Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 And of course Oxford supporters do n't need reminding that last season they led Fulham 1-0 after the first leg and they lost 5-3 at home .
2 Gooch and Pringle then added 113 for the seventh wicket and Neil Foster gave good support to remove all fears of an Essex follow-on .
3 But a disclaimer can never take away your rights under the Defective Premises Act 1972 for the collapsing conservatory or prevent anyone being sued for negligence which has caused death or injury .
4 The result was 9,122 for the Unionist candidate and 3,944 for the NILP .
5 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
6 Where judgment is given in a default action ( Ord 9 , r 6(1) ) for payment forthwith , it need not be drawn up or served unless a request to issue enforcement proceedings has not been made , or the plaintiff has abandoned part of his claim without amending his particulars of claim and serving the defendant , or where the judgment is interlocutory ( N 17 ) or where a Certificate for judgment under s 12 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 is to be sought ( Ord 22 , r 1(3) ) .
7 The pomp of Parks , Thompson and Dexter must seem further away than ever for a club that has now failed to progress beyond the group stages in 12 of the 21 Benson & Hedges Cup .
8 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 .
9 Section 2 of the Legal Advice and Assistance Act , 1972 , provides in effect that legal advice and assistance may be given on the application of Scots law to a particular matter .
10 Section 1 , subsection 2 of the Public Registers and Records ( Scotland ) Act , 1948 , states :
11 Sections 52 and 53 of the 1984 Act and Ord 14 , rr 1 – 10 apply .
12 This showed that management awareness profiles were circulated to the staff in 30 of the 34 units that answered the relevant question .
13 Over a quarter of the territory of the Falkland Islands was sold in early April to the Falkland Islands Executive Council by the Falkland Islands Company , a subsidiary since mid-1989 of the debt-ridden mining and fuel distribution group Anglo United .
14 The NSDAP gained only 43 of the 72 seats and polled less than 60 per cent of the vote .
15 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 .
16 This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time .
17 France 's 441 auctioneers ( commissaires-priseurs ) , the most protected and privileged of Europe , might have been faced in 1993 with the biggest shake-up since their status was established by decree of Henri II in 1552 .
18 Within the 4 quadrants , there are 2 angles which have the same cosine , 2 with the same sine and 2 with the same tangent .
19 Bemac 's workforce has fallen from 215 to 140 in the past year and now the firm has appointed a consultant to advise on the restructuring of the company .
20 Nevertheless , it is unlikely that homoacetogenesis is amajor route of disposal of H 2 in the human colon since molar ratios of acetate , propionate , and butyrate are similar in methanogenic and non-methanogenic people .
21 She feels strongly that the number of women judges — only 2 in the High Court and one Lord Justice of Appeal — is ‘ disappointing ’ .
22 After the election , there are likely to be about 30 Etonians on their benches , compared with 43 in the last Parliament and 68 the last time the party was led by one of their number ( Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 ) .
23 Whitby were knocked out of the Yorkshire Shield 7–4 by the visitors to their heavy pitch , Wibsey ( Bradford ) , while Knaresborough plunged to the heaviest defeat in the club 's nine-year history when they went down 57–0 to the newly-formed Hull and ER club .
24 Towards the end of the 3-day FFA meeting , the Japanese , ‘ in a spirit of goodwill and co-operation' ’ , offered to hold the drift-net fleet for 1989–90 to the same level as the previous season — 60 vessels .
25 ‘ If agencies wind up in 1993 at the same level as in 1992 , they 'll be doing well , ’ states Martin Larkin , managing director , Irish International Advertising .
26 The empire was in a state of decline which had begun with the havoc wrought in 1204 by the Fourth Crusade and was made worse by internal conflicts .
27 They initiated a campaign embracing twenty-four counties and eleven of the largest towns and cities in which petitioning was combined with parliamentary initiatives .
28 Mr Farrelly , a Democrat , entered office in 1986 amid the general expectation that he would be able to solve many of the islands ' problems .
29 Earlier this month the under-16 soccer team reached the last 32 of the All England and Wales Schoolboys competition , playing on the same Bamber Bridge pitch visited by Mr Calvin .
30 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 .
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