Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Results showed that 95 per cent of the registered electorate of 193,800 went to the polls and that 90 per cent of these voted " to remain part of Yugoslavia with Serbia and Montenegro and others who want to preserve Yugoslavia " . |
| 2 | Some 86 per cent of the electorate of 35,000 went to the polls . |
| 3 | About 85 per cent of the electorate of 1,692,000 went to the polls , all those aged 18 and over being eligible to vote . |
| 4 | The official crime statistics show that , in 1980 , 421 cases of rape were proved in the courts , out of a total of 1,225 cases recorded by the police , and that 2,423 cases of indecent ( i.e. sexual ) assault were proved out of 11,498 recorded by the police . |
| 5 | Doing their best for the glory of Canada , the whole field of eleven swept round the bend and went down the far side as if welded together , and it still seemed when they turned for home that that was how they might finish , in a knot . |
| 6 | Then one day , when I visited the hospital by chance — Alec was ‘ on duty ’ — a boy of eight arrived at the surgery , carried by his father . |
| 7 | An alternative method of tying off rope coils using a separate figure of eight tied into the harness . |
| 8 | The Dolgarrog Dam disaster of 1925 led to the passing of this legislation . |
| 9 | Whatever advertisers and their agencies may think about the respective merits of Conservative , Labour or even Liberal Democrat administrations , general election mean a windfall of about £10m worth of business for media owners and a favoured few advertising agencies — reportedly some £8m of that spent by the Conservatives , £2m by Labour and a meagre £250,000 by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 10 | The total vertical heat transport is the sum of that transported by the motion and that conducted down the temperature gradient ( cf. also Section 21.7 ) . |
| 11 | The meeting was arranged after predictions by the administration 's Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and the Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ) that the US budget deficit for fiscal 1991 ( beginning Oct. 1 , 1990 ) , would be considerably in excess of that anticipated in the administration 's budget proposal of January 1990 [ see pp. 37177-79 ] . |
| 12 | Bunkers , coal , they all coal furnace you see , and we er they 'd come in and we used to fill them up with coal , whatever they wanted lot of that went over the side coal , beautiful coal that was . |
| 13 | Head of the school Mike McKechnie later visited Shanghai to seal a friendship agreement and discuss the course content , a scaled down but otherwise authentic version of that taught at the institute . |
| 14 | By notice of appeal dated 15 February 1991 Mr. Smart appealed against that refusal on the grounds that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in holding that the principles of natural justice did not endow a prisoner serving a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment with the right to know the factors ( including the views of the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice ) which the Secretary of State took into account when fixing the tariff , the right to make informed representations to the Secretary of State about the length of the tariff to be applied and the right to be provided with the reasons for the period chosen by the Secretary of State as the tariff period ; and ( 2 ) in holding that the practice of the Secretary of State in murder cases of fixing a tariff in excess of that recommended by the trial judge and/or the Lord Chief Justice was lawful . |
| 15 | They are also more than twice as likely to develop their own meanings as they are to extend those contributed by children , this ratio being almost the exact opposite of that found in the speech of parents . |
| 16 | This trend towards compulsory admissions of young people to residential care is the reverse of that intended in the Children Act 1975 , which stresses the importance of considering the child 's wishes and feelings , having regard to his age and understanding ( Children Act 1975 , Ch. 5.3 ) . |
| 17 | But none of these made any difference to the basic shape of these key results : on the first repetition , t was not important but both and k were — and in the direction predicted by the theory ; on the second repetition , t was important ( and with the right sign ) , as were σ and k — but they both had the wrong sign ( the opposite of that predicted by the theory ) . |
| 18 | They found that where the market value was 85 per cent or less of that predicted by the model , shares outperformed the market . |
| 19 | The effect of giving non-reinforced pre-exposure to the target flavour was to reduce the readiness with which it came to function as a safety signal — that is , the outcome was the opposite of that predicted by the suggestion that the pre-exposed stimulus might already have acquired some of the properties of a safety signal . |
| 20 | Today , the Croats insist that the number of Serbs , gypsies and Jews massacred in the camps of the quisling Axis-allied Croatian state was only a tiny fraction of that claimed by the communists . |
| 21 | The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians ' far distant and antique cousin , the lungfish . |
| 22 | There were so many reasons he could think of that stood in the way of his emulating Sebastian Smith of Greycoats that he could not start to list them . |
| 23 | This is the angle through which a source must be moved at constant detector distance to reduce the count to 50% of that measured with the source on the detector axis . |
| 24 | Returning to the Red Cross building , the house opposite ( 20/184 ) by F. M. Kaňka of 1720 belonged to the Hartig family . |
| 25 | If we believe , and many of us do , in unitary local government — one door to knock on and one set of people to hold to account — we must give them something to do other than riding around in a civic car pretending that they are important and delivering nothing , responsive to no demands , not aspiring to change and improvement , and not even doing what the Conservatives of old did in the Chamberlain era when there was the sort of socialism that is now anathema to the Tory party . |
| 26 | The members of the Legislative Commission of 1767 received from the areas which elected them both instructions and statements of grievances : digests of these were studied by the empress and had considerable influence on her later activities , notably on the reform of provincial administration in 1775 . |
| 27 | Neil , who was the most seriously hurt of 67 injured in the blast earlier this month , plans to marry Sue in the New Year . |
| 28 | However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically . |
| 29 | More than 300 kg N , 80 kg P and 560 kg K were recovered per hectare per year by this method and most of this passed through the pigs and was used as fertilizer for the cropped fields . |
| 30 | One was precious because it was a folio , and another because it was a duodecimo ; some because they were tall , some because they were short ; the merit of this lay in the title-page — of that in the arrangement of the letters in the word Finis . |