Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with such adjustments the proportion may vary between the two approaches if local authority expenditure contains a different proportion of taxes than the GNP as a whole . |
| 2 | Electrical engineers will be reminded of the torque versus speed curve of an induction motor which exhibits an unstable and unmeasurable set of values as the curve turns back on itself at the pull-out torque . |
| 3 | Cavalry can not break into a solid phalanx of pikes until a way has been cut for them , but once in they can do fearful slaughter . |
| 4 | But what was left of the line of knights after every fall always came on , implacably brave ; and Hotspur 's heart started and complained grievously whenever the foremost fell , still short of the river bank . |
| 5 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 6 | Reference resolution accepts these QLFs one at a time , inserts possible referents , and backtracks to another set of referents if the result is deemed implausible . |
| 7 | For the three weeks of rehearsals before the production opened in Edinburgh , he moved out of his Wimbledon home and stayed in a small hotel room , away from his wife and children . |
| 8 | CROSS A FAST TYPIST WITH A WINDOWS WORD PROCESSOR AND THE CHANCES ARE YOU 'LL SEE SOME WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH AS THE PROGRAM CHUGS ALONG A FEW PACES BEHIND THE USER . |
| 9 | It only takes a couple of minutes before the flysheet is in place . |
| 10 | First , the description of language as a code is too limiting if it conjures up analogies with signalling systems such as the morse code , or more widely with such systems of rules as the highway code or a legal code . |
| 11 | The following were among the findings reported at a conference in Anchorage , Alaska : — brain damage in seals similar to that found in people who die from solvent abuse ; this would have disoriented the animals and affected basic physiological functions like breathing ; it is suspected that many seals drowned , but because dead seals sink an accurate assessment of deaths has not been possible ; — the disappearance of a group of killer whales that had lived in the sound , possibly also due to the " solvent abuse effect " ; — deaths among sea otters not only from hypothermia ( because oil stuck to their fur destroyed its insulating properties ) but from emphysema caused by breathing in toxic fumes and from liver and kidney damage caused by ingesting oil ; — failure to breed among many species of birds since the accident , either because of the death rate within colonies at the time ( in the case of guillemots ) or because continued exposure to oil-polluted food sources is preventing reproduction ; — death tolls of up to 40 per cent for eggs laid by salmon , herring and other fish , and deformities and withered muscles among fish that did hatch . |
| 12 | ‘ I want more emphasis on the fear of deterrents than the fear of crime , ’ he said . |
| 13 | In 99pc of cases once a patient has been attended by an ambulance crew the fast blue light , siren-screaming journey is not necessary . |
| 14 | there are some of them that are very useful but in the majority of cases if the human is functioning well it 's producing it 's own steroids . |
| 15 | UNITA was said to have continued to shell the eastern town of Luena , and to have launched attacks in other places , until a matter of hours before the ceasefire came into effect . |
| 16 | Most people head exhaustedly for their hotel a couple of hours before the park closes . |
| 17 | The 1992 budget was approved in the Knesset by 60 votes to 53 with one abstention on Jan. 2 , two days after a Dec. 31 deadline and a matter of hours before the government was to press for approval of a one-month provisional budget . |
| 18 | Whitlock had driven to the airport a couple of hours before the delegation was due to arrive to ensure that all the security measures had been put into operation . |
| 19 | Clinton was predicting that he would be making his victory speech just a couple of hours after the majority of booths closed . |
| 20 | Each song was repeated a number of times until the audience had learned the tune , then copies of it were offered for sale . |
| 21 | If a registered or occasional student fails to meet such requirements in relation to the payment of debts as the Council may prescribe , his enrolment may be revoked at any time by the Academic Registrar acting under the authority of the Senate . |
| 22 | There was thus little organised public concern over the ethical treatment of animals until the formation of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , in Britain in 1822 and the United States in 1866 . |
| 23 | There is a version of this where the children have to move forward the same number of paces as the time called out by the shark . |
| 24 | Indistinct rumble of words as the door swung shut . |
| 25 | There will only be that number of computers if the range of applications and uses increases a hundredfold too . |
| 26 | But some of the problems , particularly those of provision of hospital services in inner-city areas , do arise from the progressive reallocation of funds since the introduction of RAWP . |
| 27 | Our basement had been out of bounds since the work started , as a large sign on the stairs informed me . |
| 28 | Indeed , it is often the ability of management to agree the deal with much less protection in the way of warranties than a trade purchaser would accept that helps management to win the deal from the vendor . |
| 29 | Elinor would step out of her therapy class one morning , wave goodbye to Anna and Linda and Susie and Tatiana and Ruth and wham — several hundred rounds from an M16 , the screech of tyres and the howl of brakes as the saloon car roared off down Makepeace Avenue . |
| 30 | The Moving Picture World described how ‘ the nickel palace of amusement made its appearance with no greater blare of trumpets than the noise of its phonograph horn and the throaty persuasions of its barker ’ and ‘ how these came unobtrusively in the still of the night ’ . |