Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [num] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great Bishop Joseph Butler of Durham , had begun his Analogy of Religion of 1736 with the famous remark : |
| 2 | The individual tissue type plasminogen activator activity and damaged area was determined 30 minutes after the administration of endothelin-1 in the various concentrations ( 50 , 100 , 250 , and 500 pmol/kg ) , each of which consisted of seven experiments . |
| 3 | Kassire Koumakoye , president of one of the recognized parties , the National Rally for Democracy and Progress ( RNDP ) , became the CNO spokesperson . |
| 4 | In the crowd that surrounded him was a man called Jairus , who was the president of one of the local synagogues . |
| 5 | A detailed , comprehensive examination of the forces — social , political and artistic — which resulted in the ultimate collapse of one of the key institutions of French cultural life , brought down , according to Mainardi , by the Salon 's internal contradiction as aesthetic instructor and commercial enterprise . |
| 6 | For most of the past decade at least one major thoroughfare in the city centre has been shut to traffic while workmen repair a large hole that has opened up in the tarmac after the collapse of one of the old brick sewers beneath . |
| 7 | The planned closure of 31 of the remaining 50 coal mines in Britain , which has now been made subject to a review after widespread protests , will have serious environmental implications , the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) and others have warned . |
| 8 | British Steel 's closure of the Ravenscraig steel plant in Motherwell this September means the loss of one of the heavy industry landmarks and fuels national sentiment . |
| 9 | At 0400 she blew up with the loss of fifty-seven of the precious tanks and ten of the even more precious Hurricanes . |
| 10 | They are often found where hard corals have largely died out as a result of one of the above processes . |
| 11 | How Harry Boot and I achieved our end is shown in the photograph of one of the original anode blocks machined in December 1939 . |
| 12 | There was to be an expression of a certain solidarity between members of both the catholic and protestant working classes in the Belfast demonstration of 1932 against the inadequate poor relief during the period of particularly high unemployment . |
| 13 | When he came down the alley toward the club 's stage door he could see that there were three rough-looking teenagers who 'd clambered up the side of one of the big waste bins and were lifting stuff around inside . |
| 14 | Except that on this day , while it hunted for flies , one frog lost its way and crawled around the side of one of the outermost petals , or possibly leaves , and saw something it had never seen before . |
| 15 | Tad Szulc discusses the problem of the Cuban government 's trials of Batista ’ war criminals ' by revolutionary justice : ’ … the issue — in the eyes of Fidel Castro and masses of Cubans — was that while the United States government had never protested against the killing and torture of thousands of the old regime 's opponents by the Batista police and soldiers ( and public opinion took hardly any notice ) , now that the victorious revolutionaries were punishing their opponents with executions and lengthy prison sentences Americans were indignant [ about the lack of Anglo-Saxon judicial guarantees ] ' ( 1986 , pp. 385–6 ) . |
| 16 | The bends lie at the centres of the met boxes , and correspond to compression of the major groove to a width of 9.4 around the bound repressor β -ribbons , and opening of the opposite minor groove to 8.3 . |
| 17 | THE Welsh Office has given the go-ahead for a road scheme which could result in up to five roundabouts on a 600-yard stretch of one of the main routes to a Welsh resort . |
| 18 | The victim 's ear was retrieved from the mouth of one of the dead pit bulls . |
| 19 | He traced a delicate figure of eight across the smooth pale skin at her shoulders . |
| 20 | Chris Abbott , Liberal Democrat candidate said last month 's unemployment figure of 152,900 in the northern region , an increase of 700 , reflected the indifference of the Tories to the human tragedy of unemployment . |
| 21 | The current total , made up of 1,491 young men and 838 young women , is a drop of less than 1 percent from the figure of 2,348 for the previous month . |
| 22 | I feel sure many of your readers will have been annoyed by the way your reporter allowed our accurate and detailed evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee on the way some planning committees have violated planning policies over recent years , to be so easily dismissed by the chairman of one of the guilty district councils . |
| 23 | We met when she came with the chairman of one of the big contractors to lobby me about increasing the road-building programme , when I was a spokesman for Transport . |
| 24 | Will my right hon. Friend accept that no hon. Member on this side of the House and , if they can leave aside party politicking for a moment , no hon. Member on the Opposition Benches , would believe that my right hon. Friend was capable of flouting the law — — as has been suggested , either in his personal capacity , or , still less , as a holder of one of the great offices of State ? |
| 25 | When taken together , these amount to a large part of one of the dominant interests of contemporary British society : the professional middle class . |
| 26 | AIRCRAFT technicians of the future have the chance of working on part of one of the top jet fighters of yesteryear . |
| 27 | The burgh of Paisley , although not a royal burgh and thus not forming part of one of the parliamentary districts , had a vote in the county elections for Renfrewshire in right of the burgh lands , and it was the burgh vote which provided the candidate with his strongest argument for preferment . |
| 28 | Henry of Huntingdon 's tale of fighting against the Slavs ( see above ) might also be relevant , and if Cnut did spend part of 1022 in the Baltic it would explain why the Chronicle C text records his return from Denmark in 1023 without , otherwise , having said that he had gone there . |
| 29 | The exercises , conducted from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean Sea by air , sea and land multinational divisions , would involve 205,000 personnel , a reduction of 45,000 from the previous year . |
| 30 | Victorian tourists pose at the foot of one of the great pyramids . |