Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same period , figures produced by the Council for Mortgage Lenders show that 221,900 mortgages ( 2.3 per cent of the outstanding stock ) were more than six months in arrears , compared with 109,370 ( 1.2 per cent of the outstanding stock ) a year earlier , and that 36,610 dwellings were repossessed ( 0.4 per cent of the outstanding stock of mortgages ) , more than double the number recorded a year earlier . |
| 2 | It was Saturday and a showery , Summer 's night four hundred years ago and a South-Westerly breeze blew into the faces of the anxious group of watchers above Whitsand Bay . |
| 3 | A reader of Singer , let us suppose , is taken with the idea of ethics as taking the universal point of view and progresses to the principle of the equal consideration of interests , attracted perhaps by its sense of having rekindled the spirit of the Second Commandment in secular guise . |
| 4 | The chairman was charged by regulations with the supervision of the overall conduct of cases before NILTs . |
| 5 | While the problems of the overall balance of payments hardly came as a surprise ( though the speed with which Lend-Lease ended did come as a shock ) , the problem of the dollar was less readily anticipated . |
| 6 | Do the accounts ( and the notes ) take up less than 30% of the overall number of pages ? |
| 7 | There were no representatives from Contact on any of these committees , although the group constituted almost one-third of the overall number of users at one of the centres and almost one-half at the other two . |
| 8 | This map ( Figure 2.18 ) should be compared with that of the overall distribution of graves to emphasise how one is not merely a reflection of the other . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman says that that is what he is advocating , and says that we should reintroduce it now for those who face a shortfall in fees , but it would not make up the shortfall , because it would be part of the reasonable rate of fees . |
| 10 | If suppliers know not only the current price in their own market but also the current price in all other markets the aggregate level of output will be independent of the average level of prices . |
| 11 | The line labelled SS is drawn on the assumption that the general expectation of the average level of prices is P . |
| 12 | This might lead her to change her expectation of the average level of prices ; after all , if she is rational she must know that unpredictable movements in aggregate demand can occur and that one symptom of them is that the price in her island is higher than she was expecting the average to be . |
| 13 | The typical expectation of the average level of prices will rise to P 2 and the shift in aggregate demand will have no effect on real output . |
| 14 | Take the 7th root of the average number of paths through our mid class utterances in order to estimate the average number of words over each region of the intended word : |
| 15 | Table 6.4 below gives a series of n th root of the average number of paths for the mid-class , mixed and fine-class sets . |
| 16 | A member who made less than 10 per cent of the average number of dealings in the year immediately preceding the general meeting may not exercise his voting right . |
| 17 | Taking each of his subject categories in turn he divides the total annual issues by the number of books in the category to achieve a nominal figure of the average number of issues per book . |
| 18 | a respect for other languages and cultures , and an understanding of the increasing interaction of cultures in society ; |
| 19 | Some schools , like the one at Bristol , did not get evacuated until 1941 or 1942 because of the increasing likelihood of air-raids in their areas . |
| 20 | An explanation of the increasing complexity of systems with time . |
| 21 | Altering the structure does not necessarily tackle practices and the more fundamental issues of how the media should treat and explain the complexity of contemporary social problems or how they should act in the face of the increasing ability of governments and other authorities to control and manipulate information . |
| 22 | Change for the Angel was one of the increasing number of plays in the late Fifties and early Sixties to confront audiences with working-class culture . |
| 23 | It was followed in 1987 , by ‘ New Directions ’ and ‘ A Transition to Adulthood ’ , in recognition of the increasing number of students with severe learning difficulties in the former case , and of students with considerable physical disabilities in the latter . |
| 24 | Dr Berg has suggested that the spread of family-based cottage manufactures played a part in determining the low status and value of women 's work even though it , and that of the increasing number of children they produced , was both necessary for the manufacture and significant for family earnings . |
| 25 | The order stated that the border post had been closed for " security reasons " because of the increasing number of attacks on tourist convoys by " highway robbers " . |
| 26 | I am pleased to have obtained this debate on the important and serious matter of the increasing use of knives in crimes of violence . |
| 27 | Wet gravel pits are generally recognised as important habitats for wildlife , particularly in view of the increasing drainage of wetlands . |
| 28 | Further , the college is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Stout , U.S.A. All three Colleges are accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools . |
| 29 | 71000 will be returning to Didcot Railway centre shortly after , for winter maintenance , and to take up duties as part of the Southern pool of locomotives for the SLOA Winter programme , details will be announced shortly , although a number of trips using 71000 have been pencilled in . |
| 30 | ‘ foster better exploitation of the industrial potential of policies of innovation , research and technological development . ’ |