Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , well these are substantial houses and I would imagine that for the six houses we could get twelve families , twelve families housed immediately , they 'd be substantial houses . |
| 2 | ‘ So I 'm really hoping for some sort of sponsorship for the eight months we 're away , ’ she added . |
| 3 | Or indeed they could be heading for the two peaks we had just thrashed . |
| 4 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 5 | But they said to us on that night ‘ unless we have the full £150,000 for the seven performances we 've done and the eighth which we are about to do we wo n't go on . ’ |
| 6 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
| 7 | During the four days we spent on Elgon we saw no other people and only one solitary gazelle . |
| 8 | During the two days we have as our base the international visitors lounge . |
| 9 | To measure the angle between the two lines we use a protractor . |
| 10 | If we are to admit similarities between the two modes we must not forget differences such as this that remain fundamental . |
| 11 | If we can not safely generalise even about the two districts we have come to know , still less , of course , can we generalise from East London to the rest of the country . |
| 12 | Th this type of thing until the , after the three months we had to pass an exam . |
| 13 | Particular concern is merited over the dominance of writing , especially where this is a tow-level , time-filling activity ; over the general failure to exploit the potential of collaborative activity — especially since every one of the sixty classrooms we visited in the classroom practice study used a grouping system of some kind ; and over the limited opportunities given to children for work-related talk of a challenging kind . |
| 14 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 15 | By switching from concentration on a few ‘ proof texts ’ in evangelism to a more balanced and comprehensive approach adopted by one of the four Gospels we might see better short and long-term results in our evangelism . |
| 16 | His concern is with the impact of technical change on two of the four factors we previously identified as potential sources of job satisfaction , namely social relations at work and the exercise of skill and knowledge . |
| 17 | While the first of the four examples we have quoted seems relatively trivial , the final two have more significance . |
| 18 | In one of the two cases we have considered — incest — the prohibition is paradoxically related to pre-cultural dispositions : it expresses their function , but not their content . |
| 19 | What would the two children we once were have thought of the two adults we had become ? |
| 20 | Figure 3.1 shows the joint variation of the two properties we have been talking about , and , of course , the possible values which any unit can take . |
| 21 | Sir , in making reference to erm policies which erm have relevance to the question of the status of the two sites we 're concerned with , I will start with those which are part of the statutory plan , that is to say the North Yorkshire County Structure Plan approved by the Secretary of State , and then proceed downwards to the more recent documents which do not employ . |
| 22 | By contrast , the analogous question in the case of postnominal attributives , aimed at a determiner and noun but omitting a following adjective , is not possible , as we can see from ( 22 ) , whichever of the two ways we try to do it ; and again this is predictable given the difference in structure . |
| 23 | It is difficult to estimate how many of these leaflets will be used subsequently but stocks of the 3 leaflets we have already reprinted ( Learning Disabilities , HIV/AIDS and Drugs ) stand at a quarter of the original print order . |
| 24 | The remaining two and a half thousand , because they come in on very much slower methods , can take up to two to three hours to reach Bracknell , but by the end of the three hours we have all the information that was available at any given hour of the day . |
| 25 | The nature of authority is explained by the combination of the three theses we are discussing . |
| 26 | On top of the three letters we always put the sign ( / ) which is short for the word " angle " . |
| 27 | I try to think of the three things we 'd identified for the for the fifteenth of September . |
| 28 | That will generate two out of the three things we want , that 's the contract and the cheque all right ? |
| 29 | Of the 89 records we scrutinised , only three were of patients with probable Alzheimer 's disease who had never been admitted to psychiatric hospital . |
| 30 | About every two months we send all the lot back and renew them . |