Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | To check you understand this , try drawing a diagram like Figure 15–4 for the meals industry . |
2 | Er , sixty five for breast , and I think they 're about fifty for the legs . |
3 | At a summit meeting in Krakow on Oct. 5-6 between the Presidents , Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of the " Visegrad Three " ( Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland ) , a co-operation treaty was signed by Presidents Vaclav Havel , Jozsef Antall and Lech Walesa . |
4 | ( This correlation is somewhat inflated by the number of topics which hardly anybody in either group dreamed about- but using only the 15 topics dreamed about by at least half of one of the groups still gives a fairly high correlation of + .63 between the groups . ) |
5 | As I said at the beginning , the National Health Services was born in 1948 through the efforts of the Labour Party , the first comprehensive free health service in the world . |
6 | These include snow and ice hazards , where impacts on transport and the need to plan road salting or gritting strategies are obvious ( see Perry et al. 1986 for the beginnings of a GIS approach ) . |
7 | In the Easington constituency in 1987 the taciturn W.J.Perry ( who fights again ) polled 7,757 for the Tories , just 16.3pc of the vote . |
8 | For example , the " going rate " in 1980 for the chairmen of the major industries ( gas , aerospace , shipbuilding , railways , coal , etc. ) was £48,000 , at a time when the top executives of BP , ICI and the like were earning between two and three times that amount , including bonuses but without accounting for various fringe benefits . |
9 | The draft agreement of November 1986 between the teachers ' unions and representatives of the local educational authorities indicates the extent to which ‘ formalism , is beginning to replace the informed individualism which once characterised English schools . |
10 | Note that , since player II receives - , if he wishes to maximise his own expected receipts , he will aim to minimise the expected receipts of I. For example , in the problem of Section 10.3 , we can re-interpret the columns of Table 10.1 as the actions available to Firm II , and Firm II seeks to choose the column with the smallest maximum entry . |
11 | I explained this ( J. Milroy , 1982b : 43 ) in relation to the simplification pattern in short /a/ ( see chapter 4.5 for the findings of this study ) , which we measured by using a three-way analysis of variance . |
12 | Conal Gregory , defending a majority of 147 for the Tories , is 9/4 . |
13 | So a family one-two for the Jelfs … and a fitting finish for the British powerboat season at Fairford . |
14 | As mentioned above , Lydney Park provides a terminus post quem of 367 for the mosaics excavated by Bathurst and King ( pls. 79 and 80 ) : a very late date which , recently , has been questioned . |
15 | 8.2 For the purposes of this Condition , " Force Majeure " means fire , explosion , flood , lightning , Act of God , act of terrorism , war , rebellion , riot , sabotage , or official strike or similar official labour dispute , or events or circumstances outside the reasonable control of the party affected thereby . |
16 | The RFAs calculated for each stimulus are shown in Table 1 and Table 2 for the subjects performing the task with and without shadowing respectively . |
17 | The mountain goat population was reduced from an estimated 100,000 to 50,000 between the years 1961–1981 . |
18 | On his failure to do so the local authority carried out the necessary work and served written demands on 31 May 1984 and 25 April 1985 for the costs incurred . |
19 | This was achieved in January 1208 after the princes , meeting at Augsburg in the autumn of 1207 , prevailed upon Philip to go to the pope as arbiter . |
20 | Some reliance was also placed on the fact that the 31 July bill did not comply with the requirements of section 67 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
21 | This is not a tenable interpretation of rule 12.12 of the Rules of 1986 , given the clear language of paragraph ( 1 ) of the rule and given also that by their nature proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986 can not be expected to be addressed by Ord. 11 , r. 1 . |
22 | Feare ( 1970a ) noted that 10000 of the egg capsules laid in rock pools of normal salinity hatched ; in contrast to only 2700 of the capsules laid in pools through which there was a freshwater run-off . |
23 | However , says Dr Collier , the infamous Section 118 of the Medicines Act means that the Department of Health 's Medicines Control Agency , unlike the American Food and Drugs Administration , ‘ can hide virtually all of their activities , including incompetence , behind a cloak of secrecy ’ . |
24 | The Department of Health has cultivated the myth for some years that section 118 of the Medicines Act is the only reason why it is prevented from explaining the decisions of the licensing authority in general or the recommendations of the Committee on Safety of Medicines , based on doctors ' reports of adverse reactions , in particular . |
25 | Whitley found that ‘ one-half of the directors of the largest industrial companies were former public schoolboys with one-sixth coming from Eton alone ’ ( Scott , 1982 , p. 173 ) . |
26 | Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment . |
27 | In fact , around one-half of the cases can be identified solely from the headlines as persons abusing their positions of trust . |
28 | Over one-half of the houses in rural districts of England are owned by their occupiers , whether outright or on a mortgage . |
29 | The CCA 's constitution provided that one-half of the profits remaining after the payment of interest on subscribed capital should be paid to the Agency 's workers as a bonus . |
30 | One-half of the trainees had derived more confidence from attending courses , ranging from ‘ now being able to feed lambs through a stomach tube ’ ( this from a 50-year old farmer who had had sheep for 30 years ) to ‘ the confidence to tackle all but the most difficult workshop repair jobs ’ . |