Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adv] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Britain 's top jump jockeys , he had ridden the winners of over 350 races in his career and was recognized as one of the toughest of a tough breed . |
| 2 | The surgeons had to join blood vessels of only two millimetres in diameter and use suturing materials no broader than a human hair . |
| 3 | A random number table consists of lists of randomly selected numbers in which there is no bias . |
| 4 | These sensible recommendations were also designed to harmonize relationships between institutions and their local authorities , in that the granting to institutions of considerably more discretion in the control and allocation of resources would help to avoid the kind of disputes that had erupted between them and the local authorities in the past . |
| 5 | The new number would certainly supply it : it is the famous Plaint — only six lines of text , but six or seven minutes of very slow music in Purcell 's best melancholy manner . |
| 6 | Some plunging cliffs may be due to faulting , downwarping and volcanic flows of very recent date in tectonically mobile areas such as New Zealand . |
| 7 | The seminars also address some of the ethical issues surrounding investigations of politically sensitive issues in education . |
| 8 | Madge and Fassam ( 1982 ) examined some of the social interactions of physically disabled pupils in a range of educational situations including integration into ordinary schools . |
| 9 | For example , H pylori is implicated in the pathogenesis of atrophic gastritis , which may have led to decreased acid secretion through loss of parietal cells in groups of chronically infected subjects in some studies . |
| 10 | Eurobankers are beginning to be chary of lending to the nationalized industries and state authorities of even big countries in balance of payments deficits . |
| 11 | Throughout large areas of geologically sensitive terrain in eastern North America , lakes have lost an average of over 40 per cent of their original alkalinity . |
| 12 | Applicants holding GCE A-level passes of sufficiently high standard in appropriate subjects may be offered exemption from all or part of the first year of most honours degree courses ; indeed such opportunities may also be available to applicants offering other qualifications . |
| 13 | Part of an answer to these may be found in the fact that a personal visit ( by the researchers ) to the areas where the black arrestees lived revealed that these were pockets of very poor houses in large wards of predominantly good class housing . |
| 14 | Movements of over 1,000 birds in a day are noted almost every spring , however , and the largest single movement yet seen was of 12,000 flying east off Beachy Head on 7 April 1969 . |
| 15 | I could never believe how much such a beautiful , tiny dog could alter the lives of so many people in such a short time . |
| 16 | Having discussed the potential drawbacks of genetically engineered organisms in the environment , it is important to remember that recombinant DNA techniques have presented possibilities that , in theory at least , may provide considerable environmental benefits . |
| 17 | These range through the needs of visually handicapped children in the pre-school , primary or secondary stages of education to those of adolescents attending further education courses and the special needs of multi-handicapped children with defective vision . |
| 18 | The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in July 1990 had overturned his conviction on the first charge and sent the other two convictions back to US District Court judge Gerhard A. Gesell , to determine whether testimony from any of the 67 witnesses at the original trial had been influenced — directly or indirectly — by information which North gave Congress under grant of limited immunity during four days of nationally televised interrogation in June 1987 [ see p. 37605 ] . |
| 19 | It can climb hills of 1:8 , and round bends of just 10 metres in radius . |
| 20 | These occasions can be the beginnings of more determined initiatives in continuing teacher education . |
| 21 | In 1842 , the European proposal — which was to contain the seeds of so much grief in the next century — was accepted by the Turks ; Mount Lebanon was divided into two sectors , a Christian canton in the north and a Druze canton in the south , with the main Beirut– Damascus highway marking the boundary between them . |
| 22 | proponents of more rapid reductions in overseas expenditure also tended to fall into the trap of contrasting such expenditure with expenditure on imported consumption goods . |
| 23 | Forty years of extremely limited progress in the sphere suggest that optimism would be out of place . |
| 24 | Talks on the division collapsed last week in Geneva over territorial issues , prompting fears of more intense fighting in Bosnia . |
| 25 | The process of establishing and protecting the rights of mentally ill people in Japan had begun . |
| 26 | For even when the proportions are beautiful and unusual , the view stupendous , the privacy assured , a window covering is still the most practical way of shutting out the depressing sight of rain , avoiding too much heat loss , preventing draughts in winter and the discomforts of too much sun in summer . |
| 27 | This model also suggests that the hydrothermal cells should have maximum dimensions of about 40 km in diameter which can be useful in eliminating some areas near major deposits . |
| 28 | It rests on the assumption that it is possible to produce large quantities of almost identical items in a modem industrial process , and therefore it is possible to establish certain tolerances within which quality is acceptable , and outside which it is not acceptable . |
| 29 | In 1973 , according to official statistics , there were no privately owned properties of over 80 hectares in Chile . |
| 30 | There is accommodation for about seventy guests in the main building , with additional rooms of equally high standard in nearby houses . |