Example sentences of "of [pron] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his Liber Revelationum , Book I , chapter 6 , he gives some account of his father 's character , and he relates stories concerning his grandfather Ailsi and his uncles , Jordan 's brothers , of whom the two eldest , Bernard and Nicholas , were scriptores in the royal chapel in the time of Henry I. Peter also mentions his kinship by marriage to Reginald de Dunstanvill , Earl of Cornwall ; whence it has been conjectured that Peter 's mother was a sister of the earl 's wife , Beatrice , daughter of William Fitz Richard of Cardinan , the most important of the local nobility . |
| 2 | Got two of them the one that , that pushes one round . |
| 3 | Since the publication of his The Seven Lively Arts in the 1920s Seldes had been a linchpin of New York 's arts scene . |
| 4 | Indeed , all the millions of cells that make up each one of us have been formed by a process of successive cell divisions , during each of which the 46 chromosomes were first faithfully duplicated , and then separated to form two new daughter cells . |
| 5 | This can be an advantage for that reason , particularly if the bidder already owns a significant number of shares in the target which will reduce the pool of shares in respect of which the 75 per cent or 90 per cent threshold must be achieved . |
| 6 | Even in his very early and surprisingly few organ ricercari — notably the one del 8. tono on three closely worked subjects , and the one del 10. tono ( of which the one del 9. tono is essentially a shortened version ) where a canzon theme alternates with a motive worked in almost too facile descending sequences — Giovanni enters a different world from his uncle 's ricercari ; the last traces of the ‘ instrumental motet ’ have been erased . |
| 7 | SID , the German news agency , said : ‘ At a end of a hearing of which the DLV 's legal commission was out of its depth with the case and from the start seemed to be on the side of Krabbe , Breuer and Moller , there was a scandalous ruling . ’ |
| 8 | They were carried on four pairs , of which the two middle ones were fixed , whereas to move sideways in a radial direction when going round a curve , though normally they were held in a straight line with the fixed wheels by a pair of springs in compression . |
| 9 | e.g. " As late as 1911 only 59% of Britain 's adult male population ( some eight million out of a total nearing forty one million ) had the vote , and there were seven different types of franchise , of which the two major ones related to ownership or occupation of land , or of any house defined as a separate dwelling . " |
| 10 | Menem visited Paraguay on Nov. 27-28 , 1989 , for talks with President Andrés Rodríguez , at the conclusion of which the two heads of state signed a joint declaration covering economic and hydroelectric co-operation and border integration . |
| 11 | In all the antics to which our honourable member would resort to secure the publicity and the popularity needed under the STV to get himself re-elected he would be contributing to the personalization and the trivialization of politics of which the eighties saw the deplorable example set in high places . |
| 12 | The BAF Council , which will be the new governing assembly of the sport in Britain , will bring together representatives of the three English areas , the three ‘ Celtic ’ associations , and representatives of the Special Commissions , of which the three most powerful will be track and field , cross-country and road running . |
| 13 | Its culmination is the Joint Committee , as a result of which the three UK and Irish Institutes now speak with one voice on ethical issues . |
| 14 | It fully bears out both the disquiet expressed in the working party 's Report , and quoted above ; and the CDA 's dissociation of its policies from those in pursuit of which the three cases in question were projected into disaster . |
| 15 | This was prompted by the costs of war-indeed , since the renewal of the conflict with France in 1369 there had been several major fiscal exactions , of which the three poll taxes were the last . |
| 16 | the likes of which the twenty six strike was , you see , there there was no er there was no holds barred . |
| 17 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , on the Report of which the 1978 Act was based , considered that s.3 would not apply , but s.1 would be appropriate if the accused did not intend to pay from the start of the transaction . |
| 18 | In a referendum on April 28 , over 90 per cent of voters approved a draft constitution under the terms of which the 1982 ban on political parties would be lifted on May 18 ; the turnout was estimated at 60 per cent . |
| 19 | However desirable , that might fly in the face of everything the 1984 decree was about . |
| 20 | In front of him the two men had separated , reacted to the shout , and then to the sight of the gun . |
| 21 | On the face of it the two seats should split evenly between the two big parties — North east to the Conservatives and South West to Labour . |
| 22 | The place has a minimum of things , nearly nothing new , but enough of what the 200 women and about 400 children , who pass through the refuge every year , might need . |