Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One economist said : ‘ The Treasury forecast at the time of the Budget growth this year of 1 p.c. and a PSBR for 1992–93 of £26 billion excluding tax cuts . |
| 2 | The Geological Survey was one of the very few organizations employing men of science in Britain — Greenwich Observatory was one of the others — but their status was about that of clerks in the Civil Service , and this rankled . |
| 3 | To Wilson , they all seemed to be in a fever and like any good nurse she waited anxiously for the point of crisis , more concerned about the fate of Mrs Browning than about that of Italy . |
| 4 | This should not be taken too literally — not every rock in the crust is a granite — things like limestones are vastly different in composition — but the average composition of all the rocks on the continents is about that of granite and contains over 60 per cent of silica . |
| 5 | TOMORROW is D for Digital Day for 365 of BT 's customers served by the Forden telephone exchange , midway between Welshpool and Newtown . |
| 6 | To help us decide how much liquid to make up let us look at the appropriate dosages for each of Hahnemann 's suggestions . |
| 7 | In a little ceremony after dinner a neighbour lined up four of us to award points for each of Polly 's dishes . |
| 8 | Mother , Peter , and Phyllis were standing near the table , and there were twelve lighted candles on it , one for each of Bobbie 's years . |
| 9 | anyone out there working as executives for Snickers , Coca-Cola , Sun or something — a couple of tickets for each of Norway 's games ( and Ireland-Italy ) would be most welcome ! ! naah — thought so ; - ) |
| 10 | Silicon Graphics Inc completed its acquisition of MIPS Computer Systems Inc , paying 0.52 shares for each of MIPS ' 26m shares outstanding . |
| 11 | As far as the moor gate there was a whole footprint for each of Sir Charles ' steps . |
| 12 | In 1986 , about two-thirds of degree students were studying for university degrees and one third for CNAA degrees . |
| 13 | About two-thirds of UK secretaries , clerks and typists are never ‘ out for lunch ’ — they eat a midday meal of sandwiches at their desks |
| 14 | Although about two-thirds of students still came from the gentry estate , an increasing proportion of them seem to have been poor . |
| 15 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 16 | Taking all recent purchases into account , credit now finances about two-thirds of cars and over half of domestic appliances , TVs , stereos etc. bought ; nearly half of all home improvements , furniture and home furnishings ; and one-third or more of hobby items or jewellery , clothes , toys or presents . |
| 17 | This showed that about two-thirds of jobs generated at inner city establishments were filled by commuters from other parts of the conurbation . |
| 18 | Discounting new distillate sales , about two-thirds of Invergordon 's overall output is exported , with one-third going to the home market , where sales grew by 6 per cent as the group consolidated and grew its leading position in own-label Scotch whisky for customers such as Tesco and Safeway . |
| 19 | Work is at around 2.5mph and the system saves about two-thirds of chemical compared with overall application . |
| 20 | The trust said prices would be about two-thirds of market value and those who could not afford to buy could rent them through a housing association . |
| 21 | The sort of problem we are addressing here — finding a semantic explanation for the distribution of the infinitive after verbs of perception in the passive — is treated in a diametrically opposite way by formal-grammar truth-semantics accounts such as that of Higgenbotham 1983 . |
| 22 | There were many people in Greece who felt grateful for the repression of even minor social disturbances , such as that of Dyme in Achaia about 116 B.C. , so typically described in the letter by the Roman proconsul Quintus Fabius Maximus to the magistrates of the city : abolition of debts and contracts ( SIG 684 ) . |
| 23 | A few cases have attracted public attention — such as that of Sheila Rossall , a pop singer , who was flown to America for treatment in the 1970s , before such problems could be treated in Britain . |
| 24 | The collections formed from the spoils of the Revolution were then augmented by bequests such as that of Jean-Baptiste Wicar , disciple of David and curator of the museum , whose collections included an outstanding group of 800 Old Master drawings , among them a number of superb sheets by Raphael , and by the bold purchasing of modern French art by the municipality in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Juliet recognised the voice as that of Moira Charles , usually so cool and collected . |
| 26 | But characterisations of discovery such as that of Lord Keith of Kinkel in Home Office v. Harman [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 280 , 308B , as ‘ a very serious invasion of the privacy and confidentiality of a litigant 's affairs , ’ although of the clearest application to discovery given in private civil litigation , appear to us altogether less obviously apt in relation to an order such as that made by this court in the appellant 's appeal . |
| 27 | Books are at the heart of long-lived auction businesses : Sotheby 's started with books in the eighteenth century , and the first founders of Christie 's also auctioned off famous libraries such as that of Dr Johnson in 1785 . |
| 28 | Either it is an instance of a proof by reductio ad absurdum , in which we assume something true in order to prove it false ; or it is a way of exposing a paradox within the concept of knowledge , for the sceptic can surely insist that if a central concept such as that of knowledge can be used to take us validly from true premises to a false or impossible conclusion , something is wrong with the concept ; there is probably some internal tension which should be exposed rather than swept under the carpet . |
| 29 | I have described elsewhere how these Tayloristic techniques have resulted in a situation where factory models are being imposed even on non-alienated work such as that of university professors , whose performance may be assessed by the well-known Frank-Wolfe algorithm . |
| 30 | At factories such as that of Hartley Wood of Sunderland , founded in 1892 , ‘ antique ’ sheet glass is still mouth-blown in essentially the medieval manner . |