Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No 15 , a 2-6-2T loco built in Nivelles , Belgium in 1948 for the Jokioisten Railway in Finland stands stored in Llanfair station yard . |
| 2 | Oak is a ‘ Severner Motor ’ built by Charles Hill in 1934 for the Severn & Canal Carrying Company . |
| 3 | In the wartime agreement on pooling brains and resources for the original work on the atomic bomb , which was signed at Quebec in 1943 between the United States and Britain in association with Canada , there were five clauses : the signatories would not use atomic weapons against each other ; they would not use them against third parties without the others ' consent ; no information would be given to third parties without mutual consent ; Britain disclaimed any interest in commercial and industrial exploitation , because the heavy burden of production would fall on the United States ; and a Combined Policy Committee would be set up to ensure full and effective collaboration . |
| 4 | He scored 109 as the West Indies reached 225–3 in their second innings after being dismissed for only 183 and following-on . |
| 5 | The archosaurs took over from the mammal-like reptiles about two-thirds through the Triassic . |
| 6 | WELL , I see Man Utd and Arsenal put on a thrilling match ending 4–4 for the David O'Leary Testimonial earlier this week . |
| 7 | The nurses involved in the IMS survey carried out in 1986 for the RCN gave a clear impression of what they regarded as the important features of the work situation : " good job security " , " good atmosphere " , and " doing a worthwhile job " were cited as by far the most important . |
| 8 | In complete contrast to the Nemausus project ( see previous page ) , Nouvel teamed up with Philip Starck ( Nouvel frequently invites other artists and designers to work on projects ) to produce the sleekest of designs in 1986 for the Tokyo Opera House . |
| 9 | At a by-election in the Usakan constituency , UMNO 's candidate , Tun Datuk Mustapha Harun , won 5,670 votes as against 3,100 for the PBS . |
| 10 | The sensitivity of the assay ( defined as minimal amount of CCK-8 that could be distinguished from zero with 85% confidence ) was 0.2 pmol , and the recovery of CCK-8 and CCK-33 through the SepPak and assay procedure was 79% . |
| 11 | The weapons , whose removal had been agreed during a meeting in 1986 between the West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the then US President Ronald Reagan , were expected to be shipped for incineration to Johnston Atoll in the Pacific [ see pp. 37658-59 ] . |
| 12 | They got their way , and the building opened in 1986 as the Foothill Communities Law and Justice Center , about 100 kilometres east of Los Angeles . |
| 13 | From 1962 to 1971 during the Vietnam War , the Americans spread some 72 million litres of herbicide from the air , mostly Agent Orange and similar preparations . |
| 14 | Taking the period 1960–80 for the United States , he estimated that if during these twenty years no-one died ( a most extreme assumption ) before reaching the retirement age of 65 , then the labour force would be 4.8 per cent bigger than projected and the growth rate of national product would be 0.20 per cent higher per annum . |
| 15 | The painting , which depicts a relaxed group of men at the edge of a riverbank , was bought from Eakins 's widow in 1925 for the Fort Worth Museum of Art , later the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth . |
| 16 | The return of the aircraft went against a European Community embargo on arms to Libya imposed in 1986 after the United States had accused Tripoli of sponsoring international terrorism . |
| 17 | In Karnataka at least 16 people , mostly Tamils , were reported killed in violent incidents on Dec. 11-13 after the Cauvary [ River ] Water Dispute Tribunal ordered the state to allocate a significant amount of water annually to Tamil Nadu . |
| 18 | The Ford Motor Company , which two years ago chose the Motorola 88000 as the RISC processor for its electronic engine control modules in preference to Intel Corp ( UX No 338 ) , has , as predicted ( UX No 374 ) , switched its allegiance to Motorola/IBM Power PC architecture . |
| 19 | The new grouping , known as the Alliance , consisted of the Democratic Party ( also known as the New Zealand Democratic Party , founded in 1953 as the New Zealand Social Credit Political League ) ; the New Labour Party ( NLP ) ; the Green Party of Aotearoa ( founded in 1972 as the New Zealand Values Party ) ; and the New Zealand Self-Government Party ( Manu Motuhake o Aotearoa ) , an organization designed to achieve greater political and economic autonomy for the country 's 400,000 indigenous Maori population . |
| 20 | The project got a name : TBM , for Tarbes/Mooney , 700 for the Pratt and Whitney PT6A-64 's power output ( in fact , the engine is good for nearly 1,500 shp , but heavily de-rated to conserve take-off power up to 23,000 feet ) . |
| 21 | In these cells the cervical protein which has a higher affinity than Oct-1 for the URR ( 15 ) will bind to the octamer motif . |
| 22 | at the time ) could be fixed to show service numbers 16 and 18 , with later 2 for the Thornton Heath service . |
| 23 | ANOTHER capacity crowd is assured at Twickenham on May 2 for the Pilkington Cup final when Bath and Harlequins meet for an almighty battle . |
| 24 | Nor is this merely constitutional or political theory , divorced from reality , for without doubt the election in 1985 for the GLC would have turned very largely on this issue and on the view taken of the controversial Labour administration at County Hall during its four years in office . |
| 25 | Definitive contracts had been signed in July 1985 for the Mirage fighters and in January 1987 for the F-16Cs [ see p. 35130 ] . |
| 26 | Jack Straw , Labour Party spokesman on education , claims that in the first instance the Education Reform Bill gave the Secretary of State 175 new powers , but that these increased to 415 during the Bill 's passage through Parliament . |
| 27 | Ellsworth Kelly first saw Paris in 1944 at the age of twenty-one after the Normandy landing ; the young marine can not have imagined then how important that city was to be to his artistic career . |
| 28 | The crisis began in October 1985 after the ITC 's buffer stock ran out of funds , leaving gross debts of £900 million and tin prices tumbling from £9,000 a tonne to £3,500 a tonne by the middle of 1986 [ see pp. 34518-20 ] . |
| 29 | It was only recently that a police presence had been withdrawn from No. 22 after the Pitt deaths . |
| 30 | of the capital of such companies to be held by nationals was contrary to article 67 of the E.E.C . |