Example sentences of "the [num] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Although NeXT Computer Inc has stumbled , Data General Corp , which last year signed to resell NeXT boxes , will maintain a relationship with Steve Jobs ' company — it says it was always more interested in the NeXTstep software anyway , and it will market the environment on the 80486 personal computers it buys OEM once it becomes available . |
2 | The US recycles 60 per cent of the 75 billion cans it uses per year . |
3 | His only worry is that the 500 official tickets he will be getting will not be enough . |
4 | But he came back to a letter from dole chiefs telling him he would not get his income support cash for the 2 1/2 weeks he was away . |
5 | In view of the support and assistance which we have already provided I am not prepared to contribute towards your internal training arrangements or the preparation of the 2 self-study units you are proposing . |
6 | He said : ‘ The selection committee is multi-racial and we came with the 30 best players we could pick . |
7 | For Mozambique , he suggests that donors redirect ten-fifteen percent of the 200–300 million dollars they spend annually on salaries for their own personnel to pay Mozambican public service salaries . |
8 | In the 1972 presidential elections he was vice-presidential candidate for the coalition headed by Jose Napoleon Duarte , who was widely held to have won although a military candidate was declared the winner . |
9 | In the event we 've achieved fourteen hundred , nearly fourteen hundred , and that follows on the six hundred redundancies we had last year . |
10 | In the first two weeks I sat down , worked out the six major things I needed to do and tabled them to the group executive within six weeks . |
11 | Unable to get these onto the screen for 18 months , and lacking the clout necessary to raise the additional money for the six extra films they would need to secure foreign distribution , Minerva went under . |
12 | What about the 10 superb games he had on the trot recently ? |
13 | Why ca n't I take back the dozen ski-holiday brochures I 'm leafing through , and be rewarded with a discount from the travel agents , and the knowledge that they 're recycling them ? |
14 | In the three following subsections we examine their potential for these applications. , |
15 | After the three less-than-convincing films they had previously made together , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? brilliantly restored their credibility as performers , and Nichols 's essentially theatrical but competent direction was nominated for an Oscar . |
16 | In its first act the Constitutional Assembly denounced the use of violence , calling on guerrillas still fighting to renounce armed struggle , and asking the Medellín cartel to release the three remaining journalists they were holding as hostages [ see pp. 37957-58 ] . |
17 | Certainly we can not rest with the three ordinary ideas we have of the distinction between the causal items and their effects . |
18 | As to the three first designs it must be recollected that while the first prize for the Foreign Office was awarded to Messrs. Coe and Hofland , yet they did not compete for the War Office again , while in the opinion of Mr. Burn and that of the assessors , Messrs. Banks and Barry stood first in merit for the Foreign Office ; yet , according to the same opinion , they were unsuccessful for the War Office , while Mr. Scott stood second both for one and the other . |
19 | ‘ I 'm not anti-drink , I 'm anti the abuse of drink and the hassle that it causes , ’ he told me during an interview carried out in one of the three plush hotels he owns . |
20 | I should like to conclude by making to you , our shareholders , the three crucial points I made to our staff on assuming the role of Group Chief Executive . |
21 | So in summary the three main things I got out of yesterday were the structured thought patterns the playback and the audience contact . |
22 | good morning ladies and gentlemen the three main items I got out of yesterday was the er structured thought patterns the cluster and the playback |
23 | Dr Joe Bettey has drawn attention to the three main aspects we should examine — the site , structure , and fittings — all of which can provide valuable clues to the history of the local landscape . |
24 | The three educational ideologies he considers , i.e. reconstructionism , classical humanism and progressivism , roughly correspond to the community-centred , subject-centred and child-centred curriculum respectively , although the community-centred curriculum can also be a form of instrumentalism . |
25 | If I do not wish to continue after the three monthly issues I will write and let you know within 10 days of receiving my third issue and will not owe you a penny . |
26 | Had Mr Howe and all the Lakeside opposition attended the three public meetings we were all invited and urged strongly to attend , perhaps there would not be all this dithering now . |
27 | Had Mr Howe and all the Lakeside opposition attended the three public meetings we were all invited and urged strongly to attend , perhaps there would not be all this dithering now . |
28 | If the IMF 's forecasts for 1994 prove correct , then 14 of the 21 industrial economies it monitors will have inflation rates of around 3% or less . |
29 | Early this morning , Mr Clinton had 254 of the 270 electoral votes he needed to win the Presidency . |
30 | Every day at her home at Park End in the Forest of Dean , Gloucestershire , letters pour in from the 80 condemned men she 's corresponding with , as part of her world-wide campaign against the death penalty . |