Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [vb pp] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.

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1 Local authorities are obliged under the 1981 Education Act to provide tuition for special educational needs , yet the institute believes only a small proportion of dyslexics receive adequate help in state schools .
2 I visit all the towns where sheep are killed by the thousand .
3 The displacement values are given by the two corresponding coordinate variations generated by the rotation of the circular cam on PARTA .
4 When these values are adjusted to the 1 bar altitude , which lies at a fairly small distance below the cloud tops ( Figure 9.5 ) , then the equatorial radius is 71 400 km and the polar radius is 66 550 km .
5 Each of these four methods are employed during the eight sessions .
6 It remains to be seen what precise form of words are agreed by the 12 heads of government to express their commitment to the next stage of monetary union .
7 Realizations of ( Ε ) by both male and female speakers are compared in the two outer-city communities and in the small country town of Lurgan , seventeen miles from Belfast ( see 4.3.6 ) .
8 So often books are published on the 1940 Battle that feature just the Hurricane and Spitfire part of the conflict , forgetting that numerous other , less glamorous types served with equal distinction .
9 Numerator data are based on registration returns about child deaths , whereas denominator data are obtained from the 1981 census .
10 The average delay over the whole period is 4.8 years , but if the data are split into the two time periods represented in the Rolfe & Will lists , it is found that the average delay for the 1960-1976 period is 8.8 years , whereas the average for 1976-83 is 1.9 years .
11 Judge Butler ordered that assets worth £23,950 be confiscated under the 1986 Drugs Trafficking Offences Act with the threat that Laming serve a further 18 months in default .
12 The theoretical aspects were formulated in the mid-1940s and the first dates were published in December 1949 .
13 It may well have been a more sensible policy , therefore , to make the Phase 1/3 disparity less extreme , and to use the resources to ensure that all schools were staffed on the 1986 Select Committee recommended basis of n registration groups plus one , with further pro rata adjustments for school size and specific challenges like those of the inner city .
14 For samples of her verse readers were referred to the three that appeared in the earlier number .
15 And so , as predicted , two buckets of pigs blood were poured over the two of them and they were received by hysterical laughter .
16 Letters under the privy seal were prepared by the thousand , and instructions were sent to the chief commissioners in each shire .
17 The pictures were assembled during the 1900s by Sir John Leicester , a close friend of George IV who went on the Grand Tour but who , unlike many of his contemporaries , remained faithful to living British artists .
18 The individual and collective rights of the labour force were codified in the 1980 Workers ' Statute .
19 More significant concessions were made in the 1920s , when a majority of the Legislative Council was elected by a franchise limited by ethnicity , education and wealth .
20 It was generally understood that there was very little chance of the deal being referred to the MMC .
21 All political parties were banned under the 1978 Constitution .
22 But certain doubts were dispelled during the 32–9 victory over Midlands at Leicester on Wednesday as captain Naas Botha warned : ‘ We are improving with every game and I believe we will peak when it matters , against Will Carling 's team . ’
23 In due course , several of the ex-L.U.T. cars were renumbered in the 2000s , as though still working as part of that fleet .
24 More than 12 vans and cars were stopped during the 35 minutes the road block was in position .
25 All cars were judged over the two days at given times for sound quality including staging , stereo image , clarity , frequency separation and absence of noise .
26 Explored initially for sand-dominated assemblages , the methods were refined during the 1950s and applied to thin section analysis of lithified sediments during the early 1960s .
27 These and other factors led to world-wide steps being taken in the 1970s to reduce the discharge of all mercury compounds to the aquatic environment .
28 According to Judge Ovidiu Zarnescu , president of the Central Electoral Bureau , at the start of the campaign 5,716 candidates were nominated either as independents or by one of the 73 political parties for the 387 elective National Assembly seats and 1,584 candidates were nominated for the 119 Senate seats .
29 His eyes were glued to the two men now sitting on his couch .
30 Since Nepal 's borders were opened in the 1950s Hillary has noticed how attitudes among the Sherpas has changed .
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