Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [conj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | State prosecutors on Sept. 24 filed a further seven counts of tax evasion against her , claiming that she had failed to pay taxes amounting to US$205 million on her income for 1985-86 and on the estate left by her late husband . |
2 | The BUF was contained by an unofficial publicity boycott in the media after 1934 and by the surveillance of the Security Service . |
3 | And the other game in group A , Bolton have pulled a goal back against Brescia , it 's now one apiece , for Brescia after three and with the equalizer on thirty nine . |
4 | Where the death happens after 12/11/74 but before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , the termination of his interest is not a chargeable transfer . |
5 | ( b ) If the death takes place after 12/11/74 and before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , any estate duty is to be claimed under the said Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) or ( ii ) , but the duty is payable at CTT rates , any agricultural relief is given on full estate duty terms , there is no timber relief but taper relief can be claimed , and in the case of a surviving spouse the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , can apply ; and the persons accountable for the duty in terms of Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , can pay such as relates to qualifying property by instalments . |
6 | The Labour Party has remained a problem for socialists , as the experience of Labour in government after 1966 and over the period 1979 rather confirmed . |
7 | In talks with leaders from the Baltic states on Sept. 10 the Soviet Defence Minister , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , maintained that Soviet troops would not be able to leave until after 1994 because of the problem of housing troops in the Soviet Union . |
8 | To what extent this is the case is a matter for debate ; however , the fact that trade with the developing nations is intended to play some part is indicated by the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1981–5 and for the Period Ending in 1990 adopted at the 26th CPSU Congress in 1981 , which envisage ‘ [ the development ] , on a long-term and equitable basis , [ of a ] mutually beneficial exchange of goods … with developing countries ’ ( in Koshelev : 1982 , pp. 8–9 ) . |
9 | However , in terms of the Act of 1980 and in the light of what has been stated above , the school 's admission criteria still played a part in the panel 's deliberations . |
10 | The decision was made purely in terms of the Act of 1980 and in the light of what has been stated above , the school 's admission criteria . |
11 | He continued his researches with vigour , having learned to drive a car at the age of seventy-five and despite the amputation of a leg three years later . |
12 | Why do the live birth figures for the last two quarters of 1985 and for the whole of 1985 appear as rounded thousands ? |
13 | Much of this turnround is accounted for by the decision to close the Bar Practising Library at the end of 1991 and by the disposal of its assets . |
14 | After the first Education Act of 1870 and until the end of the nineteenth century , control of schools and their curricula was exercised through the enforcement of public education codes by regular inspectorial visits mainly for the purpose of testing pupils in prescribed activities . |
15 | ( a ) The ground of the unsuitability of the applicant applies not only to the actual applicant but also , where the applicant is not an individual person , to the person named in the application as the person to be responsible for the day-to-day running of the premises under the provisions of 5.11 and to the person on whose behalf or for whose benefit the premises are run . |
16 | The issue is a narrow one , namely whether on the true construction of section 9(4) of the Act of 1975 and in the light of the facts that ( a ) Dr. Hayes was a servant of the Crown at the time when he made his investigation into the Lockerbie disaster , ( b ) he has since retired from the service of the Crown , and ( c ) that the evidence sought relates to what he discovered when acting as such a servant , the court has any power to make the order sought . |
17 | The two men met in Toledo in the spring of 1087 and with the exception of El Cid 's old enemies , there was general rejoicing from those who believed that if Rodrigo had commanded the army at Sagrajas the outcome would have been different . |
18 | A protocol was signed , however , preserving economic ties into the first quarter of 1992 and with the aim of guaranteeing over that period deliveries of the equivalent of 70 per cent of first quarter deliveries in 1991 . |
19 | In support of their view , Belgium and Greece also referred to article 5(1) of the Convention of 1958 and to the Convention of 1982 . |
20 | Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth . |
21 | Women smokers are at just as much risk as men and at even greater risk if over the age of thirty-five and on the pill . |
22 | He knocked down McGuire for a count of nine and on the break from the subsequent clinch McGuire hit him in the adam 's apple . |
23 | But bravely Close hauled himself up at the count of nine and by the end of the round he was back to his old self . |
24 | However , the Department ( of Education and Science ) had little information about the working of the Act in this phase of education and offered no information about the numbers of children who may be receiving special education under the age of five nor of the number of children who might be the subject of statements below school age . |
25 | I want to move out of one and into the other . |
26 | To attempt to meet this situation the Commons passed an amendment by a majority of one and against the wish of the Labour Government . |
27 | That meant Argentinian shoppers were paying roughly 30 times more for the same basket of goods at the end of 1989 than at the beginning of the year . |
28 | We had them out for 66 and by the tea interval we were 42 for 0 . |
29 | Nylon carpet is basically oil based , which gave the Americans a significant advantage until 1980 because of the cheapness of their oil . |
30 | A strong force behind her husband 's career , she was the first woman chairman of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations in 1926 , a member of the Church Assembly 's house of laity from 1925 and of the archbishop 's commission on church and state ( 1930–5 ) , and succeeded her husband as a BBC governor . |