Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] in " in BNC.
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1 | He restricted his investigation to the 2,200 or so words in the LDOCE core vocabulary , and took the sense definitions as the textual units over which to collect co-occurrence data . |
2 | Indeed , there is a pressure group to get more women MPs , called the 300 Group , which seeks 300 out of the 600 or so seats in Parliament for women . |
3 | But to say " all barristers in chambers at 4 Dr Johnson 's Buildings are thieves " would be sufficiently specific to allow the dozen or so barristers in those chambers to take action . |
4 | Of the dozen or so choirs in the Navy , including two in Gibraltar and Hong Kong , the one in Greenwich has sufficient expertise to record hymns for use in ships at sea . |
5 | Thus in 1676 an estimated 300 of the 3,000 or so communicants in the industrial parish of Sheffield were said to be Dissenters . |
6 | Critics and the viewing public were quite accustomed to seeing the nude and even courtisanes in pictures . |
7 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
8 | In addition to the 40 or so institutions in Scotland known to have collections of foreign ethnographic material , otherwise referred to as ‘ material culture ’ or ‘ tribal art ’ , it is certain that there are a far greater number of such collections in private and public ownership which have not been made known . |
9 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
10 | Even though Windows NT has not yet been released , 37% of the 1,000 or so participants in a Dun survey at UniForum believe NT will offer benefits not yet available under Unix . |
11 | The Ukrainian settlement in the north west has always been close-knit and Ivan Solowka soon found himself running a club for the 20 or so families in Middleton . |
12 | Contrastive , in a sense , is the Varsity match they play , pitting an Oxford fabliau against a Cambridge one , but common to both is the urbane and clerkly perspective in which the comedy of the tales is made explicit . |