Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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1 | The re-formed Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) won 10.8 per cent and the Communist Refoundation ( RC ) 3.5 per cent , their combined vote being well below the 19.4 per cent for the Communist Party ( PCI ) in 1986 . |
2 | Also with other beacons often within receivable range on frequencies only one kHz apart , sometimes if the aircraft is somewhere between the two , both become unusable . |
3 | The building , a powerful monument to the Cold War between East and West , is now owned by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and used as a BBC World Service relay station , staffed by just four employees.It is not within the 1,560 acre property purchased by the National Trust.Merlin Waterson , the Trust 's regional director , who accompanied yesterday 's visit by ferry from Orford Quay , said a study was under way into which of the buildings should be preserved . |
4 | If the number 1 lefthand light is on for the 580 and the modular electronics and the number 1 righthand light on for earlier machines , then as we saw last month the first stitch of the pattern will fall to the right of the N1 cam , that is on needle number 14 to the left of centre . |
5 | The total UK repossession figure is now around the 70,000 mark . |
6 | Rather , the analogy was perhaps with the 1915 coalition , a government supported by the Liberal , Conservative , and Labour parties with definite but limited wartime objectives . |
7 | No great number of people need have been directly engaged in ironmaking , for the Wealden industry was still in the 1520s no more than poised on the threshold of greatness , with only three blast furnaces in operation , and indeed the original one at Newbridge standing idle without a tenant . |
8 | Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way . |
9 | six months was down to the two three pounds under the weight I was when I started . |
10 | On a happier note , list subscriptions are now in the mid-40s ; pretty good going . |
11 | The deal he seeks to make at Maastricht is not with the Twelve but with the 1922 Committee . |
12 | The only thing holding them back was the fact that the next available date to tour England was not until the mid-1930s . |
13 | By 1820 investment in shipping , docks and harbours was also around the million mark , and there were similar trends in bridge building . |
14 | What percentage of the workers are now in the five main industries ? |
15 | The big boys of power boating were here in the two litre class … using the same engines as the Formula One racers but without the extra tweaking . |
16 | The movement remains remarkably strong : despite all that the government and economic collapse have done , TUC membership is still above the ten million mark , and many unions enjoy the loyalty and energetic commitment of tens of thousands of active members . |
17 | First the figures , furniture retailing continues to be highly competitive so I am pleased to report that turnover for the twenty eight weeks was through to the twenty million five point five percent better than the same period in the previous year . |
18 | Both wines are currently from the 1988 vintage and will improve over the next few years . |
19 | There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) . |
20 | Sadly the whole evening tends to confirm just how single-handed Callas ' achievement was back in the Fifties . |
21 | Sadly the whole evening tends to confirm just how single-handed Callas ' achievement was back in the Fifties . |
22 | Now that he considered it , Turakina 's expression when she stared at the offworlder was exactly like the one Alexai used when he was looking at Burun . |
23 | And she also noticed straightaway that the open fire feeding an oven to one side and a water boiler to the other was very like the one Sister Cecilia had introduced her to . |
24 | What is even more significant for wage profiles is that all of the figures quoted for average tenure are well below the 25–30 years that it takes to reach the peak of the earnings profile . |
25 | I mean I think you and say that you know I mean I think test matches are simply because you know over time , you know people are in to the one day cricket match , be the excitement and everything else and it 's getting increasingly more difficult for television companies to get sponsorship , commercial sponsorship for |
26 | ‘ BR 's sales and marketing techniques are still in the Sixties , ’ he says . |
27 | For all the others there had to be a process of acquiring sign after the age of 15 years , with the average being somewhere in the mid-20s . |
28 | But the , you see if you look in the , I have information off the Birmingham secretary , er Secretary 's secretary , she was involved , she even was imprisoned in Switzerland erm when the peace movement was on between the two wars , and that was when they were , I believe it was a German woman that er that was on , you know in the committee , but I 'll have to refer to the Caring and Sharing book . |
29 | And then it was clearly seen er that not only were the changes in the , the er financial er arrangements for the introduction of the bonus scheme , with the introduction of a further fourpence and hour , with the introduction of the time factor on the job , as opposed to them starting , we 'll say , round about forty seven , forty eight , forty nine percent , the movement was then into the fifty percent bracket , fifty five percent . |
30 | What differences are there in the two farms , shown on the detailed maps ? |