Example sentences of "and the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between the 1st day of July 1987 and the 15th day of October 1987 conspired together and with other persons fraudulently to induce persons to enter into agreements for acquiring or subscribing for securities , namely shares in Blue Arrow plc , by making statements which they knew to be misleading , false or deceptive or by dishonestly concealing material facts or by recklessly making statements which were misleading , false or deceptive namely : 1.1 By failing to notify the Company Announcements Office of the Quotations Department of the International Stock Exchange by way of a Class 2 announcement ( as provided for by Section 6 of the Council of the Stock Exchange 's admission of securities to listing ) following the purchase of shares in Manpower Incorporated for a consideration in excess of 5 per cent of the consolidated net assets of Blue Arrow ; 1.2 By concealing the fact that the level of Acceptances of provisionally allotted new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow was 38.04 per cent at the expiry of the offer by way of rights issue at 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.3 By concealing the fact that 54,625,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow were taken up after 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.4 By falsely stating that , in connection with the rights issue of 504.4 million new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow , acceptances had been received in respect of 246.5 million shares which represented 48.9 per cent of the rights issue . |
| 2 | [ Guildhall Library , Commissary Court of London , MS 9172/30 ; Mary Edmond , ‘ Limners and Picturemakers ’ in The Walpole Society , vol. xlvii , 1980 ; Roy Strong , The English Icon , 1969 ; Sheila O'Connell , William Larkin and the 3rd Earl of Dorset : a Portrait in Focus , catalogue of an exhibition at Ranger 's House , 1989 . ] |
| 3 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |
| 4 | Regimental traditions have influenced the badge patterns of The Duke of Cornwall 's Light Infantry , which was formed in 1881 by linking The 32nd Regiment of Foot ( Cornwall ) , raised in The 1st Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps 1702 , and The 46th Regiment of Foot ( South Devonshire ) , raised in 1741 . |
| 5 | The force was virtually destroyed in its gallant endeavours at Mons and the First Battle of Ypres , with losses amounting to 95,654 by the end of 1914 . |
| 6 | He took part in the retreat from Mons and the first battle of Ypres . |
| 7 | Edward Pyatt 's Guinness Book of Mountains and Mountaineering ( Guinness 1980 ) , gives lists of first ascents — mostly by Coolidge and Almer — and a poor location map , but no bibliography ; and Doug Scott 's classic Big Wall Climbing ( Daye Ward , 1974 ) tells only of the feats of Zsigimondy and Diboma on the traverse of La Meije and the first ascent of the South Face respectively . |
| 8 | Although we think of it now as a packaging material and the ubiquitous polythene bag appears to be a major support of modern life , its primary contribution was in the impetus it gave to the plastic moulding industry and the first development of plastic buckets , sink bowls and so on . |
| 9 | The back-channel reports on DEA operations that he had transmitted twice a week from his arrival in Cyprus were on file in a classified computer data bank , codenamed EMERALD , at Bolling Airforce Base , near Washington , and the first order of business upon his return was a systematic debriefing at a hotel near Fort Meade to fill in the gaps . |
| 10 | Robert Julius Matson had guessed right : the first train had come through just nine years after the town was founded in 1858 , pulling behind it the fertiliser works , the com mill , the seed-com warehouse , and with them the quiet prosperity that spawned the first Masonic lodge in 1871 , a voluntary fire brigade in ‘ 75 , the telephone in ‘ 84 and the first sewer in 1920 . |
| 11 | and Mr. Mahmoud , and the first clause of that assignment is : |
| 12 | Thus a process which started in early 1988 will see the first holder of an HNC in Accounting emerge in the summer of 1991 , and the first holder of an HND in Accounting in 1992 . |
| 13 | Page 25 Car sales down : Some 171,730 cars were sold in September , a 10 per cent decline on a year ago and the first fall since April 1987 . |
| 14 | Latest figures showed parish church councils netted £237,571 in 1990 down £1,000 in real terms on 1989 and the first fall for 14 years . |
| 15 | In the darkness before morning and the first shock of discovering that Fiver was gone , Bigwig had been a comfort and a stand-by . |
| 16 | Adoption of workplans and the first call for proposals should follow soon after , and first contracts could be signed by November 1991 . |
| 17 | The fact that Blake was missing was not discovered until 7.20 p.m. and the first call to the police did not occur until 7.43 p.m. so Blake had roughly two hours ' start . |
| 18 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
| 19 | There was the revulsion at the fluidity of life and the first tube of paint , the revulsion at the meticulousness of painting with a brush and the first pot of paint , the revulsion at the viscousness of paint and the first readymade , the revulsion at the arbitrariness of the readymades and the first use of glass . |
| 20 | It was like that endless moment , Sabine thought , between the lightning flash and the first crackle of thunder . |
| 21 | The Unitarian , L. P. Jacks , was Principal of Manchester College , Oxford , from 1903–1931 and the first editor of Hibbert 's Journal . |
| 22 | Also included are a Stravinsky symphony and the first suite of Ravel 's ‘ Daphnis and Chloe ’ . |
| 23 | With the Ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat , the seventeenth day of the seventh month and the waters went away and decreased until the tenth month and the first day of the tenth month , the tops of the mountains appeared , and after the end of forty days , Noah opened the window of the Ark , which he had made and sent forth a raven which went out , ever going and coming again until the waters were dried up upon the earth . |
| 24 | ’ — And the first law of all ? ’ |
| 25 | Anatoly Kornienko , first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party ( CP ) committee in Kiev city and the first speaker after Gorbachev , complained that the platform had no ideological foundation and gave the impression that " the central committee does not know which way to turn " . |
| 26 | It is assumed that the eigenvalues in unc ( and the corresponding eigenvectors in X ) are so ordered that unc has the eigenvalues unc in descending order of magnitude down the diagonal , so that 1 and the first vector in X define the fundamental frequency and mode . |
| 27 | Like all mammals , dolphins need air to live , and the first act of life of a newly-born dolphin is to find its way to the surface to breathe . |
| 28 | Building societies were legally recognized in 1812 , and the first Act of Parliament to regulate them was passed in 1836 , when some 150 societies were being formed every year . |
| 29 | Musically the interim was not unproductive : he compiled several keyboard concertos from other composers ' music collected in Paris and London , and made his first foray into vocal music , with a couple of Italian arias ; he composed a comedy in Latin for Salzburg university entitled Apollo et Hyacinthus , a piece of Passion music , and the first act of a sacred Singspiel , Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots , written in collaboration with Joseph Haydn 's younger brother Michael ( who since 1762 had been music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and another local composer , Jacob Adlgasser . |
| 30 | That 's right , and , and the first act of the play is a rehearsal and it keeps stopping and the director keeps sort of straightening them out and they 're dealing with little problems , and when you 're actually rehearsing it you find yourself sort of repeating the play because it 's so ac Michael Frayn who wrote it has so accurately observed what happens er when you 're directing a play that er you find yourself re-enacting the play and , and suddenly find a discussion you 've just been having has part sounds as if it 's come out of the script . |