Example sentences of "[subord] [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where one of the insured persons has died abroad , the policy provides cover for funeral expenses or the cost of transporting the remains to the U.K. In such instances the wishes of the deceased 's family are of paramount importance and they must be consulted very closely . |
| 2 | This is an area of some controversy at the moment in psychology , where one of the holy grails is the attempt to provide empirical evidence for the intuitively reasonable idea that there can be a dissociation of behaviour from consciousness . |
| 3 | In addition , the effectiveness of certain other types of clause is limited by statute where one of the contracting parties deals as a consumer ; for instance , the Consumer Arbitration Agreements Act 1988 restricts the enforcement of an arbitration clause against a person who makes a contract as a consumer , unless certain conditions are fulfilled . |
| 4 | However , long before Pete Dye 's Ocean course was planned , other big names in the world of golf course design had made their mark with courses at Osprey Point ( Tom Fazio ) , Marsh Point ( Gary Player ) , where 13 of the 18 holes are framed by water , and Turtle Point ( Jack Nicklaus ) , which is rated among the top ten in South Carolina ( Golf Digest , a leading U.S. golf magazine , refers to it as one of America 's top resort courses ) . |
| 5 | There are fewer than 500 of the shy birds left in Britain ; their numbers have been hit by earlier cutting of grass and silage , which destroyed their nests and young . |
| 6 | Marked differences also existed in their relationships with the father of their children : less than two-thirds of the ex-care women but all the comparison women were living with the father of their child . |
| 7 | Iliescu won the presidency with almost 86 per cent of the popular vote , and the NSF secured more than two-thirds of the parliamentary seats . |
| 8 | No fewer than 75 of the 99 households recorded in 1861 had been there ten years earlier . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now an appeal has gone out for more than 100 of the former workers to lodge applications for payment , no matter the circumstances of their claim . |
| 11 | An appeal was lodged almost immediately since , in his summing up , the judge had drastically cut the charges , asking the jury to consider the evidence of just 23 of the 94 prosecution witnesses and less than 100 of the 950 pages of evidence . |
| 12 | Nearly one million people have been JOBLESS for more than a year and personal BANKRUPTCIES soared by a third to more than 16,000 in the six months to June . |
| 13 | A big erm , funnily enough , although three of the other chaps that were involved in , erm , one of them really upset me cos they run up together , he was navigator on together . |
| 14 | It also includes people who were resident in the United Kingdom on or after 10 December 1974 and in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the relevant time falls ( see IHTA 1984 , s267 ) . |
| 15 | What planning should he undertake with respect to inheritance tax — bearing in mind that under the deemed domicile provisions in IHTA 1984 , s267(1) the taxpayer is deemed to be domiciled in the United Kingdom if he was so domiciled three years immediately preceding his death or he was resident in the United Kingdom in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the death occurs ? |
| 16 | No fewer than 42 of the recorded marriages are between two compositors . |
| 17 | No fewer than 13 of the 16 sites identified by the Lanarkshire working group for development as locations for new industrial activity are already being developed as a result of the extra resources and the extra commitment of the Government . |
| 18 | The LDP leadership election of Oct. 27 came at the end of an unusually bitter political campaign , and many observers were surprised that Miyazawa did not obtain more than 285 of the 496 votes cast by the 395 LDP deputies and the 101 representatives from local party organisations . |
| 19 | Which is pretty much what happens , although one of the new jumpers does n't quite get it right and ends up doing an unscheduled , but spectacular stunt . |
| 20 | Although one of the earliest questions put to him in England concerned this category of ‘ the West ’ , in the subsequent fervour that accompanied the transformation of Derrida 's work into the method of deconstruction , this problem tended to slip out of view . |
| 21 | Tourism , although one of the biggest sources of income to the island , is not oversold . |
| 22 | Although one of the main claims to fame of student rugby is its unpredictability , A south African win against France in the final seems to be eminently possible . |
| 23 | No less than five of the seven members of this new Australian band contribute percussion , which should give you some idea of the general musical drift . |
| 24 | Although five of the six departments do acquire social and cultural information , little effort is put into using what is acquired . |
| 25 | More than three-quarters of the requested items which were at binding were serial parts being bound into volumes for the first time . |
| 26 | More than one of the void screens had at last been overloaded . |
| 27 | Save as provided in the said regulation 36 and without derogation from the provisions of the last preceding paragraph of this regulation , no person , being a motor trader and the holder of a trade licence , shall use any mechanically propelled vehicle on a public road by virtue of that licence for a purpose other than a business purpose and other than one of the following purposes : |
| 28 | Llanelli 's second try , a disarmingly easy one by Steve Bowling on the blind side of a scrum-five , was of more modest proportions and if Jeff Bird had kicked more than one of the six chances he had the conclusion would by half-time have been foregone . |
| 29 | Many experiments have used purpose-built probes rather than one of the standard techniques . |
| 30 | Mixed etiology when more than one of the above factors occur in a family . |