Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The permitted hours for premises in respect of which a public house licence or a refreshment licence is in force shall be the period between eleven in the morning and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between five and eleven in the evening , except for Sundays when the permitted hours shall be the period between half-past twelve and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between half-past six and eleven in the evening but only in the case of premises in respect of which an application for Sunday opening has been made to and granted by a licensing board in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 4 to this Act , which shall have effect . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) The permitted hours for premises in respect of which a hotel licence a restricted hotel licence , a restaurant licence , an entertainment licence or a licence under Part III of this Act is in force or which are a registered club shall , on weekdays , be the period between eleven in the morning and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between five and eleven in the evening and , on Sundays , be the period between half-past twelve and half-past two in the afternoon and the period between half-past six and eleven in the evening . |
| 3 | ( 1 ) A registered club may apply to the sheriff for any one of the following orders : ( a ) an order providing that during the winter period the permitted hours in the club on weekdays shall not be those set out in section 53(3) of this Act , but shall instead be the period between eleven in the morning and two in the afternoon and the period between four and half-past ten in the evening or alternatively be the said periods on weekdays other than Saturday , and on Saturday be the period between one in the afternoon and half-past ten in the evening ; or ( b ) an order providing that during the winter period the permitted hours in the club on Sundays shall not be those set out in the said section 53(3) , but shall instead be the period between half-past twelve and two in the afternoon and the period between four and nine in the evening ; or ( c ) an order which contains both the aforesaid provisions ; and the sheriff shall , if in his opinion the conditions set out in subsection ( 2 ) below are satisfied , make the order applied for . |
| 4 | New Zealand 's National Party government unveiled a highly controversial budget on July 30 which severely curtailed the country 's welfare state by designating about one-half of the population as sufficiently affluent to pay for its health , education , housing and retirement needs . |
| 5 | The Somerset captain would have been quite within his rights to have declined to play after 6.30 in the chance that it might rain hard enough on the third day to prevent any play . |
| 6 | In the early stages of the Channel Tunnel project British Rail believed that the existing rail network in the South East could cope with any extra traffic after 1993 despite the fact that a report to Kent County Council in 1985 stated that ‘ the rail lines to London are already very heavily used and have little spare capacity ’ . |
| 7 | We arrived in Sheffield a little after three in the afternoon and parked in the Meadow Hall Shopping Centre car park . |
| 8 | But the long haul through the muddy roads slowed the horses ' progress almost to a walk , and it was not until after five in the evening that the vehicle finally came to a halt outside the George inn in Mountsorrel , a little place some distance before the larger town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch . |
| 9 | It was just after two in the morning and the corridors were empty . |
| 10 | It had been bought with a United Nations grant of 1980 on the understanding that all the profits would be channelled discreetly into a numbered Swiss bank account to be used exclusively by UNICEF . |
| 11 | In Mogadishu on Nov. 27 Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid , leader of the Somali National Alliance ( SNA ) which claimed control of two-thirds of the capital and most of southern Somalia , was said to have welcomed the US offer . |
| 12 | By early November the rebel movement was reported to be in control of one-third of the country , and by the end of the month UNITA was thought to have at least nominal control of two-thirds of the country and thus to be in a stronger position than before the May 1991 Bicesse Peace Accord between the government and UNITA [ see p. 38180 ] . |
| 13 | So I waited , he generally turned up , I 've seen him not be up home till eight and half past eight in the morning but he never turned up so about nine o'clock I says , I 'd better phone the police . |
| 14 | Stone does not go this far , although he can not resist quoting an Irish opponent of divorce during the referendum campaign of 1986 to the effect that ‘ a woman voting for divorce is like a turkey voting for Christmas ’ ( p. 420 ) . |
| 15 | The vote on Hinchliffe 's Bill two weeks ago produced a vote of 188 for the Bill and only one against . |
| 16 | All the alleged incidents are said to have taken place between 1980 when he was fostered at the age of six by the family and 1985 . |
| 17 | All the alleged incidents are said to have taken place between 1980 when he was fostered at the age of six by the family and 1985 . |
| 18 | As a result , in the first free elections in the spring of 1917 to the zemstvo and municipal Belorussian governments , not a single nationalist representative won any popular support . |
| 19 | It is half past three of the afternoon and already the houses across the burn are fading into a sodden gloom . |
| 20 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |
| 21 | erm I do n't know if anybody 's noticed , but before half past 8 in the morning and after half past 5 you get screaming night bells around the press , they 're not the blue phones , they 're the emergency phones , it 's the little square sort of socket-like thing above most of the corridors , and that screaming away tells you that there 's an outside caller ringing 56767 . |
| 22 | ‘ Your uncle , as you know , comes in at ten past twelve on the dot and Carrie a few minutes after , that is if she has n't stopped to gaze in the shops . |
| 23 | Thus the proposed lignite mining in the north , as Baker ( 1989 ) has pointed out , is in line with the current Thatcherite privatization policy , while in the south one of the sons of the current Taoiseach is a managing director of one of the mining and prospecting companies . |
| 24 | people of one of the environment and the other 's Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 25 | But you know sleep escapes a young person , if one 's in their young twenties and they think you can go to bed at er half past two in the afternoon and have an hour or two . |
| 26 | And it was flipping half past two in the morning or something . |
| 27 | Pursuant to the Directives ' aim to promote comparability of the accounts of companies of the various member States , companies are required to adopt one of two prescribed formats for the balance sheet and one of four for the profit and loss account but in doing so they may use either the prescribed ‘ historical cost accounting rules ’ or the ‘ alternative accounting rules ’ which pay greater recognition to the impact of inflation by a type of current cost accounting . |
| 28 | I 'm not asking for a lesson on highway modelling particularly at half past four in the afternoon but what 's your reaction to what Mr said about the way in which your model would perform in other words on an all or nothing basis , when it 's shorter it all goes that way ? |
| 29 | We work , we we work shift work so I I mean you know we get up at half past four in the morning and and if you 've got people trundling about above your heads all hours of the night it 's er |
| 30 | They leave at half past four in the morning and get back just after midnight |