Example sentences of "[noun] of [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would have prevented the loss of nearly three-quarters of the money . |
| 2 | Tadchester New Town is situated in the heart of the industrial midlands and has suffered major closures and a job loss of over 6,000 in the last three years . |
| 3 | The gap between the two has resulted in the debt burden , in the loss of national sovereignty and in the loss of so many of the nascent social services in those countries . |
| 4 | The only important advance made by the Party was the founding of the Daily Worker in January 1930 , and that had reached a circulation of only 18,000 by the end of the following year . |
| 5 | Shucksmith ( 1981 ) found waiting lists of over 1,200 and a housing stock of only 2,169 in the Lake District National Park , while Phillips and Williams ( 1982a ) found a waiting list of about 1,000 and a stock of some 4,500 dwellings in South Hams , Devon . |
| 6 | Before the volcanic cloud was dispersed and SO 2 converted to sulphate aerosols , O 3 perturbations caused by large concentrations of SO 2 in the volcanic cloud may have occurred . |
| 7 | Then , outside , in an indication of just one of the unusual qualities of the growing East German opposition , they chanted ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ and sang the ‘ Internationale ’ . |
| 8 | But was a first-hand witness of so many of the circumstances that led to the deaths . |
| 9 | Mr Lang stated : ‘ I 'm not going to start answering specific questions about specific aspects of how one of the individual solutions we may chose will apply until we have reached a conclusion about the right way forward then we can address this issue and debate it fully , but as things stand at present I see no reason to have to change that law . ’ |
| 10 | The total fighting force is some 18,000 , which would probably mean a figure of about 72,000 for the whole migration . |
| 11 | There was , therefore , a vote of about one-third of the Derry electorate which was being deployed against the established parties . |
| 12 | But there were probably a great many more who simply took advantage of too many of the free pints they were offered too often and slipped into alcoholism . |
| 13 | The Show , which attracted crowds of over 50,000 during the four days , proved to be a good venue for the Pest Control surveyors to introduce all those in agriculture to the range and diversity of services available . |
| 14 | For many years the school has run a concessionary scheme under which members of the staff are entitled to have their children educated at the school on payment of only one-fifth of the sum charged to members of the public . |
| 15 | The Romanesque foundations of so many of the houses in this area bear witness to its size and wealth . |
| 16 | When the dust of the election battle settled , Terence O'Neill found himself with a minority government and the support of only eleven of the Unionist backbenchers . |
| 17 | It has a majority of just 16 in the 630-seat lower house but Mr Amato is expected to call a fresh confidence vote in the next few days to prove he still has parliamentary approval . |
| 18 | And they defeated a Labour amendment to delay the Bill until after the Edinburgh summit by 319 votes to 313 a majority of just six for the Government . |
| 19 | EXPRESSIONS of triumph were tinged with a feeling of relief from Winchester and Alton Conservatives as their candidate Gerry Malone swept to victory in last week 's general election with a majority of over 8,000 over the Liberal Democrats . |
| 20 | With a majority of only one of the elected seats in the legislature , the government was more vulnerable than at any time in the past . |
| 21 | The administration won a vote of confidence on Jan. 23 although , with the election of a Congress ( I ) member as Speaker , Congress ( I ) had a majority of only one in the Assembly ( with the support of one of the two independents ) . |
| 22 | For example the information within the Oxford English Dictionary gives a description of almost all of the words in the English language and their etymological history . |
| 23 | By 1719 its absorption of so much of the unfunded debt was suggesting to ministers that they might also shift a proportion of the funded debt its way . |
| 24 | Dai told the story of how one of the visitors , a wealthy industrialist , came into his well stocked shop to use the phone and find out how things had been going at work during his absence . |
| 25 | This is caused by the corneo-retinal potential — a standing potential across the retina of about one-tenth of a volt . |
| 26 | KATRIN DORRE , from Leipzig , who gave up a career as a medical student to become a full-time athlete , saved the blushes of the organisers of the 12th ADT London marathon when she managed to lead the field of over 25,000 across the line on Westminster Bridge yesterday . |
| 27 | But murder it is , and whatever leniency is called for must find itself reflected either in a verdict of not guilty by a jury , despite the facts , in the sentence of the court ( though in England the sentence is at present fixed by law ) , or in the exercise of some executive discretion . |
| 28 | I join the House in expressing sympathy to the families who have been so griveously bereaved through this tragedy , a tragedy that has been the experience of so many of the British people in Ulster over the past 20 years . |
| 29 | The identity of ‘ Ted Winters ’ has not been established , but despite the definite identification of only two of the Hurricanes claimed by 7/JG 26 in the period 28 April — 1 May , A.H.Q. Malta reported that actual R.A.F. losses in these four days amounted to six Hurricanes — closely in line with the claims — four by Müncheberg , one of which was not confirmed , one by Mietusch , two by Kühdorf — apparently neither of which were confirmed — and possibly one by Johannsen . |
| 30 | I did a tasting of over 40 of the cheaper champagnes to find out . |