Example sentences of "of [art] [num] [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the four and half hour inquest the cricket sub-committee was asked to re-define the role of captain and chief coach , to consider whether it required a team manger and ordered to report back on 28 November when , presumably , a decision will also be made on the captaincy for next season . |
| 2 | The first two have attempted comparative evaluations of the two or more orientation techniques they used concurrently . |
| 3 | There may well have been something lacking in the lives of the millions but that need had to be catered for and the catering was done by the ingenious and indefatigable army of commercial opportunists whose energy and boldness tell us an enormous amount about that age . |
| 4 | It is vital to avoid any repetition of the ‘ ozone scare ’ of the seventies when many aerosol products were banned through mistaken fears that they would deplete the earth 's protective ozone layer . |
| 5 | The British had to wait until the end of the 1930s for that luxury . |
| 6 | Although they concluded ( Burton , Kates and White , 1978 , p. 221 ) that an increase in disaster may continue in the decade of the 1980s and that reduction of disaster potential can not easily be achieved , although loss of life will be reduced substantially , loss of property is most likely to occur in rapidly developing societies and overall ( Burton , Kates and White , 1978 , p. 223 ) : |
| 7 | And he 'd got lots of famous mates that want to play on his records , and he picks up a Grammy and releases records on scrupulous labels , instead of the 30 or more indie horsefixers he 's had the misfortune to deal with over the years . |
| 8 | Recently it has become possible to convert simultaneously wood chips of a hundred or more hardwood species into paper pulp , which is important , as it is estimated that paper consumption will increase more than that of timber . |
| 9 | By the flickering light of a hundred or more paper spills , and with no small straining of the eyes , I had read things to haunt the most sceptical , least imaginative mind , even on a summer 's afternoon in good company . |