Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [num] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commentators noted that the collapse of communist power in the Soviet Union , following the August coup attempt there [ see pp. 38368-73 ] , had hastened the two countries ' moves towards normalization . |
| 2 | This was being built under the main road that divided the three nurses ' homes and the medical-school library from the hospital . |
| 3 | He was not given the 30 months ' notice provided for by his contract . |
| 4 | Although situated entirely in the Libyan section of the continental shelf , 10 per cent of the revenue from the field would be devoted to joint projects , including one to connect the two countries ' power grids , a 300-km motorway between Ras Jedir on the border and Sfax in Tunisia , and a pipeline linking the Libyan refinery in Zuwarah , 200 km west of Tripoli , with the Tunisian port of Zarzis . |
| 5 | As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 . |
| 6 | Given this premise , we should not be surprised to find the police are in the forefront of support for proposals such as the introduction of identity cards ; it was not surprising to find the 1988 Superintendents ' Association conference not only supporting this motion , but arguing for the creation of twenty-four hour armed patrols throughout the country and making a plea for a national motorway squad . |
| 7 | And her flights of memory are carried through lyric dance sequences that nicely exploit the five dancers ' fluent technique . |
| 8 | Article Five set out a number of principles governing the two states ' foreign policies . |
| 9 | A joint statement with Jawara reaffirmed the two Presidents ' commitment to the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) as an effective instrument of regional development . |
| 10 | In that case the judge passed a six months ' suspended prison sentence , allowing the defendant to walk free from the court . |
| 11 | In 1815 he visited Paris , in 1820 he made a six months ' visit to Italy , and in 1825 he was in Paris again , having been sent to supervise repairs at the British embassy . |
| 12 | The snub has sparked fears that the Clinton administration is about to put the two countries ' special relationship on hold in retaliation for Tory support of George Bush in the presidential campaign . |
| 13 | That company , 51pc owned by Renault and 49pc by Volvo , will hold 35pc of the Paris-based Renault/Volvo operating company , which will control the two firms ' car , truck and financial subsidiaries . |
| 14 | The successors to the landlords served a six months ' written notice to quit under section 25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 although they did not require the premises for their undertaking . |
| 15 | The next morning unslept I was up at five but because of rain it was much later when we started the six kilometres ' trail to the larger lake on the reserve . |
| 16 | He lost the ten years ' increments . |
| 17 | The two leaders on June 17 signed an unprecedented arms reduction agreement which would eventually cut the two powers ' nuclear arsenals by two-thirds , going far beyond the START treaty signed by President Bush and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in July 1991 [ see p. 38320 ] . |
| 18 | Rule No 19 Clients ' Monies |
| 19 | In the El Niño event of 1982–83 , 200 000 square km of Argentina was flooded and Peru lost a million dollars ' worth of potatoes , while Indonesia , Australia , and southern Africa experienced devastating drought . |
| 20 | Nearly 800 schoolchildren from all over Fife and Tayside attended the 1991 schools ' Christmas lecture organised by the Tayside Section , which was given in St Andrews University chemistry department on 16 December and Dundee Institute of Technology on 17 December 1991 . |
| 21 | But they will begin life by taking the 20 years ' accumulation of magnesium oxide cladding from around uranium fuel rods used in the Magnox reactors . |
| 22 | Unscrupulous operators took the two months ' imprisonment in their stride . |
| 23 | In none of the 10 patients who completed the six months ' trial and none of the five patients who completed 12 months ' treatment was endoscopic improvement of the lesions seen . |
| 24 | NEC Corp is entering systems integration agreements with Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co in Japan , and plans to offer the two companies ' RISC-based servers alongside its personal computers : it says its primary focus will be the market for multimedia systems . |
| 25 | The work-entered team won the twenty-four hours ' race at Le Mans in the years 1927–30 . |
| 26 | Chris Morris , one of the teachers involved , describes how the project was organised , how pupils responded and how the project altered the two groups ' conceptions of each other . |
| 27 | The policeman on crossing duty had taken the 30 runners ' numbers : ‘ We are checking numbers with race officials who were also near the crossing and the runners involved will be interviewed with a view to prosecution , ’ Sergeant Lawton said . |
| 28 | My parole finishes in nine days and then I start a nine months ' suspended sentence . |
| 29 | An increasing number of monasteries and convents offer an eight days ' Ignatian retreat where the focus is on personal Bible meditation . |
| 30 | Andrew captains London against reigning Divisional champions Midlands at Wasps , while Barnes leads South West against North at Leeds , significant re-instatements for both players in a competition used by the national selectors to formulate the Five Nations ' squad . |