Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the finest Continental pieces is a Tuscan or South Italian vase made around 1470 painted with the arms of the Duke of Calabria ( est. £15,000–25,000 ; $29,100–48,500 ) . |
| 2 | Attempts to identify a murine homologue of LFA-3 led to the unexpected finding that mouse CD2 interacts with a different molecule , BCM1 ( CD48 ) 49 . |
| 3 | The Dolgarrog Dam disaster of 1925 led to the passing of this legislation . |
| 4 | ‘ Our 175hp Ford 6700 goes into the row of grass at 2,600 to 2,800revs , but once you drop it on to the row , the revs soon drop to 2,000 to 2,000rpm . |
| 5 | Christina was interested too , and the two of them were in good spirits when Stephen drove into the dry , scrubby car park in front of the Crane Beach Hotel , which from that aspect seemed an unremarkable low-level with thirties undertones to the architecture . |
| 6 | Record 119 goes into the next block , if that is on this track , or otherwise into overflow . |
| 7 | Three raids alone in 1736 led to the loss of 1,026 head of cattle . |
| 8 | The 70 men , employees of the Penrod Drilling Company , were safely transferred from the Penrod 92 rig to the nearby Britoil Loggs platform by helicopter , Conoco said . |
| 9 | A 17.2 gain in the FT-SE 100 index turned into a 28.4 fall to 2,218.8 by the close . |
| 10 | The coach departed from Clun at 8 a.m. for the four-hour journey to Minehead , the terminus of the West Somerset and indeed of the original branch line whose closure in 1971 led to the formation of the preserved railway which is so successful today . |
| 11 | Eileen Sessions , former head teacher at Smestow School , Stafford , whose introduction of Golf Foundation lessons to her school curriculum 1971 led to the establishment of a Staffordshire County Schools ' Association which now incorporates 60 schools , is the first winner of the Sir Henry Cotton Award for Meritorious Service to Junior Golf . |
| 12 | Figure 8.4 refers to the way in which , whilst all religions emphasize many particular understandings , ideas , beliefs , and practices not found in other religions yet many of these are not contradictory to those found in other traditions : they are different not contradictory . |
| 13 | There were certainly more people in the world who resembled the French , 88 per cent of whom in 1861 lived in the département of their birth — in the Lot département 97 per cent in the parish of their birth — than resembled more mobile and migratory populations . |
| 14 | While the Senate had agreed after Collor 's resignation that impeachment was no longer a legal possibility , it voted by 73 votes to eight to continue with the proceedings . |
| 15 | The fall in crude prices since 1980 coupled with the diminution of oil availability fears has meant a progressive down-grading of forecasts for the future contribution to world energy supply of synthetic fuels as project after project , megaproject after megaproject , has been closed down . |
| 16 | Section 226 imposes on the directors of every company the duty to prepare for each financial year of the company a balance sheet and a profit and loss account ( its ‘ individual accounts ’ ) and section 227 imposes a like duty on directors of a company which is a parent company additionally to prepare a consolidated balance sheet and profit and loss account ( ‘ group accounts ’ ) The basic and over-riding principle is that the balance sheets must give a true and fair view , in the case of individual accounts ‘ of the state of affairs of the company at the end of the financial year ’ and in the case of group accounts ‘ of the state of affairs as at the end of the financial year of the undertakings included in the consolidation as a whole , so far as it concerns the members of the company . ’ |
| 17 | this , this , they only start from sort of like , there 's the house , and it goes half way up the garden , so I want fifty up at one side , and put fifty to go up other side , I want fifty to go across the garden , and they 're gon na go across the garden and cut the garden in half |
| 18 | If you go and buy a a T V for a hundred and fifty pounds they 'd say thank you , a hundred and fifty pounds , plus VAT at a hundred per cent is another hundred and fifty to go to the government |
| 19 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
| 20 | If experiments such as creep or stress relaxation are performed on the same sample of a polymer over a range of temperatures a pattern of behaviour is apparent that as long ago as 1943 led to the proposal of a " master curve " to which all observations could be reduced . |
| 21 | Investments were valued at NZ$13bn , two-thirds relating to the government 's equity investment in wholly or partly state-owned enterprises . |
| 22 | Party Change Total seats Socialist Party ( PS ) +4 70 Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) -1 90 Communist party ( PCF ) -1 15 Democratic and European Rally ( RDE ) -1 22 Centrist Union ( UC ) -2 66 Independents and Republicans ( RI ) * -4 47 Independents +4 10 |
| 23 | For 1987 the statistics show that there were some 20,000 accidental deaths , of which some 7,000 occurred in the home , 6,000 at work , and 5,000 on the roads . |
| 24 | Five of the eight appear on the royal books for 1661 as members of the ensemble known as the Hautbois et musettes de Poitou . |
| 25 | In the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan , 376 U.S. 254 relating to the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the American Constitution , the sentiments expressed by Brennan J. in his opinion accord closely with the approach of the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 26 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 27 | They said that shortage of staff at the HSE meant that all the officers working on implementing the advisory committee 's proposals , which were published in October 1979 , were switched in 1980 to work on the EEC scheme . |
| 28 | The discovery of X-rays by Roentgen in 1895 led to the development of imaging systems that displayed internal pictures of bone structure and harder tissues in the human body . |
| 29 | Works on show include a ‘ Virgin and Child ’ by Badile ; a ‘ Road to Calvary ’ by the Bolognese Aureliano Milani ; an ‘ Apollo and Marsyas ’ of circa 1805 by Cammerino ; a ‘ Bacchus and Ariadne ’ by Pelagi , probably from an album of around 1802 made for the Accademia della Pace ; and a red chalk study of a hand by Lorenzo Tiepolo . |
| 30 | A new 31-member " central committee for the comprehensive management of public security " , headed by politburo standing committee member Qiao Shi , was set up on March 22 to liaise with the party central committee and the State Council in supervising work to improve public order and social stability . |