Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several quote 70 as the upper age limit for voluntary and statutory committees and the like . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | whitewashed West Indies in the one-dayers and were then routed 4–0 during the main business of that summer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | More than 200 organisations working in areas including child and family care , will receive grants during 1993/94 through the Social Work Committee . |
| 7 | This move should call to mind some remarks made in 2.4 about the causal theory of knowledge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On this last point they were reassured by the Governor 's mention of December 1948 as the outside date for this . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Yes , I allowed Monday to get my eleven for the following week . |
| 14 | He and the Italian had completed their third successive one-two for the Didcot-based team . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His spare-time activities during these years resulted in various patents , including one from 1931 concerning the Baird TV system and one in 1933 for the variable density technique of optically recording sound on film . |
| 17 | But a disclaimer can never take away your rights under the Defective Premises Act 1972 for the collapsing conservatory or prevent anyone being sued for negligence which has caused death or injury . |
| 18 | Its design to avoid significant loading at the output or input has already been considered in section 3.7 for the special case of a direct input , which can be thought of as a sinusoidal input of zero frequency , but the discussion and conclusions reached apply equally well whatever the time dependence of the input signal . |
| 19 | If this is to be your approach see pages 87–92 for the actual process of post-production editing . |
| 20 | In the May 1990 congressional elections the ruling PRSC retained control of the Senate , winning 16 seats , compared with 12 for the Dominican Liberation Party ( Partido de la Liberación Dominicana — PLD ) and two for the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( Partido Revolucionario Dominicano — PRD ) . |
| 21 | AN UNDERWATER SEARCH started on October 12 for the well-known aviator , Antoine de Saint-Exupery ( FP September p45 ) . |
| 22 | In the Chamber of the People 101 seats were reserved for the Czech Republic and 49 for the Slovak Republic ; in the Chamber of Nations each republic had 75 seats . |
| 23 | MAY 1993 During the Khmelnitski exchange visit to Hunterston great interest was shown in TOP and the Director and Deputy Director of Khmelnitski NPP sat in on a team meeting to see it in action . |
| 24 | The FoE study , published in October 1985 as The Final Report : Tree Dieback Survey , was based on 1,638 beech trees and 1,546 yews at over 700 sites . |
| 25 | When this indicated a probability of less than 0.05 for the null hypothesis Student-Newman-Keuls analyses were performed to determine which values differed significantly . |
| 26 | Ladbrokes and Hills offer a more generous 9-4 about the French star , who will be trying to make amends for agonising short head defeats in the last two Gold Cups . |
| 27 | A peace agreement was signed in Addis Ababa ( Ethiopia ) on July 12 between the Ugandan government , represented by Ateke Ejalu , Minister of State for Special Duties , and the Uganda People 's Democratic Movement ( UDPM ) , first formed in 1986 [ see p. 35493 ] and chaired by Eric Otema Alimadi ( Prime Minister until 1985 under the Milton Obote regime ) . |
| 28 | The result was 9,122 for the Unionist candidate and 3,944 for the NILP . |
| 29 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 30 | ( See Appendix 2 for the complete extract . ) |