Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other four candidates for the April 9th poll are Michael Mates ( Conservative ) , Jim Phillips ( Labour ) , Sue Baring ( Liberal Democrat ) and Ian Foster ( Green ) . |
| 2 | Torrance arrived in time yesterday for nine holes practice behind the pro-am field and like the rest of the contenders for the £41,660 first prize was delighted by the condition of this Donald Steel-designed course amid the pines . |
| 3 | Rosenthal scored seven goals for the Reds last season in 36 appearances , although in many of those games he was either substituted or came on . |
| 4 | The former Wrexham starlet hit 31 goals for the Deesiders last season , despite only joining them in October . |
| 5 | But other things took people unawares : the set devoted to the music of the Second Viennese School , the Mahler Sixth , and in the fullness of time the great recordings of the Mahler Ninth and a fine Nielsen Fourth . |
| 6 | His continued absence increases speculation that Arsenal 's David Seaman will step out of his shadow for the first time in 18 months against the Poles next week . |
| 7 | Champions North-West stood head and shoulders above the rest last year , the only side to remain unbeaten and with the same squad available , will take all the beating once again . |
| 8 | THE Government whipped its supporters into the Lords last night to defeat a final attempt by Labour to give shareholders the right to decide on company donations to political parties . |
| 9 | Jaguar sold 21,000 cars in the US last year , well shy of the 82,000 sold by Mercedes-Benz and the 72,500 of its German rival BMW . |
| 10 | He describes a comparison between the word forms found in a sample of text taken from the New York Times Newswire Service and those listed as entries in the Merriam-Webster Seventh Collegiate Dictionary , which showed that 64% of the words in the text were not in the dictionary . |
| 11 | AS WITNESS the hands of duly-authorised signatories for the parties on the date first mentioned above |
| 12 | Skaters on the rink last night were given only minutes to leave before it was suddenly shut down . |
| 13 | Fire caused minor damage to two wooden sheds at the Choppington first school in Northumberland . |
| 14 | If the Secretary of State accepts an agreement between all the parties at the Inquiry last May , the IHM will take over an additional eight acres of Weston Airport , including the original 1936 control tower along with other building which will provide the space for expansion and improvement of the facilities already on offer at the Museum 's present four acre site . |
| 15 | The MPs joined port chiefs from Larne to lobby Ministers and other parties at the Commons last night to press for better transport links . |
| 16 | But Conservatives in the ruling coalition dislike the idea because they fear losses at the polls next year to the far-right Republicans . |
| 17 | GERALD Ratner 's dramatic resignation as boss of Britain 's biggest jewellers just four weeks before Christmas sent shock waves around the City last night . |
| 18 | Accounts of the emergence first of retirement and then of early retirement suggest that older people and , it must be said , particularly older men , have in fact been used as a reserve army of labour , to be tapped when labour is in short supply and to be shed when demand falls ( Graebner , 1980 ; Phillipson , 1982 ; Walker , 1985b ) . |
| 19 | Lloyd 's has already paid £620 million in the wake of Hurricane Andrew , which ripped through the southern states of the U.S. last August . |
| 20 | Again , all centres received copies of the Guidelines last summer , but additional copies are available at a modest cost . |
| 21 | Copies of the book Seventh Directive Options and their Implementation can be obtained , price £65 , directly from the publisher : |
| 22 | When the pound slipped through the fingers of the ERM last September and plunged in value against important trading currencies , it became Golden Wednesday instead . |
| 23 | To add insult to injury members should be aware that the Banks are now attempting to re-write the settlement proposals of the dispute last year by claiming a right to earlier opening . |
| 24 | Will Carling 's effort is a good record , although a little too caught up with imagined slights of the press last season . |
| 25 | Taking the question of the origins of the office first , one may adduce one important piece of negative evidence against the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti of Istanbul , namely the fact that , with one possible exception , none of the important Turkish sources relative to the ulema in general-including Katib Celebi himself , in his — or to the Muftilik in particular mentions that Hizir Bey became Mufti of Istanbul , although such as deal with his career are agreed that he became kadi of Istanbul at the conquest . |
| 26 | He was rummaging under the cushions of the armchair next to mine ; leafing through magazines , one after another , and discarding them . |
| 27 | One of the criticisms of the list last year was that it was weighted too heavily towards a younger generation , a generation that overall had not really accomplished very much . |
| 28 | There is , surprisingly , no specific encouragement for greening project areas in the Feet First proposals , though cleanliness is encouraged through poop-scoop schemes . |
| 29 | I 've put hot-water bottles in the room next to the bathroom . ’ |
| 30 | Oswestry thirds , pressing for honours in the reserve second division , suffered a 13 run reverse against Albrighton . |