Example sentences of "of [num] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to identify a murine homologue of LFA-3 led to the unexpected finding that mouse CD2 interacts with a different molecule , BCM1 ( CD48 ) 49 . |
| 2 | These 20 patients were taken from a total of 32 diagnosed during the same period ; 12 patients were excluded because of poor compliance with the diet ( seven cases ) or denied consent to the protocol ( five cases ) . |
| 3 | In the House of Representatives , controlled by the Democratic Party since 1956 , the party won 259 seats , a net loss of eight compared with the 1990 result . |
| 4 | The figure was calculated from a population of 74,014 taken from the electoral register at September 10 last year . |
| 5 | Whelan is one of 700 entered in the annual ordeal , which offers just 40 cards for next year 's £25 million circuit . |
| 6 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 7 | Thailand increased its rubber exports by 31 per cent in the first half of 1985 compared with the same period the year before — yet its rubber revenues fell by eight per cent1 . |
| 8 | And Stena Sealink claimed that the total market had grown by a mammoth 39pc over the first four months of 1993 compared with the previous year . |
| 9 | Manufacturing productivity rose nearly 8% in the first quarter of 1993 compared to the same period last year . |
| 10 | The form of the book , written from the imagined perspective of the year 2034 , is a review of developments since 1870 and an analysis of the surprising troubles of 2033 provoked by the populist movement — a ‘ strange blend of women in the lead and men in the rank and file ’ . |
| 11 | The victory of the Conservatives in the British general elections of 1979 led to a radical questioning of the role of the public enterprise sector . |
| 12 | However , the incoming Conservative government of 1979 opted for a different approach . |
| 13 | Tobacco released to the market was down 11.3 percent in the first half of 1991 compared with the same period of 1990 and 17.7 percent down compared with the second half of 1990 . |
| 14 | Industrial output fell by 4.5 per cent in the first quarter of 1991 compared with the same period in 1990 , falling in the engineering sector by 14.2 per cent but rising in the food industry by 13 per cent . |
| 15 | What little excitement there was for the colourful Cagliari crowd of 30,000 came from the Italian midfielder Giannini . |
| 16 | The general election of 1929 resulted in the Labour Party , with liberal support , forming the government and Ramsay Macdonald again becoming Prime Minister . |
| 17 | He began to feel himself approached by God , and in the summer of 1929 went through a mystical experience . |
| 18 | The play is being performed by Second Wave members with the cast of thirteen drawn from the weekly performance group ( 12–16 year olds ) . |
| 19 | The bureau , in Horsemarket , received 259 inquiries during November last year an increase of 90 compared to the same month in 1990 . |
| 20 | BP 's Miller platform ; one of three included in a long term contract awarded to the division during 1992 . |
| 21 | Almost immediately after completing the poem , he began in the early months of 1941 to work on the fourth in the sequence ; it was entitled " Little Gidding " . |
| 22 | For melanoma , it has been shown that the de novo expression of ICAM-1 correlates with an increased risk of metastasis . |
| 23 | The new year of 1946 began with a bitter chill across England . |
| 24 | It is also true that the Constitution of 1812 went beyond the naïve reformism of liberal priests , lawyers , and local notables who formed the substantial majority of the deputies . |
| 25 | How could a violently anti-system movement conceived for an extraordinary emergency akin to that of 1940 adapt to a gradualist parliamentary strategy ? |
| 26 | That eventful first full year of 1908 finished with the second Annual General Meeting in October and the presentation of the First Annual Report and Financial Statement — copies of both have luckily survived , as has the bondholders ' account which deals with the course and clubhouse construction . |
| 27 | The price farmers receive for agricultural products in the European Community fell by 11.8% in real terms in the last quarter of 1992 compared with the same period of 1991 . |
| 28 | Sterling Chemicals announced a 97 per cent fall in net profits to $700000 for the first quarter of 1992 compared to the previous year . |
| 29 | With a span of control of 5 and a salary differential of 25 per cent , this implies a ‘ mark-up ’ over the front-line costs of ⅓ to allow for the hierarchical ‘ overhead ’ . |
| 30 | An 8-handicap player , he had gone round in 74 , which gave him a net score of 66 to add to the previous day 's 67 . |