Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PGL had a run of four successive titles broken by the NIBA last year and our hoping to get back on the rails in Dublin next month . |
| 2 | Loudspeakers will be lowered into the water from a pilot boat , and the whales will be played recordings made off the Azores last year by a Bangor University marine biologist , John Goold . |
| 3 | No less than three UIA work groups met in the UK last year — the Public Health group met in London at the time of the International Hospital Federation conference ; the Region 1 Habitat group met in Birmingham ; and the Architecture in Primary Schools group 2 as associated with the successful BET event in Cambridge . |
| 4 | The solicitors at the end of the chain are asked to release their contract for a specified period of time to the solicitors acting for the buyer next in line . |
| 5 | The keys crashed to the floor next to Gedanken ; the piece of paper followed , slowly fluttering from side to side like a snowflake . |
| 6 | ‘ Her parents moved into the house next door . |
| 7 | Of 24,200 workers thrown on the dole last month , more than half were from the once prosperous region . |
| 8 | But there is a limit to how much further they can go before passing on the additional costs created by the devaluation last September , and inflation is likely to edge higher after next month . |
| 9 | Moreover he persuaded his father to agree that if the terms imposed on the rebels last summer were not acceptable to them now — as obviously they were not — then they would be granted a fresh hearing in the King 's court . |
| 10 | For this reason one or more indexes may be used in a hierarchy , with the lowest-level index pointing to records while higher-level indices point to the index next below them . |
| 11 | State banks , much to their chagrin , have been ordered to provide cheap insurance for pilgrims to Mecca : some 800 Indonesians died in the haj last year . |
| 12 | The chosen interior frames go on the wall first , including any required end panel . |
| 13 | Children will have great fun choosing which sweets to pick off the house first . |
| 14 | Los Angeles , California-based Tiger Media , the multimedia authoring start-up , has gone down the tubes : its venture capitalists sold off the assets last month to New Hampshire-based AimTech Inc , a PC company . |
| 15 | The first neighbours knew of what had happened was when police broke into the house last night . |
| 16 | The first neighbours knew of what had happened was when police broke into the house last night . |
| 17 | Results announced in the bar last night gave Clinton 389 votes , George Bush 341 and Ross Perot 88 . |
| 18 | Doyle dived to one side as four quick shots spurted from the ground next to his foot . |
| 19 | Prosecutors may try to present videotape of the test explosion as evidence in the trial of four men charged with the bombing last February that killed six people and injured more than 1,000 , New York Newsday said . |
| 20 | Ballooning was one of the five crucial issues identified by the NII last year in its initial comments on the board 's Pre-Construction Safety Report ( RSR ) . |
| 21 | Most field men call at the office first thing in the morning to collect files , planning applications or other paperwork , and to pick up clean sample bottles or other equipment . |
| 22 | Chief Superintendent Paul Green of Holborn Police said at the scene last night : ‘ The only thing that can be said about the target is that it was in one of London 's main streets at a very busy time . |
| 23 | The five bells of the cathedral ring out a weirdly charming peal : perhaps some of the bells come from the foundry next door to the nineteenth-century cathedral . |
| 24 | Some of UK regional papers appear on the bookstand first thing in the morning and , like the nationals , they are usually printed in the late evening or overnight , so the same considerations apply to the timing of the supply of information . |
| 25 | On the figures , the company says that it should achieve double digit profit growth in the year to March 1994 but will fall short of the 13.3% figure achieved in 1992-93 , because of cuts in international tariffs agreed with the government last year and expected to be implemented on July 1 this year . |
| 26 | According to TODAY 'S investigation , the Queen said Diana might feel that it was a cruel accident of birth but the boys belonged to the country first and to their parents second . |
| 27 | RUC documents sent to The Independent last month were dated June 1988 . |
| 28 | It was here that a friendly Johnny Marr , embarrassed by success , deliberately became a father figure to smaller local acts practising in the rooms next door . |
| 29 | Following the news that the IBM Corp and Apple Computer Inc PowerPC RISC effort is coming on in leaps and bounds ( UX No 384 ) , rumours floated on the airwaves last week that the first boxes built around the architecture will be out by the end of this year . |
| 30 | In theory , things can only get better ; in practice , they may well become a lot worse before Wasps return in the league next March . |