Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun pl] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | A spokesman said they had been overwhelmed by the number of applications when the new disability living benefit was announced and said it had taken longer than anticipated to sort out . |
| 32 | Mike Eveling , of the Inland Revenue , said : ‘ If we iron out problems now we will reduce our own workload by cutting the number of appeals when the values are announced . ’ |
| 33 | Ideally one could construct a model of the fossil to test out these various functions in experiments , but the number of examples where the analysis has been pursued this far are limited . |
| 34 | The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small . |
| 35 | I do not include in that 70 the number of occasions when the hon. Members for Brightside and for Dagenham have said contradictory things . |
| 36 | Cathery reflected all Wilson 's sentiments on the treatment of Germans when the war was over in an election address to the people of Bootle , where he was a parliamentary candidate . |
| 37 | Although strictly speaking the company is responsible for the cost of materials immediately the order is placed , the normal procedure is for costing to be delayed until the invoice has been checked and approved for payment . |
| 38 | The degree of involvement varied greatly — from genuine joint consultation on all the farm business to the handling of emergencies when the husband was away . |
| 39 | It is suggested that in the context of a monogamous union , adultery was elevated to the status of a sin ( or indeed a crime ) and grounds for divorce so as to reinforce this concept of marriage and , in the absence of birth control , to prevent the social ‘ untidiness ’ caused by the production of children not the product of a couple married to each other , with all the inheritance and support complications which could follow . |
| 40 | : United Kingdom courts have a convention that judges exclude evidence and refuse to allow the cross-examination of witnesses when the authorities ( often on the decision of the intelligence services ) claim that reference to it would be ‘ prejudicial to the national interest ’ . |