Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year the workshop session that followed Mr Barker 's presentation revealed that most publishers appeared to know very little about the financial realities of retailing . |
| 2 | Again , I remember a great many rehearsals , sixty or seventy each for the first performances of the Bach or the Beethoven . |
| 3 | In December 1697 a civil list of £700,000 a year was established , which , for the first time , distinguished between money provided for defence purposes and that for the other expenses of government . |
| 4 | One can only speculate on the implications of that for the last years of life and , in particular , for the acceptance of tending roles . |
| 5 | The WO then further subdivides this for the eight counties of Wales . |
| 6 | Can I go back to , I know I keep on harping back , but this about the actual designs of the light fittings , erm you 've told me that erm invariably the ceiling er lighting position was fixed by , being in the centre unless it was an open plan |
| 7 | They 've been described by some as the ugliest dogs in the world . |
| 8 | A more general argument takes up the reference by Gramsci to the ‘ semi-colonial market ’ and develops the concept of ‘ internal colonialism ’ , which has had widespread application to areas as different from one another as the peripheral regions of Great Britain , the black homelands in South Africa , Alaska and the Amerindian areas of Central and South America . |
| 9 | Our sixty-four arrests included a few for the traditional crimes of burglary ( but now at chemist 's shops ) , forgery ( but of NHS prescriptions , not bank notes ) , as well as the new offences of unlawful possession of amphetamine or LSD . |
| 10 | Another man said that Portadown had been expecting something like this after the recent attacks in Lurgan . |
| 11 | They concluded that because approximately half of the 5 gigatons of carbon released into the atmosphere each year by the consumption of fossil fuel remains in the atmosphere , the world temperature has already been affected . |
| 12 | Built with French technology , the Caju plant will process half of the 1,120 tons of rubbish collected daily in the Brazilian city into 600 tons of an organic compost known as fertilube . |
| 13 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 14 | The problem has become acute with the decision of the Welsh Synod that up to half of the Anglican churches in Wales may be closed . |
| 15 | Over half of the 45 heads of state or government , including King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt , failed to attend the gathering and were represented instead by deputies . |
| 16 | Half of the 4,650 strikes in 1937 ( involving two million workers ) were over union recognition . |
| 17 | Thus , whereas more than half of the straightforward deliveries of ‘ ordinary ’ books were made within 10 minutes , in the case of early or rare books only 45% of straightforward deliveries from the Main Building took under 20 minutes , and nearly half ( 47% ) took more than 35 minutes . |
| 18 | However , our conservation laws tell us that we can achieve just half of the total permutations of corners and edges , just half of the total flips of edges and just one-third of the total twists of corners , so we can achieve just one-twelfth of the above numbers , yielding 43 252 003 274 489 856 000 possible patterns for the cube . |
| 19 | However , our conservation laws tell us that we can achieve just half of the total permutations of corners and edges , just half of the total flips of edges and just one-third of the total twists of corners , so we can achieve just one-twelfth of the above numbers , yielding 43 252 003 274 489 856 000 possible patterns for the cube . |
| 20 | The Norwich Union Coastwatch UK survey found that almost half of the 2,185 kilometres of coastline surveyed by 6,000 volunteers showed evidence of litter and pollution . |
| 21 | Many sixth-formers , of course , left a maintained school to go on to universities , but only 10 per cent of these went to Oxford or Cambridge , compared with nearly half of the university-bound sixth-formers from the Public Schools . |
| 22 | But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties . |
| 23 | More than half of the comprehensive schools in existence by 1968 were of the orthodox 11–18 variety , and most arrangements were crystallizing around the approved versions of 10/65 . |
| 24 | Only half of the 110 students on the BA ( Hons ) Business Studies course have found an employer willing to take them on . |
| 25 | Similarly , small firm independence is eroded by the fact that over half of the raw materials to be processed are obtained from the buyer and nearly one-third of subcontractors use the buyers trademark . |
| 26 | But there is some duplication in the figures of government revenues , because in the years covered by the table about half of the gross revenues of the republics and provinces was transferred to the federation ( where it again appears as revenue ) . |
| 27 | Southern clubs make up less than half of the 20 sides in the league . |
| 28 | It is estimated that half of the 700,000 lakes in the six eastern provinces of Canada ( south of 52 °N ) have alkalinity ( acid neutralizing capacity ) values below 50 µ eq/l , that is , they are extremely acid sensitive . |
| 29 | Just over half of the 97,000 tons of English coastal shipping in 1709 belonged to the ports of Scarborough , Whitby , Newcastle , Yarmouth and King 's Lynn — fishing , coal and corn . |
| 30 | Fewer than half of the 15 photographs of the match in the four dailies featured the ball . |