Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [prep] the age " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refer especially to the case of a constituent , a boy who can not walk , talk , feed himself or do anything for himself , and will never be any different , as a result of meningitis at the age of three . |
| 2 | He always wanted to become Prime Minister , and in 1969 he secured the safe Tory seat of Louth at the age of 29 , becoming the country 's youngest MP.The trouble was , he was in too much of a hurry . |
| 3 | Nearly 1,000 children die each year from accidents in the home which are avoidable and every single child will encounter some kind of accident before the age of fifteen . |
| 4 | Tax evasion is a similar problem in interpreting the sixteenth-century subsidy rolls , while any deductions based on the military survey , a crude census of males over the age of sixteen , must allow not only for children but also for the balance between men and women in the population as a whole . |
| 5 | ‘ That sum also to be payable in case of death before the age of sixty ? ’ |
| 6 | Two of the schemes were paraded somewhat grudgingly , and only on an interim basis , because they involved preserving a measure of selection at the age of thirteen or fourteen . |
| 7 | ‘ Capitalism and Culture ’ ranges from T.J. Clark 's ‘ The Painting of Modern Life ’ to Brecht 's ‘ On Non-Objective Painting ’ ; ‘ Aesthetic Theory and Social Critique ’ ranges from Benjamin 's ‘ Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ’ to Greenberg 's ‘ Modernist Painting ’ . |
| 8 | His book , The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction , ( published 1936 in German : Das Kunstwerk in Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit ) was one of the first works to use deconstruction as a method of analysis and has been highly influential on today 's generation of artists who incorporate texts into their art ( for example , Joseph Kosuth ) . |
| 9 | James II 's surviving daughter , Anne , became Queen of England at the age of 37 , but unfortunately she was a sickly woman who lost all her seventeen children , including William , Duke of Gloucester , when eleven years of age . |
| 10 | Guidelines have been published in the UK concerning the management of attempters under the age of 16 ( Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 1982 ) . |
| 11 | There is a considerable degree of variability in the age structure of different parts of the UK , owing to the age-selective nature of the migration process ( Chapter 10 ) . |
| 12 | Data from the 1931 to 1961 Censuses and from the Ministry of Social Security for 1966 showed a continuous decline in the percentage of men over the age of 65 in full-time paid employment ( Table 2.1 ) . |
| 13 | In England and Wales the percentage of men in the age range 60 to 64 who were married was 83.4 per cent in 1961 falling a little to 81.3 per cent in 1990 . |
| 14 | ( 8 ) The percentage of children under the age of 16 normally resident in private households who had a reported age at last birthday of 0 on Census day in 1981 was 5.75 . |
| 15 | For example , Miller and Luloff ( 1981 ) used factor analysis to argue that a rural culture still exists in America , and used multiple discriminant analysis to suggest that although residence and occupation are correlated with a rural culture , more central variables could be place of residence at the age of 16 , along with several personal demographic features such as religion , income and age . |
| 16 | Luke then records a story about Jesus visiting the capital city for the feast of Passover at the age of twelve . |
| 17 | Included in the new contract is the compulsory retirement of doctors at the age of 70 . |
| 18 | It is intriguing , however , to find , in the appendix , evidence from Parkes ' study that the group of widows over the age of 65 showed a much smaller increase in sedative consumption after bereavement than those under 65 years old . |
| 19 | Children who are familiar with the shape and sound of letters by the age of four are likely to be good readers at seven . |
| 20 | Sale et al. ( 1975 ) interviewed a random general population sample of females over the age of 15 in Hobart , Tasmania , and found that overdoses and self-injuries were regarded as potentially lethal in most cases . |
| 21 | For the world , he will play the Hermit of Croisset ; for his friends in Paris , he will play the Idiot of the Salons ; for George Sand he will play the Reverend Father Cruchard , a fashionable Jesuit who enjoys hearing the confessions of society women ; for his intimate circle he will play Saint Polycarpe , that obscure Bishop of Smyrna , martyred in the nick of time at the age of ninety-five , who pre-echoed Flaubert by stopping up his ears and crying out , ‘ Oh Lord ! |
| 22 | Zeisl , who was born in Vienna , showed early determination to compose , and entered the Vienna State Academy of Music at the age of fourteen . |
| 23 | It suggested that millions of US children were receiving up to 35 per cent of their entire lifetime dose of carcinogens by the age of five , and calls for cuts in pesticide use , including the phasing out of all those classed by the EPA as carcinogens . |
| 24 | Long , who had become Governor of Louisiana at the age of 34 , was an able reforming politician , a brilliant and often hilarious orator , and a ruthless power-seeker . |
| 25 | Born about 1182 in Normandy , the son of a German father ( Henry the Lion ) and an Aquitanian mother , he had been much in the company of his uncle , King Richard I , who created him count of Poitou at the age of fourteen . |
| 26 | The purpose of this project is to survey post-16 provision by the statutory youth service , trends of change in that provision and their implications for the future pattern of provision throughout the age range for which the service is responsible ; to survey the way in which |
| 27 | The implementation of the National Curriculum in the nineties will lead to an extension of that broad span of ability up the age range . |
| 28 | And the man who became articled to a firm of solicitors at the age of only 16 says his days as a judge were by far the most enjoyable of his career . |
| 29 | There could also be controversy over the executive 's rejection of demands for the age of consent for homosexuals to be reduced to 16 years . |
| 30 | The committees therefore discriminate in favour of candidates under the age of 35 at the expense of those who have taken longer to reach senior registrar level because they have had to start again after moving from another country , were older when they entered medical school , or have had time off for sick leave or maternity leave . |