Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the remainder are in the 40–70 range , with the highest grades reaching almost average mental ability . |
| 2 | The parents of otaku are from the Sixties generation , very democratic and tolerant . |
| 3 | However , I do have an overdrive fitted and this makes a world of difference — comfortable cruising speed is in the 45–50 mph region . |
| 4 | Phillip believes the boat is worth the three years and thirty thousand pounds it has cost to restore it . |
| 5 | But the intention is for the 49 per cent Dutch government shareholding to be reduced later this year through an issue in Amsterdam , London , Frankfurt , Paris and New York . |
| 6 | With selections for most events being clear-cut , the main dilemma is over the one lap event . |
| 7 | The reporting of the crime is on the one hand an excuse for sexual titillation and on the other a misleading warning to women as to the circumstances in which they will be raped and how to avoid it . |
| 8 | This drawing is among the 700 or so exhibits , many never seen before in the West , in the exhibition ‘ Die grosse Utopie : die russische Avantgarde 1915–1932 ’ , at the Schirn Kunsthalle until 10 May . |
| 9 | The bust , bosom or cleavage was for the Fifties the apotheosis of erogenous zones . |
| 10 | The immediate effect was on the two housing areas known as East and West Ropery Banks ( see North Tyneside CDP , 1976 , 1978c ) . |
| 11 | Platform posters , too , have been specially commissioned by the Underground for many decades to promote locations and events accessible by tube ; they were introduced in 1908 but their heyday was during the 1930s , when prominent artists such as Graham Sutherland and E McKnight Kauffer produced high quality and popular work . |
| 12 | There were two lofts and the wedding was in the one and then the home brew and the stuff was kept in the other and the food . |
| 13 | A couple of us from work are in the 90 Minutes Magazine one . |
| 14 | Decor and furnishing are for the 1990s styles , insulation is even better than the Mark 3s and passengers with special needs are catered for as , for example , mother and baby facilities and disabled toilets . |
| 15 | ‘ The guys who could make the breakthrough are in the 15–17 age bracket . |
| 16 | A party from the Diocese were amongst the 3,000 present . |
| 17 | These conditions of the possibility of Christian theology were on the one hand the actuality of the revelation in Jesus , and on the other the reception of that revelation in faith empowered by the Holy Spirit . |
| 18 | UK and French publishers and representatives of the British Council were among the 120 guests . |
| 19 | Those most in favour of recycling were in the 15-19 and 35-54 age groups , and tended to come from higher income earners in southern England . |
| 20 | This plan is from the 1901 revision . |
| 21 | The reference is to the three cantons ( Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden ) which originally got together to form the Swiss Confederation , along with the fourth that soon joined them , Luzern . |
| 22 | Tank Girl is of the Nineties when there is a message to put across from the bleak streets out there . |
| 23 | May I ask er , another question is of the thirty cases in the neighbourhood the tenants do n't need . |
| 24 | The Council was in the 1970s recruiting a large number of relatively young staff , who saw the job , in the words of one of them , as ‘ a creative experience ’ , engaging in curriculum development , relating to senior academics on the Council 's committees and working with peers in the polytechnics and colleges , generating ideas , disseminating good practice , advising on the planning and monitoring of courses , and in general developing an identity for the CNAA which combined the validation role with access to professional networks , research and advice on evaluation and other processes contingent on the validation relationship . |
| 25 | Of particular importance are on the one hand , the implications of the ‘ reintroduction ’ of the market to Russia and Eastern European societies and the impact of strengthened relations of private property and , on the other , the changing relationship of the state and market in Britain . |
| 26 | The focus is on the 1980's . |
| 27 | Adam 's football kit is in the five corners of the house , stiff enough to wash itself . |
| 28 | Its population is around the 3.3 million mark compared with some 56 million in the UK . |
| 29 | It was Vietnam again ; when asked at the hearings what the difference was between the two battlegrounds , he replied ‘ Ten thousand miles ’ . |
| 30 | A further major difference was in the two men 's attitudes towards tribal peoples — whom Wallace recognized as fascinating equals , rather than as " a lower order of the human race " , which was Darwin 's perhaps unwitting contribution to twentieth-century racism . |