Example sentences of "the [num] [noun] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , the 1980 Transport Act opened the door to competition by easing the procedures needed to obtain a road service licence . |
| 2 | The 429 page report includes a thorough and specific recovery plan for every endangered species . |
| 3 | The organization had started well enough , projected from the springboard of the prosperous 1970s , although the 1979–80 price explosion had an unexpectedly severe impact on oil demand , which had been looking particularly promising as 1979 was drawing to a close . |
| 4 | The 1986 Cruzado plan introduced a mandatory anti-inflationary wage and price freeze . |
| 5 | The 1948 Genocide Convention prohibits a wide variety of acts committed with intent to destroy a national , ethnic or religious group . |
| 6 | The 12 step Programme becomes a positive addiction . |
| 7 | Plans to make this the theme of the 1993 rights meeting follows the decision of the fair organisers to allocate electronic publishing a special area of its own at Frankfurt for the first time this year . |
| 8 | Charging up the smallest rod with deuterium took only two days , the 2 mm rod took a week and the 4 mm one took a month ; an 8 mm rod took several months to charge before any detailed experimental measurements could begin . |
| 9 | Registrars and Examinations Officers of colleges participating in the 1988–89 Pilot Programme attended a presentation at Napier Polytechnic of Edinburgh in early November . |
| 10 | Along with the 480 watt machine comes an adjustable fence , wrenches , straight and curved guides , template guide , and even a free straight cutter . |
| 11 | The non-intervention policy with regard to ‘ lame ducks ’ was effectively abandoned with the politically inescapable rescue of Rolls Royce and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders , and the 1972 Industry Bill marked a return to the kind of industrial policy which had been evolving over the 1960s with the formation of NEDC and IRC . |
| 12 | the forty pound fee to sit the exam |
| 13 | Whilst recognising that the 16–25 age group has a very strong claim to any manpower which might become available , the question arises as to whether it would be better placed at , for example , deanery level serving the needs of the whole age group rather than in an educational establishment serving an important but small minority . |
| 14 | The 320 watt motor turns the double-bladed cutter block at 15,000rpm , meaning the wood is shaved 30,000 times a minute . |
| 15 | Lower it into the back of the six foot tank to give a backdrop of aquatic plants , but free open space at the middle and front . |
| 16 | For example , if the search is for the string chess , h is the 3rd bit of the 26 to be set , so follow the 3rd pointer of the 10 element array to reach the ‘ h ’ node on the level below , and so on until the entire string is found , at the 2nd ‘ s ’ node , where the word flag is set . |
| 17 | The 7 kilometre walkway has a good cycling surface and at no point does it cross the road . |
| 18 | And the fact that he was able to finish sixth in the 1991 Champion Hurdle confirms a telling turn of foot . |
| 19 | The second of our reviews of the 1991 Woodworker Show covers the turning competitions that included an ornamental turning section this time |
| 20 | Or did the 1991 Geneva show provide the cheer we all needed ? |
| 21 | The 1991 Planning Act replaced the notorious planning policy ‘ presumption in favour of development ’ with a ‘ presumption in favour of the development plan ’ . |
| 22 | The 2,000 sq.ft space contains a chronological array of nearly 500 ancient objects from the region in the southern portion of modern-day Egypt . |
| 23 | Although the 1920 Lambeth Conference took a hard line ( not helped by Marie Stopes 's literary , erotic , and religious excesses ) , the ‘ safe period ’ had been endorsed by 1913 . |
| 24 | For the first time , women graduates were admitted to Oxford University , to take degrees and the 1920 Unemployment Act extended the system of the right to ‘ dole ’ payments , to almost every worker . |
| 25 | In Sweden there was the 1902 general strike for manhood suffrage and in Germany , during a period of anarchist violence , the 1904 Crimmitschau strike had a critical influence on employers and accelerated the trend towards their organisation ( Puysegur , 1951 ) . |
| 26 | After the war , the Government 's surveillance headquarters moved to GCHQ at Cheltenham and until the seventies Bletchley Park remained a well-kept secret . |
| 27 | The Three Rivers star made no mistake with a chip and a par putt from four feet to seal victory and a third round tie away at Romford . |
| 28 | Recent legislation had improved matters , however ; the 1833 Factory Act prohibited the employment of young children and the 1847 Ten Hours Act had at last given working people some time for recreation . |
| 29 | The 1982 Local Government Finance Act abolished the right of authorities to set a supplementary rate and the 1984 Rates Act empowered the government to limit the spending and rates of centrally defined overspending authorities . |
| 30 | For all these reasons the apparently draconian central powers contained in the 1984 Rates Act had a surprisingly limited effect in terms not only of the numbers of authorities rate-capped but also in terms of the capping limits actually imposed . |