Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [verb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Georgian military said the Su-25 had attacked several times during Saturday but had been away by anti-aircraft fire . |
| 2 | The ten-year-old boy wrote the two separate amounts down slowly and carefully . |
| 3 | I knew that just beyond the narrow sea separating the two countries there were at least fifty warships ready to attack us , with many other smaller ships . |
| 4 | On the first night , most of them were watching Bionic Showdown : The Bionic Woman Meets the Six-Million Dollar Man on a rival channel . |
| 5 | The classic bob gets the sixties treatment with a centre parting from Scissors of Cheshire |
| 6 | Bleak scenarios of the " economic burden " that elderly people imposed on the working population underlay the 1988 Social Security Act and the impetus given to private pensions . |
| 7 | Youth sections of the Labour Party had been formed in 1924 , but not until the ILP had created a successful national organization , the Guild of Youth , did the Labour Party reorganize the 150 youth sections into the Labour Party League of Youth . |
| 8 | Until now , grants to the eight older universities have come from the University Funding Council in Bristol , while the Scottish Office funded the 17 central institutions , including four new universities , technical institutes and specialist centres . |
| 9 | Priced at £7.95 , the glossy publication features the 21 year history of the WSR and will be available initially only from WSR bookshops . |
| 10 | In Belgium the clerical party won the 1880 elections and held power for the next twenty-five years , repealing an earlier secularization of education and making instruction in the Roman Catholic faith obligatory in all publicly maintained schools in 1895 . |
| 11 | The freewheeling path includes the d.c. supply and therefore some of the energy stored in the phase winding inductance at turn-off is returned to the supply . |
| 12 | It was also agreed to establish a North-South Liaison Office at the neutral village of Panmunjom ( within the Demilitarized Zone separating the two states ) within three months . |
| 13 | The intertidal zones circumvent the two outstanding disadvantages of marine living . |
| 14 | The British government produced the 1914 Housing Act in an endeavour to rectify the lack of suitable housing in the Country , authorising Local Government bodies to provide housing with subsidies from the Treasury Funds . |
| 15 | The Daily Record portrayed the three Scottish Nationalist MPs as being the Three Stooges . |
| 16 | The French Antilles comprise the two overseas Departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique . |
| 17 | The French authorities repatriated the two in 1987 and 1988 respectively , ostensibly for medical reasons , without seeking permission from New Zealand . |
| 18 | The dark arrow indicates the IL-6 inducible complex corresponding to C/EBP δ/NF-IL6; β . |
| 19 | Given the actual situation following the 1967 war , it was natural that the Security Council , in consultation with the belligerents themselves , should cast its prescriptive Resolution 242 of November 1967 in inter-statal terms : a return ( more or less ) to the pre-June 1967 frontiers , implying that the 1949 Armistice Line should now become a substantive and internationally recognized inter-state border , and an end to the state of war and full recognition for every state in the area . |
| 20 | Oxford , as unfamiliar with failure as Cambridge are to success , left it to president Pinsent to face the instant inquests following the four and a half mile slog from Putney to Mortlake . |
| 21 | The central panel shows the two saints , and the two side panels the family of Simon Gonçalves da Câmara ( grandson of Zarco ) who commissioned the painting . |
| 22 | Pöhl , a member of the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) , had been openly critical over the introduction of economic and monetary union with what was East Germany [ see pp. 37259 ; 38115 ] and had clashed with the government over economic and monetary union plans within the European Communities [ see p. 37719 ] , the deteriorating domestic economy , and plans for the reorganization of the central bank to incorporate the five eastern Länder ( states ) . |
| 23 | How the vintage of data affects the quality of UK macroeconomic models and their forecasts is the central theme linking the three broad sections which comprise this project . |
| 24 | In each of the following cases describe the two entries required on the worksheet . |
| 25 | The volatility and their non-guaranteed status do not sit comfortably with the official line linking the two benefits . |
| 26 | Bowlers qualified for the final over the previous weekends to fill the 32 places in the double elimination final . |
| 27 | This change was made , for a transitional period , administratively and without any new legislation , presumably because of the difficulty of finding time in the parliamentary timetable to amend the 1958 Act . |
| 28 | Andrew captains London against reigning Divisional champions Midlands at Wasps , while Barnes leads South West against North at Leeds , significant re-instatements for both players in a competition used by the national selectors to formulate the Five Nations ' squad . |
| 29 | On April 9 the National Assembly adopted the 1992 budget presented by the government in March [ see p. 38830 ] . |
| 30 | The National Assembly approved the 1991 budget on Dec. 11 , 1990 . |