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

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1 On the sale of the 4 contracts the investor would have received a revenue of 1,400 less a sales brokerage of 12.50 .
2 Mrs Thatcher finally announced her decision to resign at a Cabinet meeting summoned at the unusually early hour of 9 am the next day , declaring that she had concluded that the unity of the party and the prospects of victory in a general election would be better served if she stood down to enable Cabinet colleagues to enter the ballot for the leadership .
3 In the exercise of that right the landlord may exclude the tenant from occupation , but only for a reasonable time , and only if to do so is essential for the execution of the work ( McGreal v Wake ( 1984 ) 269 EG 1254 ) .
4 From the Aix-la-Chapelle peace of 1748 onwards every major international agreement involving the states of western and central Europe was in French ; and from the peace settlement of 1763 the hitherto frequent provision that this was not to be taken as a precedent was dropped .
5 The interesting twist to this issue is that it was Japan , clearly now a First World country , and in the opinion of many now the most dynamic economic power , that was often identified in the United States and in Europe , as the worst offender , with the four East Asian NICs not far behind .
6 After half-an-hour of this eventually the other wheel dropped into place .
7 The cathedral was begun by Russian architects in 1471 but part of the building collapsed in the earthquake of 1472 so the work was handed over to an Italian architect and engineer , Aristotele Fioravanti from Bologna .
8 The amount outstanding on bank credit cards increased by £0.13bn in the fourth quarter of 1991 following an increase of £0.21bn in the previous quarter .
9 The ballet dancer , Rudolf Nureyev , has died at the age of fifty-four following a long illness .
10 Margaret Charlwood started her movement career at the age of six following a serious road accident which it was feared would permanently limit the movement of her legs — eleven years later she won a scholarship to the Arts Educational School in London where she studied all forms of dance , specialising in ballet .
11 In 1922 Mr Charles Hinks became articled to Mr Latimer and was given a partnership on qualifying five years later at the age of 21 quite a distinction as the custom was to buy a share in a practice .
12 savings and the use of these quite a lot of priorities .
13 It then moved to being paid so much per week , for an trainee , and we now have a mixture of such much a week , and so much for the output related fundings , the jobs , the N V Q's , the F E courses which I mentioned earlier .
14 Well as I say I mean we 're doing very well and all the money and , and you know , ninety percent of the money comes out of the the er the members ' pockets really I mean ev even the sub for the open show , we put out a lot of that even the stuff and things like this , so we do provide an awful lot of money .
15 At the end of 1989 following a meeting with Lancashire County Council Transport Department it was agreed that the minibus bringing children to Scorton School should be able to take fare-paying passengers to the A6 to connect with the bus services to Lancaster and Preston .
16 From the summer of 1869 onwards the process was carried forward by a combination of the Emperor 's will and by its own momentum .
17 TENNIS : Chris Wilkinson has leapt 27 places to a career-best world ranking of 168 following a successful four weeks on the LTA Satellite Circuit .
18 On the other hand your chance of dying before the age of 100 will be of the order of .99 ie a very high probability .
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