Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Rotherham , for example , there is one inspector or adviser to every 106 teachers , against one to every 313 in Leeds . |
| 2 | There may be the possibility of partial substitution or compensation among the four factors identified earlier — expertise , ability , personal qualities and skills — in the case of particular graduates and graduate jobs . |
| 3 | The 500 tons were not specific goods because , in the words of Lord Hanworth M.R. ‘ There was no ascertainment or identification of the 500 tons out of the cargo in bulk . ’ |
| 4 | Neither may it appoint anyone who is or may have been a member , officer or employee of a local authority or voluntary organisation and who has in that capacity been directly concerned with arrangements for the child 's care , accommodation or welfare during the five years before the proceedings . |
| 5 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 6 | A Department of Employment survey in 1988 of individuals attending courses or receiving job-related training , found that just 4.5 per cent of economically active men aged 50–59 and 1.9 per cent of those aged 60–64 had received some form of course or training in the four weeks prior to the interview . |
| 7 | Observers took away the implication of a combination or merger between the two consortia . |
| 8 | A Friedman non-parametric analysis of variance and subsequent analysis with the Wilcoxon signed rank test of the number of missing entries for each patient for each type of diary showed that more sessions were missed in the evening than in the morning for both the written ( p<0.05 ) and electronic diaries ( p<0.001 ) , but differences for neither evening nor morning in the two forms of record keeping were significant . |
| 9 | Whatever the precise total , it is through these waters — found north and south of the 13,235 uninterrupted miles separating Malaysia from Colombia , and east and west of the 9,600 miles lying between Big Diomede Island in the Bering Strait and the Cape Adare in Antarctica — that the axis of the world , some would have us believe , is now turning . |
| 10 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 11 | ‘ Listen , if I was n't just John Dyson , but The John Dyson , people would n't even waste their time asking me to do ten-guinea talks for the Overseas Service — they 'd know I 'd be fully occupied doing pieces for Playboy and Esquire at a thousand dollars a time , and going on television at a hundred guineas an appearance . |
| 12 | I 'd like it separate , but there 's a common bathroom and kitchen between the two flats . |
| 13 | THE CAUSES AND PROGRESS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR |
| 14 | The explanation and defence of the three theses is preceded by an introductory section defending the general approach to the analysis of authority adopted here , and introducing some of the themes which are explored in greater detail later in the essay . |
| 15 | Table 10.1 presents some estimates of differences in average levels of labour productivity and income in the six republics and two autonomous provinces of Yugoslavia in 1986 . |
| 16 | The marriage , and the recruitment and endowment of the two Rhinelanders , had the same purpose : Charles wanted to strengthen his general position in the part of Francia which was to constitute the northeastern sector of his kingdom . |
| 17 | The meeting ended with only broad agreement on enhancing trade and investment between the two regions . |
| 18 | Sandys would have liked to have unified the policy direction and command of the three Services as part of his Reformation . |
| 19 | Nicaragua had previously respected the 1858 Treaty , and the Court emphasised that the past and future of the two Republics were ‘ tightly bound together ’ . |
| 20 | The agreement and friendship between the two men was sealed when the Ukrainians insisted in the toasts being drunk in the special pepper vodka they had brought from home for just such an occasion . |
| 21 | In 1914 the Manor was purchased by a body of British subscribers and presented to the peoples of Britain and the United States of America in celebration of 100 years peace and friendship between the two nations . |
| 22 | Her knowledge of and friendship with the two women also enable her to describe what life was like from their point of view . |
| 23 | Interviews with teachers combined with observation of their work in classrooms will be used to explore differences in all three of these aspects as they affect both professional attitudes and practice in the two countries . |
| 24 | Failure to do this would have created serious problems for both the generation of a reliable multiplier factor and comparability between the two samples . |
| 25 | When TB was first found in the herd in 1986 , Ministry of Agriculture trapping and testing of the 200 badgers in the area around the farm showed 20% of them carried TB . |
| 26 | He was the eldest of the three sons and second of the four children of another Henry Elsynge , merchant tailor of the same parish , who died in 1582 , and his wife Frances , the daughter of Edmund Browne , also a merchant tailor of St Dunstan 's . |
| 27 | , Patrick Henry ( 1879–1916 ) , teacher , journalist , poet , and Irish revolutionary , was born 10 November 1879 in Dublin , the elder son and second of the four children of James Pearse , stone carver , of London , Birmingham , and Dublin , and his second wife Margaret , shop assistant , one of two surviving daughters of Patrick Brady , coal factor , of Dublin . |
| 28 | , ( Rupert ) John ( 1915–1936 ) , poet and political activist , was born in Cambridge 27 December 1915 , the eldest son and second of the five children ( three sons and two daughters ) of Francis Macdonald Cornford [ q.v. ] , professor of ancient philosophy at Cambridge University , and his wife Frances Crofts Darwin — the poet Frances Cornford . |
| 29 | , Walter , first Baron Cunliffe ( 1855–1920 ) , merchant banker and governor of the Bank of England , was born 3 December 1855 at 29 Kensington Gate , the eldest of the four sons and second of the six children of Roger Cunliffe , merchant banker , of Tyrrell 's Wood , Leatherhead , and his wife Ann Edge . |
| 30 | , Conrad le Despenser Roden ( 1869–1942 ) , Christian socialist , was born 12 July 1869 in Kew , the eldest son and second of the three children of the Hon. |