Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proportion of the national area of thirteen tropical American countries described as steep sloped is very high — 80 per cent for Honduras , Panama , Haiti and the Dominican Republic and not less than 50 per cent for eleven of the thirteen . |
| 2 | At the moment they 're just a voluntary body , but it looks as though works councils will become mandatory for eleven of the twelve states in the E C , with the implementation very soon of the European Social Works Council Directive , Britain as usual being the odd one out , because of course it 's part of the Social Chapter . |
| 3 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 4 | Hurd argues that the Arab world itself must create this new system ( presumably under Western tutelage ) and a conference to this effect between eight of the nine partners in the alliance ( Morocco being the sole absentee ) occurred in Cairo in mid-February . |
| 5 | This raises problems about the legitimacy of the Arab nation ( or , if not , about that of the Libyan one ) ; and it certainly casts doubt on those proposed unions with Chad , Syria and Morocco . |
| 6 | EEC trade , as measured at least by exports , has , since British accession , been at a rate of growth of about that of the OECD as a whole — well below that of the newly industrialised countries of Asia and exactly equal to that of the Efta countries . |
| 7 | Each colour is defined by 3 bytes , one for each of the primary additive colours , red , green and blue . |
| 8 | Mr Newton made no mention of the future of child benefit , which the Government has frozen for each of the last two years years at £7.25 a week . |
| 9 | For each of the following questions choose the most appropriate answer . |
| 10 | In civilian parlance Major Mike Herriott , Who runs No 4 Region , could be described as the ‘ District Catering Operations Manager ’ , and as such he arranges for each of the twenty Master Chefs to receive regular visits from one of the team of three Area Catering Officers ( ACOs ) or six Area Catering Warrant Officers ( ACWOs ) . |
| 11 | The film both fulfils the Powell-Pressburger partnership 's aim to produce ‘ original stories , written for the screen , keeping pace with events and trying to put into action what people were thinking and saying at the time , ’ which is what the more obviously documentarist filmmakers were also trying to do , and articulates its own vision of the mystical forces in nature , culminating in the healing miracle that arrives for each of the three Canterbury pilgrims on their way to the cathedral . |
| 12 | We 've classified 12 types of present-giver — one for each of the 12 days of Christmas , plus health hazard rankings , with top scores of 10 . |
| 13 | Take food hygiene : it is cheaper for a large council to set up a laboratory to service several districts than for each of the districts to have its own . |
| 14 | The system was based on an ordinary mouldboard plough with a vertical rotor added for each of the mouldboards , and with a series of curved cutting tines on each of the rotors . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sure I 've seen that dress before , ’ whispers a disappointed woman in front , but you could scarcely expect the Queen to wear a new suit for each of the fourteen investitures each year as well as all her other official functions . |
| 16 | Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 17 | Here are ideas for a running buffet , with a dish for each of the main party leaders . |
| 18 | Once you have established the sub-totals for each of the groups of costs , their total will give you a good estimate of the final bill of your proposed project . |
| 19 | Sangster agrees that there were some worrying times but points out that worldwide he has achieved a century of winners for each of the past 10 years . |
| 20 | Thus , with the distinctions made between Chapters II and III , the Board of Education sought to establish clear , demarcated responsibilities for each of the two main providers of liberal adult education ; with the universities engaged in more academic levels of study . |
| 21 | For each of the foundation subjects there are to be ‘ attainment targets ’ , ‘ programmes of study ’ and ‘ assessment arrangements ’ . |
| 22 | Here the control group learned an initial discrimination in which one verbal response was required for each of two stimuli ( A and B ) , whereas a different response was required for C and D. Experimental subjects were required to learn a different label for each of the four stimuli . |
| 23 | The staff plan would , furthermore , for each of the four resident employees mean a radical altering of our respective customary duties . |
| 24 | This is what two players would each receive if they both consistently cooperated , scoring 3 points for each of the 200 rounds of the game . |
| 25 | This is what two players would each receive if they both consistently cooperated , scoring 3 points for each of the 200 rounds of the game . |
| 26 | The cost of all significant community services provided for each of the clients ( including day hospitals and day centres ) has been included , plus of course the time of support workers and a proportion of the time of the development officers ( see Appendix IV ) . |
| 27 | General causal models can not be drawn up when interactions exist between the variables ; the only solution is to draw up a separate causal model for each of the groups for whom the effects of the variables are different . |
| 28 | For each of the three clusters of industries shown on the map , suggest what has attracted managers to concentrate their factories together in these places . |
| 29 | At which period of trading were the raw materials first imported for each of the industries shown in the picture ? |
| 30 | Where on the map are the main markets for each of the products ? |