Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council tax is proving less unpopular : appeals against the valuations of property for the new tax , the best measure of opposition , will fall well short of the 950,000 for which the government had allowed . |
| 2 | This caught the notorious ( and now repealed ) section 2 for which the punishment was a maximum of two years . |
| 3 | Th er there is a series of amendments in the name of the Noble Lord , Lord of Yeovil , Amendment six , seven , twelve to fourteen , sixteen , nineteen and twenty-one of which the most significant is Amendment twenty-one , these Amendments provide again that there should be flexibility in the size of police authorities and that the composition should be such as to secure a majority of local authority members of not less than three . |
| 4 | The critical values for χ 12 above which the two polymers will phase separate , calculated for various mixtures with , are shown in table 8.4 along with the corresponding differences in δ . |
| 5 | Aumann , for example , quoted Mark Twain 's account of his visit to the Holy Land in 1867 in which the American writer spoke of ‘ desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds — a silent mournful expanse … |
| 6 | Figure 1e shows iron-bleomycin cleavage of the insert [ ( TAA ) 4 CG(TTA) 4 ] 2 in which the only cleavage products correspond to the central GT steps . |
| 7 | We attempt to treat the wives and ex-wives of service men living illegally in some of our properties as sympathetically as we can and that is why the 1,600 to whom the hon. Gentleman referred live in service accommodation . |
| 8 | Stalin 's collectivization and industrialization drive launched at the end of the 1920s was accompanied by untold horrors : acute deprivation of workers and peasants alike , epitomized by a catastrophic famine in 1933 to which the government turned a blind eye ; repression and imprisonment on a truly mass scale ; and the blood-letting of the Great Terror of 1936–38 . |
| 9 | We saw , for example , in Section 18.4 that in transition in jets and other free shear flows randomness appears to develop continuously ; it would be difficult to assign a stage in Fig. 18.11 or 18.12 at which the motion is first turbulent , and it may be impossible . |
| 10 | From our necessarily limited number of simulations , it was not possible to establish the threshold concentration of CO 2 at which the probability of an ozone hole increases . |
| 11 | This aspect is considered in the G-D theory by defining a new transition temperature T 2 at which the configurational entropy of the system is zero . |
| 12 | Second , those emphasizing Thou more than I , a larger group , sixteen in all , in thirteen of which the Other outnumbers the Self by more than two to one . |
| 13 | THE general election in Spain on June 6th will be the first since 1979 in which the winner has not been known in advance . |
| 14 | Arising equally strongly from the findings of the poverty surveys , and out of the labour movement , were criticisms of the principles of 1834 as being inappropriate for the conditions of the 1900s in which the existence of involuntary unemployment was becoming difficult to deny . |
| 15 | He also wore ‘ a purple camblet kilt ’ : sartorial defiance : the kilt had been banned after the ‘ 45 in which the Macleods played a significant part , not least in assisting Bonnie prince Charlie to escape . |
| 16 | Can the Secretary of State point to any year in the past 10 in which the September in-patient waiting list figures have not been higher than for every year under Labour ? |
| 17 | Professor Davies , Dr S G Wheatcroft and others have been engaged for over ten years in a study of Soviet industrialisation , with special reference to the crucial years 1926-1937 in which the foundations of the present economic system were established . |
| 18 | The Eighth Book , Madrigali Guerrieri , Et Amorosi , opens with an apostrophe to the Emperor Ferdinand III to whom the book is dedicated : ‘ Altri canti d'Amor ’ . |
| 19 | A block of four 1918 24-cent stamps featuring an early aeroplane , from a famous sheet of 100 on which the aeroplane was printed upside down , sold for $1.1m ( £705,128 ) , against an estimate of $600,000-$800,000 , to an American broadcasting executive . |
| 20 | Panic swept through respectable London in the winter of 1862 about what The Times ( 10 June 1863 ) would eventually describe as a ‘ new variety of crime ’ . |
| 21 | In Ata'i one might note the careers of six scholars as exceptions , in three of which the subjects changed careers under rather special circumstances , while in the other three Ata'i merely notes the change without comment . |
| 22 | When Chapman had signed on new players in July , he had agreed to pay three of them the full yearly wage of £208 to the end of the next April . |
| 23 | Inside were four small diaries , three of them the cheap cardboard-backed variety , the fourth a blue leather-bound volume that Luce recognised . |
| 24 | The president vainly suggested Courtney , then Partridge , though like all three of them the record holder is from the North-East . |
| 25 | pounds for that griddle there 's so and so 's money and there 's the money for the flowers all in these little bags of money , been counting out all this money and they got home seven o'clock that night and he was then do n't know where he was going with me erm but they piles in the car all three of them the girls have got ta have a shower so they stayed there and er ooh I know where they was going ! |
| 26 | That 's why they are determined to triumph on Tuesday and lift themselves into a respectable position in Group Three from which the favourites to qualify are Spain , Denmark and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 27 | The third in the trilogy was Akhnaten ( 19830 in which the singers had to contend with ancient Egyptian , Babylonian Akkadian , biblical Hebrew and the language of the country in which the performance was taking place . |
| 28 | After the liberation , elections were held in 1946 in which the Communists gained thirty-eight per cent of the national vote . |
| 29 | These did , in fact , seem to be settled by a plebiscite held in May 1870 in which the people were asked to approve ‘ … the reforms carried through since 1869 by the Emperor with the assistance of the major organs of state ( i.e. the Senate and the Legislative Body ) ’ . |
| 30 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. considered In re O. and the decision of this House in Attorney-General v. Times Newspapers Ltd. [ 1992 ] 1 A.C. 191 upon which the plaintiffs relied . |