Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Piper Alpha disaster or one of the horrific plane crashes are coming to mind , think again . |
| 2 | Guy quickly evened the score by removing , through stealth , one Dave Shannon from the PFF Training Unit at Warboys , to become one of the outstanding Dam Busters . |
| 3 | Lenihan , one of the outstanding lineout players in the Five Nations Championship , was a member of Lions ' touring parties in 1983 and 1989 without ever making a Test appearance . |
| 4 | Lenihan , one of the outstanding line-out players in the Five Nations during the 80s , was a member of two Lions touring parties without making a Test appearance . |
| 5 | MAI was also released from its guarantee of the outstanding bank loans of MAI Deutschland , its former German subsidiary , which was about $8m as of March 15 . |
| 6 | The equity method is generally used for a holding of 20-50% of the outstanding voting shares ( that is , shares which have been issued and which are currently held by shareholders ) because it is assumed , on the basis of this level of ownership , that an investor has the ability to exert significant influence in the affairs of the company . |
| 7 | This is almost always a parent-subsidiary relationship where one company ( the parent ) owns more than 50% of the outstanding voting shares of another company ( the subsidiary ) . |
| 8 | The amount capitalised is the present value of the minimum lease payments payable over the term of the lease . |
| 9 | The amount capitalised is the present value of the minimum lease payments payable over the term of the lease . |
| 10 | The amount capitalised is the present value of the minimum lease payments payable over the term of the lease . |
| 11 | of the poll tax — for a family of two adults and two primary school children who use the cheapest form of fuel and do not ’ waste ’ their income through smoking and drinking , constituted two thirds of the minimum sum experts have identified as sufficient to meet their living requirements . |
| 12 | The Admissions Committee regrets that it can not consider SCOTEC , SCOTBEC and other National Certificates and Diplomas , nor nursing qualifications nor Open University credits as alternatives for all or part of the Minimum Entrance Requirements . |
| 13 | On a political level , these schemes help to maintain the status quo , because they satisfy some of the minimum housing needs of the poor and so reduce pressure for radical reforms . |
| 14 | As a result of this , if one cell falls into shadow , the current of the overall panel drops . |
| 15 | All core skills will be certificated on the Record of Education and Training , as well as a statement of the overall core skills ‘ profile ’ achieved by candidates . |
| 16 | One view of the overall employment implications of new technology is that it is bringing about the collapse of work . |
| 17 | Since almost half of the untried prison population ( 44 per cent ) consists of defendants committed for trial at the Crown Court , it can be seen that the committals explosion is the central contributor to the growing remand problem , which in turn is a major cause of the overall prison numbers crisis . |
| 18 | ‘ And the Deeds of Rogal Dorn thereafter compose an entire hagiography , which we will now start to consider in detail — commencing with our Primarch 's role in the expulsion of the renegade Iron Warriors from the Human Imperium into the forbidden zone known as the Eye of Chaos , a region about which we speak softly if at all … ’ |
| 19 | We made it clear that in our views , the Western capitalist countries and their allies are not so much concerned over the ‘ liberation of Kuwait ’ as they are over maintaining their monopoly over the oil and money of the Arab Gulf countries . |
| 20 | The analyses of the multiple choice versions suggest strongly that many pupils were guessing and it is only the non-multiple choice versions which are reported here . |
| 21 | A basic modification was incorporated into the system to allow for the processing of the multiple candidate words present in the input lattice . |
| 22 | The magazine claimed that in 37pc of the multiple travel agents visited researchers were spontaneously offered only holidays from the linked company , with no other choice . |
| 23 | The magazine claimed that in 37pc of the multiple travel agents visited researchers were spontaneously offered only holidays from the linked company , with no other choice . |
| 24 | Naylor ( 1986 ) also gives an example of a tangible link between SBUs when he cites the interdependence of the multiple car lines at General Motors , where a change in the demand for one line may well be reflected in another . |
| 25 | Alternatively , you can select one of the iron-on transfer designs — these can be used on most fabrics . |
| 26 | Surely an aircraft bound on an important secret mission deep into enemy-held eastern France would not be used simply as a tug for a glider bound for a different , nearer destination — somewhere in Normandy , perhaps — when the lives of the highly-skilled parachute troops in that ‘ tug ’ , and the success of the ultimate S.A.S. operation itself , might be put in jeopardy . |
| 27 | This has resulted in several of the unlisted equity stakes being valued at a big discount to the quoted investments . |
| 28 | Thus far all vectors have been written in terms of the familiar vector components , e.g. . |
| 29 | His theory was developed to account for the ‘ fit ’ of the southern hemisphere continents , and the existence of clearly related fossil organisms found in continents which are today widely separated . |
| 30 | Where ownership is undisputed , for example on many of the Southern Ocean islands , rights are clearly assignable and internationally accepted . |