Example sentences of "[noun] of [adv] [adj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would have prevented the loss of nearly three-quarters of the money . |
| 2 | The gap between the two has resulted in the debt burden , in the loss of national sovereignty and in the loss of so many of the nascent social services in those countries . |
| 3 | Then , outside , in an indication of just one of the unusual qualities of the growing East German opposition , they chanted ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ and sang the ‘ Internationale ’ . |
| 4 | But was a first-hand witness of so many of the circumstances that led to the deaths . |
| 5 | Mr Lang stated : ‘ I 'm not going to start answering specific questions about specific aspects of how one of the individual solutions we may chose will apply until we have reached a conclusion about the right way forward then we can address this issue and debate it fully , but as things stand at present I see no reason to have to change that law . ’ |
| 6 | There was , therefore , a vote of about one-third of the Derry electorate which was being deployed against the established parties . |
| 7 | But there were probably a great many more who simply took advantage of too many of the free pints they were offered too often and slipped into alcoholism . |
| 8 | For many years the school has run a concessionary scheme under which members of the staff are entitled to have their children educated at the school on payment of only one-fifth of the sum charged to members of the public . |
| 9 | The Romanesque foundations of so many of the houses in this area bear witness to its size and wealth . |
| 10 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 11 | With a majority of only one of the elected seats in the legislature , the government was more vulnerable than at any time in the past . |
| 12 | For example the information within the Oxford English Dictionary gives a description of almost all of the words in the English language and their etymological history . |
| 13 | By 1719 its absorption of so much of the unfunded debt was suggesting to ministers that they might also shift a proportion of the funded debt its way . |
| 14 | Dai told the story of how one of the visitors , a wealthy industrialist , came into his well stocked shop to use the phone and find out how things had been going at work during his absence . |
| 15 | This is caused by the corneo-retinal potential — a standing potential across the retina of about one-tenth of a volt . |
| 16 | I join the House in expressing sympathy to the families who have been so griveously bereaved through this tragedy , a tragedy that has been the experience of so many of the British people in Ulster over the past 20 years . |
| 17 | The identity of ‘ Ted Winters ’ has not been established , but despite the definite identification of only two of the Hurricanes claimed by 7/JG 26 in the period 28 April — 1 May , A.H.Q. Malta reported that actual R.A.F. losses in these four days amounted to six Hurricanes — closely in line with the claims — four by Müncheberg , one of which was not confirmed , one by Mietusch , two by Kühdorf — apparently neither of which were confirmed — and possibly one by Johannsen . |
| 18 | I did a tasting of over 40 of the cheaper champagnes to find out . |
| 19 | This extract from McCormick 's book could easily be mistaken for the work of almost any of the ‘ attribute school ’ writers . |
| 20 | The PowerPC 601 , which incorporates Motorola 's 88110 bus architecture into IBM 's design , has 2.8 million transistors crammed into a dimension of approximately four-tenths of an inch per side , and uses IBM 's 0.6 micron CMOS process . |
| 21 | Bearing in mind then that we have only half the story , we do have some indication of the social origins of about one-fifth of the sample , enough to be regarded as reasonably representative , |
| 22 | The young man , whose name was Merbury , was eager and inexperienced , and took it for granted , as an honest man well might , that his story of complete and shattering victory , of the capture of so many of the active nobility of Scotland , and of a bright lustre added to the name of Percy and of England could not fail to be pleasing to his sovereign . |
| 23 | The S.C.I. indexes every article and every significant editorial item from every issue of over 2700 of the world 's most important journals in over 100 disciplines . |
| 24 | The method clearly does not extend to the keeping of too many of the ‘ real books ’ themselves . ) |
| 25 | He guessed that the agreeably proportioned salon , too small to be partitioned and not large enough for a working laboratory , had escaped the fate of so much of the house more for administrative and scientific convenience than from any sensitivity on Colonel Hoggatt 's part to its innate perfection . |
| 26 | Perhaps he was moved by the recollection that the argument propounded by Anselm had its origin in his own comment on an intricate saying of St Paul about truth and justice being the same thing in different modes ; perhaps too he felt some remorse at his impatient dismissal of so many of the saints venerated at Canterbury , when so clever a man as Anselm could take Elphege seriously . |
| 27 | The speaking clock is sponsored by a watchmaker , raising the awkward question of how much of a future it can have if everyone buys watches . |
| 28 | The situation described above raises the question of how much of the content of UK weapons systems are owned and controlled by US companies , either as a result of security considerations or as a matter of ( patent ) law and what the terms are under which this technology is received . |
| 29 | The question of how many of the BBC 's 25,000 jobs will be shed after next year , and before the renewal of the Royal Charter in 1996 , is provoking unease at Bectu , the Broadcasting , Entertainment and Cinematograph Technicians ' Union . |
| 30 | It is a stance which dismisses the needs of over half of the members of the community and sanctions major crimes such as rape , assault , actual or grievous bodily harm and murder . |