Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victoria Woodhull Claffin — later 19th Century free-thinking radical feminist who was the first woman to run for the office of United States President over 30 years before women 's suffrage . |
| 2 | Currently , a supplement should be paid if a repayment is not made within 30 days of Customs ' receipt of the return . |
| 3 | The 1993 edition of Children 's Books of the Year will be launched at a party at Book House , Wandsworth , on Tuesday . |
| 4 | For example , a search for " women and their fight in society " would lead to a message to the effect that there is no book described by all the words of the search , but the system would nevertheless retrieve four items ( in the PCL catalogue ) , the first of which is titled Hidden from history : 300 years of women 's oppression and the fight against it . |
| 5 | It was the third in a series of six meetings on women 's liberation , organised by the women s group in the local Polytechnic . |
| 6 | 5.3.1 Use of auditors ' certificates |
| 7 | Turning to investment banking and I should just remind you that er , we take fifty percent of Brothers ' profits and ten percent of New York and Paris and given the conditions , given the environment last year , I do n't think need be ashamed of the performance er , although in London the only business to really come in , come in with impressive returns was er , asset trading money , broking and banking . |
| 8 | Three aspects of teachers ' knowledge will be analysed : i ) knowledge of the subject being taught ; ii ) capacity to represent it in a variety of appropriate ways related to the knowledge and experience of the type of pupils to whom it was taught ; and iii ) knowledge and understanding of the relevant pedagogy . |
| 9 | The Companies Act should be amended so that directors ' service contracts do not exceed three years without shareholders ' approval . |
| 10 | Well , their pay is three quarters of men 's pay . |
| 11 | These three values are the names of three clusters of birds ' sizes . |
| 12 | Aside from his Jamaican paintings , this was the year that Minton produced his London Transport poster as well as the lithograph Apple Orchard , Kent for the second of three series of artists ' prints which J. Lyons & Co. commissioned as wall decorations for their tea shops and which were also made available to the public at 15s 9d each . |
| 13 | These include subsets of the LOB corpus ( Lancaster-Leeds Treebank , 45000 words ) and the Brown corpus ( Gothenburg corpus , 128000 words ) although some others exist ( e.g. Nijmegen Corpus 130,000 words and the Polytechnic of Wales Corpus of 100,000 words of children 's speech ) . |
| 14 | Ruth Rolph has give a countywide series of ten lecture-demonstrations to Women 's Institutes with the help of a demonstration team composed of teachers and class members . |
| 15 | Why should governments , even the Thatcher government , which is strongly committed to allowing market forces to work , spend several billion pounds of taxpayers ' money promoting R&D ? |
| 16 | Learning linguistic terminology is enabling , because it forms one part of children 's growing vocabulary and thinking . |
| 17 | There is n't only one type of women 's experience . ’ |
| 18 | 15.11.3 Appeals from experts ' decisions |
| 19 | Additional measures included cuts of $11,900 million over five years in farm commodity programmes , and reductions of $3,700 million over five years in veterans ' benefits . |
| 20 | Figure 8 Sources of pensioners ' incomes 1979 and 1987 |
| 21 | Their tour de force is a series of prints made from one negative of horses ' heads . |
| 22 | One GRIST coordinator , whilst pointing to the need to develop a more sophisticated understanding in teachers ' responses to their INSET needs , exemplified the difficulties of arts education by quoting a survey carried out by one LEA into teachers ' views of their own INSET needs . |
| 23 | 4 slices of light bread ( e.g. Nimble or Slimcea ) spread with reduced-oil salad dressing , and made into sandwiches with lots of lettuce , tomatoes and cucumber , plus 5oz ( 125g ) diet yogurt — any flavour 1 cup of slimmers ' cup-a-soup , plus 2 oz ( 50g ) chicken ( with skin removed ) or lean ham , served with large salad and 4oz ( 100g ) potatoes and a little reduced-oil salad dressing |
| 24 | Hours may be the most emotive issue in the new deal but are only one aspect of juniors ' working conditions that need improvement . |
| 25 | Net borrowings at the December 1991 year-end totalled £824m with gearing increased to 78 p.c. of shareholders ' funds , against 54 p.c. for 1990 , reflecting both capital expenditure and the fall in the value of group properties . |
| 26 | Dr Anne Dawson , senior official in the Department of Health and Social Security on the possible consequences if the Department warned the NHS about the dangers of salmonella We have known that there was salmonella in 60 percent of chickens ' guts for many years . |
| 27 | A split developed in the Independent Smallholders ' Party on Dec. 29 , 1989 , with the founding session of the National Smallholders and Bourgeois Party , attended by 150 members from Smallholders ' Party branches . |
| 28 | He can expect a change of pace in his new job : whereas he was responsible for 290 students at Goldsmiths ' , the Maastricht programme has eight students per year in a two-year course . |
| 29 | Over the back of the chair next to the table were two pairs of vergers ' white cotton gloves drying . |
| 30 | It may seem grudging then to criticise the book for only including four essays on women 's visual images compared with seven pieces on different themes and genres in women 's writing . |