Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue of sterling CDs in the UK was made possible under a provision of the 1968 Finance Act . |
| 2 | The principle of effective judicial protection is expressed by a provision on the three Sex Equality Directives ( 75/117 on equal pay , 176/207 on equal treatment in employment and 79/7 on equal treatment in social security ) which requires Member States to introduce into their internal legal order such measures as are needed to enable all persons who consider themselves wronged by discrimination ‘ to pursue their claims by judicial process ’ . |
| 3 | Despite its being an election year , Aquino had also vetoed a provision in the 1992 budget to limit payments on the country 's US$29,000 million foreign debt ( currently 30 per cent of export earnings ) to 10 per cent of 1990 export revenue . |
| 4 | Happens to be a reversion of the two numbers which is neat . |
| 5 | In other words , if the assumption of rational expectations is correct we would expect that a regression of the two equations in equation ( 3.43 ) , using a large sample of observations , would produce estimates of γ and δ approximately equal to the expressions on the right-hand sides of equations ( 3.48a ) and ( 3.48b ) evaluated at the estimates of α and β . |
| 6 | Furthermore , a rearrangement of the IRF-1 gene was identified in one additional patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia . |
| 7 | In quite a different category from any of the above , this military formation was a successor to the 14 Grenadier Division der Waffen SS ( Galizien ) , which had suffered very heavy losses at Brody in July 1944 . |
| 8 | The judges had the difficult task of choosing a winner from the 340 entries , but in the end the first prize , a bronze mounted otter , went to 10-year-old Helen Laughton from Cheadle , Cheshire . |
| 9 | He is like a runner in the 5000 metres who walks all the way to the bell and then tries to make up lost time by running the last lap like a 100 metre sprint finalist — not a good technique , as you can imagine . |
| 10 | A budget for the 1992-93 biennium , providing for expenditure of US$646,000,000 ( representing a cut in real terms of 4.6 per cent ) , was approved without major controversy [ see p. 37054 for 1989 budget disputes ] , and the USA undertook to pay before January 1992 its arrears for 1991 , which amounted to some $34,000,000 out of a total contribution of around $75,000,000 . |
| 11 | There is n't a driver for the i variant of the printer and I 'm not sure there ever will be . |
| 12 | Goria , a former prime minister , resigned over persistent rumours he played a part in the 1976 collapse of a small bank in the northern town of Asti . |
| 13 | And will advertising play as significant a part in the 1992 election campaign as in 1979 , 1983 or 1987 ? |
| 14 | A segment of the LSA-1 gene containing the DNA encoding this epitope was amplified by polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) and sequenced directly . |
| 15 | The landlord appealed on the ground that he had reinstated the tenant in the flat , thus affording himself a defence under the 1988 Act , and that the award was too high . |
| 16 | The School 's Council Working Paper 70 The Practical Curriculum was also a response to the 1980 document . |
| 17 | Indeed , Reich 's book was partly a response to the 1932 elections in which the Nazis made large gains amongst the working class . |
| 18 | Global sea level has risen by 10–20 cm over the last century partly as a response to the 0.5 °C rise in global temperature during that time . |
| 19 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 20 | They sang hymns and said a prayer for the 31 people who died and those who suffered from radiation in the April 1986 accident . |
| 21 | He also objected to having to tone down a description of the 1937 Rape of Nanking , when Japanese troops went on the rampage , killing tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and prisoners . |
| 22 | The left fork goes on to the village of Glenelg and in a field between the two roads a gaunt ruin will be noticed : this in its eighteenth-century heyday was the barracks occupied by Hanoverian troops . |
| 23 | He managed to persuade the central council to accept the policy but , led by the deputy leader Ernest Baird , a majority of the fourteen Vanguard Convention members broke away from Craig . |
| 24 | A majority of the 1916 conference called for action to end the war , immediately provoking Hyndman and his supporters , including Jack Jones ( soon to become Labour MP for Silvertown ) and Thorne to depart and set up the National Socialist Party ( NSP ) . |
| 25 | The protocol would have banned mining and mineral prospecting for 50 years , remaining in force afterwards unless overruled by a majority of the 26 treaty nations . |
| 26 | Legislative elections , held in two rounds on March 6 and March 13 , resulted in the Social Democratic Republican Party ( PRDS ) winning a majority of the 79 seats in the National Assembly . |
| 27 | The results indicate that majorities of respondents within each category ( barring ‘ others ’ ) favoured capping institutional claims , with 150,000 emerging as the most popular limit ( 100,000 amongst a majority of the 39 law societies agreeing to a cap ) . |
| 28 | Traore , 56 , was found guilty by a majority of the seven judges of deliberately causing death and injury to demonstrators , some of whom were blinded or lost limbs . |
| 29 | A majority of the 248 samples taken from road dirt and drainage ditches showed dioxin levels of one part per billion ; some samples had 300 parts per billion of dioxin . |
| 30 | Larval termites look like those most primitive of insects , the bristletails ; larval horseshoe crabs are visibly segmented and so reveal a similarity with the trilobites difficult to perceive in the adult ; the free-swimming molluscan larva looks very like that of the segmented worms and thus suggests a link between the two groups . |