Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the conclusion of the first hearing , it came to your Lordships ' attention that an examination of the proceedings in Parliament in 1976 which lead to the enactment of sections 61 and 63 might give a clear indication which of the two rival contentions represented the intention of Parliament in using the statutory words . |
| 2 | I have referred , in my Introduction , to the venerable French chef who in the fifties pursued me and my Sunday Times cookery articles with a zeal worthy of a Spanish inquisitor . |
| 3 | Because the day unit concentrates on rehabilitation and has a fairly fast turnover none of the eight people who come to talk over tea or coffee has a relative attending the day hospital at the moment . |
| 4 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 5 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 6 | In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved . |
| 7 | In contrast none of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted ( p=0.007 compared to drug users who seroconverted ) and only three of the 177 ( 2% ) of the drug users negative for HIV ( p=0.0002 compared to drug users who seroconverted ) reported pneumonia in the preceding period . |
| 8 | He paid no attention whatsoever to the two men seated in the corner . |
| 9 | Education in the higher education sense is on the whole something for the eighteen to twenty-one-year-olds . |
| 10 | For comparison none of the 27 homosexual men who seroconverted for HIV , three out of 177 ( 2% ) drug users negative for HIV , and 10 out of 112 ( 9% ) drug users positive for HIV reported bacterial pneumonia . |
| 11 | By some miracle all three aircraft landed safely and by an even greater miracle none of the three pilots were wounded . |
| 12 | He said the country had been ‘ stunned ’ last week by the prospect of a government which on the one hand said Parliament would make the decision on ratification , but on the other that the Government would use the Royal Prerogative ‘ to avoid any voice , any vote , and decision by Parliament ’ . |
| 13 | Suddenly he exploded , yelled at the porter to buzz off , and broke union regulations by pushing the children 's luggage himself to the two West Indian women who were meeting them . |
| 14 | On Feb. 20 , 1990 , Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. , a brokerage firm which in the 1980s had successfully dealt in junk bonds until its collapse following insider dealing and fraud cases [ see pp. 36582-83 ] , officially filed for bankruptcy . |
| 15 | Big Stan , as he likes to call himself , is a retired physical education teacher and Langbaurgh district councillor who in the 1950s played outside left for Shildon , Redcar Albion and once or twice Darlington . |
| 16 | ‘ The dividing line , ’ writes Ann Dummett in British Nationality Law , a Briefing paper on the Government 's Green Paper , ‘ between the two is to be almost exactly the same as the line which under the 1971 Immigration Act separates UK and colonies citizens with a right of entry to the UK ( patrials ) from those citizens who are subject to immigration control ( non-patrials ) . ’ |
| 17 | Within the Tower 's walls stood its keep , the imposing White Tower which for the two hundred and fifty years since the reign of Henry the Third had been regularly whitewashed . |
| 18 | But it 's got a huge garden which with the two boys I think will be marvellous . |
| 19 | Crosby , who still has no guarantees of landing the job on a permanent basis even after guiding the club to the FA Cup Final , was concerned to see uncertainty show itself during the 2–0 defeat at Grimsby . |
| 20 | There was a silence none of the three brothers seemed inclined to fill . |
| 21 | In America Dr James Tyler Kent was appalled by such modifications , feeling that many of the practices which Hahnemann had campaigned against had crept into the practice of homoeopathy itself in the one hundred or so years since its rediscovery . |
| 22 | Nor had he been interviewed by any policeman or other official whatsoever during the five months of his stay in Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 23 | Firstly TBDFs are basically an extension across borders of a phenomenon which in the 1980S expanded dramatically at national level . |
| 24 | The consequence of this progressive decline in popularity has been not only a sustained attack on what are perceived as the inadequacies of communist ideology and the Soviet system itself in the 1980s ( and there is no more iconoclastic an exponent of this form of criticism than Nizan 's own grandson , Emmanuel Todd ) , but more specifically , a tendency to overplay the critically dissident aspects of Nizan 's life and work , and to pass over in silence the more constructive , orthodox communist slant of his writings . |
| 25 | If you take a facial expression anyone of the seven dwarfs and you want to try and give a dramatic idea how to present that face or that attitude to do it just by standing there without curtains opening on you and all that sort of thing it 's quite diffi , it 's quite difficult ! |
| 26 | Like most western European nations the UK divides between ‘ left ’ and ‘ right ’ : between the Labour party 's view of the world , in which an emphasis on public spending on welfare and infrastructure was closely associated with post-war urban and regional planning , and a Conservative party view which in the 1980s emphasized that free-market economic growth must come before state spending . |
| 27 | Whatever your taste , there 's bound to be something to interest you among the 3 collections of cigarette cards up for auction at Phillips in Oxford . |
| 28 | Two girls are born , one in Poland , one in France : their parents do n't know each other , there is no connection whatsoever between the two families , but the girls grow up identical in appearance , nature and character . |