Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In it alone , from the Reformation Parliament of 1529 to the European Communities Act of 1972 , the prescriptive and therefore undefined and unlimited authority of the monarch has been exercised through an equally unique representative institution . |
| 2 | Pension contributions attract no tax and can be made up to 30 per cent of earnings at the age of 55 and 40 per cent over the age of 60 for personal pensions , subject to the current earnings cap of £75,000 . |
| 3 | Now , back to the actual contents list of your mind ( imagined , assumed , or however else established ) when you use the term ‘ quality of life ’ . |
| 4 | From the first cravenly petit-bourgeois Embassy all those years ago , to the predictable monogrammed-slippers appeal of Balkan Sobranie , via the posturings of menthol and the hideous austerity of low-tar , through the Rive Gauche authenticity of fat-thumbed hand-rolling ( with or without aromatic additions ) and its brusque mechanical equivalent ( those Stakhanovite mangles , that floppy deck-chair of rubber I could never quite subdue ) , all leading to the current confident plateau , the équilibré intake of Gauloise and Winston , alloyed occasionally by the fierce kick-start of a little Swedish number named after hoi polloi 's Alsatian , Prince . |
| 5 | Among the larger whales , southern stocks of sperm whales ( males only ) , humpbacks and four species of rorquals — blue , fin , sei and minke whales — are regular summer visitors to the rich waters north of the receding pack ice ( Gambell , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | Point Three was the stumbling block , for the only significant alternative to the equitable Straits Convention of 1841 was completely to eliminate Russian naval power in the Black Sea , which would have had the effect of handing control of the region to the British . |
| 7 | Membership of the Unit was also extended to the Industrial Relations Group of the School of Industrial and Business Studies . |
| 8 | A few groups of migrants , notably among Germans and Scandinavians , who went to the Great Lakes area of the United States , or the earlier Scots settlers in Canada , exchanged a poor agricultural milieu for a better one : only 10 per cent of the foreign immigrants in the United States in 1880 were in agriculture , mostly not as farmers ‘ possibly ’ , as an observer claimed ‘ on account of the capital required to purchase and stock a farm ’ , ’ the equipment of which alone was reckoned to cost $900 in the early 1870s . |
| 9 | The Social Work Department duly acknowledged the receipt of letters sent to the nine children care of the department . |
| 10 | On 23 June , Charles and Louis sent envoys with final offers : the Frankish heartlands should be divided three ways , but Louis would give up his claims to the Franconian lands west of the Rhine , around Ingelheim and Mainz , while Charles would yield his claims to the region between the Charbonnière Forest and the Meuse . |
| 11 | Fortunately , in 1749 , it was recorded in the form Abotsbery Land and was shown subsequently to belong to the poor lands charity of Abbotsbury , a few miles from Weymouth in Dorset . |
| 12 | They are then sent to the Embassy maintained in the state of destination which conveys them to the External Affairs Ministry of that state , which will pass them over to its Ministry of Justice to be sent down to the appropriate local agency for delivery to the addressee . |
| 13 | In addition to the minimum spirits rate of 550 ECU per hlpa , a further threshold was fixed at 1000 ECU per hlpa , |
| 14 | In an address to the foreign affairs committee of the House of Representatives on Sept. 4 , Baker reiterated the aims which Bush had outlined in August [ see p. 37638 ] . |
| 15 | During a visit to Jordan on Jan. 10 , Farouq Qaddumi , who was appointed to the foreign affairs portfolio of the Palestinian government-in-exile in April 1989 [ see p. 36536 ] , said that the Baker plan had failed and called for a meeting of the Palestine National Council ( PNC , the Palestinian parliament-in-exile ) to discuss future strategy . |
| 16 | He was giving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee of MPs in the Commons on the role of the authority . |
| 17 | The mobile radio truck , belonging to the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand , had apparently been interfering with military radio frequencies , and the armed forces sought the removal from the Cabinet of Police Capt. Chalerm Yubamrung , a Minister attached to the Prime Minister 's Office , when Chalerm publicly criticized the military over the affair . |
| 18 | The right hon. Member for Gorton told the Labour party conference : ’ Over our first Parliament we shall increase Britain 's aid budget to the United Nations target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 19 | She sang along with the radio as she drove up through Gloucestershire and crossed into Wales by way of Abergavenny and Brecon , then took the road north towards Builth Wells , to the wooded hills south of the town where Penry 's house occupied a vantage point above the River Wye . |
| 20 | Most participants also agreed that , when fish stocks crossed the boundary between a 20-mile zone and international waters , the coastal state 's conservation and management measures should also apply to the high seas portion of the stocks . |
| 21 | Most of the new agencies are answerable to the appropriate minister and their chief executives are answerable to the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons . |
| 22 | The fact that the system cost around £300,000 as compared to a traditional suppliers offer of £2.5 million and only took three months to design , install , train and make fully operational reflects well on the technology — even though the paper itself failed . |
| 23 | Two South Africans and a Swazi were arrested after the discovery of the country 's largest arms haul , according to a Swazi police statement of March 9 , 1990 . |
| 24 | CYCLOSPORIN A , a cyclic undecapeptide , is a potent immunosuppressant that binds to a peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase of 165 amino acids , cyclophilin . |