Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Board representation for employees by way of electing between ( at the option of the company ) one-third and one-half of the supervisory directors or , alternatively , co-optation by the supervisory board subject to control by the general meeting or employees ' representatives |
| 2 | The Wall Street Journal has called their bluff and finds that 12 of the 31 analysts that track IBM had buy recommendations on the stock on September 1 — and even after details of all the new cuts came out , only three had an outright sell recommendation on the stock , and last Tuesday morning , some were still rating it a buy . |
| 3 | Section 1 , subsection 2 of the Public Registers and Records ( Scotland ) Act , 1948 , states : |
| 4 | This showed that management awareness profiles were circulated to the staff in 30 of the 34 units that answered the relevant question . |
| 5 | The NSDAP gained only 43 of the 72 seats and polled less than 60 per cent of the vote . |
| 6 | The status quo was maintained in 22 of the 26 councils and the balance of power really only shifted markedly in one : Limavady , where nationalists gained from Unionists . |
| 7 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 8 | They initiated a campaign embracing twenty-four counties and eleven of the largest towns and cities in which petitioning was combined with parliamentary initiatives . |
| 9 | It is also apparent that the cities have suffered as a result of the abolition in 1986 of the metropolitan counties and the Greater London Council . |
| 10 | The report could guide UK chemistry teaching into the 21st century , yet it allows children to be taught without atoms or molecules for eight of the 11 years that it covers . |
| 11 | The car 's reliability increased immeasurably and Hunt finished eight of the fourteen races and scored a total of 33 points . |
| 12 | In parliamentary elections on March 24 , 1988 [ see p. 36040 ] , the Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party ( GSLP ) won eight of the elective seats and the Gibraltar Labour Party-Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( GLP-AACR ) the remaining seven . |
| 13 | In a general election on March 24 , 1988 [ see p. 36040 ] , the GSLP won eight of the elective seats and the GLP-AACR the remaining seven . |
| 14 | The British units have already shed 1,730 of the 5,500 workers that they employed before going into receivership at the start of February . |
| 15 | Marked differences also existed in their relationships with the father of their children : less than two-thirds of the ex-care women but all the comparison women were living with the father of their child . |
| 16 | It seemed to his slow , sleep-sodden mind , that there were hundreds of the horrid things and that they were all bearing down on him , a rushing curtain of green and gold and brown , with here and there wild , menacing eyes and reaching , clutching hands that were not hands at all , but nasty , skeletal twigs . |
| 17 | During the week that this correspondence was taking place , tenders for the Foreign Office were received from thirteen of the fifteen builders and , as arranged , they were displayed alongside Scott 's drawings . |
| 18 | It said 1,200 of the 1,700 employees that left during the quarter did so after voluntarily accepting severance packages , and it expects more departures as the job-cutting programme spreads to new countries . |
| 19 | This was done electively in 10 of the 11 patients because of a prolonged procedure time caused by excessive stone burden or difficult stone extraction . |
| 20 | A Cabinet reshuffle announced on Nov. 25 involved 10 of the existing ministers and the appointment of one new minister . |
| 21 | Instead it was left to Times Newspapers Ltd and others , to bring the case to court and win on the grounds that the library authorities had abused their powers under Section 7 of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 . |
| 22 | There would be 12 judges ( six from the Czech Lands and six from Slovakia ) appointed by the President upon the proposal of the Federal Assembly Presidium , having been chosen from 24 proposed by the legislative bodies ( eight by the federal and eight by each national parliament ) . |
| 23 | It has recently acquired a fine new harbour , and for those who prefer the delights of the countryside to those of the waterfront , several footpaths lead iii to the adjacent meadows and woodlands . |
| 24 | Undoubtedly one of the most important milestones in the Nicol career was his selection for the Scottish tour to North American in May 1991 , during which he played in three of the six games and scored a try in each one : ‘ That really was the start of things . |
| 25 | A big erm , funnily enough , although three of the other chaps that were involved in , erm , one of them really upset me cos they run up together , he was navigator on together . |
| 26 | I 'll come up with two or three of the other men and knock on the door . |
| 27 | Hundreds of crates of beer were stacked against three of the whitewashed walls but the fourth , and longest , wall was hidden behind rows of wooden racks lined with bottles of both local and imported wines . |
| 28 | McMahon was involved in the build-up to three of the four goals and also came out a clear winner in what was , at times , a bad-tempered midfield confrontation with Batty and McAllister . |
| 29 | What was very noticeable about three of the four survivors and about Jean Henderson as recalled by her daughter , was immense enthusiasm for the work . |
| 30 | It is now possible to access the database from all three of the participating institutions and call up information as well as visual images on screen simultaneously . |