Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who tried to hide during the 1984–85 miners ' strike by wearing a bag over his head ? |
| 2 | All payments between Kazakhstan and Russia have to pass through the two countries ' central banks . |
| 3 | What do you know of the two men 's relationship ? |
| 4 | The complex dielectric permittivity ε * can be measured from the change in amplitude and , if the phase lag between the applied voltage and the outcoming current is determined ( see figure 13.16 ) , then ε * can be resolved into the two components ε′ , the storage ( dielectric constant ) and ε′′ , the loss ( dielectric loss ) . |
| 5 | Packman has examined the way in which social workers in children 's departments gradually found that good child care practice required not merely the control and care powers possessed under the 1948 Children 's Act but also preventive work to keep children out of ‘ care ’ . |
| 6 | He saw how Wolfe 's leg muscles flexed impotently as he tried to scrabble to his feet ; how he squirmed in the two men 's grip , trying to get away . |
| 7 | Melanie opened her eyes and saw thorns among roses , as if she woke from a hundred years ' night , la belle au bois dormante , imprisoned in a century 's steadily burgeoning garden . |
| 8 | Rachel Sherrington , swimming in the 1979 girls ' backstroke , also won the silver and followed up with bronze in the freestyle . |
| 9 | Childminders — who look after your child in their home — must be registered with the local authority and they and their families are regularly checked by the police , according to the 1989 Children 's Act . |
| 10 | The North Korean Premier also proposed the installation of a communications link between the two sides ' military commands , the formation of a joint military group to discuss border disputes and the provision for on-site inspections to ensure that the arms agreement was observed . |
| 11 | With rain keeping both teams off the pitch for long periods , the ‘ corridor of uncertainty ’ took on a new meaning as Keith Fletcher commuted between the two teams ' dressing-rooms , unsure of where his priorities as coach lay . |
| 12 | The individual and collective rights of the labour force were codified in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 13 | These differences may be reflected in the two nations ' space programmes — the French march onwards , their plans to the fore , while the British cautiously conducted a step-by-step withdrawal . |
| 14 | But what must astonish us , I think , more than the details of violence is that the only charges brought as a result of this death were against three men who were charged with assault and punished with a 20 shillings ' fine , with the additional requirement that they should pay the doctor 's bill on the dead man . |
| 15 | There are charges on transactions , with a minimum of £30 for each six months , offset by a small allowance that varies with the seven days ' notice currency deposit rate . |
| 16 | The figures are inevitably distorted by the fact that several of the great old grammar schools opted to join the private sector after the Labour governments ' reform of secondary education in the 1970s , but of the twenty-two schools attended by Cabinet ministers , eighteen belonged to the 1990 Headmasters ' Conference . |
| 17 | That message was later underlined in the 1984–5 miners ' strike . |
| 18 | The prescriptions which had emerged in 1988 and from those conditions of service for teachers which had been introduced by the 1987 Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Act had , despite criticisms and resistance , created some new certainties . |
| 19 | The war , which arose over the two countries ' rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea , was widely regarded in Russia as the product of intrigue at court and among a handful of entrepreneurs , and aroused little patriotic enthusiasm . |
| 20 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 21 | The mixture between cajun , bluegrass and boogie styles was almost seamless and all gained from the five musicians ' vigour and enthusiasm for the songs they were playing . |
| 22 | Frederick 's rejection of this sensible advice and subsequent acceptance of the Bohemian crown sparked off a series of events which culminated in the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 23 | The poems , perhaps by Albert himself , express intimations of mortality and reflect the intensified anguish and heightened awareness of life 's transitoriness caused by the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 24 | So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ? |
| 25 | This arrangement means there is no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a State of Emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 26 | This discreet arrangement means , among other things , that there was no need for Mrs Thatcher to consider declaring a state of emergency , as Mr Heath 's government did during the 1973 miners ' strike . |
| 27 | In her 15-minute speech she spoke of the two countries ' shared ideals , including democracy , stability and a rejection of the power which " grows from the barrel of a gun " . |
| 28 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 29 | It is common ground that there was no ‘ good cause ’ within the meaning of section 34 ; the university was relying on the three months ' notice term contained in the letter of appointment coupled with the provision in section 34(3) that Mr. Page 's tenure was to be subject to the terms of the appointment . |
| 30 | A clear difference between Smith and Gould on the question of trade union influence emerged at the two men 's rival press conferences on Tuesday . |