Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An 1894 survey by the Women 's Cooperative Guild showed that 50 per cent of working mothers left their children with grandmothers or other kin ( whom they usually paid ) , while the remainder used neighbours as childminders . |
| 2 | Her 7–1 , 7–5 victory in the women 's world indoor championships allowed local player , Wilma Le Feuvre , to count on only three ends . |
| 3 | But there is one change on the employers ' side that needs to be mirrored for employees : the abolition of the ceiling . |
| 4 | The run-off results were as follows : Acre was won by Edumundo Pinto ( Social Democratic Party — PDS ) , Amapá by Annibal Barcellos ( Liberal Front Party — PFL ) , Maranhao by Edison Lobao ( PFL ) , Mato Grosso do sul by Jaime Campos ( PFL ) , Minas Gerais by Helio Garcia ( Social Reform Party — PRS ) , Paraíba by Ronaldo Cunha Linha ( Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement — PMDB ) , Parana by Roberto Requiao ( PMDB ) , Pernambuco by Joaquim Francisco Cavalcanti ( PFL ) , Piauí by Feitas Neto ( PFL ) , Rio Grande do Norte by Agripino Maia ( PFL ) , Rio Grande do Sul by Alceu Colarres ( Democratic Labour Party — PDT ) , Rondônia by Osvaldo Pianna ( from one branch of the Workers ' Party ( PT ) identified as the PTR ) , Roraima by Otomar Pinto ( Brazilian Labour Party — PTB ) , Sao Paulo by Luis Antonio Fleury ( PMDB ) , and Tocantins by Moises Avelino ( PMDB ) . |
| 5 | One spin-off of the miners ' strike has been management 's disappointment ( see House of Commons Energy Committee , January 1988 ; comments by Sir Robert Haslam , Chairman of British Coal ) with pit deputies responsible for health and safety , who are members of NACODS . |
| 6 | Controversy surrounded the release in January 1991 of four Belgian hostages in Lebanon [ see p. 37977 ] , when it emerged that Walid Khaled , the spokesperson in Lebanon of the extremist Revolutionary Council of Fatah ( RCF ) who had helped negotiate their release , had been granted a three-month tourist visa on Jan. 11 , one day before the hostages ' release and at a time of great international tension because of the Gulf crisis . |
| 7 | Perhaps this was rough justice for my having ridden that one mile on the workmen 's lorry on the sixth day . |
| 8 | One reason for the Surrealists ' relatively slow climb since 1975 is that they were highly valued then . |
| 9 | This is an ideal chance to put one over the Americans after Saturday 's 7–0 thrashing at the Breeders ' Cup in the Florida heat . |