Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In preparation for the next elections , Williams persuaded a number of local politicians and businessmen to join him in running for office on the P.N.M. ticket . |
| 2 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 3 | DEC also announced NAS support for Sun and NAS Advantage — a higher level of conformance with DEC 's Network Application Support architecture , with SAS and Progress as the first applications to win the brand-level . |
| 4 | Such was the hope for the last days , and this was the hope that the Christians had seen fulfilled since the resurrection and ascension of Jesus . |
| 5 | Jack 's full-back partner was ‘ Dusty ’ Rhodes , while behind them was the fabulous Jack Alderson and these three heroes played an amazing sequence of exactly 100 consecutive matches together ( including cup-ties and friendlies ) helping the Palace into the Football League in the process and then into the 2nd Division as the first champions of the newly formed 3rd Division in 1920–21 . |
| 6 | China 's fury was prompted by Mr Patten 's decision last Friday to go ahead and publish proposed legislation on his democracy proposals for the next elections in 1995 . |
| 7 | The exceptions were in four main areas : in the west during the first onslaughts when the khanate of Kuchum was being eliminated ; in the far north-east against the Chukchis and Karnchatkan Itelmens ( here Russian losses may not have been very severe , but the effects on the aboriginal population were catastrophic ) ; in the south-east in the struggle with the Manchus for domination of the Amur , where the Russians were beaten ; and finally in the south-west against the nomadic horsemen of the steppes who were a thorn in the Russians ' flesh for over a century . |
| 8 | On 21 September 1989 , in breach of the Tomlin order , the first appellant executed a charge in favour of the two men who are described in the title to the action as the second defendants ( ‘ the mortgagees ’ ) . |
| 9 | It is musically unrelated to The Art of Fugue , but its presence in this context — Bach dedicated his poignant revision of the piece during the last months of his life — is neither inapposite nor in any sense to be regretted . |
| 10 | Although James I may have begun to experience some doubts about the validity of the doctrine of predestination during the last months of his life , earlier in his reign he had given little if any encouragement to the Arminian caucus within his Calvinist church . |
| 11 | It is being built to a ‘ fast track ’ programme with just 18 months between the first excavations and the first shop openings . |
| 12 | Goyigama Buddhists normally organized thefts in both areas , but Muslim or Sinhalese Roman Catholic traders usually took control of the animals for the last stages before the slaughterhouse . |
| 13 | Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser . |
| 14 | As a new father I am only too aware of the importance of expert guidance through the first months of parenthood . |
| 15 | READERS ’ PAGE : Entries for the next Readers ' Page must be in by June 1 . |
| 16 | Reduction of dose is similarly used for so-called sensitive cases who are immediately over stimulated or prove the remedy during the first days , or hours , of treatment . |
| 17 | And one of the main reasons why Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke chose Milton Keynes as the first police station to visit since he took up post in April . |
| 18 | Twenty two months after the first signs of bowel symptoms , 20 months after the first complaint of knee pain , and 14 months after finishing steroid treatment both knees were clinically normal . |
| 19 | Although the second measurement of vitamin B12 and bile acid absorption was made at least 4 weeks later , a correction for patient background counts was made by first counting the residual counts in both the 5 8 Co and 7 5 Se photo peak windows before the administration of the second doses of 5 8 Co vitamin B12 and SeHCAT . |
| 20 | A generation of politicians is now in power whose opinions have been shaped not only by the Stalinist dictatorship but also by the defeat of the first attempts at reform . |
| 21 | The dialogue has just begun , but the process is irreversible — a process that will inevitably see the collapse of the last remnants of apartheid , and the emergence of a radically different society . |
| 22 | It was all the more remarkable given Franco 's condemnation , years earlier , of the loss of the last remnants of the Spanish empire , as he saw it , without a fight , and his disapproval of General Primo de Rivera 's decision to withdraw from Morocco in the 1920s . |
| 23 | Another but more legally complicated way of arriving at the same result under the subsection is to say that , when the police seek to intervene , it is likely that a belief is likely to arise in the mind of the first victims , that violence towards the police is a likely outcome of the defendant 's conduct . |
| 24 | In Huntington 's chorea , the time-point of the outbreak of the first symptoms will vary considerable . |
| 25 | It is hard to see how a minute understanding of the development of the Greek language from Homer to Demosthenes , or of the keys used by Brahms in the second subjects of the first movements of his sonatas can be fitted into the usual pattern of socially useful knowledge . |
| 26 | Imro concluded that it was ‘ not good enough ’ — monitoring was applied over-literally , higher-risk members were less easy to identify , and the response to the crises of the last days was not adequate . |
| 27 | It was felt that combining the academic aspects of the sixth forms with the opportunities for applied study and more flexible course structures of further education could result in exciting new approaches to 16–19 education . |
| 28 | From the General Staffs ’ point of view , there were some bright patches in the otherwise sombre overcast of the last years of the 1950s . |
| 29 | And in the camera , when police eventually got round to checking , were 17 pictures of the last hours of their lives . |
| 30 | And finally , the three lucky winners of the fifth prizes are Ray Smith of Normanton , Kirsty Stevens of Wavertree , and H P Doherty of Bletchley . |