Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the total number of sixth form students in a division . |
| 2 | Moreover , although the overall proportion of 20th Century publications requiring repair was low , because so many modern publications were issued to readers , the total number of 20th Century publications requiring repair was high ( accounting for 42% of all defective issues ) , and almost matched the number of defective 19th Century items recorded ( 50% of all defective issues ) . |
| 3 | Mr Reid will not be available to take up the full-time post until next October , although he becomes chairman-designate on January 1 . |
| 4 | Perhaps that scenario led to the low-key approach to last night 's encounter which was more entertaining than the Test Card — but only just . |
| 5 | For almost 20 years St Mary 's has supported the work of St Gemma 's Hospice in Moortown , Leeds and recently Miss Anne Murray , the Assistant Head of Sixth Form and three senior students presented a cheque for £2,750 to the Hospice ( see photo above ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I just walked in there one day ; it was the nicest store on 48th Street . |
| 7 | " What , " Graham said contemptuously , annoyed , " that tall bloke with the bleached hair in first year ? |
| 8 | The Commission 's substantive decisions and the level of fines it imposes are subject to review by the European Court of First Instance , which is given power to increase fines as well as to cancel or reduce them . |
| 9 | Firms then have the right of appeal to the European Court of First Instance , and ultimately to the European Court of Justice . |
| 10 | Clearly , she is a player who should make the European side for next year 's Solheim Cup at the Greenbrier . |
| 11 | Olympic champion Jan Ove Waldner from Sweden holds the world male leading spot , ahead of world champion Jean Philippe Gatien from France , with former Milk Irish Open champion Jean Michel Saive from Belgium competing the European domination in third place . |
| 12 | Military officials in the occupied territories at first appeared to contradict Eliezer 's statement when they announced that no such freeze had yet been ordered by the military authorities . |
| 13 | The low estimates for second degree relatives , admittedly with large standard errors , also suggest that common environment or recessive genes , or both , may have contributed to the relatively high prevalence among siblings . |
| 14 | As far as the eye could see the earth was brown : there were white pockets of unmelted snow , and sombre green pine thickets on the ridges , but no leaves on the deciduous trees and no bright green shoots in the withered remains of last year 's grass . |
| 15 | For the summer , in addition to the lecture tour of Sicily and the weekend excursion to Iona , the Friends have arranged a fascinating guided tour of Greyfriars Kirkyard — which has the finest collection of 17th century monuments in Scotland . |
| 16 | It 's one of the finest collections of first world war aeroplanes in existence , and it 's going on show to give people a little taste of that old movie magic . |
| 17 | In-form Alan Fotheringham finished the 65-mile course in sixth place , only ten seconds down on the winner , C. Pawsey of Charlottville who had an average speed of 24.25 m.p.h . |
| 18 | Roman 's nearness , the strength of his personality , the insidious memories of last night were undermining her defences … |
| 19 | The five-country meeting at San Jose has assumed a critical atmosphere because of the possible breakdown of last August 's Tela accord , which agreed contra demobilisation in exchange for democratic Nicaraguan elections . |
| 20 | Only hours before , Mr Amato had pledged his government would continue and held out the spectre of a return to the political chaos of last year when Italy was without an effective executive or legislature for three months . |
| 21 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 22 | The degree to which publicans ‘ invested ’ for this reason in football is unknown but the pecuniary advantage at first sight seems doubtful . |
| 23 | It is perfectly reasonable , and in the classic mould of 18th century pamphleteers , to be angry about our present state , to criticise and to apportion blame to those who exercise irresponsibility . |
| 24 | It took an hour or more to jog along from Canonbury to Paddington , but we did reach the enchanted spot at last . |
| 25 | The representative collection of 20th century art which Lancaster University has been amassing since the 1960s and 1970s by purchase , gifts and bequests , is to be housed in a worthy new purpose-built annex to the already existing and refurbished Peter Scott Gallery . |
| 26 | This , the Lower Limestone of 19th century surveyors , passes up into a thick sequence of sandstones and shales with thin limestones referred to as the Middle Limestone or ‘ Calp ’ . |
| 27 | Thus although the political initiative for the start of NEP came from the top , the economic life-blood at first began to flow from the bottom upwards . |
| 28 | Think she need to hit the bloody ball at first ! |
| 29 | The JIC meeting on 27th April 1993 was unfruitful . |
| 30 | She had made the right decision to first appease Rainald . |