Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford have dropped down into the bottom half of the table , after losing by 1-0 for the third match running . |
| 2 | Several quote 70 as the upper age limit for voluntary and statutory committees and the like . |
| 3 | Skipper Arjuna Ranatunga ( 76 ) and Hashan Tillakaratne ( 43 ) then steadied the ship , adding 92 for the fifth wicket . |
| 4 | NICK FALDO was scotched on the rocks but toasted a scintillating 70 for the halfway lead in the £1.8 million Johnnie Walker World Championship here yesterday . |
| 5 | With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket . |
| 6 | As it happens , the concrete evidence about marriage in the " 1910 sample " analysed in Chapter 6 ( those women in the trade in 1910 ) very largely relates to women who were aged about 18–28 during the Great War , and it could reasonably be argued that the war played such havoc with the marriage chances of this generation that it will have contained an unusually high proportion of women who never married . |
| 7 | whitewashed West Indies in the one-dayers and were then routed 4–0 during the main business of that summer . |
| 8 | Sheep entries set a new record , and topped 500 for the first time . |
| 9 | Freud began to develop his theories in 1886 during the Victorian Age , a time when it was socially unacceptable to discuss sex , and it was considered that woman and children should be seen and not heard . |
| 10 | According to government figures in the first nine months of 1991 the number of immigrants of German origin ( Aussiedler ) fell to 166,786 from 337,394 for the same period of 1990 , but the number of asylum-seekers rose from 143,826 to 169,785 . |
| 11 | More than 200 organisations working in areas including child and family care , will receive grants during 1993/94 through the Social Work Committee . |
| 12 | This move should call to mind some remarks made in 2.4 about the causal theory of knowledge . |
| 13 | Senior officials from India and Pakistan met in New Delhi on Nov. 5-6 for the fifth round of talks on the Sir Creek border dispute relating to the demarcation of maritime boundaries in the Great Rann of Kutch [ see pp. 38153 ; 38533 ] . |
| 14 | On July 29 the Northern Ireland appeal court in Belfast released three out of four of the former Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) members imprisoned for life in 1986 for the 1983 murder of a Catholic man [ see p. 34318 ] . |
| 15 | Within the framework established by the Education ( No. 2 ) Act 1986 for the head teacher to be in overall control of discipline in a school ( taking account of the governors ' policy on discipline ) , the law is content to allow teachers much discretion in the enforcement of school rules and application of sanctions . |
| 16 | In spite of the decline in the number of average basic hours per week for manual workers from 46 in 1946 to 40 in 1970 , the number of average actual hours which include overtime , declined only by one hour from 47½ to 46½ during the same period . |
| 17 | On this last point they were reassured by the Governor 's mention of December 1948 as the outside date for this . |
| 18 | But then more wickets fell , and the eighth was down for 103 ; only for Logie and Bishop to put on 74 for the ninth wicket , and when Logie was last man out just two short of a well-deserved hundred , the score was 199 . |
| 19 | Started in 1935 as the Central Council for Recreative Physical Training , it remains , in spite of the many changes in social attitudes and lifestyle since its inception , a major force in sport and recreation in the UK . |
| 20 | On April 7 the 32-strong UK Conservative group in the EP joined the Christian Democratic European Popular Party ( EPP ) group , bringing its numbers to 162 as compared with 180 for the largest group , the Socialists.The Conservatives had asked to join the EPP group after the 1989 European elections but protracted negotiations had resulted from Belgian , Italian and Netherlands Christian Democrats scepticism about the Conservative commitment to Europe . |
| 21 | We can gain some idea of this from data included in the household survey cards compiled in 1929–30 for the New survey of London life and labour ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 22 | And eleven O eight for the two stroke . |
| 23 | That figure multiplied by eight for the first period gave a total of two hundred and sixty eight thousand two hundred and twenty four pounds . |
| 24 | The total was 109,373 compared with 101,107 for the same period last year , said the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 25 | Standard-setting for central government is almost entirely the responsibility of the Treasury , taking the Exchequer and Audit Department Act 1866 as the statutory basis . |
| 26 | Yes , I allowed Monday to get my eleven for the following week . |
| 27 | And of course Oxford supporters do n't need reminding that last season they led Fulham 1-0 after the first leg and they lost 5-3 at home . |
| 28 | In reply , Boycott and Brearley put on no less than 129 for the first wicket — jolly good in a Test , but they took thirty-eight overs about it , with Boycott not getting into double figures until the seventeenth over . |
| 29 | He and the Italian had completed their third successive one-two for the Didcot-based team . |
| 30 | He then quotes the entry corresponding to the year 839 ( 838 according to Husameddin ) from the chronological list in Nuruosmaniye 3080 concerning the death of " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha " and concludes that the person concerned is in fact Molla Fenari himself and not his son , thus arriving at 838/1434–5 as the correct death date for Molla Fenari . |