Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the South is redefined to include only the four regions of the South East , South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands , then the net movement of people from North to South can be seen to have risen from a low point of only around 10,000–20,000 a year in the early 1970s to a peak of nearly 70,000 by 1985–86 ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 2 | By five-thirty , I had met up with the lads and , content at seventeen miles , stooped in the twilight to hammer home the twenty-eight pegs . |
| 3 | J Wood in the Custom House and Silvertown Ward expressed the need to administer effectively the 1918 Education Act , 1918 Maternity Act , and the 1919 Housing and Town Planning Act : ‘ In a period of reconstruction only a majority of conscious Socialist and labour men and women on the council will have the determination to make West Ham a healthier , cleaner , more sanitary town to live in ’ . |
| 4 | For example , it is possible to string together the four carbons of butane in two different ways . |
| 5 | I now want to draw together the four aspects of intelligent machines set out above and three prima facie features of consciousness : these three seem to me necessary criteria for any explication of consciousness , and I will suggest that the aspects of such machines already described are interestingly related to these facts . |
| 6 | So necessity it would seem was another reason why she tended to use just the one camera . |
| 7 | So necessity it would seem was another reason why she tended to use just the one camera . |
| 8 | The theoretical framework which underwrites the planning , attempts to keep together the four modes of language and their relation to learning and teaching in schools . |
| 9 | You can of course do this in your LSTRAIN process , if you prefer to run just the two processes . |
| 10 | And that proved a costly mistake as super dad Polston pounced to prise away the three points and send the Canaries of Norwich flying high after again ruffling the feathers of their championship detractors . |
| 11 | And ten years later the Mantuan composer Alessandro Striggio ( c. 1535–c. 1595 ) , in order to hold together the forty parts of his four-choir motet ‘ Ecce beatam lucem ’ , devised a bassone or ‘ general bass ’ ‘ extracted from the lowest voices , to be played in the middle of the circle [ of performers ] by a trombone for the sustaining of the harmony with organ , lute and cembali or viols ’ . |
| 12 | Before looking at the different propositions of the theory , it is necessary to describe briefly the two forms of government financial assistance : income tax rebates and supplementary benefit . |
| 13 | In deciding to get together the two firms reveal that they think this union will be in their private interest , but we must ask whether mergers are in the public interest . |
| 14 | Under the new proposals , people are to have just the one tax bill each year , covering all their income . |
| 15 | Why did she want to take away the one possession that was truly valuable to him ? |
| 16 | For if the princes were to take seriously the one task the church now allowed them , they could not achieve it without also enlarging their criminal jurisdiction . |
| 17 | Western and Pakistani diplomatic sources said the UN secretariat hoped to bring together the six countries directly involved in the conflict — the US , the Soviet Union , China , Pakistan , Iran and Saudi Arabia — to accept the broad terms for a dialogue among the rival Afghan groups . |
| 18 | In the early part of September there were still hopes for a UN-sponsored peace conference as Oscar Camilion , UN special representative for Cyprus , visited Ankara , Athens and Nicosia in an attempt to bring together the four parties to the dispute : the Greek and Turkish governments and the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities [ see also pp. 38402-03 ] . |
| 19 | Nothing would weigh more heavily with many Tories than the thought that what above all had led them to throw away the 1992 election was the way the positive values and achievements of the Thatcher years had been allowed , through loss of nerve , to be obscured . |
| 20 | But Morocco 's opposition parties want King Hassan to bring home the 1,500 troops he sent to join the multinational force . |