Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The re-formed Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS ) won 10.8 per cent and the Communist Refoundation ( RC ) 3.5 per cent , their combined vote being well below the 19.4 per cent for the Communist Party ( PCI ) in 1986 . |
| 2 | If the number 1 lefthand light is on for the 580 and the modular electronics and the number 1 righthand light on for earlier machines , then as we saw last month the first stitch of the pattern will fall to the right of the N1 cam , that is on needle number 14 to the left of centre . |
| 3 | The total UK repossession figure is now around the 70,000 mark . |
| 4 | Rather , the analogy was perhaps with the 1915 coalition , a government supported by the Liberal , Conservative , and Labour parties with definite but limited wartime objectives . |
| 5 | No great number of people need have been directly engaged in ironmaking , for the Wealden industry was still in the 1520s no more than poised on the threshold of greatness , with only three blast furnaces in operation , and indeed the original one at Newbridge standing idle without a tenant . |
| 6 | Its heyday was round about the 1930s and not all that many pure examples of it are being published today , though there are enough to make it a possible type of book to write if you are strongly inclined this way . |
| 7 | The big boys of power boating were here in the two litre class … using the same engines as the Formula One racers but without the extra tweaking . |
| 8 | The movement remains remarkably strong : despite all that the government and economic collapse have done , TUC membership is still above the ten million mark , and many unions enjoy the loyalty and energetic commitment of tens of thousands of active members . |
| 9 | Sadly the whole evening tends to confirm just how single-handed Callas ' achievement was back in the Fifties . |
| 10 | Sadly the whole evening tends to confirm just how single-handed Callas ' achievement was back in the Fifties . |
| 11 | Now that he considered it , Turakina 's expression when she stared at the offworlder was exactly like the one Alexai used when he was looking at Burun . |
| 12 | And she also noticed straightaway that the open fire feeding an oven to one side and a water boiler to the other was very like the one Sister Cecilia had introduced her to . |
| 13 | What is even more significant for wage profiles is that all of the figures quoted for average tenure are well below the 25–30 years that it takes to reach the peak of the earnings profile . |
| 14 | For all the others there had to be a process of acquiring sign after the age of 15 years , with the average being somewhere in the mid-20s . |
| 15 | But the , you see if you look in the , I have information off the Birmingham secretary , er Secretary 's secretary , she was involved , she even was imprisoned in Switzerland erm when the peace movement was on between the two wars , and that was when they were , I believe it was a German woman that er that was on , you know in the committee , but I 'll have to refer to the Caring and Sharing book . |
| 16 | And then it was clearly seen er that not only were the changes in the , the er financial er arrangements for the introduction of the bonus scheme , with the introduction of a further fourpence and hour , with the introduction of the time factor on the job , as opposed to them starting , we 'll say , round about forty seven , forty eight , forty nine percent , the movement was then into the fifty percent bracket , fifty five percent . |
| 17 | There were Fred , aged 70 , and Betty , aged 66 , who embarked on a trial relationship in defiance of the prevailing belief that sex is only for the under-35s . |
| 18 | In reality , the choice is up to the five countries with permanent seats on the Security Council — America , Britain , China , France and the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | The true form was somewhere between the two . |
| 20 | The winner is still in the 2,000 Guineas but will not run and his trainer Alex Scott says we shall see him next over at least 10 furlongs . |
| 21 | There may even yet be reason , as Whitty ( 1989 ) claims , to be ‘ thankful that the National Curriculum is there as the one remaining symbol of a common education system and specifiable entitlement which people can struggle collectively to improve ’ . |
| 22 | The FAO 's new estimate of 15.4 million hectares a year is down from the 16.9 million hectare estimate presented at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , but well above the 11.4 million hectare estimate of 1980 . |
| 23 | The correct way to cut this type of joint is right through the two points where the sections of border intersect , although care must be exercised to avoid marking the main wallcovering where it would show . |
| 24 | Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work . |
| 25 | I am afraid that the Labour party is still in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 26 | What connection is there between the two events ? ’ |
| 27 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |