Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 180 Irish passengers who boarded at Queenstown , only twenty were saved . |
| 2 | In the first multiparty legislative elections since 1964 the ruling Cameroon People 's Democratic Rally ( RPDC ) on March 1 won 88 of the 180 parliamentary seats — three seats short of an absolute majority . |
| 3 | There the chairs of the various committees would haggle to bring the total additional claims down to some acceptable consequent rate increase and to decide whose budget was to be trimmed most . |
| 4 | The full operating costs of the British presence in the Gulf arising from the response to Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait were over £4,000,000 a day by the end of January , with the total such costs by then amounting to over £1,250 million ( plus equipment lost and ammunition consumed in operations amounting to nearly £200,000,000 ) . |
| 5 | These served the classes that could afford to buy plots or construct a family vault , which might cost as much as the total annual salaries of the domestic staff of a Victorian household . |
| 6 | Taking each of his subject categories in turn he divides the total annual issues by the number of books in the category to achieve a nominal figure of the average number of issues per book . |
| 7 | It follows that a just society must set its policies and write its laws to ensure that everyone , beginning with the least advantaged and most vulnerable , has an equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total net resources allocated to health . |
| 8 | In Brazil , where the total net assets of state enterprises amount to about $40 billion , the assets of those privatised amounted to only $27 million ( Pfeffermann , 1988 : p. 15 ) . |
| 9 | They include ratios measuring return on investment ( both on ordinary shareholders ' funds and on the total net assets employed ) , margins on sales and measures of stock holdings and trade credit extended . |
| 10 | The sections were considered positive only if the number of epithelial cells which had at least 1+ staining was >10% of the total epithelial cells . |
| 11 | Figures 3 and 4 show the effects of the different diets on the total faecal concentrations of calcium , phosphate , fatty acids , and bile acids . |
| 12 | These findings indicate that the total faecal concentrations of fatty acids and bile acids are not determined by the amount of intraluminally formed complexes , as was recently suggested by Appleton et al , but are determined by the site at which this occurs . |
| 13 | The winner is decided erm on the total correct entries and if I 'm right there is a slogan to fill in . |
| 14 | On the contrary , the total possible marks are divided equally among all the questions , and no answer can earn more than the appropriate marks for that question . |
| 15 | In the case of n-grams , there are 13,166 legal quad-grams of the total possible combinations ( from the above 14,000 word dictionary ) , a reduction to 3% compared to 0.3% for words . |
| 16 | If the annual quantity of net deployed within all North Pacific fisheries in a 6-month season is taken to be 3–5 million k ( about 2–3 million miles ) , the total possible deaths of marine mammals would be about 100,000–181,500 . |
| 17 | In fixing frequency of circulation , acquisition costs of the book should be measured against the total administrative costs ( especially transport ) of circulation — the latter not to exceed the former . |
| 18 | The total balances on the sales ledger ( visitors ' ledger ) will give the total sundry debtors ; the total balance of the purchases ledger will give the total of the sundry creditors . |
| 19 | The total current liabilities were $149m , the minority interest was $8.9m , while the long-term debt was , remarkably , only $0.5m . |
| 20 | The general point is this : what counts as rationality in modern society is a selection from the total available forms of rationality and that , even within the legitimate forms of rationality , some acquire a higher authority than others . |
| 21 | This type of diet contains negligible amounts of long chain n3 fatty acids ( less than 1% of the total fatty acids consumed ) . |
| 22 | The total economic costs ( TC e ) of a project are divided into |
| 23 | The GSB , as it has become known , represents the total financial resources available in any one financial year to all schools covered by a scheme of delegation . |
| 24 | Governments have it within their powers ‘ to exercise some general control in the national interest over the total financial resources available for broadcasting ’ though these powers do not extend to regulating expenditure on programmes . |
| 25 | In fact the most expensive was a red silk ballgown by Valentino … a mere 1800 pounds … the total raised runs into tens of thousands of pounds . |
| 26 | Above all there was rank disbelief at the figure of 542,000 dead which Hitler gave as the total German losses for the whole war . |
| 27 | By the early 1980s its annual emission had been reduced to 630,000 tonnes ( equivalent to the total national emissions of sulphur dioxide from countries such as Sweden , Belgium and Denmark ) and , in line with Canadian policy , it is expected to decrease to around 300,000 tonnes by 1995 . |
| 28 | In other words , it is not merely the circumstances of the immediate production process which determine if labour is productive , but the total social circumstances , including the use to which products are put , which determine post hoc whether the labour involved has been productive or not . |
| 29 | In fact , the losses of the comparatively few German battalions engaged in this small corner of the Verdun front that day alone exceeded 2,400 , little less than the total British casualties on D-Day in 1944 . |
| 30 | If eight levels of each colour can be shown then the total displayable colours number 2 8 or 256 . |