Example sentences of "[num] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tommy Gorman , the acting convener at Leyland Daf 's Albion plant in Glasgow , where 67 of the 550 workforce were made redundant last Friday , said : ‘ It is not the Dutch and Belgian Governments that should be looking after jobs in Glasgow — it is the British Government that should be doing something . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In another study , Johansen and Fuguitt ( 1984 ) from a sample of 572 of the 11,334 villages in the USA ( defined as a population of less than 2,500 in 1960 ) found that while only half of the villages had grown in the 1950s , two-thirds had grown in the 1970s , and that this growth was no longer restricted to the larger villages . |
| 4 | At Liverpool University , almost 1,600 of the 9,000 students are over 21 . |
| 5 | Guided by an apparent recognition of the obligations of power toward the people , Conservatives could show evidence after 1867 of a consistent record of legislative reform to improve working-class conditions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Threats from the FA , however , forced 800 of the 1,200 members of the PFA to resign . |
| 8 | And 800 of the best fighters in Northern Ireland — including the holders of nine out of 11 Northern Ireland team titles — are to boycott this year 's provincial championships in November . |
| 9 | Section 151 of the 1985 Act which generally limits companies from assisting people to buy shares in them . |
| 10 | FIS deputies were elected to 188 of the 231 seats in which the there was an outright winner . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Articles Twenty-Nine to Thirty-One of the Thirty-Nine Articles denied transubstantiation but were ambiguous about the real presence , while the 1559 Prayer Book combined the formula used in 1549 to imply a physical presence with that of 1552 which was meant to indicate commemoration only . |
| 15 | The full powers of the liquidator are to be found in s. 167 of the 1986 Act . |
| 16 | His reversal has encouraged political parties , backed by 167 of the 179 members of parliament , to cobble together a ‘ national compromise ’ . |
| 17 | One of the simplest and most reliable is Alizarin red S. Many carbonate workers routinely acid etch one-half of a thin section and stain it in acidified Alizarin red S solution before covering . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Scotch , Canadian and American whiskies combined account for about one-half of the distilled spirits sold in the United States . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | Even the famine area was made to pay one-half of the supplemental tax levied for famine relief . |
| 25 | For political reasons British officers continued to hold about one-half of the senior posts . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Following an ETA truce between Jan. 8 and April 7 , 1989 , which ended after the breakdown of peace talks in Algiers [ see pp. 36627-28 ] , violence recommenced with the murder on April 12 of a Civil Guard . |
| 28 | The statement followed the outbreak on Sept. 12 of a fresh hunger strike by six prisoners at different prisons . |
| 29 | 12 of the 13 Colleges who responded to this question had 6 or more staff for this purpose , and most of the Polytechnics made similar returns . |
| 30 | However , he first gained recognition behind the wheel of a car in his native country in 1976 , when he swept the board in the Formula Renault Championship , winning 12 of the 13 rounds . |