Example sentences of "[is] [num] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | NICK FALDO is 7-2 favourite to win the Million Dollar Challenge , which begins in Sun City today . |
| 2 | A common example is 5 bats surrounding the Shou character ; this represents the " five happiness " ( well-being , good office , tranquillity , virtue and a peaceful end ) . |
| 3 | If national production capability is one factor influencing the rate at which Britain and other NATO countries will equip with emerging technology conventional weapons , another is the demands these weapons will make on the quality and quantity of military manpower at the country 's disposal . |
| 4 | Why not do it and leave it ready the day before , then all that is needed is one minute to set the garter carriage in operation and you will come home to a sleeve which only has to be cast off . |
| 5 | Using a shampoo specially formulated for permed hair is one way to combat the damage caused . |
| 6 | INVESTING in Government Securities — or Gilts as they are usually called — is one way to guarantee the rate of interest you 'll earn . |
| 7 | At this point Callinicos has to be careful : it is one thing to dismiss the claims of a rootless postmodernism , wandering naked except for its designer trainers across the face of a barren late capitalism . |
| 8 | For it is one thing to deny the significance Marx attaches to alienation as the prime impulse to class struggle ; and quite another to identify it , cleaned of its Hegelian war-paint , as we have identified it already : as the abstraction of one 's working life from a life of one 's own . |
| 9 | It is one thing to describe the key role played by rising labour costs and another to explain why they rose . |
| 10 | But it is one thing to document the diversity in local authority expenditure and political activity ; it is another to account for its origins and maintenance . |
| 11 | The grounds for arrest It is one thing to identify the crimes for which an arrest is now possible ; it is another to say when such arrests may lawfully take place . |
| 12 | It is one thing to attack the Soviet system or Third World countries not yet under the sway of Western democracies ( and business ) , but it is in these countries that the gospel is spreading like wildfire . |
| 13 | It is one thing to win the support of electors by defeating an enemy for the first time ; it is quite another to expect admiration for slaying the same dragon twice . |
| 14 | 3 It is one thing to recognise the limited possibilities of insurrection in Britain , but it is another thing to move from this into support for the Labour Party . |
| 15 | It is one thing to recognize the present weaknesses in financial accountability ; it is another to devote time , money and effort to remedying these defects . |
| 16 | This is one example illustrating the hypothesis that , because of his inheritance of the capacity to experience the sensations of all life , man has acquired an appreciation of colourful things from evolutionary sources , this example being but a part of it . |
| 17 | For instance , in the well-known ‘ frogs ’ puzzle , it is one step to say the puzzle can be solved in 15 moves , a further step to produce a general formula for different numbers of frogs , but an even greater step to say why the relationship is quadratic in terms of how the frogs move . |
| 18 | I mean it 's one thing letting the committee know for their records or something . |
| 19 | See there 'd be Amlwch , Rhos- y-Bol , Well now it 's one area see the lot of it . |
| 20 | well yeah just the match before , the Saturday before New Year , there 's one point covering the top six |
| 21 | It was fifty , it 's thirty minutes to do the run , you only wanted a bus to repeat itself every forty minutes , so you got ten minutes to waste . |
| 22 | Babur shouts , ‘ Here 's thirty quid says the Dark Avenger 'll cream him . ’ |
| 23 | Last September erm I was accompanied by another manager so in effect there 's two managers running the place . |
| 24 | Um I think um where I 've seen things that er discussed under the heading of child sex abuse erm er it 's often the case that um y'know maybe in some families you find the situation where there 's a daughter who 's being abused by the father and then when the brother gets old enough to take an interest in sexuality , he joins in as well sort of thing and it 's er y'know it 's like there 's two blokes abusing the girl . |
| 25 | So there 's four nations writing the software ? |
| 26 | Labour 's Hugh Bayley is 2/7 favourites to win the highly marginal seat . |