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

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1 Straight chemical fertilizers are for the most part designed to provide the three major elements nitrogen , phosphate and potash , and seldom if ever contain any of the minor elements .
2 Anxieties about the START treaty and Russia 's financial capacity to meet its provisions , and also those of a more radical accord concluded with the USA in June [ see pp. 38985-86 ] , were compounded after the Russian Deputy Defence Minister Boris Gomov acknowledged that the government had thus far found only part of the funds needed to implement the 30 per cent cut in nuclear arsenals required under START .
3 To complete the process actual performance must be compared budgeted performance , any variations understood and action taken to bring the two into line .
4 The joke session helped relax the two Nicks and everybody in the group played well .
5 Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955–61 expansion .
6 In the week leading up to the Fayre the committee spends most days at the Sports ground doing the million and one last minute jobs and testing the games .
7 If you have a 2.25 the cost of a new 2.5 head is not economically viable , so the alternative is to have the head machined to take the 2.5 inserts ( ETC 6278 ) at £6.58 each plus VAT and probably £50 to £75 to have the head reconditioned at the same time .
8 Will he consider the staffing levels needed to cost the billions of pounds of wholly uncosted pledges made by the Opposition day after day , week after week ?
9 Neighbours helped wake the two pensioners .
10 The health authority involved says the two are not connected , but Mrs Friel 's family want a public inquiry .
11 The example tested has the two tank system .
12 I think we 'd find Mr Churchill that it it 's rather more complex than that and and the requirements for delivering a nuclear weapon and you refer to the possibility of C A S O M being nuclear capable , one has to be fairly careful quite a , there 's a degree of difference between a missile needed to do the two jobs and I think it would be rather more than wiring which would be er at issue here , there 's the payload and all the rest of it which I suspect would cause very severe problems with that .
13 I do n't know how that man managed to get the two edges to meet but he did a wonderful job on it !
14 This is especially true if a piece of evidence with a very strong and obvious bias is used , or if two contrasting views of the same event are chosen and the pupils encouraged to compare the two .
15 The vehicles required to meet the 1998 California deadline can certainly be made available and are likely to be a mix of both battery and hybrid vehicles .
16 The mathematics required to convert the two voltages back into angles and hence into an actual position on the baseboard are relatively complex but once the relationship has been established the system can be made self-calibrating .
17 A second indirect way of validating the regressions is to produce models relating population to 1981 land cover calibrated using the 1971 populations .
18 The time taken to prepare the two works is therefore , roughly speaking , 50 years for the OED and 28 years for the Supplement .
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