Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reporting on the decade of change following the 1971 Census , the CES found : first , in those areas under consideration , there has been a population decline of 20 per cent , whereas the population at large has grown . |
| 2 | As he said ( through the journal of his grandfather ) ‘ I will never be free from this old tyranny : I believe with a perfect faith … ’ ( which is how the statement of faith called the 13 creeds begins ) . |
| 3 | In both the United States and Britain those of a conservative turn of mind regretted the 1960s ’ emphasis on rights , especially welfare rights and , as they saw it , the decline of the concomitant sense of obligation to state and society . |
| 4 | The decision increased the degree of uncertainty surrounding the 1990 mayoral election , as none of the candidates for the Democratic primary , scheduled for the Sept. 11 , had managed to establish a clear lead . |
| 5 | This manner of association places the two C-terminal stalk regions some 140 apart ( Fig.5 a ) , oriented so that their polypeptide chains can each continue into the membranes of separate cells . |
| 6 | Clearly , the only time it becomes a matter of skill to ensure the two move side by side is when contracts are actually exchanged . |
| 7 | On Oct. 29 an Israeli government commission of inquiry cleared the three crew members , saying that they had taken the right decision . |
| 8 | Find every instance of paint using the two default conditions stated above . |
| 9 | A layer of liquid separates the two and this absorbs the chitin from the old skeleton , leaving the hard sclerotinised parts connected by the thinnest of tissues . |
| 10 | These proposals and many more formed the basis of legislation following the 1987 general election — as too did the model report from Dame Mary Warnock that I commissioned into human fertilization and embryology . |
| 11 | Though Ciullo by Rossetti 's reckoning composed the poem in the 1170s , at least twenty years before Frederick Hohenstaufen came to the throne of Sicily , Pound in The Spirit of Romance juxtaposes the two names , presumably as ‘ an instigation ’ — though to what , it is not easy to say . |
| 12 | Teesside Chamber of Commerce asked the three main political parties in the marginal seat of Darlington where they stand on the issues facing industry . |
| 13 | Cheney 's unexpected decision was the culmination of several weeks of controversy surrounding the A-12 . |
| 14 | Before that the rector of Worth travelled the four miles along the Priest 's Way to officiate at Swanage . |
| 15 | The shape of the island , he told her , was a rough figure-of-eight , with a narrow neck of land joining the two halves of landmass . |
| 16 | In its formal reading of the judgment on March 27 , the Court of Appeal vindicated the three appeal judges , led by Lord Lane , who in 1987 had dismissed the mens ' appeals , saying that the scientific issues were not the same . |
| 17 | The simplest , and cheapest , method is to get hold of a couple of free ( public domain ) , cheap ( shareware ) or full price communications packages and a bit of wire to hook the two systems together with . |
| 18 | The code applied to all Anglo gold and coal mines and was the result of four years of negotiation following the 1987 miners ' strike [ see pp. 35622-23 ] . |
| 19 | As Clower pointed out , it takes a strange contortion of language to characterize the 1930s as a period in which the basic problem was that of an excess demand for goods ! |
| 20 | Only with the passage of time did the two channels come to be seen widely as part of a single public service system . |