Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tournament is again a Belfast Telegraph copyright , and one of 12 in a European Seniors ' calendar now worth over £800,000 in prize-money . |
| 2 | This incongruity was exposed in the spring of 1963 during a famous miners ' strike . |
| 3 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 4 | The punishment for this crime was to be docked his best wave , so his tally would be reduced to three against the other surfers ' four . |
| 5 | Transfer can not be ordered where an Act or statutory instrument other than the 1981 Rules , eg s 17 of the Married Women 's Property Act 1982 , requires the matter to be commenced in a particular court ( Ord 16 , r 3 ) . |
| 6 | Such notice might also be given in an originating application under s 17 of the Married Women 's Property Act 1882 . |
| 7 | COPPES was first formed in September 1980 in the two men 's prisons which held Political prisoners and in the Women 's Prison at Ilopango . |
| 8 | All of this effort was successful and after further work the locomotive may be in steam next weekend , Saturday , September 5 and Sunday September 6 during a special Children 's Weekend . |
| 9 | British-born Russell won by scores of 118-110 , 120-107 and 117-110 on the three judges ' cards after fighting from close quarters to negate Murphy 's height and reach advantages . |
| 10 | Mr Benn got 38 of the 221 MPs ' votes cast in 1988 and , he ruefully noted this week , a much worse press . |
| 11 | In accordance with the recommendation of the Select Committee of The House of Commons ‘ on Foreign Office reconstruction' ’ , made in their Report , dated 13th July last , ‘ ‘ that a preference should be given to the successful competitors in the erection of the New Foreign Office , it is the intention of the Government to employ as the architect of the proposed building , in the event of the necessary funds being voted by Parliament in the ensuing Session , Mr. George Gilbert Scott , one of the successful competitors ' ’ . |
| 12 | Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country . |
| 13 | The bell of St Mary Le Bow began to toll the curfew , the sign that all trading should cease , as four urchins pulled a huge yule log up to the door of one of the great merchants ' houses . |
| 14 | He 's not standing this time and has been replaced by one of the Liberal Democrats ' top backroom boys Sir William Goodhart . |
| 15 | One of the Liberal Democrats ' best chances of winning a new seat in next week 's general election lies in Hereford . |
| 16 | The last few years they had been more apart , until in 1969 they both rediscovered each other in one of the first Women 's Liberation groups in London . |
| 17 | It remains a mystery to me why we should have had to wait as long as this for a recital disc , and why it should not have appeared on one of the major companies ' labels ( all credit to Delos ) . |
| 18 | HARD-PRESSED inner city comprehensive schools are likely to lose thousands of pounds a year under government plans to devolve financial management to heads , one of the largest teachers ' unions warns today . |
| 19 | He was sent to the remote town of Weewak — scene of one of the Japanese forces ' final stands in World War II — where a new European Hospital was being built to help the impoverished natives . |
| 20 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him . |
| 21 | Of the remaining three practices , one contributed for all but one of the 12 months ' data collection period , one supplied data for 10 out of 12 months , and one supplied data for eight months only . |
| 22 | Mr. J. C. Moult now became Vice-Chairman , and Mr. W.A. Kershaw was elected as one of the Old Stopfordians ' nominees on the Governing body . |
| 23 | One of the numerous tradesmen 's debating clubs of market-town life , the White Hart Evening Club , provided the first forum for what became an increasingly devastating critique of the corruption of English government , and Paine was the most frequent recipient of the Headstrong Book , given to the most obstinate debater at each meeting . |
| 24 | The film was based on a saucy Twenties stage comedy by Robert Munro , better known as the late comedian Sonnie Hale , and it was not one of the Boulting Brothers ' best , despite the presence of some great British character actors . |
| 25 | Fifty-two people were killed when shells slammed into a makeshift hospital in the enclave , one of the United Nations 's six ‘ safe areas ’ for Bosnia 's Slavic Muslims . |
| 26 | As I walked past my contemporary ‘ transgressors ’ , cloaked in the anonymity of the backpack , I felt strangely more at one with the old lags ' displaced condition than with the multi-hued raincoated and umbrella-ed Glaswegian families queuing to go aboard the Waverley paddle steamer for their day ‘ doon the watter ’ to Rothesay . |
| 27 | The amateurs from head office took to the boards on May 11–13 for the Black Friars ' latest production . |
| 28 | In 1989 only two of the Progressive Democrats ' six TDs were elected by votes given exclusively to their party . |
| 29 | Later , two of the lower men 's seeds lost : Adrian Davies , of Wales , and Bryan Beeson , of England . |
| 30 | In an effort to boost agricultural exports , the Economy Minister reached a " fiscal pact " with two of the main farmers ' organizations , the Argentine Rural Society ( SRA ) and the Argentine Rural Confederation ( CRA ) , on March 18 . |