Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Internationalist Freepost Mitcham CR4 9AR ( No stamp needed ) Yes Please send me , without obligation , my free copies of the next three issues of the New Internationalist plus the world map and book token . |
| 2 | I personally see this is as one of my major objectives over the next year or so , and in a sense it makes me trebly grateful to be here today , because I hope some of the contacts I might make today will enable me to work alongside you in what might be called even local Berkshire band , and to try and get more a multiplicity of views from different organisations channelled through our own value objectives . |
| 3 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 4 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 5 | Children so unused to hugs before , clung onto their English friends until the last minute . |
| 6 | Children so unused to hugs before , clung onto their English friends until the last minute . |
| 7 | Their likely opponents in the second round are Charterhouse , if they get the better of Highgate today , writes Ted Barrett . |
| 8 | They may even find time for a sustained effort to win the Premiership , a trophy which has eluded them since 1987 , the only way they can improve on their remarkable exploits of the last two seasons . |
| 9 | The UN predicts that a reduction of 30 per cent in the commercial debts of the 15 most indebted developing nations would result in a 25-per-cent increase in their national incomes over the next five years . |
| 10 | NATIONAL Savings toppled all its previous records in the last financial year-attracting £7.57 billion in savings . |
| 11 | However , she lingered until June 1876 , preserving her mental powers to the last , before dying in Birmingham . |
| 12 | Solihull ladies ' guild , formed in 1964 , was made into a branch in October last year , thus admitting men through its hallowed portals for the first time ! |
| 13 | Since factors incur their major costs in the first year of dealing with a new client and make their best returns the longer the relationship lasts this is an area they must continue to address . |
| 14 | This would help protect Jaguar from fluctuations in the dollar-sterling exchange rate — the principal factor behind the collapse in its pre-tax profits in the first half of the year to £1.2m . |
| 15 | That either man was capable of summoning any more drama after their extraordinary efforts in the 10th , which will be remembered as one of the most astonishing rounds in heavyweight history , was remarkable in itself . |
| 16 | The 1992 UN conference on the environment could be the right place for an analytical look at what the world needs to do to ensure that it can feed its vulnerable populations in the next country . |
| 17 | Some local education authorities reorganised their primary schools on the first and middle school pattern recommended by Plowden ( eg Surrey , Isle of Wight , Suffolk ) , but the great majority continued to follow the established 5 — 7 , 7 — 11 pattern . |
| 18 | Dalmatian sailors served in many fleets — with the Spanish Armada , with the Dutch , the English and the French during the period of their colonial rivalries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , with the Venetians during the heyday of the maritime republic , and even with the Americans during the War of Independence . |
| 19 | Where great houses , from the middle ages into the seventeenth century , had been built to contain a single household in an ordered hierarchy beneath one roof , their classical counterparts in the eighteenth century and Regency became increasingly an expression of stratification into two quite distinct classes , though as yet on nothing like the scale of the grand Victorian house . |
| 20 | Much has been written about the ageing of Western populations and its economic consequences but few realise the extent of demographic change and its full implications into the twenty-first century . |
| 21 | I hope you still support firemen through their troubled times in the next few months . |
| 22 | ‘ Fiona of Burnham ’ and ‘ Morning All ’ both headed their respective classes for the second time , while the Contessa 32 ‘ Space ’ ( R Brooking and P Trudgett , HPYC ) could feel extremely satisfied with a second and a third to show for her weekend efforts . |
| 23 | But the phenomenal surge of Angevin power way beyond its familiar frontiers in the mid-twelfth century inevitably left behind a trail of disappointed and resentful men . |
| 24 | It 's a tall order as the descendants of England 's patron saint will be hot favourites to repeat their overwhelming victories of the last two seasons and lift the Triple Crown when the Welsh invade Twickenham in March . |
| 25 | Chester and Wigan should know their prospective opponents at the last 32 stage of the British Gas ESFA Trophy before the start of their third round tie at Overleigh on Saturday . |
| 26 | Abolitionists had to face the fact that for many of their fellow countrymen during the next thirty years open public meetings continued to have this resonance . |
| 27 | Just as the inhabitants of the barrios here defend their pathetic shanties to the last , defying the well-meaning efforts of the authorities to relocate them , so the poor in intellect cling to whatever feeble idea they have been able to fashion out of the odds and ends they have foraged . |
| 28 | For Bury was an Army Town ; not like Aldershot or Pirbright : just a modest place which had , at one point in its life , slowly bled to death from the loss of its young men in the First World War . |
| 29 | Thrush Green was an ideal place to play , and I set about moving my dolls along their allotted paths during the next few years . |
| 30 | In the second recitative of La mort de Didon ( book 1 , C.1709 ) an unexpected F major chord following a D minor cadence and a dramatic pause underline Dido 's exclamation ‘ Perfidious lover ! ’ admirably , and the account of her final moments in the next recitative is several times articulated in the same sensitive manner . |