Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had first reported to Donleavy on the use of counterfeit money for DEA stings during the 1987 season , after Dany Habib had produced a sample from his desk drawer , but it was soon clear from what he observed at Eurame that this , too , had become standard operating procedure in his absence . |
| 2 | That is a pity : the price of financial distress is just about the only way in which the cost of capital for firms plausibly differs between the two rivals over the longer term . |
| 3 | Less than a second elapses between the two stages . |
| 4 | Charlie Swan rides Novello Allegro and also Castlina , a recent Navan winner who goes for the three miles handicap hurdle on the opening day . |
| 5 | As a starting point I want to examine some of the basic meeting points between the two communities — business and education — and some of their significant differences . |
| 6 | The break-even points between the two modes of processing can be seen clearly in Fig. 7.22 ; for numbers of records for which a sequential curve is above each straight line that represents the time required to process a record directly , direct processing is faster . |
| 7 | The first meeting of the Joint Committee of Experts of Bangladesh and India agreed in New Delhi on Nov. 20 to resume negotiations on sharing river waters between the two countries [ see also p. 38913 ] . |
| 8 | Where they do not coincide the coastal orientation usually lies between the two directions , being nearer to the one which is dominant . |
| 9 | The truth probably lies between the two extremes . |
| 10 | The Government proposes that where a pupil has a statement of special [ educational ] needs under the 1981 Education Act , the statement should specify any National Curriculum requirements which should not apply or should be modified for that individual pupil . |
| 11 | The key to the agreement lies in the two SNA/OSI standards points . |
| 12 | Well the answer lies in the twelve hours of negotiation that took place yesterday . |
| 13 | It is difficult to fit the two together , and to know which visits in the two books correspond . |
| 14 | Each noise is split into different frequency bands in the 20 hertz to 20 kHz range ( equivalent to the range of the human ear ) , and data about each band is fed into the system . |
| 15 | Patrice Haguellar , who used to coach Noah and Leconte in a private capacity , and who is now France 's National Coach , is a realist who looks upon the 1992 campaign as ‘ … a new challenge ’ |
| 16 | C adds to the 1017 entry that the exiled ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , which could imply that the original was written before this happened ; but it should be noted that the final sentence of the same annal , on Cnut 's marriage to Emma before 1 August , comes after the notice of Eadric of Mercia 's execution , which Florence of Worcester says happened at Christmas ; if so , the sentence on the marriage looks like a relatively late addition . |
| 17 | Estimates of life expectancy in residential care at specific ages can be calculated by using a method proposed by Sullivan which applies the age specific and age specific prevalences in five year bands to the 1990 population figures and death rates for England and Wales . |
| 18 | John Rymouth stands on the 20 foot single piece , arched stone bridge across a mountain stream and points to the Cylopean walls discovered on a hill top in the Rennes valley |
| 19 | They are , in brief , of the form If A , even if X , then still B. ( 1.4 ) Certain facts stated by the latter conditionals , together with effects being taken as later in time , are all that is needed to explain the difference we find or make between causal circumstances and causes on the one hand , and , on the other , their effects . |
| 20 | The length ( 48 weeks full-time ) corresponds to the twelve modules of an undergraduate equivalent and covers all the topics listed in Section 4 . |
| 21 | She looks at the three hands with detachment , as if they are a still life . |
| 22 | However , further platelets aggregate to the platelet monolayer when an aggregation agent is added and an accretion of platelets occurs between the two electrodes . |
| 23 | In the course of a year the Sun passes through the 12 constellations of the Zodiac . |
| 24 | This zig-zagging technique is particularly effective in visually widening the area , since it passes between the two wings of planting that divide this second ‘ room ’ from the next . |
| 25 | Nothing passes during the eight miles to Dimatima . |
| 26 | The iron bedsteads for the five wards were equipped with circular curtain rods and chains . |
| 27 | Much will depend on what happens between the two rounds of voting . |
| 28 | This occurs with the 17.56 Machynlleth to Aberystwyth which on arrival in Aberystwyth at 18.28 is shunted . |
| 29 | The widest difference occurs in the 45–59 age group , where 24 per cent of women are carers compared with only 16 per cent of men ( Green , 1988 , p. 8 ) . |
| 30 | But it comes back to the point of how much tempo passes in the one phrase . |