Example sentences of "of [art] [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glimpse of the impact of the 1980–1 riots at this level can be achieved through two important debates in Parliament . |
| 2 | In 1971 the glory days returned as Stewart won six of the eleven rounds of the championship on his way to winning his second title . |
| 3 | She was born in London in 1863 , one of the eleven children of a Jewish family . |
| 4 | , David ( 1890–1957 ) , painter , was born in Birmingham 5 December 1890 , the fifth of the eleven children of Abraham Bomberg , a Polish immigrant leather-worker , and his wife Rebecca , whose family kept an inn and reared horses . |
| 5 | , Elizabeth ( 1828–1916 ) , educationist and pioneer of rural district nursing , was born 29 October 1828 in Chelsea , the eldest of the eleven children of Henry Whitehead , solicitor , of Chelsea , and his wife Frances Ann , youngest child of Francis Maguire , British army surgeon . |
| 6 | , Moses ( fl. 1695–1714 ) , iatrochemist and mineral master general , was one of the eleven children of Richard Stringer of Loughborough , Leicestershire . |
| 7 | Baron Mountstuart ( 1767–1794 ) , who predeceased his father , was the eldest of the eleven children of John Stuart , first Marquess of Bute . |
| 8 | , Frederick William ( ‘ Peter ’ ) ( 1877–1950 ) , microbiologist , was born 22 October 1877 in Camberley , Surrey , the eldest of six sons and the second of the eleven children of Dr William Henry Twort , general practitioner , of Camberley , and his wife Elizabeth Crampton , only child of Joseph Crampton Webster , engineer , of London . |
| 9 | In the 1987 United Kingdom general election the Alliance with 22.6% of the national vote won 3.4% of the seats ; Labour with 61.8% of the city vote won all of the eleven seats in Glasgow , and the Conservatives with 52.1% of the regional vote won all but one of the 20 seats in East Anglia . |
| 10 | They are commonly present on each of the eleven segments in the less specialized Exopterygotes but do not occur on the telson ( Fig. 41 ) . |
| 11 | Of the 4173 requests for publications monitored , 195 ( 5% ) could not be satisfied . |
| 12 | Mswati did not specify who would decide on the incorporation of the Vusela-2 recommendations into a new constitution , neither did he give a new date for elections , which had been due in November , although he said on Oct. 26 that they would be held in the first half of 1993 . |
| 13 | The framers of the American Constitution also had these objects in mind , but on top of that they had to provide for the desire of the thirteen colonies to be united for some purposes only and to remain independent for others . |
| 14 | The Abbot and over half the monks of Battle perished , eight of the thirteen canons of Mitchelham , most of the heads of religious houses , and up to half of the rest of the county 's population died within a few months , although the effects varied from community to community . |
| 15 | Already a supporter of political reform in the 1780s , in October 1791 he was one of the thirteen founders of the Society of United Irishmen and a proprietor of its newspaper , the Northern Star . |
| 16 | At the end of the thirteen years of Conservative rule , Britain was still an offshore island of the United States , but times were changing . |
| 17 | , Johann Christian ( 1735–1782 ) , composer , was born 5 September 1735 in Leipzig , the sixth and youngest son and the eleventh of the thirteen children of Johann Sebastian Bach and his second wife Anna Magdalena , daughter of Johann Caspar Wilcke , court trumpeter . |
| 18 | ( 1630–1714 ) , princess of the Palatinate and mother of George I , was born 14 October 1630 in The Hague , the youngest of five daughters and the youngest but one of the thirteen children of Frederick V ( 1596–1632 ) , elector Palatine ( 1610–32 ) and the ‘ winter king ’ of Bohemia ( 1619–21 ) , and his wife Elizabeth ( 1596–1622 ) , the daughter of James I. Born in exile , because of Frederick 's expulsion from Bohemia and the Palatinate , Sophia 's importance in history was derived from her parentage and from the unpredictable fate of the Stuarts . |
| 19 | At 46 per cent the turnout was too low ( due to an opposition boycott ) to allow the required 50 per cent of the 7,000,000 voters in Serbia to approve the constitutional amendment , although 95 per cent of those who voted were in favour of early elections . |
| 20 | Out of the twenty-eight women on the house , three went to bed , and they were in fact to lose two weeks ' remission each for being in bed a few minutes late . |
| 21 | Since April 1986 , the whole of the twenty-eight weeks of sickness benefit has been the responsibility of employers , and all twenty-eight weeks is taxable . |
| 22 | Of the twenty-eight varieties of rootstock permitted in the cultivation of Champagne 's vineyards , the most significant ones are : the 41 B Millardet et Grasset , which has a fair resistance to phylloxera and an excellent active lime resistance ( up to 40% ) ; the Selection Oppenheim No. 4 or So 4 , which has very good phylloxera resistance and reasonable active lime resistance ( up to 18% ) ; and the 3309 Couderc , which has excellent resistance to phylloxera and fair resistance to active lime ( up to 11% ) . |
| 23 | AN UPDATE ON SOME OF THE 92 PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE FEATURED IN THE LETTER WRITING CAMPAIGN IN 1989 AND 1990 — 39 ARE NOW FREE ! |
| 24 | In group A 212 ( 99% ) of the 215 infants had a pyloric mass palpated preoperatively compared with 148 ( 79% ) of the 187 infants in group B. This difference was significant ( χ 2 =38.4 , p<0.001 ( 0.1 to 0.3 ) ) . |
| 25 | It is likely that he was the John Benet of London , clerk , who in 1443 was appointed master of the six choristers of St Anthony 's Hospital in the City of London . |
| 26 | Each of the Six Clerks in Chancery was reputedly worth £3,000 annually ; while this sum was certainly exaggerated , even half of it would have been a substantial amount . |
| 27 | Beside him sit the other island dignitaries , the representatives of each of the six communities into which the island is divided . |
| 28 | Of the six studies of the application of the Samuelson hypothesis to index futures , Park and Sears ( 1985 ) , Sherrick , Irwin and Forster ( 1992 ) and Han and Misra ( 1990 ) ( using implied volatilities ) , and Twite ( 1990c ) ( using historic closing prices to estimate volatility ) found evidence contradicting the Samuelson hypothesis . |
| 29 | The easiest part of the scheme was the raising of the six companies of 70–110 men each , increased in 1739 to ten , and as a concession to national sentiment the new units were allowed to wear the kilt ; its dark tartan , of blue , green and black , soon gave them a distinctive name : the Black Watch . |
| 30 | Finally , the ECSC Treaty of Paris , designated to last for 50 years , was signed by representatives of the six states on 18 April 1951 . |