Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC .
2 Three days later 100 paramilitary carabinieri were sent to the island , to join another 100 who were already providing protection for the 5,000 troops ( largely conscripts ) who since July 21 had been stationed there , ostensibly for training exercises .
3 341 companies changed their auditor during the four years the study covers ; 60% of these involved a change of tier .
4 And finishes off by saying , erm , our Youth Committee Chairman , Roland have a forward looking attitude to developing and improving youth for many years to come , for as many boys as possible , and we would like to apply for a grant for a thousand pound to cover the cost of providing these new kits for three teams .
5 They uncover the gap left in Thomas 's intellectual development by the death of Ashcroft Noble and his own sense of the inadequacy of his preparation for the nine terms spent at University between October 1897 and his final viva voce examination in July 1900 .
6 Scotland 's coach , Ian McGeechan , made the pertinent point that fixtures against Fiji and Romania had provided a valuable contrast of styles , expansive and then forward dominated , that were useful preparation for the Five Nations Championship .
7 It was reported at the end of February 1990 that the then Minister of State for the Southern Province R. H. Sam Kpakra had suspended voter registration in preparation for the 1991 elections in the constituencies of Bo Town 1 , Bo West and Bo North , following claims that irregularities had taken place .
8 Many Surrey Teachers were very busy for months ahead in preparation for the 1983 Crystal Palace Rally , organised by this area , and this time the programme included an item performed by a Surrey team devised and produced by Vanessa Forbes and Delia Beaver .
9 The final week of the term entails tutorials where specific guidance is given in the planning of work to support the preparation for the four week school practice .
10 Thus our activities at Windscale will be an essential part of the overall review we will be carrying out in preparation for the three Divisions .
11 In such a small group the special sympathy between the two boys was obvious to all their companions .
12 The album is a self-conscious attempt to translate tribal shamanism into a rhythmic faith for the Nineties dance culture .
13 who won this award during the 1914 war .
14 Fully saturated colours , interestingly , tended to be at the red end of the spectrum for the six subjects involved in this study , and only rarely were saturated blues , purples or blue-greens reported .
15 I did not hear as much as one single swear-word during the three games .
16 Wg Cdr Rodley , a distinguished Pathfinder , commanded No 97 Squadron which , together with No 83 Squadron , was hijacked by No 5 Group towards the latter part of the war to provide pathfinding expertise for No 5 Group 's bombing sorties .
17 This mutual incomprehension could , of course , be accidental ; but I will suggest that it expresses a division between the two positions which runs deeper than the dispute we have so far considered .
18 The failure of more talks , in London in December , on a German peace treaty meant that the line of division between the two blocs ran right through the centre of the defeated enemy of 1945 .
19 Most organizations , very remarkably , are heading in the direction of a stronger division between the two types :
20 In the sentence Even if he does come , he wo n't be able to stay long there is a clear grammatical division between the two clauses .
21 Though Wallace was inclined to draw his line round some of the islands with a blacker and firmer pencil than are modern zoologists , nevertheless the Wallace Line still stands where he put it , as the division between the two regions .
22 This sum was offered two weeks prior to the sale by the National Heritage Memorial Fund on behalf of the museum consortium , envisaging the drawings ' division between the four museums .
23 Payments are made half yearly on 30 April and 30 October , based upon production from the Ninian field during the six months ending 31 December and 30 June respectively .
24 As the case study of Channel Four ( see below ) amply demonstrates , concerned groups and individuals attempted to keep these services out of the competitive struggle between the two giants of broadcasting in the hope that they would be better able to serve previously excluded minority groups in society .
25 What is more probably recalled in the myth with the conflict of Horus and Seth is an early struggle between the two kingdoms in which the ruler of Lower Egypt ( Horus being a local god from the Delta marshes ) conquered the ruler of Upper Egypt ( Seth being the local god of Ombos near Naqada ) .
26 The result ended a protracted leadership struggle between the two men which had seen Hawke , 62 , narrowly defeat a similar challenge from Keating , 47 , in June [ see p. 38294 ] .
27 In 1915 he had written his book Imperialism and World Economy , and the first few chapters of The Economics is taken up with a summary restatement of that work , particularly in the light of German experience during the 1914–18 war .
28 The County Council had given permission for a 70 acre toxic waste dump in Ringaskiddy on part of the 1000 acres owned by the IDA — there was that threat over people 's heads .
29 The company has lodged an application with Livingston Development Corporation for planning permission for a 60,000 sq ft extension to its facilities in Houston Industrial Estate to accommodate 91 of the new jobs .
30 The great Florenz Ziegfeld saw the forty-eight Girls in the Folies-Bergère in Paris and took them under contract for a six month spell into his own Follies which he extended to three years .
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