Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was n't the Prime Minister , was it , being nasty about the Germans in the Commons last week but the editor of the Daily Beast ? |
| 2 | In the meanwhile , do you think you could persuade a few more salmon to get into the rivers around your neck of the woods by the time next season opens ? |
| 3 | When the pound slipped through the fingers of the ERM last September and plunged in value against important trading currencies , it became Golden Wednesday instead . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , 96 per cent of the coaches in the French first division predicted a Toulouse v Agen final . |
| 5 | Torrance arrived in time yesterday for nine holes practice behind the pro-am field and like the rest of the contenders for the £41,660 first prize was delighted by the condition of this Donald Steel-designed course amid the pines . |
| 6 | If the Secretary of State accepts an agreement between all the parties at the Inquiry last May , the IHM will take over an additional eight acres of Weston Airport , including the original 1936 control tower along with other building which will provide the space for expansion and improvement of the facilities already on offer at the Museum 's present four acre site . |
| 7 | AS WITNESS the hands of duly-authorised signatories for the parties on the date first mentioned above |
| 8 | He was rummaging under the cushions of the armchair next to mine ; leafing through magazines , one after another , and discarding them . |
| 9 | Taking the question of the origins of the office first , one may adduce one important piece of negative evidence against the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti of Istanbul , namely the fact that , with one possible exception , none of the important Turkish sources relative to the ulema in general-including Katib Celebi himself , in his — or to the Muftilik in particular mentions that Hizir Bey became Mufti of Istanbul , although such as deal with his career are agreed that he became kadi of Istanbul at the conquest . |
| 10 | Screw the brackets to the sides first . |
| 11 | One of the criticisms of the list last year was that it was weighted too heavily towards a younger generation , a generation that overall had not really accomplished very much . |
| 12 | Darlington Brown Trout 's Baker Trout Cup attracted 53 contenders to the banks of the Tees last Sunday . |
| 13 | Since I gave the figures to the House last time , they have not been contradicted . |
| 14 | The letter bombs were also condemned by one of the organisers of the occupation last week of the Anglian Water offices by eight SNP members from Inverness . |
| 15 | We always did the plays at the Globe first , before we took them to court . |
| 16 | Mr Alan Barton , director of finance for Northallerton health authority , said he would expect to get the details of the award next week . |
| 17 | Here are the moves of the marathon fourth game . |
| 18 | I never study ) , or the future ( I would be really surprised if I knew the answers on the exam next week ) : ( 8 ) What ! |
| 19 | Martial law was declared in Lhasa , enforced by a hundred thousand Chinese soldiers who made sure there was no repetition of the scenes on the anniversary last month . |
| 20 | I mean she was warning the population that there 's erm salmonella in eggs , and I her party is actually traditionally in the interests of the farmers and things , and she took the interests of the population first and she was absolutely hauled through the hedges by the press . |
| 21 | Over half the pupils in the bottom third gave the correct answer to that question and a fair proportion did so on two visualization questions in other tests . |
| 22 | On the site of the old HARRINGTON AIRFIELD stands an impressive memorial to the men of the USAAF 801st Bombardment Group of the 8th Air Force who , operating with the Office of Strategic Service ( U.S. ) , flew special missions in their B24 Liberators and other aircraft . |
| 23 | The organizer starts and squeezes the hands of the person next to him . |
| 24 | The ancient Egyptians had no compunction in substituting glass or faience for natural stones , the Byzantines explored the possibilities of enamel and the Chinese began to produce pearls by culture as early as the thirteenth century , a process which in the hands of the Japanese first brought fine pearls to the new mass market . |
| 25 | Very many people heard about the riots in the area last year , and heard the authorities ' explanations for them , but this programme attempted to find the root causes of the problems . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the USA announces it is to explode a nuclear weapon in outer space during the tests in the Pacific next month . |
| 27 | They put the claims of the Law first . |