Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that , since player II receives - , if he wishes to maximise his own expected receipts , he will aim to minimise the expected receipts of I. For example , in the problem of Section 10.3 , we can re-interpret the columns of Table 10.1 as the actions available to Firm II , and Firm II seeks to choose the column with the smallest maximum entry . |
| 2 | The mountain goat population was reduced from an estimated 100,000 to 50,000 between the years 1961–1981 . |
| 3 | He also saw booming business in multimedia , and forecast that Apple will sell over 1m CD-ROM drives this year and more than 2m next — it sold only 50,000 of the things last year . |
| 4 | The successfully transformed supermarket chain and multiple retailer Tesco — ranked 22 in The Times 1000 and employing 71 000 — similarly described headhunters as good servants but bad masters : their work should be closely defined and controlled by the client . |
| 5 | In face of spending cutbacks in the Japanese private sector , NEC Corp is trying to drum up business for its SX-3R supercomputers by cutting monthly rental rates on 10 models in the family by up to 38% : it says it sold only eight of the things last year , down from 14 in 1991 . |
| 6 | One way would be to close eight of the counties smaller libraries like this one in Matson , just outside Gloucester . |
| 7 | Subject to the preservation of the object of the Society , this Constitution may be amended by a resolution at any General Meeting provided it be carried by a majority of at least two-thirds of the members present and voting thereon . |
| 8 | The government has responded with engineering works to prevent the rivers ' winter and spring floods reaching the marshes ; according to the UN , water has been prevented from reaching up to two-thirds of the marshes this spring . |
| 9 | The study will use Labour Force Survey ( LFS ) data men and women aged 55-64 for the years 1979 and 1984 . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll take six of the men first as handlers , then the cargo , he called . |
| 11 | In a survey carried out at the end of October of a sample of 100 of The Times top 1000 companies , it found that 61 per cent of companies were experiencing worse bad debt problems . |
| 12 | Lynda Philamore , head of assessment and recruitment at British Airways — ranked 26 in The Times 1000 and employer of 44000 — was exceptional in this survey in expressing almost entirely negative views about the executive search industry , despite the publicity surrounding the success of headhunted chief executive Colin Marshall . |
| 13 | By his second wife he had a daughter and two sons ; his elder son was killed aged nineteen in the Guards Armoured division on the Dutch-German border in 1944 . |
| 14 | David Tagg at Grand Metropolitan , the drinks , hotels , brewing , retailing and food-producing giant ranking number 10 in The Times 1000 and employing nearly 150 000 , spoke cheerfully of his general liking of headhunters . |
| 15 | DSC Communications Corp , Dallas has seen off a shareholder suit brought against the company and some of its officers in 1991 over the problems some of the Baby Bells had with the software for the MegaHub Signal Transfer Point : the suit has been dismissed without prejudice and the motion to certify class action status for it has been declared moot . |
| 16 | Mr Curtin had been suspended from practice for three months in 1991 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and the condition imposed by an Assistant Director of the Solicitors Complaints Bureau when Mr Curtin applied for renewal of his practising certificate was that of practising only in approved employment , as opposed to in approved partnership , which had been the condition applicable to Mr Curtin 's certificate prior to his suspension from practice . |
| 17 | Byrne reckons they 've been playing brill recently and are just waiting for a chance like this — but he was talking before they got turned over 0–3 by the makems last night . |
| 18 | In 1981 they audited 708 of the Times top 1,000 ; by 1991 this had gone up to 815 . |
| 19 | So we got everyone together here the bank manager , was Mr then , Barclays Bank we got two or three of the industrialists all of the members that were prepared to help and we started from there . |
| 20 | On the other hand , Burton stoutly denied that he had broken up nine marriages : why , he did not even know three of the couples aforementioned . |
| 21 | At a Prestwich meeting in 1936 he lost his temper at persistent heckling , jumped into his audience and knocked three of the ringleaders senseless . |
| 22 | Three of the drivers concerned had argued that they had been unfairly selected for redundancy because there were drivers with less service who had been retained at other quarries . |
| 23 | When the issue is addressed it is skirted around , it seems to us , by the unwillingness of all three of the authors concerned — understandable perhaps because of their daily closeness to the victims of mental illness — to see beyond the pathology of the psychotic state itself ; their failure to appreciate our — or rather Sylvia Plath 's — point made earlier : that when insane the psychotic individual is too preoccupied struggling against overpersonalised or idiosyncratic thoughts to create effectively . |
| 24 | The court also overturned an Oct. 19 decision by Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , taken following a public outcry , to postpone the closure of 21 of the pits subject to a review and to close the remaining 10 after 30 days of consultation . |
| 25 | Back for Swansea are Mark Titley , Scott Gibbs and Simon Davies , who were at the Hong Kong Sevens with the Barbarians last week and missed the Schweppes Cup tie against Dunvant . |
| 26 | Stoddard 's previous success was in 1986 with the Variations Tufted package . |
| 27 | I wish to inject an addendum in deliverance fourteen after the words each other , helping each other to continue to mature add the words christian worship together is seen as a priority . |
| 28 | On the currency front , the pound enjoyed a strong flourish , gaining 1.4 cents against the dollar to 1 dollar point 9195 and pushing .87 of a pfennigs firmer to 2 deutschmarks point 9704 . |
| 29 | Accelerator mass-spectrometric C dates on 11 of the seeds all fall within one standard deviation of 8,000yrBP . |
| 30 | Any company or firm that believes itself to be a victim of behaviour by its competitors which infringes EC competition rules can make a complaint to DG IV against the parties concerned . |