Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has 10% of world proven oil reserves , second only to Saudi Arabia , and in terms of probable oil resources holds about one-seventh of the world 's potential . |
| 2 | This means that the Board will have issued exposure drafts for 10 of the 11 standards affected by the Statement of Intent . |
| 3 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 4 | The Friendship Store is in the downtown area , and so we had a chance to stop on the way at the Tien An Men Gate ( the famous gate providing an entrance to the forbidden city ) , and Tien An Men Square , Peking 's equivalent of Trafalgar Square , except that it is about 20 times as big , and contains about one-twentieth of the traffic . |
| 5 | This is a round trip of some 16 miles and on Skye counts as one of the easiest expeditions . |
| 6 | The block lies between two of the biggest discoveries in the Villages area — the British Gas-operated Frobisher field ( to the east ) and York , the recently announced Amerada Hess find ( to the west ) . |
| 7 | The conservation of the fivefold symmetry also holds for 250 of the water molecules which show an average r.m.s.d. from exact fivefold symmetry of 0.3Å . |
| 8 | The National Trust looks after one of the largest collections in the world , and these works of art , plus other great and important collections in the British Isles , are described by Bruce Arnold in the fully illustrated Art Atlas published by Viking Penguin on 28 February at £25 . |
| 9 | The auxiliary use of need has also been found in the following type of sentence not listed by Jacobsson : ( 23 ) By co-vary , we mean that the more a language has of one of the processes , the less it need have of the other . |
| 10 | from a distance it looks more black than brown and it has a most interesting tail which , when closed , looks like one of the flippers scuba divers wear . |
| 11 | He looks like one of the you know |
| 12 | Responsibility for various specific public services is hived off to a range of special agencies , though in each case ultimate responsibility for policy lies with one of the central departments . |
| 13 | But as the wheel slows , the energy of the ball decreases , and eventually the ball drops into one of the thirty-seven slots in the wheel . |
| 14 | And that , he hopes , will enable him to take over the top ten ratings the Yorkshireman holds with two of the four recognised world governing bodies the WBO and WBC . |
| 15 | Parque de la Paz lies in one of the prettiest parts of Las Americas yet is only a short walk from loads of bars and discos . |
| 16 | The brick-built Methodist chapel stands in one of the side lanes of the village . |
| 17 | The Pazzaglini family are the friendly hosts at the Hotel Tiffany which stands in one of the quietest , greenest parts of Cattolica . |
| 18 | Nicholson writes in 1861 in the Annals of Kendal of ‘ hosiers attending Markets to collect stockings and give out worsted . ’ |
| 19 | A lawyer , he lives in one of the swish apartment blocks which sprang out of the rubble left by the last act of licensed hooliganism to hit Cagliari , namely the second world war . |
| 20 | They call it The Linny , and Sidney lives in one of the big new houses . |
| 21 | And one man whose mother lives in one of the homes listed for closure said yesterday : ‘ We will be making our presence felt again when the full council meets . ’ |
| 22 | These specimens are well-preserved in a clay matrix , some of which adheres to one of the specimens . |
| 23 | Returning to the expected tetrahedral form , we can assign the polarized Raman bands to three of the four expected a 1 modes . |
| 24 | Every instrument here is adding what weight it has to one of the four component parts of the texture ( i.e. and the tune itself ) . |
| 25 | Tayloes , or Belvedere Mill , in Chalford stands on one of the oldest confirmed mill sites in the Chalford Valley and is one of the most picturesque . |
| 26 | However , in Finkelhor 's review , several factors emerged as being consistently associated with higher risk of sexual abuse : when a child lives without one of the biological parents ; when the mother is unavailable to the child either as a result of employment outside the home or disability and illness ; when a child reports that the parents ' marriage is unhappy or conflictual ; when the child reports having a poor relationship with the parents or being subject to extremely punitive discipline or child abuse ; when the child reports having a step-father . |
| 27 | A piece of the Queen 's unfinished embroidery lies on one of the chairs . |
| 28 | This corresponds to two of the standard measurements made by recording stations and should provide adequate indications for radiocomms prediction . |
| 29 | As a 50/50 bet , this date corresponds to 0.5 on the probability scale . |
| 30 | Unlike the stress at right angles to the crack surfaces which is mapped in Figure 3 , this tension starts at zero at the crack tip and increases as we move forward away from it . |