Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said at the beginning , the National Health Services was born in 1948 through the efforts of the Labour Party , the first comprehensive free health service in the world . |
| 2 | These include snow and ice hazards , where impacts on transport and the need to plan road salting or gritting strategies are obvious ( see Perry et al. 1986 for the beginnings of a GIS approach ) . |
| 3 | For example , the " going rate " in 1980 for the chairmen of the major industries ( gas , aerospace , shipbuilding , railways , coal , etc. ) was £48,000 , at a time when the top executives of BP , ICI and the like were earning between two and three times that amount , including bonuses but without accounting for various fringe benefits . |
| 4 | I explained this ( J. Milroy , 1982b : 43 ) in relation to the simplification pattern in short /a/ ( see chapter 4.5 for the findings of this study ) , which we measured by using a three-way analysis of variance . |
| 5 | 8.2 For the purposes of this Condition , " Force Majeure " means fire , explosion , flood , lightning , Act of God , act of terrorism , war , rebellion , riot , sabotage , or official strike or similar official labour dispute , or events or circumstances outside the reasonable control of the party affected thereby . |
| 6 | This is not a tenable interpretation of rule 12.12 of the Rules of 1986 , given the clear language of paragraph ( 1 ) of the rule and given also that by their nature proceedings under the Insolvency Act 1986 can not be expected to be addressed by Ord. 11 , r. 1 . |
| 7 | Whitley found that ‘ one-half of the directors of the largest industrial companies were former public schoolboys with one-sixth coming from Eton alone ’ ( Scott , 1982 , p. 173 ) . |
| 8 | Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment . |
| 9 | Over one-half of the houses in rural districts of England are owned by their occupiers , whether outright or on a mortgage . |
| 10 | Under Article 134 of the Articles of Association of the Company , the directors may , if authorised by an ordinary resolution of the Company , offer holders of ordinary shares the right to elect to receive ordinary shares credited as fully paid instead of cash in respect of any dividend specified by the ordinary resolution [ ‘ scrip alternative ’ ] . |
| 11 | That the Board be authorised to exercise the power contained in Article 134 of the Articles of Association so that , to the extent and manner determined by the Board , the holders of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company be permitted to elect to receive ordinary shares , credited as fully paid , instead of cash in respect of all or part of any interim or the final dividend relating to the year ending on 31 December 1993 , such authority to expire at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 1994 . |
| 12 | That Article 129 of the Articles of Association of the Company be amended by : |
| 13 | 5 of vol. 2 of The Mysteries of Udolpho ( 1794 ) . |
| 14 | Aa is the sum of the probabilities of all the routes with one junction , Ba 2 of the routes with two , Ca 3 of the routes with three and so on . |
| 15 | The Columbia Plateau , which covers 130 000 km 2 of the states of Washington and Oregon in the north-west USA , is composed of hundreds of separate basalt flows of Miocene age which in places reach a total thickness of 2000 m and have buried a pre-existing relief of more than 1500 m . |
| 16 | Part 2 of the guidelines for each team should cover growth targets and new types of work as set out in the plan |
| 17 | This treaty , written on a mammoth parchment document that was said to hold more signatures than any other treaty in world history , was signed by 49 of the participants in the Second World War . |
| 18 | Public judicial review actions are actions brought by way of an Application for Judicial Review ( AJR ) under Order 53 of the Rules of the Supreme Court ( RSC ) . |
| 19 | The procedure for applying for the prerogative remedies of certiorari , prohibition and mandamus is contained in Order 53 of the Rules of the Supreme Court ( RSC ) , some provisions of which have been re-enacted in statutory form in section 31 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 20 | I decided to be helpful and , rather than bother anyone , I took it upon myself to move about 30 of the magazines to the Women 's Section . |
| 21 | Newly-wed Sandeep Gill , 23 admitted she received more than 300 of the notes at her wedding in Woolwich , South London , last week . |
| 22 | In accordance with Article 115 of the Articles of Association they hold office until the Annual General Meeting when they offer themselves for election . |
| 23 | According to the Sri Lankan government , 30,468 of the refugees in India were now seeking to return ( although refugee organizations were concerned that many had signed consent forms without understanding questions written in English ) . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) That , although there was power under rule 22 of the Rules of 1991 to order the local authority to pay costs , orders for costs in cases involving children were unusual ; that the justices ' findings and reasons , even taking into account their extended reasons , were insufficient to sustain their order for costs ; that the local authority 's exercise of its statutory role in the changing circumstances affecting the children could not be criticised ; and that , accordingly , the award of costs should be set aside ( post , pp. 527H , 528H , 530D–E , 531B–D ) . |
| 25 | Altogether , a staggering 277 research contracts and consultancies were awarded to various university departments , with 22 of the contracts worth more than £100,000 each . |
| 26 | During the Hungarian revolt of 1790 against the innovations of Joseph II the new registers of land titles ( an essential tool of modern government which had taken years of labour to complete ) were ceremonially burnt to the accompaniment of music , drinking , feasting and general rejoicing . |
| 27 | A Nepalese member of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon ( UNIFIL ) and a Hezbollah fighter were killed during a clash on Nov. 12 near the villages of Kafra and Yatar , on the northern edge of the " security zone " ; three other UNIFIL members were wounded . |
| 28 | Stratford , a royal diplomat , had been provided to Winchester in 1323 against the wishes of the king and paid a heavy penalty for it : his temporalities were seized and exploited for a year , and even after they were restored Stratford was placed under recognizances of £10,000 to the king ( £2000 down and the rest conditional upon his good conduct ) , £1000 to the Despensers , and 1000 marks to the chancellor , Robert Baldock , a clerk for whom Edward had intended the bishopric ; moreover , Stratford was summoned to answer in the King 's Bench for his conduct of a royal mission to the papacy . |
| 29 | Para 5.2.3 Under the provisions of the Garden 's Corporate Plan , the postholder will chair the Information and Central Services Planning Unit , which will cover the planning aspects of the Library , Photographic Collection , Computing , Staff Communication , Visitor Information , Public Relations , Publicity , Publications , Administration and Estates , within the Garden 's planning cycle . |
| 30 | The first really large wave of Jewish immigrants had been in 1881 with the pogroms of Alexander III in Russia . |