Example sentences of "of the several " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the several names owned by another recipient had strayed into someone 's word-processor to create a further deserving don , the knowing reference to whom must have ruined the new year for more than one senior scholar . |
| 2 | Yet , of the several factors distinguishing the cinema from other art forms , not the least significant is the amazing durability of its ephemera . |
| 3 | Rainoldes apart , the transgressions associated with the boy players , be they actual or imagined , rendered the theatrical self-consciousness surrounding transvestism complex and shifting ; it provoked questions teasingly unanswerable : for example — and this is a question which remains intriguing for us today — which , or how many , of the several gender identities embodied in any one figure are in play at any one time ? |
| 4 | This is one of the several moves whereby , for Fanon , ‘ a native contest initially enunciated in the invader 's language , culminates in a rejection of imperialism 's signifying system ’ . |
| 5 | In Nairobi , the origins of the several thousand metal workers who produce tin trunks , paraffin lamps , braziers , household utensils and agricultural tools on open sites , lie in both pre-colonial blacksmithing activities , and in Kenya 's immigrant Indian communities , particularly the Sikhs and Bohras . |
| 6 | Such a circumstance is far less likely to arise if defective slating is replaced either with a new natural slate roof or a surface of one of the several types of lightweight synthetic slate that are now obtainable . |
| 7 | I was up early next morning with a clanging hangover , and as I sat beside the bed watching Dana sleep , I wrote one of the several poems of that period about insomnia and my vigil over my sleeping friend 's form , ‘ The Lonely Insomniac ’ : |
| 8 | He shook hands and chatted briefly with some of the several dozen supporters gathered outside in the cold , but refused to comment on the national picture . |
| 9 | Of the several jumbled close behind him , Coniston Water looked a hopeful prospect . |
| 10 | While the primates comprise only one of the several orders into which the class of mammals is divided , the group is of surpassing significance because man himself is classified within this order . |
| 11 | That was the assumption on the part of the Federal Authorities that the people of the several states were … citizens of the US and owed allegiance to the Federal Government as the absolute sovereign power over the whole country , consolidated into one Nation ’ . |
| 12 | One of the several results was that it was very beneficial to fifteen actors like himself and eight directors who were ‘ hot ’ , and five good writers . |
| 13 | Of the several active substances which were isolated , the cephalosporins have become particularly valuable . |
| 14 | When I knew it , during the war years , it was occupied by an elderly bachelor who was one of the several mill owners in Witney , the town famed world-wide for its blankets since the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | Hammond had supplied Hunt with the superficial areas of the rooms he required , but he inexplicably changed these to dimensions , although a note did say that ‘ dimensions of the several rooms may be varied , provided the superficial area of each is not materially altered ’ . |
| 16 | examine with reference to their general compliance with these conditions , the several drawings bearing the numbers given in the enclosed list ; and to prepare a statement , giving first the Conditions which they assume to be required in the cases of each of the three classes of designs and secondly , showing whether any and which of the several sets of drawings selected fail to comply with such conditions ; and also in what respect , and to what extent , these conditions are neglected or departed from . |
| 17 | It quoted Street as saying that they were ‘ varied according to the use and size of the several rooms ’ . |
| 18 | Many beautiful animal portraits have been submitted over the months of the competition , but it usually takes that special ‘ something ’ to create the magic of a prize-winning photograph — perhaps a bird captured in mid-flight , or the moment of sheer wonder on a child 's face as it encounters one of the several animal species now allowed to roam freely in the zoo grounds . |
| 19 | However , of the several boreholes through the basalts in south Antrim ( Fig. 2 ) only Langford Lodge reached the base of the Permo-Trias . |
| 20 | In a letter to Sir James Graham on 23 March 1843 Thomas Turner wrote : ‘ During the period that has now elapsed [ since the deputation was received ‘ some months since ’ ] favourable circumstances have arisen and resulted in a complete union between the heads of the Veterinary Colleges of London and Edinburgh and the profession at large and I am enabled to state that the accompanying petition and draft Charter have received the signatures of the several Professors of the said College … ’ |
| 21 | Usually I caught the bus , and then returned in the evening on one of the several RAF trucks laid on for our use . |
| 22 | It is one of the several enzymes involved in the central process of a cell 's metabolism known as the citric acid or Krebs cycle . |
| 23 | The place is no longer there now , but it was n't one of the several that fell down after being abandoned . |
| 24 | It is one of the several subcultures we learned from our colonial teachers . |
| 25 | They are then cut by one of the several methods to effect a good join . |
| 26 | the account of the several battles for the Salt Depot at Dharsana … |
| 27 | They are almost in the category of honourable scars , and even some testimony to the quality of the text , since the larvae of the several types of beetle engaged in the battle seem to have thrived best on old and scholarly works , especially incunabula . |
| 28 | Although Peter Handford had intended to return to the Bath side of the tunnel at night to make recordings of the several trains which at that time ran from the north towards Bournemouth in the early hours of Saturday morning , he did not do so , partly because he was reluctant to visit the place in darkness and also because each time he visited Winsor Hill tunnel to make recordings he experienced problems and misfortunes of one sort or another . |
| 29 | What is central to the life of an elder may be marginal to each of the several organisations providing services , and , as recently reiterated by the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , can easily be missed in their selective assessments . |
| 30 | Pronominal substitution is one of the several methods to link sentences and paragraphs and to allow the perception of an overall text . |