Example sentences of "the [num] [noun] [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biomass will combine a range of recycling techniques to deal with the 40,000 tons of domestic waste generated by the 125,000 residents of Halton every year . |
| 2 | The percentage of sales accounted for by each of these market segments is given below : At the 1986 level of demand the company was operating at full capacity , but today it has an excess of manufacturing capacity . |
| 3 | On receiving the Twenty-one Conditions for entry the ILP decided instead to link with the Vienna or " Two-and-a-Half " International which included various Left Socialist groups in Europe . |
| 4 | In the aftermath of the mid-1989 turmoil in China the UK government and the Hong Kong authorities proposed a package of measures aimed at restoring confidence in the colony ahead of 1997 . |
| 5 | There in the DLI Museum in Durham the game 's wonderful past is laid out , its future pointed to . |
| 6 | Every morning he went down the three flights of stairs the mail was there to be shuffled and dealt . |
| 7 | ‘ Goodbye ! ’ screamed the three faces of Asmodeus the arch-demon . |
| 8 | If the x coins of year a were made , for example , a hundred years before the 2x coins of year b , it would be unwise to conclude that twice as many coins were made in year b , since to do so would take no account of the gradual wastage or erosion of coins of year a from circulation ( by accidental loss , hoarding , export of coinage , melting down , etc . ) . |
| 9 | At the 1992 a.g.m. in Glasgow the BA agreed to reduce the composition of the Council from 28 to 16 members — four officers and 12 members . |
| 10 | Now at the end of the ten years of course the erm the accumulation here erm is completed , we 've , we 've actually funded the policy right the way through , so it 's now a qualifying policy , tax-free down here , and the annuity has been exhausted , so that 's gone , so you 've used one to fund the other . |
| 11 | For the twelve days before Christmas a black cloud hung over the Ramseys . |
| 12 | Mr Ridley said that of the five charges of maladministration the Ombudsman only attached ‘ great significance ’ to one which was a new point about the Jersey partnership . |
| 13 | The prolific Nuremberg poetaster ( : Georg Philipp Harsdörffer published some three hundred didactic Frauenzimmer-Gesprach-Spiele for the virtuous , yet at the same time entertaining , education of young women ; for nine of these little plays Staden wrote music , mostly strophic songs , but in the one case of Seelewig the text was Gesangsweis auf Italienische Art gesetzt . |
| 14 | With the nine survivors on board the lifeboat moved off into deeper water and the two men checked the vessel . |
| 15 | The Selhurst sick parade already includes Chris Coleman and Paul Williams , while top scorer Chris Armstrong is Cup-tied and teenager George Ndah — who made his debut in the 1-1 draw at Anfield a fortnight ago — faces a late test on a gashed leg . |
| 16 | Observing that Tschudi can be shown to have made keyboards with ‘ skunktail ’ sharps ( quite exceptionally on the 1766 instruments for Frederick the Great ) , Dale rashly conjectures that the instrument seen in the Mercier portrait might be by Tschudi even though it bears no resemblance to the 1729 harpsichord or anything that subsequently emerged from the Meard Street or Great Pultney Street workshops . |
| 17 | I was to travel the seventeen kilometres to Parma every day in a tram which was hauled by a steam engine . |
| 18 | We sent a message of solidarity to the 250 women on board the ship , who had come from different parts of the world including the Arab Region . |
| 19 | For the two sets of analyses the findings are similar , but the data overlap . |
| 20 | Barnsley is an imposing 17th century manor house , which could all too easily be surrounded by the typically formal , landscaped gardens of the era.But ever since Rosemary Verey began gardening here thirty years ago , she 's been determined to make the four acres of grounds a welcoming place . |