Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pros play in the par-three for fun , to give something back to their public in return for the millions of dollars they earn from golf . |
| 2 | The door was open and she stood just outside the aperture taking in the five men . |
| 3 | The unity witnessed over the two days had been greater than he could ever have hoped for , and the remaining morning 's session of ‘ rounding up ’ would , he trusted , be rich in commitments on the part of participants concerning action each would be taking before the important international conference in Switzerland . |
| 4 | But Mr Fallon has replied , saying he was ‘ puzzled ’ at her request that the Government matched the funding given by the Two Castles Housing Association . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the variety provided by the five levels makes this a good investment if you can stand the frustration of repeating earlier levels , time after time . |
| 6 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 7 | By 1824 she had lost all her American empire except for Cuba and Puerto Rico , while in metropolitan Spain the struggle waged in the thirties between constitutionalists and traditionalists was to reduce the core of the monarchy to bankruptcy and near anarchy . |
| 8 | The permission given by the 1969 Act for no-fault divorce was driven as much by a profound rethinking of the sources of morality by clerical and academic opinion as by the determined pursuit of individual self-interest on the part of either the population at large or lawyers in particular . |
| 9 | In 1973 the tide turned with a 5-to-4 majority ruling by the Supreme Court in Miller v California that obscenity , as narrowly defined , was not protected by the First Amendment , and that each state could set its own standard : ‘ People in different States vary in their tastes and attitudes , and this diversity is not to be strangled by the absolutism of imposed uniformity . ’ |
| 10 | Overall the patterns established by the 1946 land reform have been remarkably enduring . |
| 11 | Members of the parliament demanded in a 135-34 vote that Mr Yeltsin appear at the Congress tomorrow , when they may vote to remove him from office for declaring emergency rule and calling an April referendum . |
| 12 | The new " democratic " government has pledged billions of crowns to put right the damage caused by a 40 year industrial race with the West . |
| 13 | Editors invented elaborate textual corruptions to explain this , claiming for instance that Shakespeare had written two different versions of Brutus 's reactions and that the text used for the 1623 Folio ( where the play first appeared ) had mistakenly copied them both . |
| 14 | The clones were multiplied in the glasshouse and then transplanted back into patches of the field dominated by the four grass species . |
| 15 | The settlement unravels the contract signed between the two in 1990 on joint development of OS/2 . |
| 16 | If the taxpayer whilst not resident and not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom disposes of the UK shares and buys s6(2) gilts , the assets will be regarded as excluded property and not subject to IHT even if the taxpayer dies within the three year deemed domicile period . |
| 17 | In this process , battles did little to help either side achieve its military aim , and were not to be an important part of the strategies pursued by the two main protagonists in the Hundred Years War . |
| 18 | Arber et al argue that some important issues have been clouded by a failure in the literature to distinguish between the two different types of household structure : old living with old , and younger living with old . |
| 19 | Your country 's leaders have proposed a new security system which would supersede Nato and the Warsaw Pact and use the framework created by the 1975 Helsinki Act . |
| 20 | A similar haze lies over the woods used for the two different models . |
| 21 | The times suggested throughout the 30 day programme are minimum times that you should walk each day . |
| 22 | Comparison of the times taken for the three exercises and discussion of the accuracies found will generate further insights into the subject of communication . |
| 23 | Many of the cases included in the two reports are now on the road to recovery . |
| 24 | These procedures for the validation of consortia will be reviewed in the light of the experience gained during the 1989 pilot phase . |
| 25 | So Dr Losberne went down to the kitchen to talk to the three servants who had surprised Sikes and Oliver during the robbery . |
| 26 | Thalidomide , the drug prescribed in the Fifties for morning sickness , is the most infamous example . |
| 27 | The differential amplifiers used in EEG machines use the difference between the voltages offered by the two inputs , which is normally less than 200 microvolts ( millionths of a volt ) , and amplify this difference up to a voltage sufficient to drive the galvanometer pens — perhaps 0–5 volts . |
| 28 | unc The numerator carried into the tenths column leaves a remainder which is carried into the hundredths column . |
| 29 | The settlement turned on the Four Points of 1854 . |
| 30 | The recession deepened as the 1870s proceeded , and by 1879 Skerne Iron Works had called in the liquidator . |