Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bundesrat had opposed the reform , referring it to a conciliation commission of both houses of parliament in April , but lacked the necessary two-thirds majority to block the bill again in early June . |
| 2 | Following Roemer 's rejection of the bill , on June 18 both houses of the state legislature voted by more than the required two-thirds majority to override the veto . |
| 3 | In the combined Congress , the PRI thus had the necessary two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution . |
| 4 | It was widely believed that the DLP would use its two-thirds majority to alter the constitution prior to the 1992 elections . |
| 5 | At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road . |
| 6 | £9,000 has also been allocated from the committee 's 1992–93 budget to install a system in Redcar central library . |
| 7 | Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start . |
| 8 | The company says that it is making do with a single Intel Corp 80486 processor to drive the device currently . |
| 9 | Numerous problems arose after the 1980 election to ensure the demise of Schmidt and the SPD . |
| 10 | In a marathon match Harlow defeated his Ely club colleague Kevin King by 9–8 , 7–9 , 9–8 , coming back from a 8–6 deficit to engineer a last-end three . |
| 11 | August 24 — Police hit out at the IRA for ‘ inadequate warning ’ after being given just eight minutes to clear the area at Ormeau Road . |
| 12 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 13 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 14 | But you see if you take a car it 's eight pound to park a car . |
| 15 | Professor Martin Warnke , of Hamburg University , and Andreas Beyer , of the University of Bonn , met and talked at the symposium held in Hamburg on 30 March to mark the centenary of the birth of Erwin Panofsky . |
| 16 | It took police , firemen and a crane more than 12 hours to haul the vehicle from the canal and re-open the road . |
| 17 | Military Forum was set up by more than 300 servicemen to demand an end to Communist control of and greater democracy within the armed forces . |
| 18 | HP reckons it takes only 30 minutes to complete the swap and get the new system running . |
| 19 | It has taken some 30 minutes to locate the toilet facilities within the multi-store , multi-tiered , many stairwayed emporium which is GUM . |
| 20 | The balloon was inflated to a pressure of 30 cm H 2 O to unfold the balloon before the measurements were recorded . |
| 21 | He still had a good forty minutes to prove the power of diplomacy . |
| 22 | Their guests , Michael and Helen , took an hour and forty minutes to eat the repast , which began with pasta dressed in sour cream and lumpfish roe and incorporated mature Tilseter cheese ( before the pudding ) and a selection of hand-crafted miniature biscuits ( with the coffee ) bought from the Viennese coffee-house on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 23 | It takes about 2 hours to reach the top of the Hahnenkamm , but it 's worth it for the view . |
| 24 | The delegates voted by a two-to-one majority to give an assessment of the individual political activity of each politburo member . |
| 25 | Two Oxford research groups under the directions of clinical pharmacologist Professor David Grahame-Smith and psychiatrist Professor Michael Gelder have used a substance called yohimbine which is specific for a 2 -receptors to study the number of platelet receptors before and after childbirth ( Lancet , vol i , p 495 ) . |
| 26 | The investigators have begun a follow-up study of eight babies from the age of 2 months to establish the pattern of development in the first year of life . |
| 27 | The IMF on April 8 , 1991 , approved a financing package for Costa Rica , authorizing disbursements of up to SDR88,300,000 ( about US$119 million ) over the next 12 months to support the government 's economic programme and to help meet increases in the cost of oil imports . |
| 28 | On March 15 the IMF approved a standby credit , authorizing drawings up to SDR279 million ( about $394 million ) over the next 12 months to support the Government 's economic reform programme . |
| 29 | According to SSAP 8 , to the extent there is no deferred tax liability , an ACT asset may only be shown in the accounts if it can be demonstrated that there will be sufficient profits in the next 12 months to enable the surplus to be recovered against the corporation tax thereon , bearing in mind anticipated dividends . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department has taken over the last 12 months to promote the carrying of organ transplant donor cards ; and if he will make a statement . |