole world 's imports of cotton goods still came from Great Britain . |
| 8 | There 's hundreds of the bloody things int there ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A guide that covers three of the Soviet Union 's largest cities , packed with maps , colour illustrations and information on the history , architecture and key sites of these glorious cities . |
| 11 | The festival now takes place in July at the Grand Theatre , the famous City Varieties , Leeds Playhouse , Leeds Civic Theatre , and three of the local authority 's community theatres . |
| 12 | The answer to three of the hon. Gentleman 's questions is yes . |
| 13 | The results confirmed that the opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) had won a massive victory , winning 392 of the 485 People 's Assembly seats contested . |
| 14 | The force of this demand had already been recognized by Macmillan by the appointment at the end of 1960 of a Prime Minister 's committee under the chairmanship of Lord Robbins . |
| 15 | Only 80 of the Royal Navy 's 124 ships of 50 guns or more had proved fit for service , fewer than the 40 Spanish and 50 French ships of the line , and both in seaworthiness and weight of gunfire the best French and Spanish ships out-classed the finest English vessels . |
| 16 | About two thirds of the Third World 's $1,000 billion debt was lent by around 550 of the world 's private banks from North America , Japan and Europe between the late 1960s and early 1980s . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Such notice might also be given in an originating application under s 17 of the Married Women 's Property Act 1882 . |
| 19 | Thatcher shipped out 100,000 of the Old Farmer 's Almanac tubes on Monday — just in time to catch their customer 's filling lines in California . |
| 20 | This policy was an attempt to satisfy Clause 4 of the Labour Party 's Constitution , which committed the party to ‘ the common ownership of the means of production , distribution and exchange , and the best possible system of popular administration and control of each industry or service ’ . |
| 21 | A list leaked The Northern Echo shows 11 of the northern region 's 15 district managers will be moved or retired as part of a wider strategy to streamline the service . |
| 22 | By 243 votes to one , the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet deleted a clause in Article 6 of the Baltic republic 's constitution describing the party as the ‘ leading and guiding force of Soviet society ’ . |
| 23 | The MMD , formed in July 1990 [ see p. 37602 ] , won 125 of the National Assembly 's 150 seats [ not 135 as given on p. 38049 ] and Kaunda 's United National Independence Party ( UNIP ) , the sole legal political party between December 1972 and December 1990 , won the remaining 25 . |
| 24 | After his walkout Paisley stated that the DUP would not rejoin the talks until discussion of Articles 2 and 3 of the Irish Republic 's Constitution , which established a territorial claim to Northern Ireland , was given priority , and he claimed that the two Articles had been placed " at the bottom of the agenda " . |
| 25 | Five of the 26 Crohn 's disease patients underwent a flexible sigmoidoscopy after four weeks of 1 mg/kg/day prednisolone therapy . |
| 26 | Ainsworth has just published her findings along with another study of the Met 's ‘ Adoration of the Magi ’ formerly attributed to Jerome Bosch , and now to a later follower , in Volume 27 of the Metropolitan Museum 's Journal ( see p. 19 ) . |
| 27 | Ahead of the voting 110 of the Supreme Soviet 's 450 deputies — members of the radical Democratic Bloc uniting the parliamentary groups from the nationalist Rukh organization , the Ukrainian Language Society and the new Republican Party ( founded on April 30 ) — had walked out of the chamber in protest at Ivashko 's candidacy , on the grounds that he was also currently the first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party ( CP ) , and that the acting Speaker of the chamber had refused to read out a statement by the Democratic Bloc to the effect that combining state and party posts in this way was impermissible . |
| 28 | Gorbachev announced on July 24 that , after 12 hours of negotiations with delegations from nine of the Soviet Union 's fifteen republics , work on the draft Union Treaty had been completed . |
| 29 | Mr Benn got 38 of the 221 MPs ' votes cast in 1988 and , he ruefully noted this week , a much worse press . |
| 30 | Within the Western tradition of art we tend to take it for granted that much can be learned from the study of the art of the past and , traditionally , copying from the works of the Great Masters was one of a young student 's most important tasks . |