Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 25% of the 109 projects approved by the Central Committee for implementation in 1992 involve training of some kind . |
| 2 | Less than forty pictures exist by the fifteenth-century Sicilian artist , who was credited by Vasari with bringing the ‘ Flemish ’ technique of oil painting to Italy , and whose placid works were of decisive influence on contemporary Venetian painters , especially Giovanni Bellini . |
| 3 | On April 30 the Japanese and South Korean Foreign Ministers held talks in Seoul at which it was agreed to relax restrictions currently applied to the 680,000 Koreans resident in Japan , many of whom were descendants of the 2,500,000 Koreans transported by the Japanese colonial administration for use as forced labour . |
| 4 | The top two , consisting of 570 outlets targeted towards ABC1s , will carry an expanded range of 225 to 300 wines chosen by the new buying team of Marcia Waters and Mark Brunel-Cohen . |
| 5 | Figure 2 Expressions given by the domestic cat and the wolf in different combinations of circumstances ( from drawings by P. Leyhausen of the cat and P. Barrett of the wolf ) . |
| 6 | As well as bringing up their three children — Andrea , six , Charlotte , five , and Pierre , three — on her own , Caroline , 34 , has become the boss of the eight companies owned by the Italian oil heir . |
| 7 | ‘ There are twenty-eight titles recognised by the British Crown . |
| 8 | Now 100 pairs donated by the Northern Ballet company based in Halifax , Yorks , are to be shipped by coach along with spare tutus , other clothes and 30 pairs of ballet shoes to their struggling fellow-dancers in St Petersburg . |
| 9 | MIDLAND Bank has been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling about £250,000 by the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation ( Imro ) for breaching its duties as trustee of six funds managed by the French-owned unit trust company Dumenil . |
| 10 | The nineteen ports owned by the British Transport Docks Board were basically old railway ports and had come into Government control with the nationalization of the railways in 1946 . |
| 11 | The ILEA was a committee of the GLC consisting of councillors representing inner London constituencies plus thirteen members appointed by the twelve inner London boroughs and the City of London . |
| 12 | Moreover , for the same three species of owls , 45 rodents eaten by the great horned owl yielded a calculated MNI ( minimum numbers of individuals based on counts of the most frequent skeletal element ) of only 37 ; 24 rodents eaten by the barn owl yielded 17 for MNI ; and 14 rodents eaten by the screech owl yielded an MNI of 12 . |
| 13 | Barnett will however know in his own mind that he has to replace the 2,000 runs scored by the departed Azharuddin if Derbyshire are to be effective challengers . |
| 14 | Our Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , was given three thrillers to review by the Daily Telegraph : Geoffrey ( not to be confused with Lord ) Archer 's Eagletrap ( Century ) , Clive Egleton 's Hostile Intent ( Hodder ) and J K Mayo 's A Shred of Honour ( Harvill ) . |
| 15 | Quickly , then , Bodie checked the three rooms occupied by the three female arrivals . |
| 16 | Administration is by an appointed Governor ( who is the personal representative of the British monarch ) , currently William H. Fullerton , aided by an Executive Council of two ex officio members and three members elected by the Legislative Council , which in turn is composed of two ex officio members and eight elected members . |
| 17 | The governor is assisted by an Executive Council of two ex officio members and three members elected by the Legislative Council , which in turn is composed of two ex officio members and eight elected members . |
| 18 | So Lexy was one of the three girls mentioned by the whispering woman who had shown her into the Seraglio . |
| 19 | His first , probably sound , instinct had been to keep most of his available troops to shield Edinburgh , while reinforcing Fort Augustus , the central point in ‘ the Chain' of three forts linked by the military road along the Great Glen . |
| 20 | There were three ceremonies required by the Jewish law after the birth of a child . |
| 21 | Three women hit by the runaway car were cut and bruised — and one suffered a broken leg . |
| 22 | Over the past year he had had more than a dozen screenplays rejected by The Little Magazine . |
| 23 | Shortly after flying-off her load of fighters two days later on September 15 , the USS Wasp was hit by three torpedoes launched by the Japanese submarine 119 . |
| 24 | The Economist of June 8 reported that 45 Palestinian collaborators had been killed during April and May , compared with 18 Palestinians killed by the Israeli security forces . |
| 25 | It has been there for two weeks and can not be released because the 3,500 troops promised by the United Nations to secure food convoys and get them moving have not arrived . |
| 26 | Following the revocation of the annulment of the May elections in December 1989 [ see p. 37113 ] , the distribution of the 58 seats confined by the Electoral Commission in February 1990 was : ADOC — 51 seats , Revolutionary Democratic Party — six , Labour Party ( PALA ) — one . |
| 27 | Dickens denies it ever had a distribution deal to handle the X terminals promised by the troubled Athenix Corporation ( UX No 403 ) . |
| 28 | He was one of sixteen lawyers asked by the Privy Council in 1588 to prepare bills on judicial reform and to consider the revision of existing statutes ; in 1589 he was appointed to the committee of privileges and to some ten others , including one concerning pluralities and non-residence . |
| 29 | THE REFEREE at the centre of the Dinamo Tbilisi bribes scandal DID accept the 5,000 dollars offered by the Georgian club prior to their European Cup match with Linfield . |
| 30 | It was one of 11 engagements undertaken by the royal couple today eight separately and both appeared on top form despite the persistent reports about their marriage . |