Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment they 're just a voluntary body , but it looks as though works councils will become mandatory for eleven of the twelve states in the E C , with the implementation very soon of the European Social Works Council Directive , Britain as usual being the odd one out , because of course it 's part of the Social Chapter . |
| 2 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 3 | Hurd argues that the Arab world itself must create this new system ( presumably under Western tutelage ) and a conference to this effect between eight of the nine partners in the alliance ( Morocco being the sole absentee ) occurred in Cairo in mid-February . |
| 4 | Hence it took about two-thirds of the total period since the origin of life to reach the eukaryote stage . |
| 5 | The largest group of Soviet nationalities were the Slavs — Russians , Ukrainians and Belorussians — who shared a common linguistic and religious inheritance and together constituted about two-thirds of the total population . |
| 6 | Colour about two-thirds of the remaining fondant — about 150g ( 5oz ) with black food colouring . |
| 7 | Protestant Unionists made up about two-thirds of the new Ulster Democratic Unionist Party ( hereafter ‘ DUP ’ ) . |
| 8 | As a result , about two-thirds of the new demand could be supplied by American wells . |
| 9 | However , from the supplementary information collected , by questionnaire , from LEAs a year alter the initial review , there appeared to be some increase in the use of the reported incidence of practical work , and about two-thirds of the completed questionnaires indicated that calculator skills were tested . |
| 10 | The report could guide UK chemistry teaching into the 21st century , yet it allows children to be taught without atoms or molecules for eight of the 11 years that it covers . |
| 11 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 12 | In the 250 race Gary Jess set the pace for eight of the 12 laps , before front fork failure forced him to slow down . |
| 13 | Lists of candidates for 547 of the 551 constituencies have been drawn up , of which 278 will be fought by Les Verts and 269 by GE . |
| 14 | Slow left-armer Tufnell had just removed opener Navjot Sidhu for 79 in the 13th over of the day , to leave India 174 for two , when Kambli charged Emburey but failed to connect properly . |
| 15 | More than 200 organisations working in areas including child and family care , will receive grants during 1993/94 through the Social Work Committee . |
| 16 | In the last quarter , council workers accounted for 468 Of the 5004 visits to mothers , 13 , 796 Of the 44,169 visits to children ( ibid. 12 March 25 ) . |
| 17 | As it happens , the concrete evidence about marriage in the " 1910 sample " analysed in Chapter 6 ( those women in the trade in 1910 ) very largely relates to women who were aged about 18–28 during the Great War , and it could reasonably be argued that the war played such havoc with the marriage chances of this generation that it will have contained an unusually high proportion of women who never married . |
| 18 | For political reasons British officers continued to hold about one-half of the senior posts . |
| 19 | Frankly , it is not an outstanding record of achievement , considering there has been at least one Second Division club in the semi-finals for 30 of the 47 seasons since the last war . |
| 20 | Negotiations between the husband and wife will often have been on the basis that the wife 's solicitors will hand over an application for cancellation of the land charge ( Form K13 or application for the cancellation of the notice if registered land Form 202 ) on completion in return for one-half of the net proceeds of sale ( or whatever other figure is agreed ) . |
| 21 | There was little turn , but great accuracy from the spin twins , and by capturing four wickets for 67 in the last session , England had done well . |
| 22 | Towards the end of the 3-day FFA meeting , the Japanese , ‘ in a spirit of goodwill and co-operation' ’ , offered to hold the drift-net fleet for 1989–90 to the same level as the previous season — 60 vessels . |
| 23 | Figure 8.1 shows for the United Kingdom the estimated public expenditure for 1989–90 on the highest spending services . |
| 24 | After 12 of the 36 events , the Teessiders had an eight-point lead over Thurrock . |
| 25 | At a little after six of the early evening clock , Cornelius and Tuppe were once more in Sheila na gigh . |
| 26 | Through increased consumption per capita , through the development of markets for refined sugar among Russia 's clients in Third World countries , and with assistance from other Communist countries Russia not only solved the problem of absorbing the portion of the Cuban crop formerly taken by the United States , but did so in the context both of a resumption after 1964 of the upward movement in its home production and of a contractual willingness to buy far more Cuban sugar than Castro has so far produced for the Russian market . |
| 27 | It was job growth that was reduced after 1981 by the Conservative government 's imposition of cash limits on Health Authorities ( Table 5.8 ) . |
| 28 | It was destroyed in 1915 during action in the First World War , then was rebuilt after 1918 to the original design . |
| 29 | Even his enemies would have to applaud his courage in facing the music after one of the greatest embarrassments in England 's history . |
| 30 | Even his enemies would have to applaud his courage in facing the music after one of the greatest embarrassments in England 's history . |