Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Results showed that 95 per cent of the registered electorate of 193,800 went to the polls and that 90 per cent of these voted " to remain part of Yugoslavia with Serbia and Montenegro and others who want to preserve Yugoslavia " . |
| 2 | Some 86 per cent of the electorate of 35,000 went to the polls . |
| 3 | About 85 per cent of the electorate of 1,692,000 went to the polls , all those aged 18 and over being eligible to vote . |
| 4 | The official crime statistics show that , in 1980 , 421 cases of rape were proved in the courts , out of a total of 1,225 cases recorded by the police , and that 2,423 cases of indecent ( i.e. sexual ) assault were proved out of 11,498 recorded by the police . |
| 5 | Attempts to identify a murine homologue of LFA-3 led to the unexpected finding that mouse CD2 interacts with a different molecule , BCM1 ( CD48 ) 49 . |
| 6 | Doing their best for the glory of Canada , the whole field of eleven swept round the bend and went down the far side as if welded together , and it still seemed when they turned for home that that was how they might finish , in a knot . |
| 7 | These 20 patients were taken from a total of 32 diagnosed during the same period ; 12 patients were excluded because of poor compliance with the diet ( seven cases ) or denied consent to the protocol ( five cases ) . |
| 8 | Then one day , when I visited the hospital by chance — Alec was ‘ on duty ’ — a boy of eight arrived at the surgery , carried by his father . |
| 9 | An alternative method of tying off rope coils using a separate figure of eight tied into the harness . |
| 10 | The Dolgarrog Dam disaster of 1925 led to the passing of this legislation . |
| 11 | Whatever advertisers and their agencies may think about the respective merits of Conservative , Labour or even Liberal Democrat administrations , general election mean a windfall of about £10m worth of business for media owners and a favoured few advertising agencies — reportedly some £8m of that spent by the Conservatives , £2m by Labour and a meagre £250,000 by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 12 | The total vertical heat transport is the sum of that transported by the motion and that conducted down the temperature gradient ( cf. also Section 21.7 ) . |
| 13 | The activity obtained at an intermediate ionic strength ( 70 mM ammonium sulphate ) was about 80% of that observed at the lowest concentration used ( 20 mM ) , a situation in which the activity of P A2b in linear templates was of about 10% if the initiating NTPs were present or even lower in their absence . |
| 14 | The meeting was arranged after predictions by the administration 's Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and the Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ) that the US budget deficit for fiscal 1991 ( beginning Oct. 1 , 1990 ) , would be considerably in excess of that anticipated in the administration 's budget proposal of January 1990 [ see pp. 37177-79 ] . |
| 15 | By the mid 1850S , for instance , only 5 per cent of London 's milk arrived by train , and the bulk of that carried by the Eastern Counties Railway . |
| 16 | ‘ Our aim is to raise low wages in Britain over time so that the lowest-paid worker will receive an hourly rate not less than two-thirds of that received by the male median full-time worker . ’ |
| 17 | Even after the Equal Pay Act had effected some narrowing of the pay gap , there was an unexplained excess of men 's pay over women 's pay worth about 30 per cent of that received by the average 32-year-old female employee in early 1978 . |
| 18 | Bunkers , coal , they all coal furnace you see , and we er they 'd come in and we used to fill them up with coal , whatever they wanted lot of that went over the side coal , beautiful coal that was . |
| 19 | Head of the school Mike McKechnie later visited Shanghai to seal a friendship agreement and discuss the course content , a scaled down but otherwise authentic version of that taught at the institute . |
| 20 | By notice of appeal dated 15 February 1991 Mr. Smart appealed against that refusal on the grounds that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in holding that the principles of natural justice did not endow a prisoner serving a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment with the right to know the factors ( including the views of the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice ) which the Secretary of State took into account when fixing the tariff , the right to make informed representations to the Secretary of State about the length of the tariff to be applied and the right to be provided with the reasons for the period chosen by the Secretary of State as the tariff period ; and ( 2 ) in holding that the practice of the Secretary of State in murder cases of fixing a tariff in excess of that recommended by the trial judge and/or the Lord Chief Justice was lawful . |
| 21 | Note that the effect on sodium nitroprusside was the opposite of that found with the NO synthase inhibitors and its administration greatly reduced the response of the gall bladder to CCK-8 . |
| 22 | They are also more than twice as likely to develop their own meanings as they are to extend those contributed by children , this ratio being almost the exact opposite of that found in the speech of parents . |
| 23 | This trend towards compulsory admissions of young people to residential care is the reverse of that intended in the Children Act 1975 , which stresses the importance of considering the child 's wishes and feelings , having regard to his age and understanding ( Children Act 1975 , Ch. 5.3 ) . |
| 24 | The effect of giving non-reinforced pre-exposure to the target flavour was to reduce the readiness with which it came to function as a safety signal — that is , the outcome was the opposite of that predicted by the suggestion that the pre-exposed stimulus might already have acquired some of the properties of a safety signal . |
| 25 | But none of these made any difference to the basic shape of these key results : on the first repetition , t was not important but both and k were — and in the direction predicted by the theory ; on the second repetition , t was important ( and with the right sign ) , as were σ and k — but they both had the wrong sign ( the opposite of that predicted by the theory ) . |
| 26 | They found that where the market value was 85 per cent or less of that predicted by the model , shares outperformed the market . |
| 27 | Today , the Croats insist that the number of Serbs , gypsies and Jews massacred in the camps of the quisling Axis-allied Croatian state was only a tiny fraction of that claimed by the communists . |
| 28 | The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians ' far distant and antique cousin , the lungfish . |
| 29 | This directed that a number of Czechs and dissident Yugoslavs , who had infiltrated an area in Austria east of that covered by the Allied V Corps , should be treated as disarmed enemy troops and evacuated to British concentration camps in Italy . |
| 30 | Operating profit at £3.1m , was 71% of that earned in the previous year ( £4.3m ) Although any reduction in profits is regrettable , the drop was limited to 29% such that a return on sales of 7.2% was achieved , a margin which compares favourably with others in our sector . ’ |