Example sentences of "the [num] [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several thousand of the 226,000 people employed in the industry are also expected to clock up seven-figure incomes this year , making them targets of another Clinton tax proposal — a 10 per cent surcharge on earnings over $1 million a year . |
| 2 | Congress ( I ) won a clear majority of the 79 seats contested on the territory 's 10 inhabited islands . |
| 3 | His intention was to pick up the 18,000 troops assembled in the area behind Quiberon known as the Morbihan and transport them to Scotland , as the first stage of the great invasion plan . |
| 4 | He claimed in a blackmail note to have doctored 27 items in nine of the 97 stores belonging to the Budgens group based in Ruislip , Middlesex . |
| 5 | Firstly , he assumes that the 120 players fielded by the other eight League One clubs on any given Saturday would be purely ‘ English-qualified ’ . |
| 6 | Though there was no formal ( or at least published ) review of the planning system , the 1980 Act passed by the subsequent Conservative government certainly effected some major changes in it . |
| 7 | Chief among the proposals was a clause allowing for the removal of the heads of the armed forces , something forbidden under the 1980 Constitution approved by the military . |
| 8 | From 1973 the Health Protection and Environment Directorates of the European Commission had also been working on measures to control wastes and ‘ trace ’ substances in water : they adopted a 50mg/litre nitrate limit for the 1980 Directive Relating to the Quality of Water Intended for Human Consumption ( 80/778/EEC ) , which also controls pesticides and metals . |
| 9 | Over 25% of the 109 projects approved by the Central Committee for implementation in 1992 involve training of some kind . |
| 10 | Joseph Beran ( right ) , former Archbishop of Prague , was one of the eight prisoners featured in the original Observer article . |
| 11 | Three branch officers — Kerrison , Parsons and Bock — all of whom were to become key political figures , were included among the eight women serving on the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee by 1922 ( MCWC Minutes 11 May 22 ) . |
| 12 | And some argue that the underlying position is worse than the figures suggest because of the eight changes made to the method of recording unemployment during the period . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Each of the eight conditions listed in the questionnaire can be caused by factors other than food allergy or intolerance . |
| 15 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 16 | Finally , there were the eight oboes attached to the musqueteers who , in addition to their military functions , played for court entertainments . |
| 17 | Indeed , court documents show that the eight performers named in the livret as making up the harmonie rustique were all wind players in the employ of the king . |
| 18 | His brother , Scott , who was among the eight Scots named in the 30-strong squad , reckoned that Gavin 's previous experience of playing in New Zealand probably swayed the decision in the full-back 's favour . |
| 19 | Table 6.2 shows the correlations between the ratings given in this experiment and the eight ratings given in the Groeger and Chapman study . |
| 20 | NEWCASTLE swimmers Nick Sultman and Susan Rolph won two of the eight medals gained by the 27 members of the Esso England Junior squad at the Haribo international meet in Bonn . |
| 21 | Among the eight examples drawn from the gallery 's stock are ‘ Life Death/Knows Does n't Know ’ , the great wheel of contradiction formerly owned by Charles Saatchi , and ‘ Seven Virtues Seven Vices ’ , in which corresponding pairs such as Hope and Envy or Lust and Faith are illuminated or dimmed in an apparently random sequence . |
| 22 | Sir : As a Tuscan expatriate in Britain , I feel duty bound to point out that five out of the eight Italians included in the '50 mastersingers of Europe' were from Tuscany : Dante , Michelangelo , Leonardo , Machiavelli and Galileo . |
| 23 | The Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act gave to the governors of county and controlled schools the duty of devising arrangements for the appointment of staff , excluding head teachers and , in some authorities , deputy head teachers . |
| 24 | There is very little interest indeed in sexual offences prior to the court appearance unless they are sexual assaults or murders with a sexual component In the 3,015 newspapers considered in the study , only 29 of these residual sexual cases were identified . |
| 25 | They insisted their four colleges have a spirit which was ‘ practical rather than academical ’ although it was agreed that the 254 places provided in the colleges were not enough by the end of the century . |
| 26 | Of the 92 cases resolved during the year , only three had to go to informal arbitration as opposed to agreed settlement . |
| 27 | Nomvete said that nine of the 12 countries identified for the organization 's programme of gradual reduction of tariffs on trade among PTA members had already published their tariffs . |
| 28 | In the 12 periods analysed in the published articles , the portfolio ( theoretical or actual ) has done better than the UK stock market on nine occasions and worse on three occasions . |
| 29 | In the fiercely free enterprise USA , home ownership , as in the UK , is the mark of responsible citizenship , and home ownership is just what the 12 people living in the clapboard house have achieved . |
| 30 | The 12 deaths observed in the 15–24 age group is 210 per cent of what would be expected . |