Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons given in the next section , we remain sympathetically sceptical . |
| 2 | So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’ |
| 3 | One nil Leicester twenty four minutes completed in the second half . |
| 4 | Hungary 's exports plunged in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 5 | The Druids won on the last occasion and have retained the trophy at their Henley headquarters . |
| 6 | Because of the way in which this relief is given , the managers would wish to " front load " the losses sustained into the first year of trading , which they may be able to achieve by incurring expenditure for which capital allowances are available . |
| 7 | However , the interest is usually in the filterable or settlable solids , and these are normally determined by the methods given in the next test . |
| 8 | The district general hospital ( DGH ) units carried through the first stage of devolution of services . |
| 9 | In at least two of the areas I visited the regional health authority and some of the first wave fundholders were wrangling over the savings accrued during the first year . |
| 10 | Ratings dropped during the first week of the revamped programme , but ITN now claims this trend has been reversed . |
| 11 | Hinde House was one of ten comprehensive schools approached in the first year with a view to the launching of a school/industry partnership . |
| 12 | Those schools selected for the first quality audit in mathematics or science have recently been asked to supply 12 pieces of work from across the entire year group reflecting the spread of the ability range . |
| 13 | An example of a letter to indicative offerors selected for the second phase of the auction is set out in 1102.20 . |
| 14 | The only prohibitions were on parties which " continue the activity of the parties defeated in the Second World War " and on financing from abroad . |
| 15 | More balanced schedules were achieved by pruning the 31 000 subjects enumerated in the fourteenth edition to 4700 . |
| 16 | However , funds provided in the third category would be available only if a country 's domestic policies were adjusted to that prescribed by the Community 's Council of Ministers . |
| 17 | Difficulties determining whether or not the gall bladder was clear of stones were encountered ; indeed , four patients were thought to be free of stones at the end of the procedure only to have fragments found on the 10th day . |
| 18 | This was a land where the pursuit of illusion possessed the artists ; where awkward tries at perspective were made , and revellers in scenes of feasting were shown sitting up on one elbow , on daybeds with legs disposed for the first time in recession . |
| 19 | The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face . |
| 20 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 21 | But , of course , Dorothy knows in those particular circumstances it was not a risk — the mental parameters fixed by the first half of the lesson controlled the freedom of the second half — and any individual child who could not cope could turn it into a ‘ reporting to the boss at the manhole ’ game . |
| 22 | By 1928 some of the Party was prepared for the radical change of tactics authorized by the Sixth Comintern Congress . |
| 23 | Indeed , many of the postures struck in the 19th century have been carried through to recent times ; the belief , for example , that the educated do not enter business is still widespread , if not endemic in the national consciousness . |
| 24 | The seven other candidates eliminated in the first round included Mountaga Tall , leader of the National Committee for Democratic Initiative ( CNID ) , the second largest party in the National Assembly , with 11.41 per cent of the vote . |
| 25 | The candidates eliminated in the first round were Heide Schmidt , 43 , of the Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) , and Robert Jungk , 78 , the Green Alternative candidate . |
| 26 | Candidates eliminated in the first round included the current President , Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the PCT , and interim Prime Minister André Milongo . |
| 27 | In the zero-address computers discussed in the next section , some instructions require only an operation code field while others require an operand specification as well , so considerable variation in instruction length is possible . |
| 28 | If such is the case , it would follow that the 500-akce kadilik is a sixteenth-century invention and that in so far as 300- and 500-akce kadiliks have significance in hierarchical terms in the sense that the former ranked below the latter-they do so only in regard to the kadiliks created in the sixteenth century and later . |
| 29 | For those keen to explore , this is an ideal base from which to visit the lake 's jewel-like Borromean islands — delightful miniature attractions created in the 17th century and complete with summer palaces , art treasures and beautiful gardens . |
| 30 | Although together they made up only 8% of referrals in the year before the guidelines the reduction in barium investigation and excretion urography contributed 25% of the savings achieved in the second year . |