Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After going 2–0 up in 32 minutes through a goal by Lesley Hobley and a penalty by Denise Shorney , Hightown reduced the deficit a minute before the interval when Jackie Crook scored from the penalty spot . |
| 2 | Specialising in engineering design relating to existing offshore installations , the company 's manpower levels reached over 500 personnel on a number of design projects . |
| 3 | Held at the Newton Davis Hall , Froyle , courtesy of Lord Mayor Treloar College , the concert featured eight musicians from the world famous Yehudi Menuhin School , and the expertise of radio and television broadcaster Martin Muncaster as master of ceremonies . |
| 4 | The luxury shower — costing more than Princess Diana 's whirlpool bath -is part of a £26,000 spruce-up of Chief Executive Mike Smith 's office . |
| 5 | 3.6.2 Investigations with the Overlap Algorithm |
| 6 | 7.6 LIABILITY AS A TENANT |
| 7 | And the building society bloke 's told me today they 've got a hundred and fifty accounts in the office that are sort of heavily in arrears |
| 8 | Now , after thirty-seven hours in the air , he was touching down in Salt Lake City . |
| 9 | The Prime Minister , John Major , presented on July 22 a 50-page white paper which he called a " Citizen 's Charter " , incorporating some 70 proposals for the improvement of public services . |
| 10 | The opening impact was made by 180 repeats of the Lloyd Webber Variations on themes from Purcell and Peer Gynt , followed by Mr Tim Rice , laid back with greatness . |
| 11 | A man of seventy-five dies of a heart condition and inside four days his son is shot dead . |
| 12 | Split-half reliability for the BPVT is reported as between 0.75 and 0.85 for items in the short form , and between 0.70 and 0.95 for items in the long form . |
| 13 | He checked his watch ; fifty-five minutes from the time he had replaced the phone in Mr Patel 's fruit store . |
| 14 | In 1977 , the University Grants Committee decided to fund enhanced engineering courses at eight institutions in the UK . |
| 15 | The Secretary-General is appointed by the Council by a two-thirds majority of the member states for a five-year term . |
| 16 | Decisions on a new constitution would have to be reached by a two-thirds majority of the assembly , whilst in other matters it would act by consensus . |
| 17 | A referendum after 2007 would decide the future formation of the Legco ; however , any changes approved by referendum would require the endorsement of a two-thirds majority of the Legco , the consent of the chief executive , and the approval of the NPC standing committee . |
| 18 | Commentators noted that the requirement of a two-thirds majority of the electorate in favour of secession left Lithuania , with its 80 per cent Lithuanian population , with a realistic chance of seceding under the new law . |
| 19 | A vote in favour of secession would be carried subject to a two-thirds majority of the republic 's total electorate . |
| 20 | Such a treaty would be subject to approval by a two-thirds majority of the Philippines ' Senate , however , at least 15 of whose 23 members had stated their opposition to the continued presence of the bases . |
| 21 | In the absence of such consent , the President might still introduce a state of emergency subject to ratification by a two-thirds majority of the USSR Supreme Soviet . |
| 22 | A proposal to this effect could be made from within the Congress itself or by a two-thirds majority of the USSR Supreme Soviet , but subject to findings by the USSR Committee for the Supervision of the Constitution . |
| 23 | However , when the USSR Supreme Soviet convened for its third session on Feb. 14 , the Presidium unexpectedly failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority for a proposal to call the Congress of People 's Deputies into emergency session by the end of February to make the necessary constitutional changes . |
| 24 | The party had always strongly denied the continued existence of the Official IRA , and De Rossa had hoped to remove its shadow from the party , but failed to achieve a required two-thirds majority at the conference . |
| 25 | Union members were openly expressing the view that there was a real chance that the ailing division would now pull out of its dive with the Peters ' Plan , which had been fully supported by Bunker and a two-thirds majority at the plant . |
| 26 | Austria : the Nationalrat on Sept. 22 and the Bundesrat ( upper house ) on Sept. 30 achieved the required two-thirds majority with the backing of both governing coalition parties , but with the Greens and right-wing FPÖ voting against . |
| 27 | Gorbachev , visiting Lithuania in January 1990 , had unexpectedly promised that legislation would be introduced allowing republics to become fully independent ; but the law on secession , approved on 3 April 1990 , specified a two-thirds majority in a referendum on the issue and then a transitional period of up to five years in which territorial , property and other issues would be resolved . |
| 28 | On May 13 the bill was approved by the Soviet of the Union , but failed to gain the necessary two-thirds majority in the Soviet of Nationalities . |
| 29 | The coalition of the PNP and Frente Obrero di Liberashon ( FOL ) , plus the Union Patriotico Bonairiano ( UBP ) and the two representatives from St Eustatius and Saba , was reconstituted to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority in the Staten and exclude the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) , whose leader , Claude Wathey , favoured independence for his island . |
| 30 | Kohl , who rejected the " blue beret option " as insufficient , would need a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag for his proposals [ see above for SPD congress vote approving German involvement only in UN peacekeeping operations ] . |