Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 29 , 1989 , the Majlis approved a bill seeking to amend the 1981 law on the registration of political parties . |
| 2 | The Conservative government preferred to follow the Labour route of seeking to expand the 1948 Treaty of Brussels to incorporate Italy and West Germany . |
| 3 | Ernest Saunders , the former chairman of the brewing and distilling company Guinness plc , had been convicted on Aug. 27 on two charges of conspiring to contravene the 1958 Prevention of Fraud ( Investments ) Act , on eight charges of false accounting and on two charges of theft , and was sentenced on Aug. 28 to two concurrent terms of five years and 3@1\2 years respectively . |
| 4 | He found him agitated and anxious and thumping the table , demanding to discuss the two men 's roles in relation to each other . |
| 5 | Police are now waiting to interview the 25 year old man who was driving the stolen car . |
| 6 | Well I 'm going to buy the two and I 'm going to buy the two boys pyjamas and two girls night shirts and we thought you 'd buy the slippers . |
| 7 | Grindley may have his fate in his own hands , with Black spurning the chance to run tonight and deciding to run the 200 metres in this weekend 's Pearl British Championships at Crystal Palace . |
| 8 | Yeah but I 'm going to keep the two pictures and a five and then you had to put two twos in or two and a six or |
| 9 | Squatting to hug the two kids , fussing with Frieda 's collar , unable to stop holding her in relief . |
| 10 | ‘ Smith and his brother are going to attempt the 11,000 miles from the UK to Australia in another Vickers . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Huntington , a member of Sedgefield District Council , is attempting to overturn the 13,058 majority of Labour 's Tony Blair . |
| 12 | The method used will be mainly that of attempting to contrast the two versions in the same context . |
| 13 | Attempting to distinguish the two forms , Frances Berry arrived at the strange result that Thou in the Sonnets is ‘ remote ’ and ‘ betokens distant admiration ’ , while You is ‘ more intimate ’ . |
| 14 | I was always getting told the Three Bears . " |
| 15 | On those cases it , it usually evens itself out er it usually says oh due to roundings I 'll ignore that erm cos I 've actu erm I 've gained through the unit statement on , cos I 've had one of these stand alone policies , and not wishing to pay the one pound ninety I 've actually knocked it on the head now and incorporated it with another policy , but erm when we looked at it all , overall I 've got a nil unit situation but in some months I actually had negative units , some months I had a , a sort of like point zero one of a unit positive . |
| 16 | I think it 's , our feelings are quite strong about this , in this contest that we 're having with the Town Hall , that er , having exposed the five percent in the first place , we have had particular innovation about five B , being articulated as well . |
| 17 | Having completed the 18 month trainee manager scheme , 129 people are now studying , through distance learning , for the degree in Retail Marketing sponsored by Sainsbury 's at Manchester Metropolitan University . |
| 18 | Having considered the four judgments in Walker 's case , 28 L.R.Ir. 69 I have concluded that they do not demonstrate the application to the facts of that case of the principles of the law of negligence . |
| 19 | CITY of Derry 's Roisin Barr was the star performer in the early finals of the Ulster Age Group Championships today as she collected two titles with ease having won the 16–19 year old 100m Butterfly crown last night . |
| 20 | When put to the members as a whole ( Extraordinary General Meeting , November 1984 ) , the proposal was lost , failing to secure the 2:1 majority . |
| 21 | Having built the CLI command file EE.CLI and queued it for action by the CLI , PROCE terminates and BBCBASIC(Z80) returns to the immediate mode . |
| 22 | Nezzar , 54 , had become Defence Minister in July 1990 and was regarded as one of the most influential members of the HCS , having supervised the two states of siege imposed during Chadli 's presidency , in October 1988 and June 1991 [ see pp. 36507 ; 38312 ] . |
| 23 | Hungarian radio said on Oct. 22 that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev 's spokesman had reported him as having condemned the 1956 Warsaw Treaty intervention in Hungary as a violation of international law . |
| 24 | Other scholars may of course reach a different opinion about this picture , but it is my understanding that the majority of Seicento scholars , having compared the two paintings , concord with my views . |
| 25 | I 've just said are you still having to do the six months , it 'll sound as if you 're getting a prison sentence |
| 26 | His first seniors outing , however , may well be in Japan , where qualification is based on a player being in his 50th year , rather than his actually having reached the 50 mark . |
| 27 | The first is not chronological but logical ; that is , it will set out how , having invented the six criteria with which I began Chapter 8 , I have tried to meet them using the passive avoidance task . |
| 28 | This requires careful measurement and joining to keep the two elbow bends aligned — assemble them dry and mark with a pencil . |
| 29 | An and its time that that top corridor were made aware of just what sort of front line work we are doing to save the sixty-four officers on the beat that |
| 30 | In the course of visits to Prague , the Czechoslavakian capital , and Bratislava by French President François Mitterrand on Sept. 13-14 and by United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sept. 16-18 , both leaders expressed their countries ' regret at having signed the 1938 Munich agreement , which had allowed Nazi Germany to dismember Czechoslovakia . |