Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 5 it was reported that a former Minister of State , Ghulam Akbar Lasi , had been given a one-year prison sentence for overspending during the 1988 election campaign . |
| 2 | After years in the wilderness , he became head of the newly-established Institute for Forecasting in the mid-80s . |
| 3 | The tallship is most famous for appearing in the 70s TV programme , The Onedin Line . |
| 4 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 5 | Feeling worn out after preaching to the thousands who flocked to hear him , he found renewed stimulation and encouragement for his ministerial labours . |
| 6 | During 1991 , BTR increased its workforce from 105,000 to 140,000 but , after allowing for the 48,000 staff added because of acquisitions , there was a net reduction of 13,000 . |
| 7 | Edwards , 21 , has played for Australia youth and under-21s and , after appearing in the 1987 World Youth Cup finals in Chile , had 18 months with Rangers without breaking into the first team . |
| 8 | After shrinking during the 1980s , the economy grew by 10% in 1991 and by more than 7% last year . |
| 9 | If a house is bought this way all the surveys and investigations should be carried out first , and you must be ready to sign and exchange contracts on the day of the auction after paying over the 10 per cent deposit . |
| 10 | The big challenge came from everybody 's favourite Ginny Leng … she was riding Welton Romance and after racing around the 28 fence course was just two penalty points down from the leader … less than once fault in the showjumping … |
| 11 | After staring at the two chaps with ‘ you 'll do for a light snack ’ eyes , the lion started to wander towards them . |
| 12 | The town is in mourning after hearing about the two accidents at the weekend . |
| 13 | In Japan and Britain oil consumption per unit of GDP began to rise again last year after falling throughout the 1980s ; in America and West Germany conservation efforts slowed significantly ( see chart ) . |
| 14 | But Cuckney does not find it easy to put his finger on the fundamental differences between operating in the two sectors . |
| 15 | I suppose the main difference I notice about living in the two environments is how my dress is n't bound by convention on the island , I just stick to wearing what is most comfortable . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , providing bindings between C++ and SQL3 ( SQL3 does not exist but is a label for the ANSI SQL standard that will emerge in 1995/6 ) is one of Beech 's chief interests and Oracle is investigating various styles of binding between the two languages . |
| 17 | Ian 's mother-in-law , Mrs Jan Waller , is in charge of catering for the four walkers and 17 back-up crew . |
| 18 | The associated requirement , to complete a mandatory period of auditing during the five or so years ' training that spans admission to membership of the Institute , led to two more changes . |
| 19 | Very few local authorities responded to these recommendations and of those that did a number are in the process of returning to the five to eleven pattern . |
| 20 | For a start Claridges Hotel , in London 's Mayfair , where the Russians would be staying , was fully bugged by MI5 on a permanent basis ( because so many ‘ interesting ’ foreign guests stayed there ) and it was certainly not going to miss the opportunity of eavesdropping on the two leaders . |
| 21 | For Scotland it 's now a case of rebuilding for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 22 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 23 | At the end of his judgment he said , at p. 356 , that mandamus would not lie to direct the benchers of Gray 's Inn to compel them to call the applicant , who was a student member of the Inn , to the degree of a barrister-at-law and added that , if there was a ground for mandamus , the party must take the ancient course of applying to the 12 judges . |
| 24 | Interest in what has become an indispensable means of communicating in the 1990s was not sparked until early this century when a modernised version of Bain 's brainchild was used to send newspaper photographs . |
| 25 | Her approach would be to treat spelling as a part of writing on the one hand and of pronunciation on the other . |
| 26 | The national curriculum guidance which has been issued at the time of writing on the two core subjects of mathematics and science shows a welcome emphasis on statements of attainment rather than testing . |
| 27 | The books cover the three main areas of literature that he has come to favour since his debut into the world of writing after the 1939–45 War . |
| 28 | Kinnock did much to knock the Labour Party , if not into the 1990s , then at least into something resembling a political organisation capable of escaping from the 1970s . |
| 29 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |
| 30 | It does not move them that the cost of looking after the hundreds of thousands of Thais who are likely to be infected by 1995 will far exceed that of a few cancelled holidays . |