Example sentences of "of [num] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the summer of 1943 the Americans were getting into their stride so far as the war in the Pacific was concerned . |
| 2 | In a petition of 1756 the weavers of the West Country pointed out the consequences of wage reductions being imposed by their employers : " insomuch that weavers can not get above fourpence for sixteen hours labour … whereby their families are thrown upon and become burthensome to the parishes " . |
| 3 | ‘ But under the Social Security Act of 1986 the trustees of the scheme have to inflation proof benefits earned between January 1985 and the end of 1989 when Mr Hickman left the company . |
| 4 | Under the provisions of Part H of the Public Order Act of 1986 the police have been given greater powers in the regulation of processions and assemblies . |
| 5 | The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king . |
| 6 | At the end of 1985 the directors met to consider these figures and to determine future development policy with regard to the Dee Hall , in particular what to do with the adjoining Dee Cinema site . |
| 7 | In the general election campaign of 1929 the Liberals were challenged by the Conservatives to explain where the money would come from . |
| 8 | It is hoped that the first unit will start production in one year , and that by the end of 1995 the facilities will reach a production rate of 150,000 b/d . |
| 9 | But by the autumn of 1969 the migrants dominated events . |
| 10 | At around the age of forty-six the attacks became more intense and , by the time I had reached the age of forty-eight they were a fortnightly affair and almost unbearable . |
| 11 | In the course of 1921 the programmes of Labour and the Alliance contained nothing that was new . |
| 12 | When England won the last Test of 1973–4 the teams had met only twice in one-day internationals . |
| 13 | After the Popular Revolution of 1973–4 the districts of Libya in theory became autonomous and sovereign ; in practice they did not because a more or less restricted elite in the centre created the budgets , policies and political institutions . |
| 14 | Norway 's biggest gas field of all — Troll — is intended to supply the European market but at the end of 1984 no agreements had been concluded . |
| 15 | By the autumn of 1946 the Chiefs of Staff on both sides of the Atlantic were assuming that the two nations would work together in the event of a global war . |
| 16 | By August of 1824 the stamps were pounding away and 50 tons of concentrate were ready for market . |
| 17 | From the beginning of 1992 the effects of the war were further compounded by a regional drought [ see also pp. 38755 ; 38855 ] . |
| 18 | After the revolution of 1327 the commons in parliament sought statutory protection against the measures Edward II had taken . |
| 19 | After the defeat of 1918 the policies of Frederick , Bismarck and Wilhelm II were to be taken up and extended quite logically ; the search for identity , for colonial holdings , the logic of industrial expansion , the ‘ question ’ of the eastern marches would all be solved and resolved in the Endlösung . |
| 20 | However , in nine cases out of ten the parties do not appreciate this fact . |
| 21 | In the Duma elections of 1912 the Bolsheviks won six of the nine curias reserved for workers and by 1914 the Mensheviks had lost control of the trade unions and social insurance councils in the Moscow and St Petersburg regions to their more radical rivals . |
| 22 | We propose therefore that in groups of 6 the participants will discuss these requests and allocate funds to them . |
| 23 | At the Gloucester Forest Eyre of 1282 the judges ruled that every forester of fee was to have his own roll of attachments of vert and venison to present before them . |
| 24 | Like the aristocracy , therefore , the Church could count on its urban mob , and in the riots of 1766 the Orders were accused of releasing this urban clientèle against a reforming administration ; Aranda , the most conspicuous of Charles III 's anti-clerical ministers , called to power to deal with the rioters , seems to have planned a serious attack on poverty precisely because he feared the influence of a Church with a monopoly of outdoor relief . |
| 25 | In the ‘ custumal ’ of 1285 the tenants were divided into ‘ free ’ , ‘ virgaters ’ ( unfreemen owing services as detailed as those of John Marscal ) and ‘ cottars ’ , the landless bulk . |
| 26 | In the spring parliament of 1340 the commons offered a grant of tax subject to conditions which now went much further than the concessions they had sought in the previous year and which were reminiscent of the concerns of the Ordainers in 1310–11 . |
| 27 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
| 28 | His attitude was that of one the soldiers whose income by the sword he said he would better with his pen . |
| 29 | Its central purpose , as the head of one the agencies put it , is ‘ to produce a river which is suitable for the uses which are needed downstream — providing a potable water supply , for fisheries , just amenity . |
| 30 | Proof of 2.5.4 The cases p = 2 , 3 are easily dealt with directly . |