Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [num] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie Swan rides Novello Allegro and also Castlina , a recent Navan winner who goes for the three miles handicap hurdle on the opening day . |
| 2 | It was the victories won during the Seven Years War of 1756–63 much more than any intrinsic merits of the British constitution which forced a revision of disparaging estimates of this kind . |
| 3 | For Scotland it 's now a case of rebuilding for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 4 | The reaction of small businesses to recent deregulation measures , ( especially those contained in the 1989 Companies Act ) will also be monitored and evaluated . |
| 5 | The present institutional structure is based on regulations contained in the 1964 Police Act . |
| 6 | For all these reasons the apparently draconian central powers contained in the 1984 Rates Act had a surprisingly limited effect in terms not only of the numbers of authorities rate-capped but also in terms of the capping limits actually imposed . |
| 7 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
| 8 | The course is to be designed by the five times winner of the Open Championship , Peter Thomson . |
| 9 | Have you heard of the Thirty Years War ? |
| 10 | Therefore , I am in agreement with Mr. Porter in that I believe referees from other rugby nations , such as Fiji , Australia , Argentina etc. , should be selected for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 11 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 12 | It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia . |
| 13 | For , as far as English rugby is concerned , these are the days of miracles and wonders , the days when England can turn out the finest team ever and cavort through the Five Nations championship as if it were a lap of honour . |
| 14 | Moat put considerable store in this scheme at Three Hills as the the next stage of our partnership er with the Council and erm we are committed to doing the scheme in accordance with your overall master plan that you 've adopted for the Three Hills area er our proposals will com complete the re-development of the vacant sites at Three Hills providing a further a hundred and nine properties for for social housing both for rent and for low cost home ownership . |
| 15 | 10.7 The most exhilarating race came in the 15 years class as the Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out a nailbiting finish with Louise just pipping Emma by 0.05 seconds . |
| 16 | Say the nines you can do in the three times table and that er you 've got to get a three in |
| 17 | On April 30 the Japanese and South Korean Foreign Ministers held talks in Seoul at which it was agreed to relax restrictions currently applied to the 680,000 Koreans resident in Japan , many of whom were descendants of the 2,500,000 Koreans transported by the Japanese colonial administration for use as forced labour . |
| 18 | It is instructive to compare this document with the statement on Automation and Technical Change adopted by the 1965 Trades Union Congress . |
| 19 | But Mr Mellor said many local authorities found the restrictions imposed by the 1950 Shops Act outmoded and ‘ rightly or wrongly have refused to enforce it . ’ |
| 20 | The experiences of the ACCA and the Association of Authorised Public Accountants during their first year as recognised supervisory bodies have confirmed the importance of the strict audit regulatory regime imposed by the 1989 Companies Act . |
| 21 | At the time of writing , the 1881 census is the latest to have been made available for public consultation because of the restriction imposed by the 100 years rule . |
| 22 | It is useful to refer again to the practice guides which the then ABAFA produced to the 1975 Children Act ( 1976 and 1977 ) ( and which were criticised by Tunstill ) . |
| 23 | ‘ My experience at The Dorchester and what I know from the Four Seasons Inn on the Park ( Four Seasons recently acquired the Regent Group ) , shows me that there is a market which appreciates the best service and is prepared to pay £200 a night and more for it . ’ |
| 24 | They are given advice choosing topics by their tutors , the librarian talks to them about skills they will need ( based on the nine steps approach ) " and range of information available . |
| 25 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the Opposition hope very much that , after years of violence and despair , a political settlement will emerge , and that we will do everything in our power to achieve such an outcome , based on the three strands agreement ? |
| 26 | Other minor fissures will be noticed as the track goes forward , soon to be crossed by the Three Peaks route , which heads away to the left at a tangent . |
| 27 | The strategic equivalent of the Constitution are the ‘ Three Pillars ’ of British strategy that cohave evolved since Crécy and Agincourt in the Hundred Years War of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . |
| 28 | I was talking on Sue , I was saying if you 've got a client who did n't give you the convenient forty two pounds , but said you 'd got forty or thirty pounds to spend , the first thing you 've got to do is take off the two pounds policy fee , so you 're left in this case , with thirty eight pounds . |
| 29 | Propaganda of this kind was particularly marked during the Seven Years War , and spread the idea of a trade balance which must be defended against the excessive strength of Britain just as the territorial balance in Europe must be safeguarded from the overgrown influence of any continental State . |
| 30 | The Standard Grade course consists of the three elements TRANSLATION , INTERPRETATION and INVESTIGATION and is well designed to cater for the aims mentioned above . |