Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun pl] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it still feasible for the British Parliament to pass an Act repealing or amending the 1972 European Communities Act which enshrined the Treaty of Rome in British law ? |
| 2 | Some 350 articles of equipment were carried in the 12 heavy tools vans which ran in the trains containing the steam cranes , and some of this equipment was so heavy as to need the use of demountable jib gallows with a frame at each double door to get it in and out of the van . |
| 3 | The vessel used by the smugglers on this occasion was the sailing yacht Eloise , a forty five feet sloop which had loaded her illicit cargo in the Mediterranean . |
| 4 | This event brought together 30 practising women artists who were all actively involved in the production of paintings , photography , mixed media and sculpture . |
| 5 | From the scale above forty two minutes equals nought point seven hours |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it was officially reported that on Aug. 17 three Croatian police helicopters which had been dispatched to Gracac , a town near Knin where Serbs had taken over the police station and were distributing arms , had been intercepted en route by two Yugoslav air force jets and forced back to base . |
| 7 | Our sense of injustice has been shared by three senior journals editors we have discussed the matter with . |
| 8 | The government has also sacked the three main police brigadiers who were in charge of security in the area in which a bus bomb killed one Egyptian and injured five British tourists . |
| 9 | I mean when you 're looking for seventy thousand pounds savings you can only do two things . |
| 10 | And we felt that team two have gone the other way , tha that the work spread out and actually when you looked at the , at the project plan at the back , erm that in fact a surveyor was out for six hundred and eighty three DOPACS units which is about ten days and that had spread all through May , June and July . |
| 11 | Name the five separate wages boards which implement the Wage Councils Act , 1959 , in the hotel and catering industry . |
| 12 | One National Savings opportunity which can be achieved via the Post Office is presented by index-linked gilts ( listed each day under ‘ British Funds ’ in The Daily Telegraph ) . |
| 13 | The government are about to announce er at Templebury in Rotherham a three point seven five million pounds project which I a actually support er made by English Estates that project is estimated to create a hundred and seventy five jobs . |
| 14 | The gift was signed by 92-year-old Mr Harry Moon of Earlston House , Coniscliffe Road , Darlington , who played for the 1923 Minor Counties side which took on the might of the West Indies . |
| 15 | We have seen how the issue of race was first raised in the 1982 Metropolitan Police statistics which recorded the race of both victim and assailant in London . |
| 16 | Rashid Solh , the prime minister , spoke darkly of the arrival in Lebanon of several hundred Israeli agents provocateurs whose mission was to destroy the republic . |
| 17 | The R Y A does n't need an enormous subscription income and so if we could increase personal membership to say four hundred and eighty thousand , which happens to be the aggregate membership of our member clubs , this could be at a very much lower individual subscription and this in turn would facilitate selling membership to the nearly two million yachts persons who are not members of clubs . |
| 18 | Fleck 's unruly image was secured in November 1987 when along with four other Rangers players he was fined £1,000 by the club for his part in a notorious fracas in a bar in Airdrie . |
| 19 | It administers the 1958 and 1967 Public Records Acts which oblige government departments to maintain and select public records for permanent preservation and to transfer them to the PRO when they are 30 years old . |
| 20 | Perhaps the regrettable feature of the conversion of Shawell school — which is being carried out with great care and sensitivity — is the retention of the 1950s flat-roofed WCs extension which , almost gratuitously , fails to relate in any way to the form of the original building . |