Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We now see underlying inflation moving above 4% ( and outside the Government 's new 1% to 4% target range ) through 1993 as the impact of the lower pound feeds through . |
| 2 | Thus , in all leases granted after 1925 unless the context otherwise requires : 1 " month " means calendar month ; 2 " person " includes a corporation ; 3 the singular includes the plural and vice versa ; 4 the masculine includes the feminine and vice versa ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s61 ) . |
| 3 | Parliament 's control over direct taxation thus increased in importance after 1558 as the Crown became more dependent upon that source of revenue . |
| 4 | It 's a flexi-time job — start as long before 9 as you like and go on as long after 5 as the situation requires ( 6 , 7 , 8 — not mention weekends ! ) . |
| 5 | IF THE past is any guide , America 's 10,000 independent banks will number nearer 6,000 before the decade is out . |
| 6 | The IMF had frozen co-operation with Poland during 1991 because the government had exceeded the agreed limits on inflation and the budget deficit [ see p . |
| 7 | The Famous Grouse , like all the 1991 World Cup sponsors , had a first refusal option included in their contract ; in other words they are asked to make a bid for 1995 before the marketing agent goes to the open market . |
| 8 | But the siege was to drag on into the summer of 1098 before the fortress finally capitulated and Rodrigo was able to enter in triumph and order Mass to be sung in one of the main squares . |
| 9 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 10 | The other was not a delegate from his circuit of East London since he usually came last in the election ( except last year when he was ninth out of eight until a lady delegate became pregnant ) . |
| 11 | So you your end of Sunday came about half past eight when the church closed down , cos services did n't start too early in those days , at six thirty , I think . |
| 12 | The improvement achieved in all major classes during 1992 continued into the first quarter of 1993 as the portfolio benefited increasingly from action on rates and operating costs . |
| 13 | Wallace 's Geographical Distribution of Animals of 1876 provided the model for the next generation of naturalists studying biogeography . |
| 14 | The workforce of 8,000 before the revolution has been cut to 5,800 through early retirement and natural wastage ; even so , hundreds are on short-time , and sackings are inevitable . |
| 15 | Gooch and his makeshift opening partner Hick put on 64 , then Gooch and Smith took the score past 100 before the captain fell to Harris 's gentle floaters for 47 . |
| 16 | of the union 's total membership , approximately half are under the age of 30. since the advent of rock in the 1950s and 1960s , the union has been the only independent organization to give service , protection and advice to rock musicians . |
| 17 | And then he would take that complaint , if the branch committee approved it , you see , or nine times out of ten if the branch secretary thought it was a valid case , he would send it in a letter to the sectional council . |
| 18 | Legislation to create a factory inspectorate ( 1885 ) made little impact , and the Insurance Law of 1912 provided no insurance against invalidity , occupational diseases , old age or unemployment . |
| 19 | showed that the number of full-time male employees of local authorities increased by only 13 per cent during the critical period of 1964–74 while the number of part-time women in local authority employment rose by 86 per cent during the same period . |
| 20 | After sitting in the cockpit , General Scott told Dick : ‘ I 've seen and sat in a lot of P-40s since the war ended . |
| 21 | It was held in the circumstances that the defendant was negligent in not completely extinguishing the fire and that the Act of 1774 provided no defence . |
| 22 | A s8 order will normally come to an end when the child reaches the age of 16 although the court can extend it to the child 's eighteenth birthday if the circumstances of the case are exceptional ( ss9(6) , 91(10) ( 11 ) ) . |
| 23 | The first of these is the bit-pattern index , in which all the alternative descriptors for each record are given values of 1 if the attribute is present and 0 if it is not . |
| 24 | Providing children eat a reasonable variety of foods they do n't really need extra vitamins but as a safeguard it 's recommended to give drops containing vitamins A , C and D from six months to two years and until the age of five if a child is fussy about what she eats . |
| 25 | The ideal aim is to reduce UVA and UVB equally , so you are not exposed to more of one than the other . |
| 26 | It may be more of one than the other , depending on the basic approach of the multimedia system . |
| 27 | It has lost up to $3 billion of oil revenues in the first quarter of 1989 because a barrel of Dubai crude , the Middle-Eastern benchmark , now fetches $2.50-3.00 less than North Sea Brent — double the differential of a year ago . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , except in one regard , the Industrial and Provident Societies Act of 1852 provided the basis on which co-operative societies of whatever kind could establish themselves as corporate entities . |
| 29 | The period from the autumn of 1938 until the outbreak of the war in September 1939 was characterised by a series of devious stratagems as the Cambridge Board and the District sought to out-manoeuvre each other to gain supremacy in the development of adult education provision under the Board 's rural areas scheme . |
| 30 | This conclusion is supported by the fact that changes in the fossil record , even rather rapid ones like the increase in human brain size in the last four million years , were slower by a factor of 1,000 than the rate at which changes can be produced by artificial selection in laboratory populations or domestic animals . |