Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradford Northern , one of the uncertain six , will try to ruin Wigan 's championship party this afternoon but , after their 71–10 thrashing by the champions in the Silk Cut Cup semi-final two weeks ago , they have little hope of playing any other role than that of sacrificial lambs . |
| 2 | An 1894 survey by the Women 's Cooperative Guild showed that 50 per cent of working mothers left their children with grandmothers or other kin ( whom they usually paid ) , while the remainder used neighbours as childminders . |
| 3 | A Dec. 21 announcement by the authorities that a new border police force was to be created and military patrols strengthened was followed by the deportation of thousands of Albanian nationals over the next week . |
| 4 | According to sources , a bankruptcy order had been made against the former chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee by the solicitors Denton Hall Burgin and Warrens , who had previously acted for him , and the Inland Revenue petition was automatically dismissed . |
| 5 | 10.2 Appointment by the parties |
| 6 | There is a review of the 1991-92 season by the captains of each of the Five Nations ' Championship sides and ample space is given to their views of the game . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher is rated a 1-3 chance by the bookmakers William Hill to lead the Conservatives into the next general election . |
| 8 | The path through the village , flanked on one side by the backs of the houses and on the other by the looming cliffside , was as pervasively dark as a cave and we kept stumbling over rocks , getting our feet wet in puddles and pools of mud . |
| 9 | In Britain that extraordinarily prolific crime author , John Creasey ( more than 600 titles ; 25 pseudonyms ) , was challenged one day by a police inspector neighbour to " show us as we are " . |
| 10 | Twenty six of the 101 subjects were known to have non-insulin dependent diabetes , and non-insulin dependent diabetes was newly diagnosed in one subject by the investigations of this study . |
| 11 | Held motionless in zero gravity by the robots with no input of information whatever , the three had been undergoing sensory deprivation for the past hour . |
| 12 | The taking of evidence within the territory of one State by the authorities of another , or on behalf of the parties to litigation in another State , will be seen as a serious affront to that sovereignty , unless of course official permission is sought and given . |
| 13 | Pressed on the one hand by the forces of recession and on the other by increasing competition , no business can afford to ignore the need for yet another look at its operating cost base . |
| 14 | What we see today are mere shadows of their former selves and I shall be discussing later a number of these — Hull Fair which is now purely a funfair , the revived Masham Sheep Fair , the dying horse fairs at Lee Gap and Boroughbridge , and Yarm which is still proclaimed and has its high street occupied at one end by the showmen and the other by the gipsies . |
| 15 | In the historic Test match between West Indies and South Africa , the ambiguously-drawn rule about over-rate fines was read one way by the players — naturally — but in another way by the man who mattered , the match referee . |
| 16 | Leaving behind wounded legend Lester Piggott , the British retreated with heads hung low after the 7–0 hammering by the Americans at the $10 million Breeders ' Cup world championships . |