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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 ] .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 . ’
10 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 . ’
11 Detective Sergeant Peter Toft , who is leading the search for the mother , praised the quick thinking of the two brothers .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 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 .
14 A ten thousand pounds reward has been offered to help catch the killer of a seventy year old pensioner .
15 A reward of six hundred and fifty pounds is being offered to help track down the killer of a seventy-six year old man .
16 Sasanuma et al. ( 1977 ) confirm this idea in a study of perception of the two scripts of Japanese : Kana perception ( this script is phonetic ) shows a left hemisphere advantage ( LHA ) while Kaji ( non-phonetic ) has a right hemisphere advantage ( RHA ) .
17 Perception of the two dots swings along the easiest path .
18 The situation in Azerbaijan and Armenia was discussed by a closed joint sitting of the two chambers of the USSR Supreme Soviet on Feb. 19 , but deputies reportedly failed to agree on a policy to resolve the conflict there .
19 The biggest concern of the executioner , a man named Billington , was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor .
20 In a decision which surprised MPs and investors , the Trade Secretary , Mr Nicholas Ridley , told the Commons that the bulk of the 18,000 investors are to get nearly 90 per cent of their money back in an unprecedented state payout .
21 Although the conclusion of the court was unanimous the reasoning of the three judges differed .
22 Peter Mackenzie proved unusually bullish and his deep voice would reverberate throughout the dealing floor with the force of a thousand rapids : " Hallo , sir .
23 Delegates warned that ozone depletion had increased significantly since the signature of the Convention and the entry into force of the 1987 Montreal Protocol [ see pp. 35678 ; 36412 ] .
24 But England 's could n't defy the irresistible force of the two Ws , now ranked by none other than Graham Gooch amongst the all-time greats .
25 Instead , more typical of the time was the innovation of painting white lines along the centre of roads , the more extensive installation of traffic lights , the coming into force of the 30 m.p.h. speed limit , the inauguration of driving tests and the innovation of pedestrian crossings marked by the Belisha beacon , named after the Home Secretary of the day , Sir Leslie Hore-Belisha .
26 I maintain that the principal force of the 1990 Act is the deterrents that it introduced .
27 The NGC is a coalition of the three rebel factions , namely : ( i ) the Khmers Rouges ( also known as the Party of Democratic Kampuchea , Khieu Samphan pres. , Son Sen vice-pres. , considerable influence wielded by Pol Pot , Ieng Sary , Ta Mok and Nuon Chea ) ; ( ii ) the Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF , Son Sann pres. ) ; and ( iii ) the Sihanoukists ( also known as the United National Front for an Independent , Neutral , Peaceful and Co-operative Cambodia — Funcinpec , Norodom Ranaridh l . ) .
28 Recalling the defeat of the 1991 coup , Yeltsin said that he had outwitted the former KGB chief , Vladimir Kryuchkov , whom he identified as the main organizer of the attempt .
29 On the recommendation of a 1958 report from the Commons Select Committee on Estimates , a technocratic team had been commissioned to build on the forward looks for social-service and defence spending pioneered by the Treasury in the mid-fifties .
30 Travelling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour made him worry that he would leave the safety of God 's Earth .
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