Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While other people waste time injecting their five-second expertise into decisions which do not call for their real expertise , the Profitboss gets ahead with his own expert profit-orientated decisions . |
| 2 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 3 | This followed an armistice agreement signed by representatives of France and the Democratic Republic the previous day accepting the division of the country along the 17th parallel with a demilitarised zone between . |
| 4 | Charlotte , who has seen more than 20 prime ministers come and go in Britain since she was born in 1877 , received her 15th telegram from the Queen . |
| 5 | When it came I tried frantically to remember all that had been forced into me by my mentor , and to the utter amazement of all — around but mainly myself — I passed into the 17th Entry at Halton in January 1928 with , I believe , 305 out of a total of just under 400 starters . |
| 6 | Ian took over in 1974 and will soon be celebrating his 90th programme in the chair . |
| 7 | Its narrator 's confessional outpourings are given an ironic descant by his obsession with James Buchanan , the 15th President of the US . |
| 8 | Their realism wo n't help you explain a hundredth part of the real events which have actually occurred . |
| 9 | Sir Walter Raleigh said that the incomes entered in the subsidy books represented ‘ not the hundredth part of our wealth ’ . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) A member of a licensing board who holds a disqualifying interest in a company shall not take part in any proceedings before the board in which that company is an applicant or an objector , and in this subsection " disqualifying interest " means a beneficial interest in shares or stocks of a close company within the meaning of section 282 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 which have a total nominal value exceeding £ 50 or which amount to more than one hundredth part of the nominal value of the issued share capital , or stock , as the case may be , of the company or any class of such capital or stock . |
| 11 | Like most labels , it 's amusing and it 's slick and it tells about a hundredth part of the story . |
| 12 | Bevin agreed with Attlee about the need to forestall the Russians , and took the initiative in drafting a resolution for the General Assembly authorizing the crossing of the 38th parallel with a view to establishing a unified , independent , and democratic government of all Korea . |
| 13 | With the publication of the Foreign Relations of the United States volumes on the Korean War and the release of the British documents it was evident that Britain had played a major role in the important decisions taken in the early stages of the war , and in particular the decision to change the aim of the operation from being merely to repel the aggressor north of the 38th parallel to that of achieving a unified Korea . |
| 14 | General Roberts stated that on 6 May a unit of the ROK army had advanced north of the 38th parallel to a depth of 2.5 miles ( 4 km ) and had attacked several settlements . |
| 15 | American-Soviet agreement on respective zones in Korea was attained through acceptance of the 38th parallel as the dividing line between the Soviet-controlled area to the north and the American-controlled area to the south . |
| 16 | The arbitrary division of Korea at the 38th parallel in 1945 was absurd economically , creating two areas which could not function efficiently in terms of what they possessed . |
| 17 | If we multiply the jth constraint of LPI* by q j and sum over j , and the jth constraint of LPII* by P i and sum over i , where ( q 1 , … , q n ) and are randomised strategies , we obtain . |
| 18 | If we multiply the jth constraint of LPI* by q j and sum over j , and the jth constraint of LPII* by P i and sum over i , where ( q 1 , … , q n ) and are randomised strategies , we obtain . |
| 19 | Wigan 's tries came from Botica , Offiah , Myers , Skerrett , Bell and Edwards with his 31st try of the season . |
| 20 | Johnson passed the halfway mark in 25 mins 26 sec , holding a three-second advantage on Webb , but the Northumbrian gradually extended his lead in the second half of the race to win by 49 seconds . |
| 21 | The mother was prompted when to let go and once Mary made a two-second break in her crying after several minutes of screaming she was told she could get up . |
| 22 | To see how this can be done , we will start by observing that x i j occurs in the ith equation of ( 8.1 ) with coefficient -1 and in the jth equation with coefficient +1 . |
| 23 | Today 's issue is perhaps a landmark of sorts , the 400th issue of Unigram.X to roll off the presses ( or to scroll up your screen for electronic subscribers ) . |
| 24 | We need some new notation to describe extra rows and will write for the element in the jth column of the z k -row . |
| 25 | If is the element in the jth column of the objective row of LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) , then applying ( 3.6a ) to this tableau and using ( 9.7 ) gives . |
| 26 | At the fourteenth siege of Tor Alessi he charged right into the heart of the Dwarf infantry and was cut down by King Gotrek who snatched the Phoenix crown from his corpse and took it in payment for the Elves ' insolence . |
| 27 | To reach the sixteenth green from the championship tee required a full driver over a lake of 230 yards . |
| 28 | On 16 March 1905 he married Beatrice , daughter of Edward Donough O'Brien , fourteenth Baron of Inchiquin , county Clare . |
| 29 | Wicketkeeper Bobby Parks made his 689th dismissal for Hampshire on June 20 , breaking the county record set by Neil McCorkell between 1932 and 1951 . |
| 30 | During England 's tour of 1989–90 he celebrated his hundredth Test by scoring his eighteenth century , passing 7,000 runs in the process , and at the end of the series his total stood at 7,134 at an average of 46 . |