Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 This is achieved in the following way : first calculate the mean of the two adjacent values — the skip mean — thus skipping the middle value ; then calculate the mean of the value to be smoothed and the skip mean .
2 The gastrin value at each infusion rate of gastrin releasing peptide was measured by taking the mean of the two values at 30 and 45 minutes of each infusion .
3 A mean of the two with a multiplier of four arrived at a figure of two hundred and thirteen thousand , eight hundred and forty three pounds and ninety two pence .
4 During clamps a significant rise in plasma hormone concentration was defined as a concentration greater than the mean of the five baseline ( euglycaemic ) values plus two standard deviations in two or more consecutive samples .
5 Achieved plasma glucose and insulin concentrations were determined as the mean of the 50 , 55 , and 60 minute samples .
6 Every 10 minutes , three images of the gall bladder were taken and the mean of the three measurements was taken as the response at this time point .
7 The mean of the three fasting samples was used as the basal gastrin concentration .
8 The basal gastrin value for each subject was measured by taking the mean of the three samples obtained before the start of gastrin releasing peptide infusion .
9 Writers were thought to be probably the more rational and intellectual of the two .
10 Sartre ultimately chose to ignore the constructive Marxist elements in Nizan 's life and work which , from the vantage point of 1960 , were perceived as no more than a Stalinist mystification and selected instead as the model for a post-Stalinist epoch , the uncompromising rebellion of a young intellectual of the 1920s venting his spleen on the iniquities of bourgeois oppression at home and colonial oppression abroad .
11 THOUGH it has been more than 30 years since Jim Chilchutt last cut a rug at a high-school dance , he recaptures his lost youth every weekend , cruising the streets of Ventura behind the wheel of a 1948 Studebaker .
12 The car made its debut at that year 's Monaco Grand Prix with Cliff Allison ( GB ) and Graham Hill ( GB ) behind the wheel of the two entered cars .
13 As rebel fighters of Charles Taylor 's National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) tightened their grip on Monrovia , the city 's Spriggs Payne airport was temporarily closed by mortar fire on Oct. 31 , increasing the isolation of the 700,000 inhabitants of the capital , already completely cut off by land [ see p. 39131 ] .
14 Defence policy in Macmillan 's second term of office was dominated by four streams of events : an acceleration in the rate of change in weapon technology ; the ‘ Winds of Change ’ in Africa ; Britain 's first attempt to join the EEC ; and the Mountbatten reorganization of the three Service ministries into a unified Ministry of Defence .
15 Also under examination is the feasibility of a 35 to 40 knot inshore lifeboat , launching from a slipway , davit or off a beach .
16 Interestingly , the pattern of localisation of the two mRNAs is different , because the tumour necrosis factor signal is found mainly in the deeper lamina propria and the interleukin 1 signal mainly beneath the epithelium .
17 In other words , in the contrast between a humanities and a science and technological education , there was an underlying gulf in the conceptions of what a higher education stood for ; and it was Snow 's failure to recognize that that lay at the heart of Leavis ' attack on Snow 's association of the two cultures . ’
18 Detective Sergeant Peter Toft , who is leading the search for the mother , praised the quick thinking of the two brothers .
19 But for the quick thinking of the two officers — the first with his hunch about north Wales , the second with her code breaking — we might have lost the whole team . ’
20 This is a day for thinking of the Four Last Things and meditating on sin . ’
21 In fact it took a series of political blunders on Callaghan 's part to spoil Labour 's chances of being re-elected , faute de mieux , as the responsible and sober ‘ party of government ’ : the seemingly endless postponement of the election while the party 's parliamentary position crumbled , requiring the prop of transparent chicanery ; the unenforceable wishful thinking of the 5 per cent pay limit , the last straw for the unions .
22 ‘ Some people work hard all their lives and still have nothing , ’ I reminded him , thinking of the fifty pounds I 've saved for the gas bill .
23 Among younger officers , who were more distanced from the original " New Order " thinking of the 1960s , there appeared to be increasing interest in the concept of " integralism " , which urged that the administration be drawn from the broadest possible social range .
24 In an event which has always been enriched by its personalities — from Lipton , through Sopwith , Vanderbilt , Bich , Bond and de Savary , to Fay — the 52-year-old billionaire , born in Kansas , is the persona of the 1992 Cup , eclipsing even Dennis Conner — the most successful Cup skipper in modern times — in his home town .
25 This diminutive , bow-legged Palace forward of the 1920s and early 1930s was one of those performers whom the fans immediately took to their hearts .
26 A ten thousand pounds reward has been offered to help catch the killer of a seventy year old pensioner .
27 A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to help track down the killer of a seventy-six year old man .
28 When you start rehearsing old papers ( Techniques " at the bell " ) two months before the examination , write a swot card of the six physical aids plus any others allowed for your particular discipline .
29 In the fourth epoch , covering the New Deal of the 1930s , Mills argues that there was a stalemate between the political and economic elites .
30 There has been a reject-ion of the folly of the radical free-market experiment of the 1980s .
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