Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun pl] [vb -s] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any competitor who wins three consecutive races retains the cup , and in 1986 Terry was one race away from gaining his second cup when he was beaten by a local lad whose legs had given way just twenty yards from the finish the previous year . |
| 2 | A survey by TABS under the title Cost per Thousand Adults , Or Cost per Thousand Empty Armchairs indicates the reason for interest in the subject . |
| 3 | A one-time hater of the Japanese , the author of novels that have sold over 6 million copies tells The Bookseller how he came to want to promote understanding between east and west |
| 4 | Today , South Africa play rugby in England for the first time in nearly 23 years when a line-up containing five current internationals faces the Midlands at Leicester 's Welford Road . |
| 5 | Agents that block adenosine receptors prevent the protective effect of preconditioning whereas intracoronary infusion of adenosine or A 1 -selective agonists mimics the effect . |
| 6 | If it has that effect , it is not disputed that the rule of law applies , namely , that the release of one of two joint debtors has the effect of releasing the other . |
| 7 | Beyond the two standing figures flows the River Axe |
| 8 | Using artificial light to break up a long night into two short ones promotes the flowering of long-day plants and hinders the flowering of short-day ones . |
| 9 | He was working against the natural grain of his genius , and the fact that he went on to write two more plays suggests the triumph of will over natural capacity , of idea over sensibility . |
| 10 | For example , analysing a transaction between two skilled negotiators requires the study of the overt interaction and the identification of what each one is thinking about what he himself is doing and what his opponent is probably thinking about in the context of what he is saying ( Singleton , 1983a ) . |
| 11 | Whichever of the two main parties forms the government of the early nineteen nineties , it will have to create a greater consensus in health and social care as well as other areas of our national life . |