Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [num] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps one of these workaholics who only became aware of difficulties in their marriage when their wives had packed their bags and left their goodbye note on the mantelpiece ? |
| 2 | After fertilisation the zygote would have three or only one of that particular homologue . |
| 3 | Is that poor Andrew Collins some sort of old punk or perchance one of those sad tossers who once flogged Socialist Worker to 14-year-olds ? |
| 4 | This is a rather variable type of vegetation and is characterised by constant Molinia caerulea , Scirpus cespitosus , Erica tetralix , Potentilla erecta and Calluna vulgaris , but any one or even two of these species might be missing . |
| 5 | Each specific protein has its own particular sequence of amino acids and a singular protein molecule may consist of dozens , hundreds or even thousands of these amino acid units . |
| 6 | Erm , I do n't think either a father or a mother intrinsically has to be necessary , I think what 's important is that children should have access to a variety of loving adults , one or two , or maybe three of those who they should have a special relationship with , does n't matter whether they 're male or female , so long as the , the children are loved and they feel secure and happy , it does n't matter about , you know , this is mother , this is father . |
| 7 | From its inception until 1954 the EDC treaty hung like a sword of Damocles over French politics , albeit only one of many problems that afflicted government . |
| 8 | so erm er th the thought , the thought did occur to me that perhaps one of these times he 's gon na actually go beyond just like talking , and perhaps touching somebody . |
| 9 | Does my hon. Friend accept that , if British Rail has decided that only 13 of those crossings are unsafe , it therefore appears to believe that 87 are perfectly safe ? |
| 10 | The survey showed that only one-third of those who had been on courses generated the training themselves . |
| 11 | Initially it was believed that only one of these , the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus , was involved in visual perception and that the rest were involved in visual reflexes like pupillary control ( the pretectum ) , orientation movements ( the superior colliculus ) , and stabilization of the visual field when the head moves ( the accessory optic system ) . |
| 12 | Another problem may be that you only have one machine for both recording and playback so that only one of these activities can go on at one time . |
| 13 | In quantum mechanics the uncertainty principle says that only one of these measurements can be predicted ; the observer can predict the result of measuring either the position or the velocity but not both . |
| 14 | During 1967 , 258 families had been provided with subsidised dwellings , 43 by the corporation and 215 by the NIHT ; this included 169 families rehoused from condemned properties , so that only 89 of these households represented an overall addition to the housing stock . |
| 15 | Springfield 's satisfaction with the success of the night 's operation , was somewhat tempered by the fact that only three of those captured were from the upper echelon of grey tracksuited heavies , the Apostles . |
| 16 | Although only one of these relationships is statistically significant — that between employment work satisfaction and dissatisfaction with life generally — both are in the direction suggested by the women 's own observations . |
| 17 | Although only one of these bottles is labelled ‘ suitable for recycling ’ , both are , in fact , made from the same recyclable plastic . |
| 18 | Quail occasionally occur in winter , and des Forges and Harber gave about 14 such records until 1960 , although only four of these were after 1900 . |
| 19 | Elements of these two types contract any of four " horizontal " relations , belonging to the same level , with other entities or properties or both , as will be described immediately below ( it is probable that exactly one of these relations is specifically linguistic rather than being a relation implied by human mental activities in general ) . |
| 20 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |
| 21 | The haul , however , is small , and only one of these cases is actually attributable to a jurist ; for the other the emperor is responsible . |
| 22 | None of the patients dying of sepsis had undergone splenectomy and only one of these deaths occurred in the early post operative period . |
| 23 | Only three of the whole group had worked since redundancy , and only one of those did so for more than half of the time between redundancy and interview . |
| 24 | Of every 200 16-year-olds just a couple plump for an engineering degree , and only one of those becomes an engineer . |
| 25 | Only three of the housing departments that provided information were able to state how many households on their waiting or transfer list required wheelchair or mobility adapted housing , and only two of these were able to break this information down by bedroom size . |
| 26 | Twenty six patients have had a restorative proctocolectomy for familial adenomatous polyposis of whom 20 had a synchronous proctocolectomy and pouch construction and only four of these patients had a covering loop ileostomy . |
| 27 | Perinatal mortality is the seventh most common cause of death and only one-third of all deliveries or miscarriages received medical attention in 1975 . |
| 28 | In 1892 , Clara Collet , a social investigator , reported that in the richer suburbs unmarried women aged 35–45 outnumbered unmarried men by over three to one , and only one-third of these were domestic servants . |
| 29 | Only 27 acquisitions cost $100 million or more , and only five of those involved non-Europeans . |
| 30 | There were , it seems , only fifty-three competitors who entered all three parts of the competition , and only twenty-one of all the submissions came from foreign architects . |