Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of herbs during the twentieth century had dwindled so much before their present popularity that it had been reduced to the culinary few , such as parsley and mint , with adventurous cooks experimenting with chives , sage and thyme . |
| 2 | The Domesday Book gives a good indication of the status of certain places as caputs at the heads of estates in the eleventh century . |
| 3 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 4 | The aim of this research is to investigate the historical commitment of both managements and workers to this system despite a large number of attempts before the second world war to adopt alternative reward structures in industry . |
| 5 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it signed a number of contracts during the first quarter of 1993 totalling $30m for AXE digital switching kit to extend the public telecommunications network in Liaoning Province , Peoples Republic of China . |
| 6 | The Kadets had won the largest block of deputies to the First Duma , they had enjoyed the spectacle of leading figures in the government sounding them out on the terms on which they would enter the cabinet ; power seemed almost within their grasp . |
| 7 | Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov about the " violation of Moldova 's airspace " by the CIS airforce , and requested measures to ensure the " non-interference of servicemen of the 14th Army in Moldova 's internal affairs " . |
| 8 | Slowly the exterior background settings for religious paintings , the major activity of artists in the seventeenth century , took on more detailed contours and established geographic as well as topographic influences that we still see in some forms of landscape painting today . |
| 9 | Around seventy-five firms will be showing a range of objects on the third floor of the shop , all of which will be vetted by an independent committee prior to the event . |
| 10 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 11 | The first meeting will be an opportunity for those interested in teacher research to meet , to formally establish the group and create a programme of activities for the next year . |
| 12 | Of birds for the first time ever heard , |
| 13 | The gonococcus , a micro-biological master of male chauvinism , not only gives virtually no clues as to its presence in an infected female , but , should she attend a clinic or specialist for the purposes of diagnosis , it will only reveal itself m-some 50 per cent of cases at the first visit compared to well over 90 per cent of cases in males . |
| 14 | Similarly , responses to us in writing within six weeks of referral rose from 25% of cases in the first audit to 60% in the second . |
| 15 | Groups at the lowest level will themselves form constituents of groups at the next level up , and so on through the hierarchy . |
| 16 | At the head of these troops was a battalion of fusiliers of the 15th Regiment of Infantry , commanded by Maj von Keller , which Gneisenau had earlier discovered sprawling in the ditches by the roadside within sight of Genappe . |
| 17 | When , under the hail of bombs in the last phase of the war , some Nazi cranks and fanatics sent letters to the Propaganda Ministry , extraordinary even for the Third Reich in the depths of inhumanity they plumbed , suggesting the shooting or burning of Jews in retaliation for allied air raids , it was occasionally specifically requested that the ‘ suggestions ’ be sent on to Hitler . |
| 18 | If the glorifying speeches and writings of subleaders during the Third Reich itself are no proof of this , the behaviour of Nazi leaders arraigned at Nuremberg and post-war memoirs ( for all their obvious apologetics ) demonstrate it conclusively . |
| 19 | The influx of recruits after the First World War made conditions at George Square inadequate and some of the staff returned to offices in the Sheriff Court Buildings , the site of which is now occupied by the Scottish National Library . |
| 20 | Students have the opportunity to study a broad range of subjects in the first year including economics , law , accounting , information processing and statistics . |
| 21 | A good title to add to any collection of books on the Third Reich and , by today 's standards , reasonably priced . |
| 22 | The progressive dominance of print since the invention of the mechanised production of books in the fifteenth century has given us a very prosaic and flat image of the Bible that hides its true nature . |
| 23 | Coppell called a truce in the war of words with his Anfield counterpart Graeme Souness , saying : ‘ There was a flurry of words after the last game , but we both have respect for each other . |
| 24 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 25 | Following a doubling of losses in the fourth quarter to $8.8m ( 1991 : $4.4m loss ) , the deficit in European territories at the full year was up by almost a third from $27.7m to $36.7m . |
| 26 | In December 1989 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , following the visit of an IMF delegation , decided to delay disbursement of funds for the second phase of the structural adjustment programme agreed with Equatorial Guinea in December 1988 [ see p. 36923 ] . |
| 27 | and at the end of the national hunt racing season … celebrations for Gloucestershire 's top stables … trainer David Nicholson reached a century of winners for the first time and champion jockey Richard Dunwoody finished with 173 … a record year for them both |
| 28 | Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole . |
| 29 | Whether or not his opinions actually percolated down to subordinate commanders many of them seemed to share his beliefs about keeping the French out , or at least , in an interesting reversal of roles in the First World War , treating France as an associated rather than an allied power . |
| 30 | On September 11 , only a couple of months after the 25th anniversary of the last steam from this famous terminus , Taw Valley will go yet again into preservation history with ‘ The Bournemouth Ltd ’ which she will haul from Waterloo to Bournemouth throughout . |