Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Fewer than a fifth of the schools kept records of pupils ' achievements in science . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The great experiment would take place with MacDonald able to count upon less than a third of the members of the House of Commons . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Less than a third of the teenagers questioned earned any extra money from part time jobs . |
| 13 | That is , less than a third of the clergy are members of the DUP . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Even if a few of the resistors are never used , this still represents a very cheap and easy way to buy resistors . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The stand we were in was wooden and when a few of the fans tried to light up their cigs. they were immediately pounced upon by the attendants to cordially desist . |