Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For complete removal of marks a white plastic rubber was used and a soft cloth to achieve the mid tones and to lighten dark areas |
| 2 | What an interesting study of farewells a railway station affords . |
| 3 | She gave the assembled group of men a contemptuous sweep of her fine , grey eyes , and marched up the path . |
| 4 | So really starting towards looking at the different nature of strategies the new one would have . |
| 5 | On the free movement of persons the summit welcomed the signature of an asylum convention [ see p. 37535 ] and urged the rapid implementation of measures towards a Europe without frontiers contained in the Palma document . |
| 6 | The dropping of the detailed prescription of hours a few years later did not disturb history 's dominant position among the core subjects of the liberal , grammar tradition . |
| 7 | On-board summation of results from HUMS may be provided but for more detailed analysis of results the data/information needs to be transmitted to a ground station computer at the aircraft 's base . |
| 8 | The high number of injuries the bombers clearly hoped for were averted by the caution of the police . |
| 9 | Under the English system of parishes every diocese had variety ; that is each parish had the Prayer Book but used it as it thought , with simple or elaborate ceremonial , and with variations of language sanctioned by the ( illegal ) Prayer Book of 1928 if it wished . |
| 10 | Despite gaining a simple majority of votes a bidder may still be unable to gain control of the supervisory board with its entrenched powers and consequently be prevented from controlling the management of the company . |
| 11 | In the vast majority of cases the 6th potency will work just as well as the 30th and does not require such accuracy . |
| 12 | Arthropods afflicted with Laboulbeniales have a social disease ; in a vast majority of cases the infection is acquired through close contact with another individual carrying mature fungi ready to discharge spores . |
| 13 | ‘ being the person in charge ’ Means that such a person generally has the keys for the vehicle , but in the vast majority of cases the person ‘ in charge ’ will be the driver who parks the vehicle resulting in the obstruction . |
| 14 | In the vast majority of cases the offender(s) will be on a solo motor bicycle , and occasionally one having a sidecar attached . |
| 15 | In the vast majority of cases the exhaust pipe corrodes around the bend which goes over the rear axle on motor cars or that particular pipe breaks away from the end of the silencer . |
| 16 | In the vast majority of cases the occupational classification used in the census and at death registration is the same , but the term unoccupied might be interpreted differently . |
| 17 | But in the vast majority of cases the assessment of past pecuniary loss is in fact simple and usually special damages under this head are agreed without difficulty . |
| 18 | ‘ However , in due course a few , a very few indeed , intelligent teachers came to take a cool look at what was happening and they realised that for the vast majority of children the majority of our educational processes add about as much to the mental stature of our children as a diet of sawdust would add to their physical stature … . , |
| 19 | To give a concrete example , there is in the early development of vertebrates a process called gastrulation , during which a hollow ball of cells , the blastula , is folded in on itself to form a ball of two cell layers , with an opening , the blastopore , at one end . |
| 20 | Following a lie-down to recover I set about this mammoth task and after much intensified opening of envelopes the winner of 30 , yes THIRTY Hi-Tec games became clear . |
| 21 | By skilful use of reversions the Osborne family controlled the office of Treasurer 's Remembrancer from 1552 to 1674 , with only a single complete break , while the Fanshawes established a hereditary regime in the post of King 's Remembrancer from 1561 to 1675 with only brief appearances from other families . |
| 22 | Before the established use of surnames a recourse to nicknames was almost necessary and certainly of very frequent occurrence . |
| 23 | Of course some pound notes may be used more frequently than others , and some may not be used at all , but the velocity of circulation measures the average number of times a unit of currency is used . |
| 24 | Irving Fisher 's version of the quantity theory can be explained in terms of the following ‘ equation of exchange ’ : where M is the nominal stock of money in circulation and V is the transactions velocity of circulation of money ( that is , the average number of times the given quantity of money changes hands in transactions ) ; P is the average price of all transactions and T is the number of transactions that take place during the time period . |
| 25 | Notice that k is the reciprocal of the income velocity of circulation of money ( which can be defined as the average number of times the money supply changes hands in financing the national income ) . |
| 26 | ( The fertility rate is the average number of children a woman would have if she lived to the end of her child-bearing years and bore children at the prevailing rate for each age during that period . ) |
| 27 | This measures the average number of children a woman would have if she experienced the prevailing age pattern of childbearing throughout her reproductive lifetime . |
| 28 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 29 | A sheikh was summoned and with his authority and before a vast concourse of onlookers the tomb was reopened . |
| 30 | It is unclear whether the section gives the chief officer of police the power to limit the numbers present at the assembly below the 20 who must be present to constitute the assembly . |