Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of the judgment in that case we would uphold the applicant 's objection to the proposed interview on the third rather than the first of the grounds put before us . |
| 2 | If this is the face of your soul , then you are more evil than the worst of the stories about you . ’ |
| 3 | As he travelled , so the last of the migrations travelled south past him — the arctic tern , the redwing , and some of the gulls . |
| 4 | Although a sixth of the clergy of the diocese 's 272 parishes were deprived because they refused to take the oath of allegiance to Elizabeth 's church , the remainder stayed on , modifying their public practices if not their private beliefs . |
| 5 | An occasion marked by a speech from the president himself , Peter Mead of Abbot Mead Vickers , which was noticeably defensive although a few of the jokes might have been considered mildly offensive by one or two sections of society ( indicating that the IPA , like kindred bodies , is still predominantly white , male and middle-class ) . |
| 6 | Fewer than a fifth of the schools kept records of pupils ' achievements in science . |
| 7 | An unprecedented hunger strike took place in Tbilisi , the republican capital , in an attempt to block the changes ; more than a hundred of the demonstrators had to be taken to hospital . |
| 8 | For example , in the mid-1960s less than a third of the students at university were girls ; that figure has now risen to over 40 per cent and is probably still rising ( Blackstone , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 10 | In Morris ' study of the households of forty redundant steelworkers , kin were providing extra help — mostly in the form of food and clothes for the children — for less than a third of the families ( Morris , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | The great experiment would take place with MacDonald able to count upon less than a third of the members of the House of Commons . |
| 12 | High levels of unemployment , mortgage arrears and family break-ups are the chief causes of homelessness and more than a third of the properties will be targetted at those groups . |
| 13 | Even in his defence of Needham , Dr Chapman admits that at one mill more than a third of the apprentices died , absconded or had to be returned and only two out of 780 apprentices recruited were later employed as adult workers . |
| 14 | More than a third of the undergraduates never ordered books at the university bookshops , and less than a third of the grant provided by the Department of Education and Science was spent as it was supposed to be . |
| 15 | Less than a third of the teenagers questioned earned any extra money from part time jobs . |
| 16 | That is , less than a third of the clergy are members of the DUP . |
| 17 | In 1635 , the churchwardens of Beckington in Somerset were excommunicated and imprisoned for defying the authorities ; yet the following year William Piers , Bishop of Bath and Wells , admitted that fewer than a third of the parishes in his diocese had converted their communion tables into altars . |
| 18 | The report of that research — Accident risk and behavioural patterns of younger drivers , published last year — showed that more than a third of the men aged 17 to 25 were assessed as ‘ unsafe ’ drivers , and suggested that this had more to do with lifestyle than with driving skills . |
| 19 | The imprisoned Mr Mandela has met in recent months more than a dozen of the chieftains and assorted dignitaries — his Xhosa wife , Winnie , among them - who were on the podium . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal , on his appeal against his conviction for theft upon one count covering all three consignments , on the ground that the count was bad for duplicity in that there were three separate appropriations , held that there had been no appropriation until the last of the goods were loaded , or probably until the defendant deviated from the route to the proper destination . |
| 21 | If possible , try to relax , lie down or put your feet up , until the worst of the symptoms are over . |
| 22 | Even if a few of the resistors are never used , this still represents a very cheap and easy way to buy resistors . |
| 23 | The reason why we differentiate between the south east and south west is also important because the southern of the bridges , the Skeldergate Bridge in York is by far the most heavily congested on the inner ring road and in particularly in going in the west to east direction , so the south west sector scores worse in that respect because it feeds traffic on to the most congested bridge of the inner ring road . |
| 24 | Since the first of the resolutions ( Resolution 14 ) proposes a change to the Company 's Articles of Association , it will have to be moved as a special resolution . |
| 25 | It was more than an hour since the last of the horsecarts had clattered through Cotton Lane and now the fog was thickening . |
| 26 | The problem was that equal pay was entangled with a restructuring of the work process in the Edinburgh printing trade : increasingly there was a division of labour , with certain men , and almost all the women , directed to straight typesetting , while a few of the men concentrated on the finishing processes . |
| 27 | I get out I get out of bed at eight o' clock when the last of the lodgers has gone well the last of the two lodgers |
| 28 | After morning service , when the last of the footsteps , and voices exchanging greetings , had died away , she heard the vicar ride off , the clip-clop of the horse 's hooves as clear as a bell on the cold air . |
| 29 | When the last of the humans had gone , she dashed nimbly over to the nearest Chelonian and swiped the strangely shaped gun from its unresisting grip . |
| 30 | Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients . |