Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that they would have to look for other offices , the partners decided to take the opportunity to merge the three Isle of Wight offices and reap the benefits of the resulting economies of scale . |
| 2 | Of the four university colleges , only Nottingham was a substantial provider of Chapter III courses , in the East Midlands , and here again as the provision pre-dated the 1932 Regulations , existing practice was recognised and approved by the Board of Education . |
| 3 | All you need to do is cross the ridge separating the two villages and continue on to Day 11 . |
| 4 | She said yeah the mother won the hundred the son-in-law won the fifty |
| 5 | Numbers 1–18 on the dartboard represent the 18 holes . |
| 6 | Such then was the equipment and the ethos with which the Brewery faced the 50 years of violent growth which lifted it by 1914 to first place in the world league . |
| 7 | Parsons had said that among the causes was the fact that the massive influx into the cities following the mid-seventies oil-boom had created a rootless , unhappy proletariat . |
| 8 | more in terms of our interest rate than would have been the case had the two countries remained separate ? |
| 9 | The text explains the three stages of the experiment . |
| 10 | The FFF , who last year won the bidding to host the 1998 World Cup finals , have promised to meet the deadline . |
| 11 | The clerk put the two letters side by side and studied them carefully . |
| 12 | In 1971 the SAAF took the five remaining Daks of national carrier South African Airways ( SAA ) . |
| 13 | Er unfortunately the the problems which occurred in nineteen ninety two with the threat of German withdrawals from the Eurofighter two thousand project put a complete stop on the plans to merge the two agencies . |
| 14 | Public opinion polls published on the eve of the election showed the two main parties evenly matched . |
| 15 | THE decision to take the Five Nations trophy to Paris before Saturday 's match , strongly criticised by some sections of the English media , was fully vindicated after an exhilarating display by the French . |
| 16 | ‘ The decision to shut the 31 pits has gone . ’ |
| 17 | The DoE believed it had the decision to join the 30 per cent Club ‘ in the bag ’ and briefed journalists to that effect . |
| 18 | The decision to lift the 1986 embargo on iron , steel and gold coins was taken in April 1991 [ see p. 38132 ] but implementation was delayed when the minority Danish government failed to win the necessary parliamentary support [ see p. 38318 ] . |
| 19 | It is rare for the most prestigious award for architecture in the world to be given to a non architect but the decision to award the 1992 Royal Gold Medal to the structural engineer , Peter Rice , was widely acclaimed . |
| 20 | Protests reached their peak in 1977 with the decision to build the 1200 MWe fast breeder reactor at Creys-Malville . |
| 21 | The decision to have the three executed was taken at the very top by a Cabinet sub-committee . ’ |
| 22 | The IB secretary Keith Rowlands admitted that if the tour was cancelled , it would have an impact on the decision to play the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 23 | The gang abducted the eighteen year old daughter , and forced her at gunpoint to open up the bank in Bloxham where she worked . |
| 24 | The gang forced the four to go with them to remote farmland calling the woman ‘ a black whore ’ who was ‘ fooling about with white trash . ’ |
| 25 | There was no significant difference in enterochromaffin like cell density , histamine content or histidine decarboxylase activity between the groups receiving the three highest gastrin doses . |
| 26 | Each group of headlines , furthermore , ‘ consists of two sets , one for the outer forme [ the forme containing the two pages which would end up outermost when the sheet was folded — ppa/8 , 9/16 and so on ] and another for the inner , and the various headlines in each set appear in the same sequence whenever used ’ ( p.300 ) . |
| 27 | However , it may yet be tempted to bend the rules to admit the two newcomers . |
| 28 | His aim was to drop five parties by parachute two nights before the offensive to attack the five enemy forward airfields around Timimi and Gazala . |
| 29 | Tektronix 's disappointing first quarter results , which included net profits down 1.5% at $9.5m , pushed the division to combine the two X Terminal lines in order to cut costs . |
| 30 | Does the Secretary of State share many people 's concern about the fate of some 100,000 Soviet or ex-Soviet nuclear scientists who seem to be voting with their feet , particularly those who appear to have the skills to dismantle the 27,000 or so warheads , and the possibility that those skills may be lost ? |