Example sentences of "[num] in [art] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas previously it had sanctioned minimal provision for all paupers , since the 1870s it had insisted upon strict application of the principles of 1834 in the selection of paupers , and restriction of their numbers wherever possible , while at the same time insisting on relief ‘ adequate to meet need ’ in all cases . |
| 2 | Rallies , demonstrations and strikes were reported on Jan. 4-6 in a number of towns and cities in support of the nationalists ' demands , and on Jan. 5 there was a general strike in Kurdzhali and in the nearby city of Khaskovo . |
| 3 | The Group 's final report , submitted in May , builds on that and covers key stages 2 to 4 , including a revision of its earlier recommendations for key stage 2 in the light of consultations on the key stage 1 Order and of the NCC 's advice . |
| 4 | Political parties have technically been banned since 1957 , but the Moslem Brotherhood ( which commands a bloc of 22 in the House of Representatives ) , has charitable status and is therefore exempt from the ban . |
| 5 | Voting was 30 to 17 in favour in the House of Bishops , 149 to 85 in the House of Clergy and 144 to 78 in the House of Laity . |
| 6 | ‘ Sixty-one in a couple of months . ’ |
| 7 | The increase in the 1870s in the number of students drawn from the seminaries , moulded by the doctrinal rigidity of Russian Orthodoxy , left its mark . |
| 8 | REM sleep-deprivation experiments were also discussed in Chapter 4 in the context of beliefs about dreaming — in particular , the notion that the prevention of dreaming sleep might cause temporary psychosis . |
| 9 | The government 's proposed new constitution , aimed at introducing multiparty democracy after 21 years of one-party rule , was tabled on June 4 in the House of Representatives , which was then adjourned until June 6 to enable members to study the draft . |
| 10 | The appellant was concerned with another youth aged 17 in a number of incidents in which five different people were approached in the street , threatened with violence and robbed in two cases of small sums of money . |
| 11 | Voters thus rejected 58 assorted reforms , principal among which were the constitutional abolition of the armed forces and the elimination of all references to the military 's role in the life of the nation , an increase from six to 11 in the number of years of compulsory education , the creation of the office of ombudsman , and a curtailment of the auditing department 's powers to review government spending . |
| 12 | 2.4 In the case of deaths occurring on or after 1 January 1983 the right to damages for loss of expectation of life is abolished by s1 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 . |
| 13 | 2.3 In the case of deaths occurring before 1 January 1983 , damages recoverable under the 1934 Act include damages for pain and suffering and loss sustained by the deceased before his death , damages for loss of expectation of life , damages for loss of future earnings during the " lost years " and funeral expenses . |
| 14 | Most patients in group A showed greater immunostaining with big ET-1 than with ET-1 antisera , suggesting a predominance of precursor and providing evidence of increased local synthesis of ET-1 in the lung of patients with CFA . |
| 15 | 3 In the light of answers to these questions , choose your herbs . |
| 16 | Among the trick films , for example , he made use of double exposure as early as eighteen ninety-eight in a group of films , these are titles , ‘ Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother ’ , ‘ The Mesmerist ’ , ‘ The Corsican Brothers ’ , things like this , and he was one of the pioneers incidentally of the close-up . |
| 17 | Jacques Médecin , the flamboyant and controversial right-wing mayor of Nice , was forced to resign on Sept. 16 in the face of revelations of city budget irregularities and personal tax evasion . |
| 18 | I 'll be fifteen in a couple of weeks . |
| 19 | A change related to the smaller number of candidates is perhaps the increase over 1973 in the number of candidates who were elected with a quota at Stage I , 25 against 17 . |
| 20 | Among the 911 co-operatives active in June 1984 , 128 engaged in manufacture , 562 in the provision of services , and 221 in wholesale and retail trading . |
| 21 | The determination of the MMD by conventional fractionation techniques is time consuming , and a rapid , efficient and reliable method which can provide a measure of the MMD in a matter of hours has been developed . |
| 22 | SHELTER had launched a campaign to end the use of bed and breakfast hotels for temporary housing after official figures for England showed a 41pc drop from 11,280 to 6,650 in the number of households in B&B accommodation for the year ending June . |
| 23 | On Oct. 23 in the Chamber of Deputies the government won another confidence vote on sections of the 1993 budget freezing public-sector pay and establishing new taxes . |
| 24 | The elections at federal level were for 300 seats in the Federal Assembly — 150 in the Chamber of the People ( reduced from 200 ) and 150 in the Chamber of Nations . |
| 25 | According to Magnet Applications , the Berkhamsted-based Cookson subsidiary , the number of magnets used in cars has risen from a handful 20 years ago to about 80 now , rising to perhaps 200 in a couple of years ' time as automatic windows and sunroofs etc become more widespread . |
| 26 | The make-up of the industry , with its six big brewers commanding about 75 per cent of total beer sales , was established in the 1960s in a wave of mergers . |
| 27 | An inmate was beheaded by a fellow prisoner on Aug. 11 during rioting at the high-security Puerto de Santa Maria prison near Cadiz , bringing the death toll among prisoners to four in a summer of riots in Spain 's overcrowded prisons . |
| 28 | Mr Fox said one attack was bad enough , but four in the space of months was ‘ horrific ’ . |
| 29 | 1.4 In the majority of situations it should be possible to diffuse potentially violent confrontations by non physical means . |
| 30 | The Italian parliament after protracted debate approved on Jan. 16 ( by 382 to 201 in the Chamber of Deputies and by 190 to 96 in the Senate ) a motion providing for Italian participation in an " international policing operation " to secure Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait ; the wording was significant in that Italy 's Constitution forbade recourse to war as a means of settling international disputes . |