Example sentences of "of [num] [noun pl] of [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of 44,000 hectares of Park land for military training was described by the report as " discordant , incongruous and inconsistent with national park purposes " . |
| 2 | The outstanding acquisition for the Photographs Collection was the archive of 44,000 negatives of Henk Snock , perhaps the most accomplished post-war architectural photographer working in Great Britain . |
| 3 | People are also seeing the effects of eleven years of Mrs. Thatcher 's free market experiment . |
| 4 | , Asplan ( 1841–1912 ) , marine engineer , was born in Bluntisham , Huntingdonshire , 5 October 1841 , one of a family of eleven children of William Beldam and his wife Mary Peat . |
| 5 | After Claudius had ridden in triumph into the British capital , Camulodunon , he received the submission of eleven Kings of Britain , according to the inscription on his triumphal arch in Rome . |
| 6 | The portrait bust of the artist himself is made out of eight pints of Quinn 's own blood , frozen for the occasion in a specially constructed vacuum chamber . |
| 7 | , Oliver Falvey ( 1887–1968 ) , architect , was born 15 June 1887 at 89 Queen 's Gate , London , the third son and seventh of eight children of William Neave Hill , manufacturer , of London , and his wife Kate Ida , daughter of Martin Franks . |
| 8 | , Timothy Richards ( 1841–1886 ) , pathologist and parasitologist , was born 31 October 1841 in Llanboidy , Carmarthenshire , the eldest of eight children of William Lewis and his wife Britannia Richards . |
| 9 | , Samuel ( 1616– c. 1672 ) , haberdasher and radical pamphleteer , was baptized 13 September 1618 ( two years after he was born ) at St Chad 's , Shrewsbury , the first of eight children of Daniel Chidley , tailor of Shrewsbury , and his wife Katherine [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | , James Murdoch ( 1839–1915 ) , geologist , was born 23 August 1839 in Edinburgh , the third son and third of eight children of James Stuart Geikie , minor Edinburgh businessman , musician , and music critic , and his wife Isabella Thom , the daughter of a Dunbar sea captain . |
| 11 | , Sir ( Robert ) Ashton ( 1845–1929 ) , industrialist , was born 4 February 1845 in Dursley , Gloucestershire , the third of four sons and the sixth of eight children of George Lister , tanner and wire card-maker of Dursley , by his second wife Louisa Richards , who came from a Dursley family of maltsters . |
| 12 | , Henry Grey ( 1777–1836 ) , reformer , was born 2 December 1777 , the second of three sons and fourth of eight children of Charles Bennet , fourth Earl of Tankerville , of Chillingham Castle , Northumberland , and his wife Emma , daughter and co-heiress of the London banker Sir James Colebrooke , first baronet , of Gatton , Surrey . |
| 13 | , Eliza ( 1848–1937 ) , conveyancer and social investigator , was born 25 December 1848 in Hampstead , the fifth of six daughters and the seventh of eight children of Charles Orme , distiller , of Southwark , and his wife Eliza , eldest daughter of the Revd Edward Andrews of Walworth . |
| 14 | , Elizabeth Eleanor ( 1829–1862 ) , painter , was born at 7 Charles Street , Hatton Gardens , Holborn , 25 July 1829 , the third of eight children of Charles Siddall , ironmonger , and his wife Elizabeth Eleanor Evans . |
| 15 | In the last 18 months alone Megatech has shipped in excess of 4500 copies of TAS , and since the beginning of this year sales have been averaging 400 units a month . |
| 16 | or , Edmund ( 1627–1712 ) , magistrate , was born , according to his own account , 4 July 1627 , one of twenty-one children of Samuel Warcup of English , near Henley , Oxfordshire , and later bailiff of Southwark . |
| 17 | The group , made up of 10 members of Calder 's E shift plus one each from engineers section and technical department , were sent out to Stanley Ghyll Gorge , in Eskdale . |
| 18 | , James ( 1800–1867 ) , chemical engineer , was born 24 April 1800 in Johnstone , Renfrewshire , the eldest of six sons of William Shanks , millwright and engineer . |
| 19 | Other major projects , primarily aimed at bird conservation , by the Sussex Ornithological Society include the regular winter flooding of six hectares of Glynde Levels which has attracted sizable regular flocks of wildfowl , notably Teal and Wigeon ; the lowering of water-levels in one of the Pett pools to attract migrating waders in autumn ; and the placing of nesting islands in gravel pits and reservoirs . |
| 20 | In addition , if you buy any Classic 2 cooker before 25th December 1990 , we 'll give you a special mixed case of six bottles of Mouton Cadet . |
| 21 | , William Thomson ( ‘ Will ’ ) ( 1888–1949 ) , comedian , was born 6 December 1888 in Stockton-on-Tees , the second of three sons and the third of six children of William Robert Hay , engineer of Inverness-shire , and his wife Elizabeth Ebden , the daughter of a Barnsley fish merchant . |
| 22 | , Mary Amelia St Clair ( ‘ May ’ ) ( 1863–1946 ) , author , was born 24 August 1863 in Rock Ferry , Cheshire , the only daughter and youngest of six children of William Sinclair , shipowner , of Liverpool , and his wife Amelia , daughter of John Hind , merchant , of Belfast . |
| 23 | , Christopher ( 1834–1904 ) , designer and botanist , was born 4 July 1834 in Glasgow , the second son and third of six children of Christopher Dresser , excise officer , of Yorkshire , and his wife Mary Nettleton of Norton , near Doncaster , Yorkshire . |
| 24 | , James , Baron Ashton ( 1842–1930 ) , linoleum manufacturer , was born 31 December 1842 in Lancaster , the third of five sons ( three of whom died in infancy ) and the fourth of six children of James Williamson , originally of Keswick , painter , decorator , and later oilcloth manufacturer of Lancaster , and his wife Eleanor , daughter of Leonard Miller , innkeeper of the Blue Anchor , Lancaster . |
| 25 | , Henry ( c. 1592–1645 ) , landowner and farmer , was born c .1592 , probably in Hutton Cranswick , east Yorkshire , the second of five sons and the second of six children of James Best , yeoman of Hutton Cranswick ( later gentleman of Elmswell , east Yorkshire ) , and his wife Dorothy , whose background and maiden name are not known . |
| 26 | , Charles Thomas ( 1852–1916 ) , geologist , was born in Huddersfield 23 December 1852 , the third of four sons and fifth of six children of Thomas William Clough , solicitor and later an alderman , of South Parade , Huddersfield , and his wife Amelia Jane , daughter of James Ibeson , surgeon . |
| 27 | , William ( 1799–1877 ) , chemist and manufacturer , was born 12 May 1799 in Burgh-le-Marsh , Lincolnshire , the youngest of thirteen children of Thomas Gossage and his wife Eleanor . |
| 28 | The purpose of this project is to complete the preparation for publication of thirteen volumes of Bentham 's Collected Works , which are to be published by the Oxford University Press . |
| 29 | This residue corresponds to one of three sites of c-Jun that are phosphorylated in vivo and which negatively regulate c-Jun DNA binding in vitro . |
| 30 | Alice and John Underwood lived thirty miles away at Stratford-on-Avon ; the former was one of three co-heiresses of John Dauncer , senior , sometime bailiff of Hagley , who had all espoused men from other villages . |