Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his annual report to the nation on Nov. 1 setting out goals for the second three years of his six-year presidential term , President Carlos Salinas de Gortari proposed radical reforms of agriculture , the education system and the status of the church based on changes to the 1917 Constitution . |
| 2 | When the National Insurance Act was introduced in 1911 it also provided sickness benefits of 10s. per week for men , 7s. 6d. for women ( because their loss of earnings during sickness was lower than that of men ) for the first thirteen weeks of sickness , although nothing was paid for the first three days , the aim being to help long-rather than trivial short-term sickness ; 5s. per week was paid to men and women for the following thirteen weeks . |
| 3 | for the first thirteen weeks of unemployment people are allowed to look for jobs that they want to do or are skilled or experienced to do but after thirteen weeks they will be compelled to take any job that comes along . |
| 4 | Although those who studied at Kiev University ( Vil'na 's successor ) had to know enough Russian to understand lectures , they constituted the majority of the new university 's students for the first thirty years of its life and did not need Russian to consort with their peers . |
| 5 | She was one of two Stewart monarchs who had this experience , the other being James I ( 1406–37 ) , who was an English prisoner for the first eighteen years of his reign . |
| 6 | Bridget looked after her son for the first eighteen months before getting a job so he recognises her as his mother , whereas it could be quite easy for a baby to start calling its grandmother " Mum " . |
| 7 | For the first five months of his life , Christopher was happy , well-adjusted and a trifle fat . |
| 8 | It should be noted that for the purposes of our valuation we have used a conservative forecast of £ [ B ] million , reflecting a below target performance for the first five months of the financial year . |
| 9 | By the end of 1990 it stood at 121 per cent , and the aim of reducing this to less than 70 per cent in 1991 appeared to be succeeding as the inflation rate for the first five months of the year was 38.9 per cent , compared with 84.5 per cent in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
| 10 | For the first five years of Israel 's existence the Soviet Union likewise took a non-committal stance between Israel and its neighbours . |
| 11 | For the first five years of occupation the PLO , too , feared that it would lose its modest foothold in the territories . |
| 12 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 13 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 14 | For the first five years of cash planning the Treasury put a ‘ pay factor ’ in its cash target . |
| 15 | And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men . |
| 16 | Does the following sound an impossible target for the first five years of our society , that we might have a BCR day ( week ? ) on another railway , hiring one of its locomotives and some of its stock , but running good old BCR style mixed trains including at least one goods truck owned and restored by us and painted in BCR livery ? |
| 17 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give the total estimated annual operating costs of Trident for the first five years of operation . |
| 18 | The " Paris Club " of industrialized creditor countries would write down rescheduled debt by two-thirds instead of one-third ; they would deal with the total debt of an eligible country in one operation instead of in one-year maturities ; interest payments would be capitalized for the first five years of rescheduling , with debt repayments linked to the debtor nation 's export capacity ; and the repayment period would be extended from 14 to 25 years . |
| 19 | Payment of income support is related to pension payment days , and she was not remunerated for the first five days of the elderly person 's occupation . |
| 20 | A sudden variation in sentence complexity may help to give this effect : Norman Page points out that at the beginning of Jane Austen 's Emma , the three-word sentence " Miss Taylor married " stands out momentously against a background of longer sentences ( the average sentence length for the first five paragraphs of the novel being 26.5 words ) . |
| 21 | Until April 1988 , as a widow under 60 you are entitled to the widow 's allowance for the first 26 weeks after your husband 's death provided he paid enough contributions . |
| 22 | These two dimensions provided the basis for the first coherent theories about the connections between the peoples of the world . |
| 23 | For the first 77 years of its life , the company was based in Newcastle and established with great help from possibly the most famous Darlingtonian , Edward Pease . |
| 24 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 25 | That shows that both the president 's National Party ( NP ) and the ANC intend to be prepared for the first non-racial elections for a constituent assembly ; it is also a clear sign that both of them are sure that they can convince the other parties that the path they have laid down is the one to follow . |
| 26 | Import substitution tended to close down markets in northern and western Europe , but for the first sixty years of the century southern Europe , especially Portugal , filled the gap and in itself provided a link between the old and new geographies of trade . |
| 27 | Active or REM sleep onset will persist for the first twelve months of life in normal infants . |
| 28 | Mary of Guise had infinitely more ability and determination , but for the first twelve years of the minority she had no official role in government , and throughout the whole period her main interest lay in achieving a French marriage for her daughter , even if that meant doing little about the existence of Protestantism . |
| 29 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 30 | Study this graph of " Super " Sam 's cricket scores for the first 8 matches of the season as a batsman . |