Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [num] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the reason that rents in Cambridge are higher than in those in surrounding areas , or the eight that the councillor is talking about is because the rent levels which er the government require us to raise to are historically based on right to buy values and as he knows as well as I do , house prices in Cambridge have been relatively consistently higher than they have in surrounding areas . |
| 2 | Now , he does think that the one and the mind is present to every one of us , erm , but I also take it that erm he er thought that he himself , had been able to ascend to the one er four times in the course of his life and that he also thought that some of his students were of better contemplation than others and erm so he may also have thought as Plato did , that some people are more inclined towards philosophy than others . |
| 3 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 4 | As he told county councillors , the service had not been comprehensively reviewed since the Seventies and the job it is required to do has altered considerably with time notably , more of the work is to do with helping at road traffic accidents . |
| 5 | RAF Swinderby was ‘ contractorised ’ as far back as the 1960s because the ending of National Service led to a shortage of cooks and stewards and now ther are probably about a score of units which work a mainly 9–5 day , or where the numbers are fairly small , that may be most suitable for ‘ contractorising ’ . |