Example sentences of "and [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to Gore 's entry into the affair , some 75 members of Congress and eight of the erstwhile hostages had called for a full inquiry . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Morland J. accepted the submission of Mr. Newman for the council that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam , in that it was theoretically possible for a local authority to be guilty of corruption under sections 1 and 7 of the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889 ( 52 & 53 Vict. c. 69 ) . |
| 4 | Had a look at the records last night and saw that Sterland scored 5 goals in the Div II championship and 7 in the 20-odd matches he played in the Div I Championship . |
| 5 | And 21 of the alternative places identified by Ann Widdecombe , parliamentary secretary for social security , are actually in a North Tyneside hostel set aside for women only . |
| 6 | By any standards the jobs are small , yet people have to make available three sets of plans for the planning department , three for the building control department , three for the Housing Executive and three for the occupational therapists department . |
| 7 | This rally was addressed by Gerry Fitt , Betty Sinclair , Roddy Connolly , Sean Nolan of the Irish Workers ' Party ( the name of the Communist Party in the south ) , and three of the Young Turks from the Derry Labour and republican left . |
| 8 | Paragraph 33(b) and 890 of the National Conditions of Service cover all aspects of the Management Offer with the following exceptions . |
| 9 | His work culminated in six papers published between 1847 and 1853 in the Annual Reports of the Royal Institution of Cornwall . |
| 10 | The coding system allowed a total of 6,467 comments to be encoded , 4,587 from the description condition and 1,880 from the potential risks condition . |
| 11 | And two-fifths of the ex-care women had become pregnant before the age of nineteen years , while none of the comparison group had done so . |
| 12 | More than 1,500 lichens , 680 mosses and 380 of the related liverworts occur in Britain ( as opposed to only 1,700 flowering plants ) . |
| 13 | Eleven of the working-class and fourteen of the middle-class housewives had washing machines : use of a machine in one 's own home lightens the task . |
| 14 | A split-half reliability carried out on the data from children in the standardisation sample between the ages of 4 years and 8 years 11 months produced correlations of between 0.64 and 0.84 for the different items . |
| 15 | The variable linker region is 15 ( Pit-1 ) to 30 amino acids long ( Dpou28 ) , while the POU HD , as defined by Laughton ( 22 ) , is 60 amino acids long except for the inhibitory POU protein I-pou from Drosophila which is unable to bind DNA due to a deletion of amino acids 2 and 3 in the basic N-termins of the POU HD ( 16 ) . |
| 16 | The Plessey/GEC litigation in 1988 , in which Plessey sought an injunction to stop GEC posting its offer document on the basis that the Siemens/GEC bid for Plessey infringed EC competition rules , is a further example of the practical application of Articles 85 and 86 before the English courts . |
| 17 | Following a general election on Dec. 13 , 1987 , Wilfried Martens , the outgoing Prime Minister , eventually succeeded in May 1988 in forming a new coalition government comprising the two Christian Social parties ( the Flemish Christelijke Volkspartij — CVP — and the Walloon Parti social chrétien — PSC ) , the two Socialist parties ( the Flemish Socialistische Partij — SP — and the Walloon Parti socialiste — PS ) , and the Flemish nationalist People 's Union ( Volksunie — VU ) [ see pp. 36048-49 ; the articles on pp. 36737 and 36873 on the Belgian elections in June 1989 to the European Parliament incorrectly listed the governing coalition parties as being the CVP , PSC , VU , the liberal Flemish Freedom and Progress Party ( Partij voor Vrijheid on Voornitgang — PVV ) and the Walloon Liberal Reform Party ( Parti réformateur et libéral — PRL ) , the last two having been in opposition since May 1988 ] . |
| 18 | The idea was to combine the spin-2 particle called the graviton , which carries the gravitational force , with certain other new particles of spin 3/2 , 1 , 1/2 , and O. In a sense , all these particles could then be regarded as different aspects of the same " superparticle , " thus unifying the matter particles with spin 1/2 and 3/2 with the force-carrying particles of spin 0,1 and 2 . |
| 19 | As he applied it to Putt 's body the sickening stench of burning flesh rose into the air and one of the gipsy men uttered a faint sound of revulsion . |
| 20 | He 's lying on the ground , and one of the inch-high companions walks in front of his face to verify he 's dead . |
| 21 | A swell swept him forward , and one of the uniformed terrorists caught his wrist . |
| 22 | He spilled some of the machine tea from the plastic cups as he moved , and one of the wizened youths glanced back for a moment in disapproval . |
| 23 | One of the young women is not honest , and one of the young men is weak , and these two pay dearly for their lapses . |
| 24 | Mitchell appeared on the scene shortly before the arrival of Norman Bowler , a friend of Ricky Stride and one of the young men who used to meet at Runnymede on Sundays to exercise , camp or swim . |
| 25 | She smiled at them again , and one of the young men leant towards his companion and said something which made them both laugh . |
| 26 | We have own a pony days when a child is allocated a pony and one of the stable hands takes care of the child and helps them look after the pony . |
| 27 | So I bought indoor-plants and was given indoor plants , and one of the indoor plants I expended my energy on was the fern with the bright , shiny leaves and the indestructible appearance bought that day when I had suffered the apocalypse . |
| 28 | about how stuffy it is , and the like when we agreed that is was erm not as good as it could be , may I just say erm , but we have n't got any , if you like , er statistical measurement , and one of the actual points that were starting to do now is we 're actually going to start reporting tu , temperature and humidity on the first , second , and third floors within G P House . |
| 29 | It 's a it 's a very very good race this and one of the good horses is a horse called General Idea . |
| 30 | And one of the distinctive features of life here has been a gradual loss of the ability to distinguish right from wrong . |