Example sentences of "of [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of 1934 the ILP had written to the Comintern , criticizing the rigidity of Comintern control over constituents . |
| 2 | Even at the beginning of 1934 the anti-Semitism of the British Union of Fascists was not as a rule overt . |
| 3 | Allying with the denominational press at the end of 1829 the Anti-Slavery Society allowed copies of the Reporter to be stitched under the cover of the Baptist Magazine . |
| 4 | At the end of 1886 the tunnel was opened to passenger and goods traffic ; it was more than four miles long and its construction occupied almost fourteen years , at a cost of more than £2 million . |
| 5 | ( S. ) 460 , which established that where a juvenile pleaded guilty to an offence for which he could be ordered to be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , it was open to the sentencer to impose a term of 12 months detention in a young offender institution , if he considered that apart from the plea of guilty a sentence of detention under section 53(2) would have been warranted . |
| 6 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
| 7 | Under the Child Minders Regulations Act of 1948 a person caring for reward for one or more children under five years of age to whom they are not related is required to be registered with the local authority . |
| 8 | By the summer of 1943 the Americans were getting into their stride so far as the war in the Pacific was concerned . |
| 9 | Foreigners suffering poverty , but not political persecution , have been flocking to Germany at a rate of 400,000–500,000 a year . |
| 10 | The Canadian authorities , in the meantime , asked for forty-five cuts to be made , which Nicholson refused to do , and so by the end of 1971 the film had been shown only in selected cinemas in America and even there , the reaction had been mixed . |
| 11 | Since our rather unsuccessful sortie to Scotland during the winter of 1971 the Klondyke trade had revived and was bringing a new prosperity to the north west . |
| 12 | In the peak years of 1979–80 the United States ' share of the world trade was 51 per cent of wheat and 73 per cent of coarse grains . |
| 13 | In the winter of 1979–80 the Trannon careered off on a course of its own . |
| 14 | In the peace Ballot of 1934–5 the LNU conducted the largest exercise in doorstep campaigning ever undertaken by any pressure group . |
| 15 | By the end of 1861 the university had been closed . |
| 16 | In the autumn of 1861 the Slavophile Ivan Aksakov tried to dissuade students from engaging in disturbances by urging them to return to their books and to " study Russia and the Russian nationality ( narodnost ) , in order to fill the gulf which still separates us from the people " . |
| 17 | Before turning to the detail of sections 12–15 it must be noted that under the original Sale of Goods Act of 1893 the wording of some of these sections was slightly different prior to 1973 when the sections were amended by the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 . |
| 18 | U.S. shippers eventually took their case to the United States Congress which enacted the Harter Act of 1893 The Harter Act effected a compromise between the competing interests of shippers and carriers . |
| 19 | It appears that under the Act of 1980 the content of that policy was entirely a matter for the governors , subject of course to the requirements of section 6 of the Act of 1980 . |
| 20 | In the first quarter of 1980 the ICI group was making profits at a rate of six hundred million pounds a year and in the third quarter we posted a loss for only the second time in our history . |
| 21 | In front of each a Tam o'Shanter called a caubeen sported a pale blue hackle made of feathers . |
| 22 | From this converted shed next to the pub , he 's producing ninety gallons of each a week . |
| 23 | Inside the Federation ‘ in the interests of each the Governor-General would be arbiter of all ’ . |
| 24 | Off just 39 balls he made 82 astonishing runs , and the innings closed on 229 , setting England a run rate of 6.2 an over . |
| 25 | In grammar , putting a noun or noun equivalent beside another for the purpose of a more complete explanation or description , eg in The news that he had won surprised Tom , a young lad of eight the clause that he had won is in apposition to the noun news and the phrase a young lad of eight is in apposition to the noun Tom . |
| 26 | Experienced social workers were given a case manager role for a small case load of such elderly people , with the task of keeping them in their own homes on a budget of two-thirds the cost of residential care in a local authority home . |
| 27 | Probably as a result of Leotychidas ' intervention of 476 the tageia had passed from the Aleuads , Pindar 's hosts . |
| 28 | During the electoral and economic crisis of 1935 the Party had accepted no new members , but when it opened its books again in September 1936 membership shot up to 29,819 . |
| 29 | In the years after the defeat of 1935 the Party formulated many of the policies on which it was to be returned in 1945 . |
| 30 | From the spring of 1935 the Republican left and the Socialists were therefore able to revive and eventually form a new alliance , the Popular Front , to resist ‘ fascism ’ in the future . |