Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Villeneuve and Scheckter managed to score just eight points between them during the 1980 season and the reigning world champion failed even to qualify for one race . |
| 2 | And yeah , they 've gone and re-credited me for the fifteen pound ! |
| 3 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 4 | Tell me about the one day schools for school teachers that you run . |
| 5 | It was only towards the end of my time in Spain , when we were in Ciudad Rodrigo for the Festival Taurino , that we once , quite by accident , found ourselves in the 69 position and went through with it successfully . |
| 6 | There are two options open to us : we can either mount a much more restricted display in the Library than originally hoped ( restricting ourselves to the two display cases in the Barrel Vault leading to the foot of the main staircase ) , or we can examine the possibility of creating a panel-mounted display which would go on show both in the Library and in other venues . |
| 7 | Opinion polls , which as the 1970 election proved , are often wrong . |
| 8 | STOCK broking analysts are about to start making choices about which of the 10 water authorities being floated in early December are worth investing in . |
| 9 | It is not an argument over which of the two screening strategies will confer the greater medical benefit . |
| 10 | Access to entry text is controlled by the Entry and/or Lemma tables which enable the required entry and its current version to be identified , and by the Range table , which specifies in which of the 40 Text tables the material is to be found . |
| 11 | ‘ The dividing line , ’ writes Ann Dummett in British Nationality Law , a Briefing paper on the Government 's Green Paper , ‘ between the two is to be almost exactly the same as the line which under the 1971 Immigration Act separates UK and colonies citizens with a right of entry to the UK ( patrials ) from those citizens who are subject to immigration control ( non-patrials ) . ’ |
| 12 | The same is true , mutatis mutandis , of France , Switzerland and the Benelux countries , which in the 1958–71 period together absorbed another 2,000,000 foreign workers into their proletariat . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , Meacher was only acting : he was playing himself in the 1985 TV drama Edge of Darkness , which the BBC is repeating . |
| 14 | And he can finish a golden year late next summer with the much-awaited showdown against Chris Eubank , who took Benn 's WBO middleweight title nearly two years ago before moving up himself to the 12 stone limit . |
| 15 | The Duke of Windsor in his chart had Neptune — which on the one hand is a spiritual , artistic and creative but on the other hand is chaos , erosion and sacrifice . |
| 16 | He said the country had been ‘ stunned ’ last week by the prospect of a government which on the one hand said Parliament would make the decision on ratification , but on the other that the Government would use the Royal Prerogative ‘ to avoid any voice , any vote , and decision by Parliament ’ . |
| 17 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 18 | The United Kingdom , which at the 1989 conference in Malaysia had been isolated because of its opposition to a declaration calling for an intensification of sanctions against South Africa , took a lead in Harare on several issues . |
| 19 | It 'll be four hundred and fifty of them against the fifty enemy horse waiting there , and easy enough , you would think . |
| 20 | In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved . |
| 21 | Your objectives should be every time somebody says no , thank you for the fifty pound . |
| 22 | Crosby , who still has no guarantees of landing the job on a permanent basis even after guiding the club to the FA Cup Final , was concerned to see uncertainty show itself during the 2–0 defeat at Grimsby . |
| 23 | Patients with none of the five risk factors had a four week healing rate of 82.7% ( 95% CI 77.7 , 87.7% ) whereas those with two of the five risk factors had four week healing rates ranging from 50.0% to 64.9% ( Table IV ) . |
| 24 | None of the 62 buffer only polymerase chain reaction negative controls , run with each set of polymerase chain reaction triplicates , produced false-positives . |
| 25 | There was disappointment , however , as it became clear that none of the 10 water companies are likely to get into the FTSE index of the hundred biggest companies . |
| 26 | Notwithstanding its measure of success nationally , the Congress ( I ) did badly in the Hindi heartland state of Uttar Pradesh , winning only Rajiv Gandhi 's former seat at Amethi , and none of the 17 state assembly seats being contested at the same time in that state . |
| 27 | While the economic forecasts are issued to the business units to be use d in their plans , none of the four planning departments insist that the numbers must be adhered to . |
| 28 | None of the three drug users negative for HIV with pneumonia was admitted to hospital . |
| 29 | Trade union-sponsored MPs , who in the 1935 Parliament had accounted for more than half the party , were now less than a third of the total . |
| 30 | CAMPAIGN from Empire attempts to defeat this division , by allowing you on the one hand to be in control of complete military formations and make strategic decisions , and then as your valiant troops come into contact with the enemy allow you to drop down into each tank and fight for glory . |