Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edinburgh Ladies and Royal High Gymnasts , currently second and third , clash at Cramond tomorrow , with Gymnasts aiming for revenge after their recent 1-0 defeat by Ladies in the quarter-final of the National League Cup . |
| 2 | However , an increasing proportion of audit appointments have been made to private sector accounting firms , the intention being to ultimately provide for a 50/50 split of appointments between the Commission 's own staff and the private sector . |
| 3 | Box 12 Length of stages in the family cycle for successive marriage cohorts , 1860–1950 |
| 4 | 0910.4 Transmission of announcements to the Exchange |
| 5 | Beck 's ‘ Bill of Rights for a Work of Art ’ , published in the 1991 issue of Notes in the History of Art asserts : |
| 6 | The Big Five's moratorium on vetoes at the UN Security Council was broken by Russia , which blocked a resolution that would have shared the expenses of peacekeeping in Cyprus . |
| 7 | Yeah it 's got three chest of drawers at the end bit |
| 8 | The historical sketch included in Macdonald 's 1904 survey of women in the printing trades states that it was indeed the pupils of Merchant Company Schools who formed the first recruits , and that these were " a better class of girl " , sometimes described as " stickit " ( would-be ) teachers . |
| 9 | In one study of primary schools , the 1918 Handbook of Suggestions for the Consideration of Teachers was quoted as making only one requirement of uniformity , " the Board of Education desired to see in the teaching of public elementary schools … that each teacher shall think for himself , and work out by himself such methods of teaching as may use his powers to best advantage and best suited to the particular needs and conditions of the school " ( Kogan 1973:145 ) . |
| 10 | The World Bank granted Algeria a total of dollars 341,000,000 in loans during its fiscal year ending June 30 , 1989 , including a dollars 63,000,000 loan for improvements to the ports of Algiers , Oran and Annaba was approved on June 29 ( see also pp. 36749 ; 36905 ) . |
| 11 | Therefore , the hon. Gentleman clocked up , for starters , a mere £21 billion burden on employers in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | Last year we imported £13.7 billion worth of goods from the US . |
| 13 | Today the UK owns £80 billion worth of investments in the US . |
| 14 | 0–1 unit of KNIGHTS OF THE WHITE WOLF 37 points per model |
| 15 | 0–1 unit of KNIGHTS OF THE BLAZING SUN 39 points per model |
| 16 | If banks are already operating at their minimum prudent liquidity ratio , they must reduce advances ( and hence deposits ) by £1 billion , which will exactly match the £1 billion increase in deposits from the PSBR . |
| 17 | This would suggest the assignment of one index to derivatives of the verb form and another to those of the noun form . |
| 18 | That now looks improbable , first of all because the new , bloated Heritage department turns the Arts Council and its peers into smaller fish in a bigger pond that stretches from broadcasting on one side to museums on the other . |
| 19 | Importantly , one study of births in the USA ( Yerushalmy , 1945 ) showed that still birth ratios are higher not only after short spacing but also after excessively long birth intervals . |
| 20 | Two other people were taken to hospital , one suffering from burns to the hands and the other from heat exhaustion and breathing difficulties after the fire at the Sun Valley works in Grandstand Road , Hereford . |
| 21 | There are differences , then , between individuals within one community in terms of the strength of their ties to that community . |
| 22 | Contemporary Soviet commentators were reticent on this reference to the Zone but they praised the Non-Aligned for condemning the attempts of ‘ external forces … to aggravate tensions in the region and set one group of countries against the other ‘ and for stressing the need for ’ a comprehensive political solution of the problems of the present tensions in Southeast Asia ’ . |
| 23 | It was mid-morning and many of the apprentices and stall-holders were taking a short rest , albeit some of them were already as drunk as March hares ; one group of apprentices outside The Death 's Head on the corner of Old Fish Street were indulging in a strident belching contest . |
| 24 | Such a tactic of isolating one group of workers from the control of technology was tried by another company I visited , which made goods from rubber moulds . |
| 25 | Well , that was all fine and dandy , except for the fact that there was n't one sign in clones for the Kilturk checkpoint . |
| 26 | Pornography is seen as one manifestation among others of the way in which women are controlled by male power or violence ( other manifestations are rape , or the fear of rape , wife-battering , prostitution , child-abuse , etc . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's barmy , ’ said one father with children at the unnamed school in Wirral , Merseyside . |
| 28 | The gurgling male , alternately bowing down and rearing up , chased the female from one row of tiles to the next . |
| 29 | Holes in each card representing one row of tufts in the carpet , instruct the Jacquard loom which colour to weave . |
| 30 | Another is to comprehend one world in terms of the other … |