Example sentences of "[num] of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The matter was further considered in relation to Article 67 of the original version of the EEC Treaty in Case 203/80 Casati , which illustrates the other approach .
2 As of July this year , approximately 800 of the remaining employees will work at the semiconductor firm , some 2,200 at AdStar and 1,500 will stay with the manufacturing company .
3 The 5'-half of the upper ( Watson ) strand contains two copies of the motif 5'CTAGAG3' and three copies of the motif 5'GGGCCC3' , but no AA/TT steps , while the 3'-half contains two A-tracts .
4 According to Order No. 0054 of the Sovietised Lithuanian Ministry of the Interior , 14 categories of citizens were earmarked for ‘ elimination ’ .
5 The cells were collected by centrifugation at 4,000g for 10 minutes and suspended in 1/20 of the original culture volume using lysis buffer containing 20mM Tris-HCl ( pH7.9 ) , 5mM EDTA , 25mM NaCl , 0.5mM PMSF and 14mM β-mercaptoethanol .
6 On 1st June 1885 , a group comprising 118 of the exiled Nez Perce arrived at Lapwai , while Joseph 's 150 followers continued on to the Colville Reservation .
7 The applicant sought judicial review of the decison of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office on 26 June 1991 , in the course of criminal proceedings against the applicant , to seek to enforce his compliance with the requirement contained in a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 to attend at her offices and answer questions or otherwise furnish information in respect of her investigation of the applicant alone , afer she had caused him to be interviewed under caution on three occasions and thereafter charged him with an offence , at a time when and in circumstances whereby ( a ) the applicant 's application for legal aid had not yet been granted and he had neither legal advice nor legal representation available to him ; ( b ) the Director had stated that she would not cause the applicant to be further cautioned in compliance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 of the current Codes of Practice issued pursuant to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 .
8 Furthermore article 939 of the Swiss civil code provides that if the purchaser is in bad faith , based on the test summarised above , the dispossessed owner can claim back his property without any limitation in time .
9 In the absence of local employment alternatives which might otherwise have developed , it made between one-third and one-half of the Palestinian work-force dependent for its livelihood upon employment by Israeli enterprises .
10 Board representation for employees by way of electing between ( at the option of the company ) one-third and one-half of the supervisory directors or , alternatively , co-optation by the supervisory board subject to control by the general meeting or employees ' representatives
11 In the case of the excepted functions , a quorum for a meeting to discharge them consists of one-half of the total membership of the board , and , in no case less than three members ( subs .
12 In practice , a single-section , low-pass , L-C , delay line works reasonably well provided that the highest frequency present in the signal is less than one-half of the critical frequency .
13 Scotch , Canadian and American whiskies combined account for about one-half of the distilled spirits sold in the United States .
14 Negotiations between the husband and wife will often have been on the basis that the wife 's solicitors will hand over an application for cancellation of the land charge ( Form K13 or application for the cancellation of the notice if registered land Form 202 ) on completion in return for one-half of the net proceeds of sale ( or whatever other figure is agreed ) .
15 Even the famine area was made to pay one-half of the supplemental tax levied for famine relief .
16 For political reasons British officers continued to hold about one-half of the senior posts .
17 Pateman naturally sought , and was given , assurances that his reduced salary , which was only one-half of the National WEA 's prescribed scale of £400 a year for District Secretaries , would be paid in full and on a regular basis throughout the year .
18 Where judgment is given in a default action ( Ord 9 , r 6(1) ) for payment forthwith , it need not be drawn up or served unless a request to issue enforcement proceedings has not been made , or the plaintiff has abandoned part of his claim without amending his particulars of claim and serving the defendant , or where the judgment is interlocutory ( N 17 ) or where a Certificate for judgment under s 12 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 is to be sought ( Ord 22 , r 1(3) ) .
19 This winter these perils have led to 12 of the main teams mounting more than 90 rescues , mainly since the start of the year , of which one-third were judged as serious incidents .
20 The mischief which this provision is designed to cater for is set out in para 12 of the Inland Revenue Consultative Paper of September 1980 .
21 However , with 12 of the 14-man squad destined for the Caribbean , it does offer the opportunity of forging ( under the new triumvirate of Graham Gooch , Allan Lamb and Micky Stewart ) the kind of unity that will be essential when the flak is flying at the Queen 's Park Oval and Sabina Park .
22 Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers , has called on other trade unionists to take action today to defend the coal industry , which is being run down despite the Government 's rescue package reprieving 12 of the original 31 pits earmarked for closure .
23 Is this not an intolerable interference with the freedom of action of any British Government , and is the Prime Minister aware that , in 12 of the past 18 years , successive Governments , Labour and Conservative , have spent more than 3 per cent .
24 As a result of the consolidation of social security legislation , most of the provisions relating to Statutory Sick Pay , which were contained in the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 and the Social Security Acts of 1985 and 1986 , are now to be found in ss 151–163 and Schs 11 and 12 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 .
25 Under the new format , that goal will be stepped up to seven of the top eight players in each of the nine tournaments or 12 of the top 14 .
26 Section 12 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act tells us when a buyer ‘ deals as consumer ’ ;
27 Thus , the activity of the H1 gene promoter decreases abruptly after deletion of the 80 nucleotides lying between nucleotides -531 and -451 of the distal region .
28 Andrew Large , chairman of the Securities and Investments Board , is expected to ask the Government for stronger powers to prosecute fraud when he completes his review in March 1993 of the regulatory body 's responsibilities .
29 Even as Davies Gilbert spoke , discussions were beginning which led to the setting up in 1808 of the British and Foreign School Society .
30 One such situation is a sale under which the purchaser pays nominal consideration but assumes significant liabilities ; ( b ) imposing a time limit beyond which , except in cases of fraud and dishonesty , the purchaser is time-barred from bringing a claim ( see clause 14.1 of the standard sale agreementAppendix III ) .
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