Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MINUTES OF ACTS SPECIAL SHOP MEETING |
| 2 | After two years of study , a blue-ribbon panel of experts this week advised NASA to plan at least four ‘ essential ’ planetary ventures between now and the year 2000 . |
| 3 | Neither William Hartnell , Maureen O'Brien nor Peter Purves appeared in this episode for a complex set of reasons traceable right back to ‘ Planet of Giants ’ . |
| 4 | For a variety of reasons this type of explanation must be rejected today and the explosive diversification of Metazoa across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary , as recorded in the strata , is now generally accepted as being a true reflection of what actually happened ( Stanley , 1976 ; Seilacher , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | The idea of this method is very simple : to work out the number of dies used for any given coinage and multiply this total by the average number of coins each die could produce . |
| 6 | I forgot about the sale of badges last year |
| 7 | If this explanation of the lhb applies also to the other terrestrial planets then the degree of sharing of the population producing the lhb would be slight , because in the formation of planets each planet has access to what to a large extent is a private supply of material . |
| 8 | the number of planets each star might have where the environment is suitable for life |
| 9 | Other Harwell staff noting the numbers are ( from left ) , Catering Manager Brian Monnery , Susan Elsley of Estates Postal Service and Helen Astill of Corporate Training . |
| 10 | Following the Norman Conquest in 1066 there was one of the greatest reorganisations of estates this country has ever seen . |
| 11 | However in the first week of operations insufficient availability of 158 's resulted in the 08.22 ex Salop and 11.00 return working ex Aberystwyth being a single Class 153 . |
| 12 | He also urged the party not to turn its back on traditional principles and values in its drive to agree an election-winning package of policies this week . |
| 13 | On Oct. 29 the Italian Chamber of Deputies approved ratification by 403 votes to 46 with 18 abstentions . |
| 14 | Also on Oct. 29 the Spanish Congress of Deputies approved ratification by 314 votes to three with eight abstentions . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister may be almost as contemptuous of her wetter supporters as of outright opponents — the ‘ hard core ’ of enemies any leader , especially a ‘ conviction politician ’ , must acquire in nearly 15 years of leadership . |
| 16 | It 's the same sort of cities commercial centre er let's explore the opportunities , there must be a market place out there er and market place across the north of England must be vast when you think about all the pension funds that are connected to the er to the public companies . |
| 17 | Under the auspices of the Pre-school Group for Parents and Children , the children and their parents enjoy a variety of activities one afternoon a week at Liphook Infant School . |
| 18 | In the practice of patterns correct breathing is essential . |
| 19 | The limestone slopes help to give a very varied selection of flowers and butterflies , adding to a superb variety of birds all year round . |
| 20 | To the joy of jewellers visible light has too low a frequency to excite an electron in a perfect diamond . |
| 21 | I wa I want you to tell me if what is Johnson saying that his particular comedy of humours this play is doing ? |
| 22 | The use of strategies varied according to the occupational category : at the professional and managerial level , 82 per cent of employers used strategy 2 , and at the technician level it was used by 74 per cent . |
| 23 | However , with some simplification and the elimination of multiple choice , success can be achieved in the majority of cases first time around . |
| 24 | It may therefore be that , if a technique were ever found to evaluate the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design , it might reveal that in a number of cases such innovation had net costs , to management , rather than net benefits . |
| 25 | In a number of cases existing Industry Training Organisations have become the Lead Body for their particular sector . |
| 26 | In the vast majority of cases hierarchical inequality is taken for granted as part of the natural order of things . |
| 27 | The general muddle was discussed in Chapter 6.2(c) above : in principle , a person whose conduct was caused by mental disorder should not be liable to criminal conviction , but in practice the narrow and antiquated defence of insanity is rarely invoked in England ( a handful of cases each year ) , and the courts normally proceed to conviction and then select a medical disposal where appropriate . |
| 28 | Flogging was only used as a judicial punishment in a handful of cases each year throughout the 1920s and 1930s , and the birching of young boys ' bottoms was also passing out of favour . |
| 29 | In the great majority of cases this teaching would be communicated orally , for Gospels were in short supply and many converts were illiterate . |
| 30 | As a rule , people do not hear single isolated words , and in the great majority of cases any word we hear is preceded by a context which could in principle be used to assist word recognition . |