Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations . |
| 2 | Latinos account for a third of its 9m odd residents . |
| 3 | Currently , hydrocarbons account for a third of Norway 's gross exports , 15 per cent of revenue and 17 per cent of Gross National Product . |
| 4 | FAXgrabber made about a tenth of the errors . |
| 5 | The presenter drained off the last of her gin and tonic and clinked the ice in the bottom of her glass . |
| 6 | Wood is the most important commodity in international trade after gas and petrol , though most of it is used in the country of origin and much of it very close to source , being the only source of fuel for warmth and cooking for a third of the developing world . |
| 7 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 8 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 9 | And you , my dear Mary , respected though your name is — you are insufficiently regarded as the first of that invaluable breed , preceeding them by at least one whole generation ! |
| 10 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 11 | Other 3000 boxes can be upgraded to a 987 with a board swap for a third of the cost of a new system . |
| 12 | I have a room booked for the thirtieth of July and I 'd like a word with the manager . |
| 13 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 14 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 15 | They were made to stand and wait in the first of these . |
| 16 | After their mauling of the Seasiders , Glenavon picked up £1 , from sponsors TNT for becoming the first side to score goals in the competition , with Trevor McMullan knocking in the sixth with two minutes left on the clock at Clandeboye . |
| 17 | An examination of the curricula of twenty LEAs enabled me to discover the word ‘ death ’ to be included in a third of the schemes for the different age groups from 7 to 14 , although tucked away beneath such general headings as ‘ Beliefs , Practices , Customs and Artefacts ’ ; ‘ Rites of Passage ( e.g. Initiation through Baptism , Burial Rites ’ ) ; ‘ Self-understanding ( e.g. Integrity , Pride , Humility , Loneliness , Suffering , Bereavement and Death ’ ) . |
| 18 | F.L.R. 237 , 245–246 , whether the case might not fall within the second of the two classes of case identified by Dixon J. in Yerkey v. Jones , 63 C.L.R. 649 . |
| 19 | Consequently , childbearing is concentrated within the first decade of married life ( 84 per cent of births within marriage in 1956–60 , 92 per cent in 1976 ) , and especially in the second half of the decade — 33 per cent of births occurred in the fifth to the ninth years of marriage in 1976 compared to 26 per cent in 1951–5 ( figure 4.11 ) . |
| 20 | I had to write to the next of kin . |
| 21 | The other one was that they would be th the direct debit re-present on the first of April would be running one day late erm which , as a consequence , means that the recall re-presents would come back one day late . |
| 22 | Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity . |
| 23 | I wonder if he 's looked in the minutes of the council er for this time twelve months ago er when we proposed a very similar amendment to the one that 's on the board there , the figures are reduced er but certainly lots of the areas are actually there and in fact if he looked back even further in the minutes he 'll see that it bears a striking resemblance to what we actually proposed on the fourteenth of February nineteen ninety one . |
| 24 | More than thirty works by Balla , Boccioni , Marini , Medardo Rosso , Fontana and Manzó figure in ‘ A Short History of Modern Italian Sculpture ’ opening on the 22nd at Baldaccio-Daverio and lasting until 6 June . |
| 25 | the sun rose on the last of Alamein . |
| 26 | He 's written Clare 's room , wallpapered on the first of June , that 's a bit optimistic , by Helen and Alistair . |
| 27 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 28 | A second tricky little pattern was appearing beside the first on Alice 's form . |
| 29 | date in your diary , you know , the draw 's happening on the thirtieth of November , and you know , er |
| 30 | The county chairman Brian Walsh said : ‘ We have a very full agenda for our scheduled meeting on October 26 so it was decided to meet on the 10th with cricket as the sole topic of discussion . ’ |