Example sentences of "of [adj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are different levels of alert depending on the seriousness of the fire , ’ he explained . |
| 2 | Results showed that 95 per cent of the registered electorate of 193,800 went to the polls and that 90 per cent of these voted " to remain part of Yugoslavia with Serbia and Montenegro and others who want to preserve Yugoslavia " . |
| 3 | Some 86 per cent of the electorate of 35,000 went to the polls . |
| 4 | Recall that among the possible reasons for a loss of conditioned responding with a change of context was the generalization decrement that might be expected when the event designated by the experimenter as the CS is presented in a different context . |
| 5 | When he gave me a copy of his complete works in September of 1943 inscribed from a ‘ sincere friend ’ , I noted the four lines opposite the title page : |
| 6 | The findings of a recent sociological study , based on retrospective reflections of former ‘ flak helpers ’ , then fifteen- or sixteen-year-olds and called up from their schools from the beginning of 1943 to assist in the manning of anti-aircraft batteries , suggest that the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was in rapid decline from 1942–3 onwards . |
| 7 | About 85 per cent of the electorate of 1,692,000 went to the polls , all those aged 18 and over being eligible to vote . |
| 8 | The official crime statistics show that , in 1980 , 421 cases of rape were proved in the courts , out of a total of 1,225 cases recorded by the police , and that 2,423 cases of indecent ( i.e. sexual ) assault were proved out of 11,498 recorded by the police . |
| 9 | Attempts to identify a murine homologue of LFA-3 led to the unexpected finding that mouse CD2 interacts with a different molecule , BCM1 ( CD48 ) 49 . |
| 10 | The background to this has been the decline of private renting as a consequence of slum clearance and the transfer of dwellings to owner occupation . |
| 11 | Doing their best for the glory of Canada , the whole field of eleven swept round the bend and went down the far side as if welded together , and it still seemed when they turned for home that that was how they might finish , in a knot . |
| 12 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 13 | The relative amounts of each depend on a number of factors of which the most important are pH and temperature . |
| 14 | These 20 patients were taken from a total of 32 diagnosed during the same period ; 12 patients were excluded because of poor compliance with the diet ( seven cases ) or denied consent to the protocol ( five cases ) . |
| 15 | A GIRL of eight paralysed as a baby in a car crash won a possible £7 million damages in the High Court yesterday . |
| 16 | In the House of Representatives , controlled by the Democratic Party since 1956 , the party won 259 seats , a net loss of eight compared with the 1990 result . |
| 17 | A Barra fisherman 's son , one of eight born to a couple who lived as squatters in a foreshore hut , ‘ was brought up in my grandfather 's across the road : ‘ I had everything in their house . |
| 18 | MacLachlan , victor of eight combats over the island , was fortunate to come down on Malta itself , rather than in the sea : ‘ For what seemed like hours I hung there , apparently motionless , with Malta still as far away as ever . |
| 19 | Founded in 1986 by Tim Williams and Gordon Harris , the Somerset , New-Jersey-based company now has a team of eight working on the products , which respectively compress , encrypt and speed up the Unix file system . |
| 20 | Then one day , when I visited the hospital by chance — Alec was ‘ on duty ’ — a boy of eight arrived at the surgery , carried by his father . |
| 21 | An alternative method of tying off rope coils using a separate figure of eight tied into the harness . |
| 22 | The figure was calculated from a population of 74,014 taken from the electoral register at September 10 last year . |
| 23 | It would be a foolish and expensive form of self-indulgence to pay for a course of treatment just for the pleasure of making up fancy tales about previous incarnations . |
| 24 | The import liberalization measures of 1989/90 combined with an upswing in domestic demand to produce a strong growth of imports in 1990 . |
| 25 | The Dolgarrog Dam disaster of 1925 led to the passing of this legislation . |
| 26 | He adds that ‘ anyone who has knowledge of masonic working in the higher degrees , will mark a part of one ceremony which maintains a record of this in its ritual . ’ |
| 27 | Whatever advertisers and their agencies may think about the respective merits of Conservative , Labour or even Liberal Democrat administrations , general election mean a windfall of about £10m worth of business for media owners and a favoured few advertising agencies — reportedly some £8m of that spent by the Conservatives , £2m by Labour and a meagre £250,000 by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 28 | Somehow the words ‘ dietary fibre ’ do tend to conjure up an image of being put out to graze on food that has all the comfort and flavour of that consumed by a sheep or a cow . |
| 29 | But even at their early fifties peak , these funds constituted only 7 per cent of industrial finance ( 12 per cent of that raised outside the firm ) . |
| 30 | I want a sample of that to go to the Met Lab urgently . |