Example sentences of "of [det] [be] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulk of that is for the next generation of mobile phones — the personal communications network — to get 30 p.c. of that market . |
| 2 | Possibly the most poignant illustration of that was from the last testament of the Assistant Governor of the Maze Prison , ‘ I feel sorry for them , ’ he said of his killers , knowing as he wrote that he was likely to die . |
| 3 | None of this is for the faint-hearted . |
| 4 | All of this is with the avowed intent of improving his company 's products . |
| 5 | One of the most obvious symbols of this is in the public houses ; if there is more than one pub , each tends to be patronized by different social classes , while a single pub will usually have socially segregated ‘ lounge ’ and ‘ public ’ bars ( Newby 1979 ) . |
| 6 | The most extreme example of this was in the surgical treatment sometimes meted out to women . |
| 7 | Affiliates of TNCs accounted for about one-eighth of the Third World food processing industry , and about 90 per cent of this was in the branded goods and the export sector . |
| 8 | The majority of these are of the so-called ‘ Veneto Ware ’ type , derived from Byzantine prototypes , including a fine , large pot ( albarello ) which suggests the influence of Lombard work , and an outstanding series of dishes and jugs decorated with geometric , floral and figurative designs , glazed in shades of green , brown and black . |
| 9 | There are currently over 28,000 part-time staff in Government Service and , while the great majority of these are in the junior grades , ten per cent of women at Principal level and above ( senior staff ) now work part time . |
| 10 | Norway is the major EFTA country receiving Grampian manufactured exports , and the majority of these are from the Mechanical engineering sector . |
| 11 | The most interesting of these is from the Persian king himself , regulating the details of the Jewish passover . |
| 12 | Three of these were of the same size as those in the front compartment : the other three were no more than five feet in length . |
| 13 | Seven of these were on the British side , where the contractors were fined 50,000 in March 1990 after the fifth death . |
| 14 | Only nine oesophageal perforations occurred during a total of 1373 dilatation treatments ( procedure related incidence 0.58% ) , and eight of these were in the corrosive stricture group . |
| 15 | Only nine perforations occurred during a total of 1373 dilatation sessions ( procedure related incidence of perforation 0.58% ) in the whole group ; eight of these were in the corrosive group ( total number of dilatation sessions 990 , procedure related incidence of perforation 0.8% ) . |
| 16 | In one respect , however , the government 's stated intention was noticeably frustrated ; only 38 appointments to District General Manager ( DGM ) posts were made from outside the NHS , and many of these were from the armed forces rather than the private businesses the government wished to tap . |
| 17 | For their second book , they interviewed 700 mothers of four-year-old children , but only 275 of these were from the original sample ( Newson and Newson 1968 ) . |
| 18 | Two of these were near the existing Winfrith experimental plant , run by the UKAEA . |
| 19 | One of these was to the main entry on " Interlanguage " ( M.Sharwood Smith ) . |
| 20 | Perhaps the best hope of all is in the extreme north-west of the New Territories , in the Deep Bay area on the eastern bank of the Pearl River . |