Example sentences of "of [det] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So tourists have been stopping even to take photo of that the largest slave in the world .
2 On top of that the new point to point season is off and running and that 's where we 're going for this week 's Friday Feature
3 On top of that the 1987 stock market crash and a steep domestic increase in interest rates nearly nearly put paid to some of them — including DnC .
4 However , the most distinctive part was not the chalk uplands but the little Thames-side hundred of Stoke , lying on the richest soil and closest to London , where little short of half the aggregate wealth belonged to just a dozen men — 2½ per cent of the listed inhabitants — rated at £40 and upwards , indeed practically one-third belonged to the five rated at £100 or more .
5 We lose the profit of half the increased production .
6 The number of species that featured dwarfs ( males of half the female length or smaller ) as opposed to equally sized partners was 0:41 in the hunters , 93:66 in the web-builders and 17:3 in the ambushers. b , c , Scattergrams of male ( ordinate ) and female ( abscissa ) body size of active hunters ( Lycosidae/Pisauridae , wolfspiders ; Salticidae , jumping spiders ) and sit-and-wait predators ( Araneidae , orb spiders ; Thomisidae crab spiders ) .
7 Their stuff is , sort of half the normal price .
8 Whatever worries the LG family may have had were dispelled when Megan polled only 300 votes short of half the total cast .
9 It was one of those brilliantly simple ideas people always wish they had had themselves , and believe that somehow they could have had ; no need to incur any extra expense or make any more sizes than anybody else , or necessarily to distinguish one 's product in other way , yet just by the idea one has a potential market of half the jeans-buying public , or at least that proportion of it which has always felt that they are somehow perpetually between the usual sizes .
10 Under the new rules this same person can expect a pension of half the original amount : £64 per week , or one-eighth of average earnings .
11 High concentrations of PCBs ( poly-chlorinated biphenyls ) and of related organo-halogens , which cause tumours , hormone imbalances , genetic deformities and immune system collapse in many species , are being blamed for events like the dolphin plague in the Mediterranean in 1991 and the death of half the bottle-nosed dolphin population on the US east coast in 1989 .
12 Kings Quest VI has now been released without too much banging of the hype drums or rousing fanfares , and forms the main review of this the first Software magazine .
13 So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it .
14 Because of this the Judaeo-Christian world-view recognises the need to create political and economic structures which ensure that the family is not debarred from a permanent interest in economic life .
15 I think we 'll see a lot of this the second half .
16 On top of this the only action Rick had seen was on his furthest rod , away in the corner by the dam out-flow away from our movements .
17 In more complex societies and especially under capitalism these different sections of society — classes — dispose of different power , and because of this the dominant class is able to impose its own consciousness on the whole of society .
18 In spite of this the Cecchini Report does use MES calculations to estimate the benefits of removing NTBs , and these scale benefits form a very large part of the benefits of creating the SEM .
19 Of these the Poor Man 's Lawyer scheme involved the greatest number of solicitors and barristers , having begun at Toynbee Hall in 1893 and spread from there .
20 Of these the Hindi sword is the finest , and of all Hindi swords , that known as the mawj-i darya , the waves of the sea , is the most lustrous .
21 With both of these the jerky quality of the animation makes it more difficult that it first appears .
22 However , the keepers of Whaddon Chase , Bucks. , employed by Mrs Pigott , can be traced in the muster book , and of these the head keeper , Robert Wyllyott ( Willett ) , would certainly have ranked as yeoman with 40s. in land and £20 in goods ; his salary was 40s. with 6s. 8d. for livery .
23 In some of these the non-assertive quality of the utterance is fairly easy to perceive nevertheless : ( 66 ) He dared as much have opposed his wife 's whims as he dare have committed high treason .
24 During this same period a far wider survey had been undertaken of all the fifty-nine party cells in the Poltava guberniia .
25 First of all the major documentation we 've got is the contract and there we have six companies and we have the same contract for all six .
26 The oldest pieces of amber we have date from a hundred million years ago , a very long time after the conifers and the flying insects first appeared , but they contain a huge range of creatures , including representatives of all the major insect groups that we know today .
27 Now furious MP John Townend , chairman of the powerful Tory Party finance committee , will today write to the bosses of all the major banking groups , demanding action .
28 Earlier this year , the Secretary of State met the representatives of all the major brewery companies , having received a deputation from the National Licensed Victuallers Association .
29 In discussions with me , representatives of all the major brewing companies have admitted that the orders did not force them to take those actions against the tenants .
30 And erm Lunn Poly sells the holiday products of all the major tour operators and airlines , cruise lines , etc .
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