Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |
| 2 | One of the authors lived in St Helens for the last three weeks of the strike , becoming as immersed as possible in all aspects of the activities of the strike committee . |
| 3 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 4 | It is believed that the National Gallery has committed its entire purchase grant for the next three years towards the cost of the Holbein and , given the fact that purchase grants for national museums have been frozen since 1985 , other museums are similarly powerless both to acquire when the works come onto the market , and to match their export price when their licences are suspended . |
| 5 | Affleck practices regularly at Heswall and aims to play in as many Liverpool Alliance events as possible this winter , keeping up his competitive edge in preparation for the demanding 1993 season . |
| 6 | The bitterness and the troubles of the coal mines for the next seven , or for that matter twenty-seven years , derived in great part from the feeling of both miners and owners that they had been betrayed . |
| 7 | Many of the best women tennis players from home and abroad will be competing in Swindon for the next 7 days . |
| 8 | Mick and Lisa Hayes have lived at Haydon Wick in Swindon for the past 9 years . |
| 9 | ‘ Acid ! ’ he cried after consulting his notes for the one hundred and thirty-ninth time . |
| 10 | Keep a detailed log of your activities during the next two weeks . |
| 11 | The suckling pup may also be infected by ingestion of L3 in the milk during the first three weeks of lactation . |
| 12 | Now of course during the nineteen eighties the protection of agricultural land for its own sake er lost weight as an issue and the relevant structure plan policies er lost effective weight and were seen to do so but Government policy was quite explicit in the nineteen eighty seven circular , I think it was num number sixteen , was that although agricultural land protection as a farming resource was diminished as an issue , the protection of the countryside for its own sake was not . |
| 13 | There 's me been putting sugar in his Ovaltine for the last fifty years . |
| 14 | We shall examine the nature of these accounts during the next two chapters . |
| 15 | You know I mean we , we look , I mean it 's inter one of the reasons for the nineteen seventy two reform you know one of , one of the er factors in it was to attempt to raise levels of participation in local government by making it more understandable . |
| 16 | Membership of the ILP had been largely a formality for the remaining four-fifths of the original group , though some active ILP members like Dr Alfred Salter and Emanuel Shinwell were among those severing their connections with the party . |
| 17 | The body of work arising from Eugene Garfield 's pioneering efforts in launching his Science Citation Index during the early 1960s has little or nothing to do with evaluation by paper scores ( or their logs ) . |
| 18 | His variation margin payments of 6250 have been paid and the average FTSE100 index during the last ten minutes of trading is 1810.5 , implying an EDSP of 1810.5 . |
| 19 | The present value of dividends on the shares in the index during the next six months is £1000 , and the riskless rate of interest for six months is 5% . |
| 20 | The debts shown in the Accounts relating to the Business ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the corresponding accounts for the preceding three financial years ) were good and collectable in full in the ordinary course of business and have or will realise the net amount thereof . |
| 21 | Although the precise information sought by Newco 's solicitors will depend on all the circumstances and on the roles taken by other advisers , Newco or its solicitors will generally request its accountants to obtain information and copies of documents in relation to the target business ( or if appropriate , in relation to each group company ) in the following areas : ( a ) constitution : memorandum and Articles of Association and other constitutional documents ; reports and audited accounts for the past three years and subsequent unaudited management accounts ; shareholders ' resolutions required to be filed ; ( b ) borrowings : details of all borrowings , bank accounts and facilities ; copies of all guarantees and indemnities and details of any intra-group arrangements ; ( c ) litigation : particulars of any pending or threatened legal proceedings ; ( d ) employees : terms of employment of and fees paid to all directors and senior executives and information about other employees ' standard terms and conditions of employment ; details of any trade union or collective agreements and codes of conduct or practice ; details of any current or proposed pension , death or disability benefit schemes and any recent actuarial reports ; ( e ) licences : details of all licences and consents necessary for the carrying on of the business ; ( f ) tax : details of all tax and VAT Returns made ; particulars of any PAYE , VAT or other audits ; details of any matters under discussion with the Inland Revenue ; details of any stamp duty exemptions , tax clearances or Treasury Consents ; details of any group asset transfers or arrangements for transfer ; details of any bonus issues , reductions of capital or other capital reorganisations ; group relief ; ( g ) arrangements with the vendor : details of any loans , agreements or contracts between the vendor and any connected persons ; ( h ) title to the assets : details of any encumbrances on property , any factoring agreements , hire purchase , leasing agreements ; list of debtors and details of standard discount and credit terms ; ( i ) contracts : details of material capital commitments , major agreements with suppliers and customers , contracts entered into otherwise than in the ordinary course of business . |
| 22 | The bankrupt may be required to submit accounts for the previous three years and to provide additional information as may be required by the official receiver ( rr 6.64–6.66 ) . |
| 23 | The government 's overall aim was to freeze spending on state-owned enterprises , social security and defence for the next four years . |
| 24 | Britain 's fight for better budgeting terms dominated much of the debate within the EEC for the first ten years of British membership , masking the more important questions of sovereignty and Federalism . |
| 25 | Mr Symington , who proudly describes himself as one of the last supply-siders , has cut taxes for the past two years . |
| 26 | IN WHICH the barefoot songstrel rewrote her life story for the late Eighties , and came back to claim what should have been hers years before . |
| 27 | Your difficulties multiplied almost in inverse proportion to your developing experience during the early 1940s . |
| 28 | Selection criteria were specified , including the requirements that the solicitor 's office be reasonably accessible to the appropriate magistrates ' court and that the solicitor have sufficient criminal advocacy experience during the previous 18 months . |
| 29 | Small wonder that the estimates of global sea-level rise for the next 100 years are very tentative . |
| 30 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |