Example sentences of "[noun] use [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delegated enforcement is the term used for the fourth principle by which private bodies are used to enforce agreements and therefore administer state policies . |
| 2 | Erm the actual percentage of the ingredients used over the first year erm is about five percent for water , twenty three point six percent for the bottle , I 'll explain that later that 's quite high , the cap is four percent , one percent for the gassing , erm one percent for the case , two point seven percent for labour , four percent for transport , a general overhead would be about seventeen point one percent . |
| 3 | The village hall , known as the Victory Hall , was an old army hut used in the First World War . |
| 4 | Some shipowners proved particularly receptive to a suggestion that their craft employ a technique used during the Second World War by British aircraft to confuse enemy radar and later influenced by the Royal Navy 's experience in the Falklands campaign : tankers were supplied with equipment to discharge clouds of aluminium chaff at the approach of an AS missile like Exocet , in order to divert it . |
| 5 | The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days . |
| 6 | The second prevalence survey employed eight indicator agencies : six of the ten agencies used in the first survey ( Home Office , police , probation service , Detoxification Unit , Drugs Council , and Education Department ) and two additional agencies , the Wirral Committee on Solvent Abuse , and the Society for Biophysical Medicine . |
| 7 | The Telemine is based on the design of a manned torpedo that the Italian Navy used during the Second World War . |
| 8 | Two years ago , Master Solper could get you anything ; a piece of cloth from the napkins used at the Last Supper , a hair from the beard of St Joseph , part of a toy once used by the Baby Christ . |
| 9 | In her foreword to Ordinary Justice , Mrs Sally Oppenheim-Barnes , chairman of the National Consumer Council , said the Council wanted all consumer debts ( even up to £25,000 ) dealt with in county courts , and the threat to seize goods used as a last resort rather than a first step in the enforcement process . |
| 10 | Among some of the exotic craft on display are bi-planes used in the First World War . |
| 11 | Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ? |
| 12 | The establishment questionnaire closely follows the main management questionnaire used in the second Workplace Industrial Relations Survey . |
| 13 | There is a multitude of stately homes and historic sites to visit , including Glastonbury Abbey and Tor , where Joseph of Arimathea is said to have buried the chalice used at the Last Supper ; and Montacute House , a very fine Elizabethan mansion with formal gardens . |
| 14 | It was quite a fine working model used in the eighteenth century by Sir Henry — a great-great-grandfather of the present Sir Henry . |
| 15 | Joseph of Arimathea is supposed to have visited the area in his travels , bringing with him the Glastonbury Thorn and possibly the Holy Grail , the cup used at the Last Supper . |
| 16 | the number of characters ; ie letters , figures , signs or spaces in a piece of copy , line or paragraph used as a first stage in type calculations . |
| 17 | Slinging siege engines used in the twelfth century had long wooden arms powered by heavy weights . |
| 18 | THE share shop idea used in the last sale of BT shares is to be expanded to promote the share-buying habit , the Government announced yesterday . |
| 19 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 20 | It is clear that there was a steady expansion of the words used for trusts , from the basic four expressions used in the first century to the ten or so in use by the end of the third century . |