Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 Maintaining his hold on the attacker , the defender uses his block to pull the attacker onto a rising knee to the stomach . |
| 2 | Assumptions 1 and 2 embody our characterization of the open shop union . |
| 3 | The leaders of Kazakhstan and the Central Asian republics ( Kirgizstan ( formerly Kirghizia ) , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan ( formerly Turkmenia ) , and Uzbekistan ) , met in Askhabad in Turkmenistan on Dec. 12 to discuss their reaction to the Minsk declaration . |
| 4 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 5 | However , Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk had signed a decree on Dec. 12 appointing himself commander of the estimated 1,200,000 Soviet troops in Ukraine , and on Dec. 17 , following a vote in the republican Supreme Soviet , Azerbaijan 's President Ayaz Mutalibov declared himself Commander-in-Chief of the " non-strategic " military forces stationed in Azerbaijan . |
| 6 | The British Bankers Association endorsed this conclusion , and the CML leant its voice to the chorus of opposition . |
| 7 | The Supreme Court , in a seven to one vote on Sept. 10 , declined to suspend the impeachment proceedings but gave Collor until Sept 22 to prepare his defence before the Chamber of Deputies , which had given him until Sept. 15 to address it . |
| 8 | Le Monde of Dec. 15 , 1990 , also reported that the PCF-dominated trade union organization , the Confédération générale du travail ( CGT ) would from March 1991 lose its control of the trade union structure of the nationalized Renault vehicle manufacturing company for the first time since 1945 . |
| 9 | The six received their awards from the Celebrities Guild of Great Britain at London 's Royal Garden Hotel . |
| 10 | The saucy six RUN their hands up the men 's legs just as they are about to make a vital shot . |
| 11 | Edward III began his reign at the age of fourteen as the protégé of the queen mother and her ambitious collaborator , Mortimer , but their grip on affairs was quickly loosened by the manner and policy of their government . |
| 12 | 29 aircraft claimed to have bombed the city , 21 brought their bombs back having failed to locate their targets and six jettisoned their loads in the sea . |
| 13 | The islands ' governing Legislative Council on Oct. 26 repeated its protest to the UK government at its exclusion from the ongoing talks , and voted not to co-operate with any plan reached with Argentina until the islanders were assured of a protected 200-mile limit for their own use . |
| 14 | Other wardens were from time to time granted leave by Henry III to postpone their accounts at the Exchequer , and he remitted the debts of others . |
| 15 | It 's fun to see the no-nonsense , motor-bike-riding heroine beating up on the men in true fantasy-heroic style , but her attempts to encourage her young protege in self-defence end in disaster , making the messages it gives out totally confused and its solutions seeming no more realistic than Ms 45 storing her rapist in the fridge and blowing male scum off the street . |
| 16 | A later Act of 1819 gave it jurisdiction over the exercise of common rights in the New Forest . |
| 17 | European markets were further unsettled in early September by monetary developments in Finland and Sweden , both of which were applicants for EC membership [ see pp. 38834 ; 38353 ] and both of which — following a similar step by Norway [ see p. 37782 ] — had in 1991 associated their currencies with the ERM [ see pp. 38297 ; 38202 ] . |
| 18 | By the end of the decade more than 1,200 had their snouts in the trough . |
| 19 | After he had completed his apprenticeship he went out to India as manager of the Fort Gloster mills , but after three years returned to Glasgow and in 1838 joined his father in the manufacture of steam-engine accessories . |
| 20 | In Northern Ireland in 1988 , while 1105 companies were subject to quota legislation , only 298 met their obligations under the Act . |
| 21 | But she won at their game , splitting the party in 1969 to assert her supremacy over the bosses — and she was vindicated when voters gave her a huge majority . |
| 22 | More disasters followed , when it was found that the track had been laid slightly out-of-gauge , and all of the new cars 27–41 broke their axles in the first two weeks . |
| 23 | The top five retained their relative positions , but the top three increased their distance from the pack — Digital Equipment Corp was the only top company to experience a decrease in revenues , which slid from $1bn to $800m . |
| 24 | The Foundation 's Annual Report for 1946 outlined its policy on the aged poor : ‘ As machines replace muscles as the motive force , the possibilities of extending useful employment could bring new purpose and new hope to those who have reluctantly accustomed themselves to being a burden ’ ( p. 47 ) In that year the Foundation founded the Nuffield Research Unit into Problems of Ageing , at the University of Cambridge , with the purpose of studying ‘ those changes of human performance in middle and old age likely to have a bearing upon capacity for work in industry ’ ( Nuffield Foundation 1953b : 160 ) , a ten-year project . |
| 25 | J.B. Estlin , the Unitarian friendly to the Garrisonians , responded from Bristol to Chamerovzow 's openness and in April 1853 gave his support to the BFASS , though Richard Webb remained sceptical of the possibilities of real co-operation . |
| 26 | All three deposit their surveys at the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex , but the data arrives in a form that can be quite hard to read , and it can take several months for the Archive to be able to supply even small amounts of the raw data in a form usable on most college computers . |
| 27 | Steve Whitton and Dalian Atkinson were Wednesday 's discoverers of the lost art ; Luton 's hero was their £900,000 Danish acquisition , Lars Elstrup , who scored three following his double in the first leg . |
| 28 | I was a flight mech on the Tiffies of CFE at Tangmere when I watched this ‘ 109 wobbling its way across the grass . |
| 29 | Youngsters aged between 14 and 18 made their bids for the title of Cleveland 's Young Consumer of the Year at Middlesbrough town hall last night . |
| 30 | Fresh from his defeat in the gubernatorial election in Louisiana in November [ see p. 38566 ] , David Duke on Dec. 4 announced his candidature for the Republican nomination . |