Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb base] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 The 1980 Survey 's section on the elderly was asked only of those aged 65 and over , and therefore tables in this chapter which are based on the 1980 data include only the sub sample in this age band .
2 All six companies have exactly the same contract .
3 Most of the 300,000 people live off the land and no one has gone hungry .
4 Does n't a steady stream of perfect , size 10 cover-girls induce just the slightest feeling of envy ?
5 This could lead to a drop in temperature of between 5 and 10 degrees centigrade over the region , with the curtailment of the spring growing season and consequent losses of food production .
6 Group official Carol Bouziane said yesterday : ‘ Three muggers beat up the man and stole his money and mobile phone in full view of two booking clerks .
7 These words are of significance as they tie in with the title ‘ Futility ’ because all three words have basically the same meaning and their use enhances this feeling of futility throughout the poem for the reader .
8 Three classes make up the primary department , while there are two in the secondary department .
9 The three partners set up the Viscose Syndicate in 1893 , with the aim of producing adhesives , films , coatings for natural fibres , and mouldings , and British Viscoid Ltd. followed in 1896 .
10 Since N-Oct 5 proteins contain only the POU DNA-binding domain and lack the homopolymeric glutamine and glycine stretches ( see Figure 1 and 2 ) , it seemed possible that N-Oct 5 would inhibit N-Oct 3 by competing for DNA-binding .
11 Every county in the Central South Region has seen more than four thousand jobs disappear over the past year .
12 I got into the car ; we started to reverse the fifty yards back up the drive .
13 The means given beside each item are taken from Reason , Manstead , Stradling , Baxter & Campbell ( 1988 ) who had 520 drivers fill in the 50 item questionnaire .
14 THE Liverpool Competition cruised to a ten wicket win over the Merseyside Competition in the first round of the President 's Trophy at Northern yesterday .
15 Event 3 A WALK AROUND THE SNICKELWAYS OF YORK
16 The detailed way in which the 1977 Protocols spell out the principle of discrimination in the use of force and protection of the civilian population makes it plain that there are no circumstances in which nuclear weapons could actually be used without breaching this fundamental principle .
17 Basically , the FS-77 offers control over the Quad X 's main features in a very no-nonsense fashion .
18 She 's just one victim of the burgeoning burglary business Which has seen one county Police force dealing with a near five times increase over the last thirteen years .
19 Six staff and one agent make up the full complement which , as Anders Falkman said , ‘ has strength in a team approach , it is all hands on deck and a good atmosphere ’ .
20 Time and again , Gadarene management spreads the damage : many boards of directors as one swine plunge over the same edge , ignoring the well-established fact that the conventional wisdom is usually stupid .
21 On the back of a postcard or large envelope not larger than six by five inches write down the answers to our three easy questions below which all relate to UK lakes .
22 While a quarter of men wash their cars once a week , fewer than one in five women carry out the chore .
23 Approximately 150 people make up the population of Tibthorpe ; their homes with beautiful views over the surrounding countryside .
24 Over a lifetime these two strategies yield almost the same number of offspring but an older male clearly needs the quicker success and he takes the greater risk .
25 In many ways these two opinions sum up the different preconceptions , experiences , attitudes and priorities of the two sides .
26 Therefore , these two speeches sum up the difference between Brutus and Cassius : Brutus works unselfishly and nobly for the good of the people of Rome , disregarding personal cost ( for it did cost Brutus a lot to kill Caesar ) , while Cassius is jealous of Caesar 's great power and begins the conspiracy with hopes of gaining more prestige and power for himself .
27 As the two fighters move around the area looking for an opening in each other 's defence , various manoeuvres to distract and break the opponent 's concentration can be employed .
28 Its carved edges resemble horse harnesses , while two snakes coil around the top .
29 These , these two keys produce exactly the same effect .
30 Because the two models have exactly the same implications for the data one can not use the data to discriminate between them : the two models are observationally equivalent .
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