Example sentences of "and [det] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 2 | It still had the power to turn the stomach , that whisper of shifting allegiance that Thorfinn himself had picked up weeks ago , and that Dunegal of Nithsdale 's hurried warning of danger had seemed to confirm . |
| 3 | It was also observed that eight individual delivery times for early and rare books exceeded one-and-a-half hours , and that three-quarters of these occurred between 12.00 and 13.00 , which suggests that the increase in delivery times at lunch-time may be even greater for such material than for ‘ ordinary ’ books . |
| 4 | A study in one polytechnic found that 11% of the bookstock was in circulation , while in another two samples taken from law and the humanities revealed that three issues per volume was the average use per annum , and that two-thirds of the items were loaned in a two-year period . |
| 5 | Er in very briefly and I shall er expand the argument a min in a minute , my amendments five , eight and eleven provide that the size of a police authority should no longer be restricted to sixteen members , but should be er er by order er a somewhere between sixteen and twenty-four members and that two-thirds of those members should be er appoint er er amen appoint appointed by local authorities in the area concerned . |
| 6 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 7 | In the current Middle Eastern situation it 's as well to be reminded , for example , that of the world 's 10 largest companies , seven are car or oil companies , and that one-third of the latter 's output is in the form of petrol . |
| 8 | It had probably been the wish to secure ready cash to pay the troops that was responsible for legislation in 1429 requiring that the entire price of the wool must be paid in gold and silver , and that one-third of the price , in bullion , be handed over to the Calais mint ( 84 , pp.261 , 275 , 279–80 ) . |
| 9 | On the same day Baasam Abu Sharif , senior adviser to Arafat , claimed that 210 Palestinians had died in Kuwait under torture , and by shooting and hanging , and that hundreds of Palestinians were being held in police stations and were being tortured " in indescribable ways " . |
| 10 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) reported in mid-February that Kurdistan was on the point of collapse and that hundreds of thousands of people were facing starvation as a result of the Iraqi blockade and the cutting of supply lines to Iran by snow and to Turkey by a lorry strike . |
| 11 | IN HIS letter ( HAS Jan 21 ) , K. Richardson says the Gulf War was senseless and that hundreds of thousands died , most of them innocent people . |
| 12 | Genscher announced a DM10,000,000 aid package and additional humanitarian aid to Georgia , where official statistics , reported on Radio Moscow World Service on April 8 , showed that real incomes had fallen by 30 per cent in 1991 and that four-fifths of the population were living below the poverty line . |
| 13 | Before we went down to the kitchen Elinor patted all the Napoleana into place , violets and Redouté roses ; a picture of him riding his horse , Marengo , and that one of him feeling for his wallet ; matchstick models made by French prisoners of war and a tricolour flying at half-mast . |
| 14 | But could I say to the minister that she will be aware that the South Thames tech actually is the first tech to get involved in kids club network and that one of the very useful things that has happened in my constituency is the setting up the first kids after school club in in in Vauxhall . |
| 15 | 1804 It has now been represented to the Meeting that the Town of Bowmore is very much annoy 'd by a destructive Crowd of Pigs running up and down the Streets , and that many of the Inhabitants , regardless of Property . |
| 16 | Statistically , half of them are women , and that third of the world 's population is only now beginning to feel that they have a say in the running of their lives . |
| 17 | It is a happiness so mild and cool that it is like a kind of saintliness after passion : yet it is not satiety … for if she has any unhealth , it is from me ; and that more of her lips than in her heart . ’ |
| 18 | only two of us , and neither one of us sends Christmas cards . |
| 19 | Other important casting centres have since come to light in Nigeria and some hundreds of castings have been analysed . |
| 20 | The new boulevards and open spaces that Baron Haussmann created displaced 350,000 people and some one-fifth of the streets of central Paris . |
| 21 | When , in late 1709 , a Dissenting minister set up a conventicle in Monmouth without taking out a licence , he and some sixteen of his congregation were committed to prison by the mayor for failing to meet the provisions of the Toleration Act . |
| 22 | Such a number represented about one-half of the NAS&FU 's likely membership at the time and some two-thirds of all the foreigners sailing on British ships . |
| 23 | But the stunting of development in this way is likely to result in parental guilt and some spoiling of the achievements parents and children have accomplished together earlier on . |
| 24 | Numerous key Reagan administration figures were indicted for , and some convicted of , major offences ranging from violating federal ethics laws to perjury . |
| 25 | Last summer one of my friends lent me a C.B. and an old aerial as he had bought a new set and some more of my friends had C.B.s . |
| 26 | There are about 30,000 species of fish in the world and some 250 of these are actively venomous , possessing spines and venom glands . |
| 27 | Debenhams probably , but the John Lewis 's were excellent , and some some of them were tin and I do wonder if you 're eating on your lap a tin tray might be rather cold but on the other hand , you let the heat from the plate through to your poor little legs . |
| 28 | ‘ To the 40,000 or so employees , the further 50,000 employed by their distributors , and some tens of thousands more employed by their suppliers I would say that I am delighted that Rover is part of British Aerospace . ’ |
| 29 | This was a potentially decisive arm in warfare , and some 50 of them had been transported to France in the greatest secrecy . |
| 30 | It was certain that some would have more and some less of the " lowest 40 per cent " nationally , however this target group was defined . |