Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Introduce fair votes for the 1994 British elections to the European Parliament . |
| 2 | Zone I was in its way as much of a prison for the Commandant as for the eight hundred men to whom he played a vague mutation of God and Commissar . |
| 3 | In voting for the 56 Greek-Cypriot delegates to the House of Representatives ( the nominal allocation of 24 seats to Turkish-Cypriots continued unfilled ) , the conservative Democratic Rally ( DISY ) finished first with 35.8 per cent of the vote and 20 seats ( one more than in the previous assembly ) . |
| 4 | I think it was er fairly evident that he had given permission for the three British hostages to be released after Sir Edward Heath 's meeting with Tariq . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Scheer , who had now decided to reduce the gap between the two German fleets to a mere 32km/20mls , would be close behind and in position also to strike at the outnumbered Beatty . |
| 6 | The choice between the two main approaches to forecasting demand for HE — aggregate and component — is often dictated by the availability of data which also affects whether the university and other sectors should be treated separately . |
| 7 | Kozyrev suggested that Russia would honour the 1956 bilateral agreement under which the Soviet Union had offered to return two of the four disputed territories to Japan . |
| 8 | Speaking to a gathering at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations , Bush stressed , however , that the Soviet Union 's full membership in the world economic community depended on a programme of political reform including a commitment to freedom for the Baltic states , a return of the four Kurile islands to Japan , an end to Soviet military aid to Cuba and deeper cuts in defence expenditure . |
| 9 | The huge surge follows the implementation of the FRS3 accounting method , which led to a restatement of the 1991 pre-tax profits to £182 million , from the previous £267 million , as well as earnings per share from 7.5p to 4.7p . |
| 10 | He was one of the three original signatories to the human rights document Charter 77 , after which he was arrested , and his writing and plays were banned in Czechoslovakia . |
| 11 | In 1986 38 per cent of the 103,000 conceptions outside marriage to teenagers ( under age 20 ) were aborted , declining to 32 per cent of the 25,000 such conceptions to women aged 30–4 and rising to 56 per cent of the 2,000 conceptions to unmarried women aged 40 and over . |
| 12 | ‘ County Durham 's constabulary has been increased since 1979 and the Home Office is still looking at the possibility of reallocating some of the 1,000 extra posts to the county , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Of the 143 grant-maintained schools to which he referred and which have been approved so far , only 23 were named in reorganisation or closure proposals . |
| 14 | Despite the two serious drawbacks to this strand of Kane 's theory , the non-existence of a pure gene pool and the uselessness of purely physical attributes without intellectual characteristics , I must stress that many modern black sportsmen hold theories which seem to harken back to their slave heritage . |
| 15 | ‘ I am surrounded by a synthetic world of fantasy that I live in , ’ Johnnie tells this paper on his first visit to the UK , the first of a million metaphysical whingeings to be directed towards the NME . |
| 16 | This had been formed by Captain Buck and consisted of a dozen Jewish immigrants to Palestine , all of whom spoke fluent German . |
| 17 | ‘ If love was crime , ’ said Alex , ‘ I 'd ask for a thousand similar offences to be taken into consideration . ’ |
| 18 | In September 1962 Sylvia Plath separated from her husband and moved with the two small children to a flat in London . |
| 19 | Darryl Davidson of Gregson Road , Hoghton , Preston wins a VIP day out for a party of four people on the East Lancashire Railway because he was the first entry selected at random with the four correct answers to our quiz based on the North West line . |
| 20 | The fighting spread from the two helpless ships to the third rammed behind them , now cramped fast with a grappling-iron and rocking with incomers from the two dying vessels ahead . |
| 21 | They were talking about having no other actors apart from the three main characters to be played by Hopper , Fonda and Rip Torn — in between Hopper 's directing and Hopper 's scriptwriting and Fonda 's production and Fonda 's co-scriptwriting work . |
| 22 | This is also implicit in the reference in the 1980 Parliamentary answers to dealings on a government to government basis . |
| 23 | One can thus see gains and losses in the two broad approaches to the study of literature described by Welch ( 1987 ) . |
| 24 | A major factor which underlies much of this discussion , and explains why such legislative investigations of the police as occurred between 1973 and 1976 in the United States are still resisted in Britain , is the different attitudes in the two political systems to the dissemination of official information . |
| 25 | The obvious way for AT&T to escape the conflicts of interest between its equipment and service businesses is to split them , perhaps doling out new shares in the two new firms to existing shareholders on a pro-rata basis . |
| 26 | Support for the CDA fell from 33.0 per cent and 35.3 per cent in the two earlier elections to 32.6 per cent . |
| 27 | Under the assembly 's system of apportioning positions on committees and on the 26 standing delegations to foreign parliaments , mathematical logic made it inevitable that far-right members would receive a few sensitive posts . |
| 28 | This was the first year that Environment Achievement Awards have been made , so Johnson Matthey was particularly proud to have been included among the 12 initial companies to be granted the new honour . |
| 29 | Arsonists have caused damage estimated at a hundred thousand pounds to a printing company . |
| 30 | Arsonists have caused damage estimated at a hundred thousand pounds to a printing company . |