Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 2 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 3 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 4 | Outside the press , groups developed in the 1970s and 1980s from several directions . |
| 5 | Among the most beautiful are the ‘ Morgenlied ’ ( track 3 ) and the autumn song , Phoebus hunting with his horses ; the freedom given to the three vocal parts is a conspicuous feature of the latter . |
| 6 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 7 | They will now be exhibited in a series of large display cases arranged around the seven circular balconies on the fourth floor . |
| 8 | We used to have House matches at the Hurlingham track , and I remember one afternoon competing in the 100 , 200 and 400 metres and the three jumps — high , long and triple . |
| 9 | This year 's theme is Museums and the Environment and a database will be set up on projects completed for the 18 May . |
| 10 | Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 11 | At the top of the list of reasons for developing communal ranches in Tanganyika Masailand given in the 1955 Annual Report was ‘ Closer control of the Masai ’ . |
| 12 | However disagreements arose between the two parties and after taking legal advice Mr Manners challenged the terms of the Licence and argued that his occupation had all the rights of a protected tenancy . ’ |
| 13 | Various activities developed during the 1890s and early 1900s . |
| 14 | If six garages are now placed over the five cars on the top shelf ( leaving one garage empty ) , and four garages placed over the four cars on the bottom shelf ( all garages being full ) , then about one in three four-year-olds now maintain that the bottom shelf has more cars . |
| 15 | That committee , which had its first meeting last month , will examine progress on local programmes and will co-ordinate action in response to joint plans developed by the two cross-border communities . |
| 16 | But Mr Fallon has replied , saying he was ‘ puzzled ’ at her request that the Government matched the funding given by the Two Castles Housing Association . |
| 17 | Such clinics burgeoned under the 1991 general practitioner contract , but there is no evidence that they detect or deal with disease more effectively than case finding within ordinary consultations . |
| 18 | Increasingly all institutions catering for the 16–19 age group will need to run a ‘ mixed economy ’ — preparing students for entry into higher education or for employment . |
| 19 | T n regions are not affected by the antibiotic and that the major cleavage products correspond to the two GC steps . |
| 20 | 46 ) oratory developed in the 460s , a result of the fall of the tyrants in Sicily , an event which prompted litigation about landownership . |
| 21 | NO Hollywood script writer could have conjured up a story to compare with the one Michael Galwey has produced and starred in . |
| 22 | On the right is the entrance to Newington Crescent where Nicholson and Maule lived during the 1850s . |
| 23 | The permission given by the 1969 Act for no-fault divorce was driven as much by a profound rethinking of the sources of morality by clerical and academic opinion as by the determined pursuit of individual self-interest on the part of either the population at large or lawyers in particular . |
| 24 | By 1824 she had lost all her American empire except for Cuba and Puerto Rico , while in metropolitan Spain the struggle waged in the thirties between constitutionalists and traditionalists was to reduce the core of the monarchy to bankruptcy and near anarchy . |
| 25 | Thalidomide , the drug prescribed in the Fifties for morning sickness , is the most infamous example . |
| 26 | Although cholecystitis stopped in the three months follow up in that case , we did not consider this technique for our patient because of her history of fistulas . |
| 27 | Traditional local economic policies developed during the 1970s have been replaced by two new forms of economic strategy , labelled by observers ‘ restructuring for capital ’ and ‘ restructuring for labour ’ . |
| 28 | In Britain , a number of projects developed in the 1970s with the objective of bringing together socialists , trade unionists and community activists . |
| 29 | In March I joined a CPRW delegation which met the senior Welsh Office planners and statisticians to find out more about the basis of the population and future housing projections given to the eight Welsh counties by the Secretary of State for inclusion in their Structure Plans . |
| 30 | The unity witnessed over the two days had been greater than he could ever have hoped for , and the remaining morning 's session of ‘ rounding up ’ would , he trusted , be rich in commitments on the part of participants concerning action each would be taking before the important international conference in Switzerland . |