Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my money the 1954 version has more edge to it . |
| 2 | After their arrest the three accused made police statements in which they admitted to having gone " wilding " on the night in question , a term meaning the perpetration of motiveless assaults . |
| 3 | During their talks the two leaders discussed Japan 's protection of its domestic markets and its trade surplus with the USA . |
| 4 | During their holidays the two men investigated the glacial deposits and Old Red Sandstone of Caithness , Orkney , and Shetland , publishing papers ( 1879–84 ) for which both received awards from the Geological Society . |
| 5 | The impasse on how to ratify and implement the treaty was resolved in May in a series of bilateral negotiations between the USA on the one hand and Ukraine and Kazakhstan on the other , during which time the two countries ' Presidents , Leonid Kravchuk and Nursultan Nazarbayev , visited Washington . |
| 6 | For their $283m the 75 investors that KKR represents will get preferred stock , convertible after three years into Fleet/Norstar stock at $17.65 a share , plus 6.5m warrants for newly issued Fleet/Norstar stock exercisable immediately at the same price , the last closing price before the purchase was announced . |
| 7 | Classical scholars among us will all , as students , have stood in awe of our seniors who , given a rare Greek word , could pluck out of their memories the ten contexts in different classical authors in which it was used . |
| 8 | I prised out of her bag the two swatches and she agreed the measurement of the rows of the two swatches was very different ! ! |
| 9 | Below her heels the 1,600 metre precipice of the nordwand yawned . |
| 10 | At length Zen lazily drew out of his pocket the three items of mail he had collected from the Questura . |
| 11 | Behind my back the four smokestacks of the power station pointed upwards , the threshold of an unfinished building of inconceivably vast and dreadful size . |
| 12 | What brings ROS forward is the fact that under their cloaks the two SPIES are wearing coats identical to those worn by ROS and GUIL , whose coats are now covered by their cloaks . |
| 13 | As soon as they finished with their books the two girls made him tea . |
| 14 | The main achievement of the summit was the signing of a mutual tariff reduction agreement under whose terms the six would establish an ASEAN Free Trade Area ( AFTA ) by the beginning of 2008 . |
| 15 | In overall charge of the Empress 's Household was her Grand Master , General Count Tascher de la Pagerie , descendant of the family of the Empress Josephine , who had under his control the five court chamberlains plus a private secretary and a librarian . |
| 16 | In my view the one disadvantage still to be overcome is that the receiver is not as waterproof as it really needs to be . |
| 17 | In fact the opposite seems to have occurred because Grevy 's zebra is in other ways a very different animal from the common zebra and it appears that in their stripes the two species have converged rather than diverged , over a long period of time . |
| 18 | She urged parents to instil in their children the three ‘ Rs ’ — responsibility , respect and right from wrong . |
| 19 | The sequence between this 80 bp fragment and the transcription initiation point ( 450 nucleotides ) contains a series of protein-binding motifs , in which context the 80 bp fragment develops full activity . |
| 20 | She wondered if her fixation with Ace was because in her mind the two of them were inextricably linked . |
| 21 | For the first time in its history the 1935 Annual Conference of the ILP was attended by a fraternal delegate from the Communist Party , Harry Pollitt , who put forward the policy of " organizational unity " , that is of merging both Parties , now equal in membership , into a single unit . |
| 22 | Duly recovered from their exploits the two aeronauts made a more leisurely departure for Birmingham , in a chaise and four , at 3.00am the next morning . |
| 23 | Whether this was in fact the first is not really known , nor is it known how or why the tradition started , but Mr Hector Buckley ( in whose barn the 1964 pie was made and which had to be partially demolished to get the pie out ) has a theory about this . |
| 24 | Beethoven is the historical fulcrum ; in his work the two aspects are perfectly balanced , and the uniqueness of the individual musical idea is organically integrated into a socially comprehensible but freely worked-out totality . |
| 25 | In our series the 5 year overall survival was 17% , and after resection and reconstruction it was 24% , which agrees with the reported 5 year survival ) 14.5–22% ) . |
| 26 | and we 've already given up the essentials in your life the two nine one seven per year which of these will be left to be paid ? |
| 27 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
| 28 | John Browning , the farmer on whose land the twelve statuettes were found , has spent the past ten years and £100,000 in pursuit of the bronzes . |
| 29 | We must take as our basis the two vectors representing the two bond stretching motions , so that the transformation matrices showing the effects of the symmetry operations will be 2 × 2 matrices ; only the trace of the matrix is needed to generate the character Xv . |
| 30 | A point of contrast a century and a half later is provided by the 1671 hearth tax return , by which time the seventy householders had grown to 122 . |