Example sentences of "[art] [num] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hindmarsh said of the 2,300 postal workers in the Darlington area : ‘ I am quite satisfied that most staff are happy with their conditions of employment . ’ |
| 2 | In a general election held in March 1990 ZANU-PF won 116 of the 120 elective seats in the House of Assembly [ see p. 37307 ] . |
| 3 | The 168 glorious miles of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path are tramped throughout the summer by ‘ backpackers ’ . |
| 4 | CHART-topper Sonia , 21 , thinks the eight short-listed songs for the Eurovision Song Contest are all ‘ fabulous ’ . |
| 5 | The eight non-central nodes of the network figure types of outright non-co-operative behaviour rather than prototypical deviance mitigated by co-operation . |
| 6 | Among the eight extra nominations by the Scottish women 's AAA rejected by the selectors were sprinter Janise Neilson , a member of the Great Britain relay squad at the Seoul Olympics , and Dawn Kitchen , one of the British 4x400m squad for the European Cup finals at Gateshead . |
| 7 | Morgan have AAA debt ratings from both Standard $ Poor 's and Moody 's , two big American rating agencies , Barclays Bank , Deutsche Bank and Union Bank of Switzerland are among the eight European banks in the same category ( see table on next page ) . |
| 8 | Using eye-witness accounts , insurance documents and death records , Hughes has reconstructed the eight horrific days of the blitz in his new book , Port in a Storm . |
| 9 | They proceeded slowly in the afternoon sun , Victoria content to gaze up at the massed conifers as they passed and listen to the rhythmic grating of the eight small horse-shoes on the roadway . |
| 10 | As a gesture of solidarity with Kuwait , delegates elected a Kuwaiti official as one of the eight regional vice-presidents of the conference . |
| 11 | The fourth meeting of foreign ministers from the eight signatory countries of the Amazon Co-operation Treaty ( TCA ) — Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , Guyana , Peru , Surinam and Venezuela — took place in the Bolivian city Santa Cruz on Nov. 7-8 . |
| 12 | For example , between 1971 and 1981 the eight principal cities of the UK were , on average , losing population at a rate of over 1 per cent per annum . |
| 13 | One of the eight set goals of the NHS , the largest employer of women in Europe , is to increase the number of qualified women accountants . |
| 14 | In March I joined a CPRW delegation which met the senior Welsh Office planners and statisticians to find out more about the basis of the population and future housing projections given to the eight Welsh counties by the Secretary of State for inclusion in their Structure Plans . |
| 15 | ‘ Among the eight occupational groups in the civil service pay-scale , academics rank second highest , after state-organ officials ’ ( Chan 1989 : 71 ) . |
| 16 | I hope that my further work and the work of others around the world will help to clarify the advantages of the fifty millesimal potencies over the centesimal potencies . |
| 17 | Acting Chairman Anne-Imelda Radice vetoed two of the 169 council-approved applications in the Museum Program 's Special Exhibitions category . |
| 18 | This failed to meet the demand for the forcible removal of the barricades , as advanced by the 7,000 white residents of the Chateauguay suburb adjacent to the Mercier bridge ( some of whom had regularly assembled during the siege to burn Mohawk effigies , and had participated in attacks on Indians fleeing the adjoining Kahnawake reservation ) . |
| 19 | Elections were held on the same day for the 216 elective seats in the ( enlarged ) National Assembly , with voters choosing between two candidates in most constituencies ; eight candidates were returned unopposed , among them six serving Cabinet ministers . |
| 20 | Compiled from the 35,000 architectural drawings in the museum 's collection , the selection will be changed every six to nine months , both for conservation reasons and to give visitors an idea of the scope of the holdings . |
| 21 | Thus , a cataloguer can write with a reasonably happy heart , of Ackermann 's History of the University of Cambridge ( 1814 ) : ‘ 81 plates , including 15 of costume , but lacking the 32 supplementary portraits of the Founders ’ , knowing that he can still be comfortably sure of his £1,500-£2,000 . |
| 22 | At several review conferences the 138 non-nuclear signatories to the UN non-proliferation treaty have always made the point that the nuclear signatories , particularly the United Kingdom , are in breach of that treaty . |
| 23 | How much money will be put into the 12 new areas by the Treasury ? |
| 24 | The professorship , which was last held by the late Professor Martin Harrison , is one of the 12 established chairs under the Board of the Faculty of Literae Humaniores , complementing the Lincoln Professorship of Classical ( Greek ) Archaeology and Art . |
| 25 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend confirm reports in The Guardian earlier this year that the 12 local authorities with the worst record in English , mathematics and modern language results were all controlled by the Liberal Democrats or the Labour party ? |
| 26 | James Duncan McGairy Watercolours and Drawings Kirkleatham Old Hall Museum , Redcar ( until April 26 ) EACH year Kirkleatham Old Hall Museum in Redcar seeks out an artist who can fill the 12 monthly pages of the annual Langbaurgh calendar . |
| 27 | Cecil and Margaret Sharp , from Grampian , and John and Carol Cook , from Essex , rejoined the 43 other Britons from the coach on the Romantica cruise ship last night . |
| 28 | Up to 17 million people in Britain watch the race on television as 40 horses attempt the 30 fearsome fences around the four and a half time course . |
| 29 | Just under 70% of the 167 public libraries in the UK participated in the investigation , and extensive descriptions of current training programmes , either in the form of individual ‘ data sheets ’ describing specific courses/modules , or general descriptions of overall programmes , were provided . |
| 30 | The abstention rate among the 3,200,000 registered voters in the presidential elections was put as high as 43.7 per cent . |