Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] the [num] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And how would it be if we offered a slight reduction for buying the two tickets together ?
2 The report also outlined areas in which implementation of the White Paper had been delayed , including the publication of strategic reviews of nuclear and renewable energy , both of which had been postponed , and the failure of many local authorities to publish plans for achieving the 25 per cent recycling target .
3 Similarly , the cut-off value of 5.5 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum urea patients had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 38% , and positive predictive value of 73% for separating reversible renal failure from CRF , and a cut-off value of 0.2 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum creatinine ratio had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 58% , and positive predictive value of 80% for separating the two conditions .
4 This implicit acceptance of the wider consequences of removing the right to abortion — opinion surveys showed consistent majority support for retaining the 1973 precedent — together with the emergence of the three-member centrist bloc on the Court , threw doubt on the widespread assumption that it was only a matter of time before the Court eventually overturned Roe v. Wade .
5 Well there is there is an argument that says if P As do the twenty six five work , or the bulk of it , that Sarah might be a one team complaint examiner .
6 I was going to say that , I mean if we do do that why do n't we move to a position when , I know it 's not finalized yet , the P As do the twenty six fives , and we try and adapt Sarah to do the whole s the whole of the four sub teams , ma maybe the threshold has to come down a bit , but but at least we 've got some sort of parity of working throughout
7 Similarly , a cut-off value of 2.6 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum urea ratio had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 76% , and positive predictive value of 65% for distinguishing the two conditions , and a cut-off value of 0.15 for the carbamylated haemoglobin/serum creatinine ratio had a sensitivity of 100% , specificity of 73% , and positive predictive value of 63% .
8 Atkinson 's close friend , Chris Kiwomya , will be back for the home side after missing the 3-1 win over Manchester City at Portman Road on Saturday with flu .
9 While he ran thorough hands and eyes over his shattered body , Kathleen started cleaning up the chest area ready for the heart monitor after checking the IV line that was running in Haemacel and taking blood for cross-matching , dodging round the radiographer who had brought the portable in and was taking X-rays .
10 We have an excellent reputation in Oxfordshire as an Education Authority erm and a reputation which extends around the country , so I do see it as a vote of confidence , and I am very pleased about it , but I do think that the whole exercise was somewhat premature in the light of the erm research and investigation that was going on into the tertiary college , and indeed the consulting process actually ran through at the same time as the campaign was running on whether the Banbury School should opt out , and erm regrettably I think has lost something as a result of having the two run together .
11 So it was without surprise that he found himself sharing with her one of the tinny , open-sided cars of the creaky old funicular that saved tourists the toil of climbing the seven hundred and more steep stone steps up from the Marina Grande .
12 In post-race interviews Dickinson emphasized the difficulties of getting a horse fit and ready for the Gold Cup , let alone winning it , and he confided that the stress and tension of training the five had caused him to lose a stone in weight since Christmas .
13 Quigley started to pace up and down the room as the mass murderer , who had now leaped out of bed and on to the window-sill of his hospital suite , announced his intention of travelling the sixteen floors between him and the pavement without the aid of lift or stairs .
14 Some hope to provide one kind of course with the intention of killing the two proverbial birds with one stone .
15 Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time .
16 The effect of combining the two agonists , however , has received little attention .
17 Baldwin 's declaration for Protection had the immediate effect of reuniting the two sections of the Liberal Party around the historic cause of Free Trade , and Asquith and Lloyd George came together at public meetings to exchange insincere pleasantries .
18 A semantic relation may be set up either within a sentence or between sentences with the consequence that , when it crosses a sentence boundary , it has the effect of making the two sentences cohere with one another ( Halliday and Hasan 1976 ) .
19 There are probably many examples of instances in which Western technology has come up with a good idea which has the capability of helping the hundreds of millions of people in the Developing World .
20 In answering this criticism Prince Charles would have been of impeccable good manners in employing the seven degrees of retort by Touchstone outlined in Shakespeare 's As You Like It .
21 With their eyes on entering the 1995 World Cup qualifiers in the Asia/Pacific Zone ( the top two teams in September 's tournament will automatically qualify ) Taiwan are pinning their hopes on a two-week visit to Wellington , New Zealand .
22 We can allow for this effect by dropping the two from the strength equation which we have just derived , bearing in mind that we are in no position to quibble about exact values .
23 Gould 's nominations were more broadly based and he is gaining momentum by contesting the two posts at once .
24 The move was seen as an attempt to bolster the falling level of public support for his administration by addressing the two crucial issues of national unity and the economy .
25 What was the advantage of linking the two valleys and reservoirs by a tunnel ?
26 That equalised a classic 26th-minute volley from Danny Wallace , which had given Wednesday real hope of clearing the 3–1 first-leg deficit .
27 He also gave me his own way of planning little dialogues , and his technique of distinguishing the three tones of the language , which could alter the meaning of what looked to an English eye to be the same word , often with unexpected , humorous or even disastrous effect .
28 But the training that had been such a part of his life , the long hours of studying the Twelve Books of Honour for entry into the Fiana at the age of eleven ; the days and the weeks spent schooling his mind so that all situations could be calmly appraised , came to his aid and , at length , exhausted and drained , Fergus began to look about him and assess this strange , out-of-the-world fortress .
29 THE LICENCE for Britain 's fifth television channel may never be awarded if applicants can not provide a convincing plan for retuning the three million video recorders likely to suffer interference , the Independent Television Commission said yesterday .
30 And the light room the machine case where the machine for revolving the five the lens which er weighed about five tons and there were this machine revolved the lens and it was machine was solid brass erm just which had to be polished e e every week and er oh beautiful brass polished brass and nobody ever saw these things you know except maybe the commissioners when they came round no no visitors there .
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