Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country . |
| 2 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 3 | Thus , if on the one hand the ‘ civilizing ’ role of the Russians in Siberia should not be belittled , neither should too much credence be given to nationalistic claims put forward in Russian accounts of the subject , whether before or after the 1917 Revolution . |
| 4 | There is little talk of film as ‘ film ’ , television as ‘ television ’ or of the two forms as different but connected social processes . |
| 5 | Without entering into the substantive details of the agreement or of the 1990 convention for its application , which appears not yet to have entered into force , it may be noted that it sets out rules for crossing the signatory states ' frontiers not just for their own citizens but also for citizens of all EC Member States , and the Convention of Application distinguishes between treatment at the internal and external borders of the signatory states . |
| 6 | In Cuba , for example , ‘ figures of the Wars of Independence , like Marti and Maceo , or of the 1933 revolution [ against the dictator Machado ] … give the revolution legitimacy by linking it with the historic past and , at least in the case of the heroes of 1933 , they have been in a very real sense the inspiration of the present revolutionary leaders , to a far greater degree than Marx and Lenin' ( Lambert : 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 7 | Most disliked are dangerous chemicals , whether brought in openly or like the 41 barrels of dioxin waste , a legacy of the 1976 explosion at Hoffmann-La Roche 's Seveso plant , that turned up in 1983 in a Paris abattoir having passed through umpteen subcontractors on the way . |
| 8 | A are you still intending to favour internal spending vis-a-vis acquisition opportunities on the basis that acquisitions are just too overpriced or with the eleven percent gearing do you think you will be er jumping at the bit a bit fairly soon ? |
| 9 | When not in conflict with the parties ' agreement or with the CMI Rules , the Uniform Rules of Conduct for the Interchange of Trade Data by Teletransmission ( UNCID ) also govern the parties ' conduct . |
| 10 | If Judge Galpin 's interpretation of the Act and the Rules is correct , it drives a coach and horses straight through an enormously important area of child protection within family relationships ; that is to say , the ability to prevent an abduction and the ability to prevent the possibility of an abduction , or to restore a child who has been abducted to the home where the child should be , unless or until the 21 days service or other abbreviated service has been effected , by which time it may be in certain cases far too late for the welfare of the child . |
| 11 | In the universities , where in the sixties rioting students and the educated tele-celebrities of the ‘ chattering classes ’ had commanded public attention , there were now dormant , apolitical students anxious only for their future employment , and embittered lecturers suffering a crisis of morale and lamenting the bureaucratic invasion of time traditionally left for teaching and research . |
| 12 | No fathers were monitored for exposure at around the time of their child 's conception , or in the four years preceding their child 's conception . |
| 13 | The guidance that we give below , under six headings , is therefore to be considered together with all the statutory and other rules and recommendations set out by Parliament , or in the 1991 guide , which takes the form of a practice direction as to costs in criminal proceedings , and which also includes , at appendix 3 , the formal Practice Direction of 3 May 1991 as to costs in criminal proceedings : Practice Direction ( Crime : Costs ) [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 498 . |
| 14 | As far as I can discover from replies received or from the 1959 College Register the rest of us , either from choice or to fulfil the conditions of grants or the needs of wartime , became teachers , the length of our service varying accordingly . |
| 15 | It is not appropriate to apply a 60% allowance to the Structure Plan requirement of 2,500 per annum in the period 1991–96 or to the five year housing land supply . |
| 16 | To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor . |
| 17 | Except for the two hours when you went out and drove round to Boundary Drive . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Except for the two unfortunates buried in your churchyard . ’ |
| 19 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 20 | Except for the two men , there are no family or friends present . |
| 21 | His voluminous political correspondence was purchased from her by Peel 's literary executors , the fifth Earl Stanhope and Edward , Viscount Cardwell [ qq.v. ] , and destroyed except for the two volumes incorporated in the Peel papers , now in the British Library , and letters of his own retained by Lord Stanhope . |
| 22 | Except for the two quarters at each end , we can examine residuals and comment on any that are unduly large , indicating observations badly represented by the proposed model of trend and seasonality . |
| 23 | We went in gingerly but as far as one could tell the floor was solid except for the one strip over the missing bit of beam . |
| 24 | That 's right , but Locke was turning it on , on occasion and and just could n't strike at all , except for the one wicket , if he bowled quicker and quicker he might have been in trouble . |
| 25 | Everyone went wild with laughter again , except for the three men above us , who received such a jolt that they nearly released their macabre cargo onto our heads . |
| 26 | But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games . |
| 27 | We can say , then , that between the two codes involved — Baroque and rock — there are differences but also a relatively high syntactic correlation . |
| 28 | As measures of relative prosperity , the number of households with three or more cars in Easton is more than double that for the two district council areas in which it is located , and the quality of the housing stock and amenities is higher , with the proportion of households in Easton which have use of only an outside flush toilet being half that of the general area . |
| 29 | Figure 3 shows that for the nine patients as a group , there was a linear relation between the mean plasma gastrin during infusion of G17 plotted on a log scale and the mean acid output at each of the G17 doses . |
| 30 | ‘ For me , being single-minded meant that for the eight months of the racing season every other aspect of my life was put on hold , ’ Vitor began , ‘ apart from the construction company . |