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

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1 The next best thing is to read , with real care and attention , detailed accounts of modern fieldwork such as are provided by the two Hugh-Jones volumes .
2 On a day when several players missed training with niggling end of season injuries , Taylor 's only other major concern is Gascoigne , who underwent an operation to repair his cracked cheekbone three weeks ago after being hurt in the 2–2 draw against Holland .
3 In spite of being scheduled around the five o'clock timeslot , Doctor Who has always been a fully-fledged BBC Drama Series , made by the Drama Department in the same mould as Z Cars , Adam Adamant Lives , or , more recently , Blake 's 7 and All Creatures Great and Small .
4 Indonesia is aware of being strung between the two worlds of eruptive land and tempestuous water .
5 Gallup for The Daily Telegraph gave the Conservatives a hair 's breadth half-point lead over Labour , with the Liberal Democrats in danger of being squeezed as the two main parties battle to emerge as the largest party in a possible hung parliament .
6 Moreover it saved us as a family from being caught in the 1914 — 18 war as my sister and I were eighteen and sixteen years old when it finished and almost all our contemporary male cousins were killed .
7 My business is going to be split between the two areas , ’ Vitor said , ‘ so either suits me .
8 Last week , sources within HP confirmed that September 15th is the day the firm has chosen to cut and run to the end of its year with two new workstation models thought to be based upon the 7100 , possibly a 740 Coral II ( Coral is the 750 ) and 725 King Cobra II ( King Cobra is the 730 ) .
9 To ensure you receive the best return on your money at all times , we have linked Meridian Savings to a Meridian Current Account and have made it easy and convenient for money to be transferred between the two .
10 Now that joint approach is expected to be extended to the 11 members of the Trans-Atlantic Agreement ( TAA ) , prompting the possibility of more trade for the port .
11 But small though it is , Barèges was one of the first Pyrenean spas to make its name , mainly because Louis XIV 's sick son was sent there to be treated in the 1670s .
12 Thus it is necessary for every headteacher to consider very carefully just how governors are to be treated in the 1990s .
13 In fact , those ideas continued to be strengthened throughout the 1920s in essays written by Stieglitz associates , such as Oscar Bluemner , Louis Kalonyme , and Lewis Mumford .
14 It is the first-ever full scale play to be presented in the 140 year history of St George 's Hall .
15 George Stephenson then appointed Gooch as resident engineer for the proposed Manchester and Leeds Railway , for which he worked almost continuously in preparing plans and drawings for the Bill to be presented in the 1831 session of Parliament .
16 BMK became the first carpet manufacturer in Britain to be registered with the 1987 version of British Standard 5750 for Quality Assurance .
17 His undoubted personal success in the 1920s in Birmingham was not to be repeated in the 1930s , as fascism made less impact there than in the East End of London or the north-west .
18 But last night councillors approved ambitious plans by Arlington Property Developments for offices and industrial units to be built at the two sites , along with a hotel .
19 A permanent memorial is to be built to the two Glasgow University Mountaineering Club members , Brian Meers and Patrick Grey , who died on the Observatory Ridge of Ben Nevis in January .
20 The two-sided station continued to be built throughout the 1870s , particularly in Italy , and Central Europe , though many of them had pseudo-heads , blocks built across the end to link the wings where the main entrances were .
21 In an effort to neutralize Western intelligence speculation about the country 's alleged nuclear weapons programme , on April 15 North Korean television screened a programme and a video was issued showing three nuclear reactors , the 5,000 kW pilot reactor at Yongbyon , 100 km north of Pyongyang , a 50,000 kW reactor to be completed by the mid-1990s and a 200,000 kW reactor to be commissioned in the late 1990s .
22 In the meantime , in order to prepare to work the system themselves , the Corporation wished to be rid of the fifteen cars that were the property of the B.E.T. , and asked them to remove them forthwith .
23 As for her new-found peace and joy , they were to be refined in the thousand-and-one ordeals which lay ahead .
24 The new gearbox , 57III504 , had to be fitted with the 4 x 2 bell housing to mate to the 2.2 BMC diesel engine using a Phillips conversion kit .
25 The part appears only to be fitted to Piper aircraft , and is known to be fitted to the PA-46 Malibu .
26 The organisations have been selected from both the UK and North America , which allows a valuable comparison to be made across the two cultures .
27 Its problem , when analysed by the new Provincial sector was its price : it would cost too much to enable a financial case to be made for the 210 breed to replace existing DMUs even taking asbestos removal into account .
28 The first private prosecution of industry to be made under the 1989 Water Act has been launched by Greenpeace .
29 This will allow comparisons to be made between the two years using aggregations devised by the researcher , rather than those imposed by the Census Offices .
30 The East India Company 's nominal capital of £740,000 would have been about 2 per cent of the national income , though in fact only half of it was paid up until calls for fresh capital had to be made in the 1690s .
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