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

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1 First , he must regain support abroad , stop the economy from re-entering the tailspin in which he found it and reconquer the two-thirds of the country lost to an undeclared civil war , without driving new recruits into the arms of the guerrillas .
2 Armand Roy , were to be deployed in 10 observation posts on both sides of the " walls of sand " which Morocco had built since 1981 to enclose the two-thirds of the Western Sahara which was under its control .
3 The transformations that made the 740 into the 940 — a more rounded rump with a bigger boot , a more modern , 960-like facia , bigger brakes and more front headroom — are all worthwhile , and the 940 SE Turbo is solid , well built , generously equipped and decently rapid .
4 The Everyman is making this exclusive offer to the Echo to promote the two for the price of one Bard Card ticket , which operates for its own Shakespearian production , Much Ado About Nothing , until Friday .
5 The Clothes Show Magazine team recreate the Sixties at the NEC in Birmingham
6 Instead of slapping me down , as any surgeon could quite reasonably have done in those circumstances , and particularly a surgeon with his reputed bite , he said simply , ‘ Not having seen them , I ca n't truthfully answer you , but from what I 've heard the two in the black car should have a fair chance .
7 But what is not stated or even suggested by the early Turkish sources is that Fahreddin Acemi succeeded Molla Yegan ; there is , in fact , nothing to connect the two except the fact that Molla Yegan succeeded to the and that Fahreddin Acemi became Mufti .
8 The original 147 clauses were expanded and added to , becoming the 238 of the legislation .
9 It was after hours , but he noted with pleasure that the letters would catch the 5.30 post the next morning .
10 The embassy , suspecting infiltration of agents provocateurs from the Cuban security forces , had sought to isolate the seven from the rest .
11 The leaders decided to observe the 1990s as the " decade of the girl child " and to incorporate the recommendations of the September 1990 World Summit for Children [ see p. 37732 ] .
12 It would be tedious to quote and consider every one of the tributes that Pound paid to Binyon .
13 In that ninety seconds I want every one of the 13 million viewers to concentrate on the speaker — not on someone else scratching their nose in the background .
14 SCOTTISH golf professional Dale Reid yesterday sank a hole-in-one in the final round of the Alpine Australian Ladies Masters on Australia 's Gold Coast .
15 No need to accept every one of the invitations which kept on being delivered because of Amabel 's fear of giving offence .
16 THE world 's airlines say that they have carried a billion of the 5.5 billion people on Earth .
17 He had seen every room in every house , and had personally interviewed every one of the old baron 's servants , and all of his senior employees .
18 Rufus overtook a bus going to Colchester and dropped the two in the back so that they could catch it .
19 And put the X's along the bottom and that tells her that you love her and you 're thinking of her . ’
20 So what time is twenty thirty put the just put the eight under the twelve there .
21 Sentencing the three at the High Court in Edinburgh , Lord Milligan said that the helpless victim could easily have died .
22 He likens the Nineties to the Sixties .
23 At the moment there are no plans to sell the AZ-1 in the UK .
24 Attempts were made to sell the PC-5 to the USAAC , but they showed no interest , due to the use of strategic materials .
25 That 's about the going rate for the pros who have yet to crack the top-25 on the money list , wherein lies what is known in these parts as " the long green " ( and we mean the colour of dollar bills , not a snake of a putting surface ) .
26 Then their opponents scored a five on the seventh end and played with increasing confidence .
27 If we subsequently put a 0 on the D input then apply a clock pulse .
28 I think I put a nine in the box .
29 Er , Barbara , Birmingham Region , speaking against one one one , one one A , the amendment to rule A five with the support of the Birmingham Region .
30 There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye .
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