Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [num] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New voices are required to join the chorus for the annual Two Cathedral 's Festival taking place in mid-October . |
| 2 | And during the bitter 1984 miners ' strike the cranes were kept busy unloading imports of Australian coal for power stations . |
| 3 | Let me tell him about the previous 12 months ' statistics which show a decrease in salmonella food poisoning and that the Food Safety Act 1990 is working . |
| 4 | After a hectic three months ' work load , by a small but willing group of members , the BCRS Museum is up and running |
| 5 | In contrast to Pilkingtons , vital conceptual ingredients of the other two firms ' change initiatives were derived from organizational links with multinational corporations . |
| 6 | KPMG Peat Marwick Midland Region has become the first of the Big Six firms ' practices to gain the Investors in People award . |
| 7 | Its key element was a relaxation of the past two years ' tight monetary controls in an effort to halt recession . |
| 8 | THE new issue of the Film Yearbook ( Virgin , £6.99 ) includes comments from several film-makers on the quality of the past 12 months ' cinema . |
| 9 | In January 1956 Jacques requested from each tutor-organiser a summary of the previous six months ' work , in order to prepare a general report for the Ministry of Education . |
| 10 | These new agreements obliged both countries ' navies and air forces ( i ) to give 14 days ' advance warning , instead of the previous 25 days , of large military manoeuvres within 80 miles of the coasts of Argentina or of the Falklands Islands and other UK possessions in the south Atlantic ; and ( ii ) to give 42 hours ' notice for permission for combat vessels to approach within 15 miles of either coast , to be arranged by mutual agreement , instead of the previous 48 hours ' notice to approach within 50 miles . |
| 11 | It 's known in the City as the Hemline Index ( as opposed to the usual measure of the top 100 companies ' shares , the FTSE 100 ) . |
| 12 | There 's also the smooth effortless power of a refined 3 litre V6 , and the sheer excitement of its 24 valve counterpart . |
| 13 | The most popular announcement — from the boys ' point of view at least — was that of an extra two days ' holiday to mark the Anniversary . |
| 14 | As a rule of thumb , if Target has sufficient distributable reserves to effect the purchase of its own shares , it will also have sufficient capacity to carry back against the preceding six years ' mainstream corporation tax all the ACT incurred on the distribution , so this should not be a real cost . |
| 15 | On the other hand , I sat in my New York hotel room for a good five hours ' Bloomingdale-spending time watching Sex Lies and Videotape , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Sea of Love without so much as moving to the fridge to flex a buttock muscle of my own . |
| 16 | Opposing change were the city 's communists , Gorbachev , the USSR Supreme Soviet , and many older citizens who associate the current name with the heroic 900 days ' wartime siege of Leningrad . |
| 17 | Coal will not be a major export for the USSR this century with a probable 20 MTOE per annum by the year 2000 . |
| 18 | Lastly comes the RX-V600 ( £449.95 ) , a DSP unit with a built-in 40 station AM/FM radio tuner section and five power amplifier stages . |
| 19 | five or six other people on campus who could potentially do it with a just one night 's look an and a diagram . |
| 20 | For an extra two hours ' shift , well I suppose we can just afford it , can we ? |
| 21 | Nevertheless , in the early twenties Eliot 's mind was clearly full of not only ‘ Frazer … |
| 22 | In the early 1960s Lindsey 's family aircraft was Miles Messenger 2A G-AKIR , a veritable piece of British aviation history . |
| 23 | But in the early sixties Iran 's agriculture was still dominated by vast states owned by rich private landlords and by muslim clerics . |
| 24 | In the early 1980's Marian 's life took a major turn . |
| 25 | In the early fifties Scotland 's housing shortage was still severe . |
| 26 | Stan had played for Exeter against us in the previous three seasons ' fixtures and had invariably acquitted himself well in those matches , so Palace fans knew that Mr Maven 's transfer fee was well spent . |
| 27 | In the past ten years P&G has dealt with 150,000 letters and telephone-calls about satanism and soap powder . |
| 28 | In a solid one gram 24kt gold ingot , issued by the prestigious Swiss Bank Corporation . |
| 29 | The political consequence of the decision is that the EC Industry Commissioner and the EC Transport Commissioner have suggested to the Commission President that , in future , the Competition Directorate should obtain the approval of the relevant industrial policy department of the Commission before submitting a merger to the full five months ' scrutiny allowed under the Regulation . |
| 30 | Water companies came out of the study well , with the ten privatised companies all on the top 24 profit-makers ' list . |