Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Military personnel were constitutionally debarred from voting , but members of the armed forces belonging to Golkar were among the 500 additional appointees to make up the 1,000-member Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat ( People 's Consultative Assembly ) , which would elect the President and Vice-President in March 1993 . |
| 2 | Just before Christmas , the St John 's Innovation Centre conducted a survey amongst 600 senior executives to find out the levels of understanding of Open Systems concepts and of practical implementation issues . |
| 3 | The GX-7 is a small plastic box measuring some 12cm x 6cm x 3cm with a minimum of controls : two rotaries for Drive and Level and a bank of eight miniature switches to set up the gain and simulation modes . |
| 4 | The company has had to take on ten extra staff to make up the order . |
| 5 | Harvey the conformist was the first of the five remaining customers to pick up the outsize gesture . |
| 6 | The idea is the brainchild of CEWTEC , the training and enterprise council for Chester , Ellesmere Port and Wirral which is now seeking 15 local firms to take up the cut-price offer . |
| 7 | ‘ Sixthly , we have been sent here to find the Grail and Excalibur — though there 's fat chance of that — as well as to assist our two dark shadows to root out the activities of these Templars . |
| 8 | Two previous attempts to shut down the school and transfer the pupils to Coldingham were successfully resisted . |
| 9 | The amendments [ ibid. for details ] had been approved by the National Assembly at a first reading on May 13 by 398 votes to 77 with 99 abstentions , after the defeat of four Gaullist amendments to throw out the bill . |