Example sentences of "[num] of the [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , three of the mountains I mentioned earlier which surround Maol Chean-derag are Corbetts : Fuar Tholl , Ben Damph , and Beinn Bhan . |
| 2 | Just three of the qualities I possess that will be invaluable when I get the inevitable call to take up Football League management . |
| 3 | The first three of the boots I tested are all fabric ( Cordura ) , reinforced with varying amounts of suede and fitted with a Gore-Tex bootie . |
| 4 | Those are just three of the reasons I am pleased Alan Peaford has agreed to chair Editing for Industry for a fourth term . |
| 5 | At five of the stars I wake |
| 6 | At nine of the night I opened my door That stands midway between moor and moor , And all around me , silver-bright , I saw that the world had turned to white . |
| 7 | AT NINE OF THE NIGHT I OPENED MY DOOR |
| 8 | He continued : ‘ One of the problems I have is that people talk to me of political theatre and non-political theatre . |
| 9 | One of the problems I have with what you 've all been saying so far is that you 've talked about encouraging a sense of warmth and security , well maybe we ought to confront the fact that the world is not a warm and secure place and deal with those kinds of issues , and say and put it squarely before children . |
| 10 | I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day . |
| 11 | One of the psychiatrists I spoke to while preparing this book said that in his therapy groups for people with anxieties , he asked them to make lists of their day 's worries . |
| 12 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 13 | One of the questions I asked myself was what could possibly have gone wrong ? |
| 14 | One of the questions I am occasionally asked is ‘ Why does the Institute bother ? ’ |
| 15 | One of the questions I was asked was , which historical figure did I admire most ? |
| 16 | This is both an interesting topic in itself and a theoretically important one ; for one of the questions I will ask about linguistic reform is what constraints and limitations there might be on its effectiveness . |
| 17 | One of the questions I ask is : ‘ If you had to go back to Winthrop Young 's time , what is the single item of equipment you 'd want to keep ? ’ |
| 18 | You answered one of the questions I was going to pose to you . |
| 19 | As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format . |
| 20 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 21 | Er in fact you have anticipated one of the questions I was going to ask . |
| 22 | And I would also point out that we are not proposing excessive development , in one of the papers I 've I 've put round , and I repeat the point I made it earlier . |
| 23 | In one of the tenses I singing |
| 24 | There 's er one of the pigeons I shall have to go and put some seed down . |
| 25 | I used to , there 's one of the women I work with used is a shout and she used to upset me and |
| 26 | Well I mean one of the women I spoke to that I mentioned in that piece felt strongly that schools were laying too much on children in terms of taking responsibility for how the world is , and she erm mentioned in particular erm the kind of ecological issues that lots of schools and teachers are taking up now and erm children are becoming involved in projects for , you know , recycle this that and the other and there 's a book , is n't there , ‘ The Children 's Green Guide ’ or something . |
| 27 | ‘ One of the reasons I do it , ’ he explains ‘ is because my wife and I can spend time alone together away from the family , feel young again ( they 're both in their early 40's ) , and have adventures . ’ |
| 28 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 29 | ‘ One of the reasons I chose London was that it 's a fast course and it would more special to break a record in front of a home crowd , ’ she said . |
| 30 | One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life . |