Example sentences of "[num] [conj] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Anyone who can help to recover it should contact either John on 271293 or the police on 221151 .
2 The new appointments , all made at the end of 1861 or the beginning of 1862 , bespoke a regime that was about to make further changes .
3 USL must wait for OSF/DCE 1.0.3 for this and is hoping to have something out at the end of 1993 or the beginning of 1994 .
4 The UK Environment Secretary , Michael Howard , announced on April 30 that the target for stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels had been brought forward from 2005 to 2000 , thereby bringing it into line with the EC position .
5 Justice Minister Kobie ( H. J. ) Coetsee announced on March 22 that the ban on unauthorised political and protest meetings without written permission from a magistrate , which had been renewed each year since 1976 , would lapse on March 31 .
6 Humberto Celli , president of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , announced on May 22 that the leaderships of both the AD and the main opposition Social Christian Party ( COPEI ) had agreed the previous day on a joint " platform of understanding " .
7 Due to the problems with implementing the peace process , it was reported on May 22 that the complement of 290 military personnel who formed part of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) mission would not be reduced in June but would continue their duties until September .
8 It was not until 1972 that the idea of star and planet systems forming from other stellar material came into vogue , when Wilbur Brown of Wyoming University said that such systems were formed from the ejected shells of supernovae .
9 After the death of Brunel in 1859 he was promoted engineer-in-chief , and it was while working on the ferry piers in 1862–3 that the idea of the Severn railway tunnel came into his mind .
10 It was reported on Dec. 12 that the airlift of foreign nationals from Kuwait and Iraq was almost complete and that all foreign nationals who wished to leave would be able to do so before Christmas .
11 It was announced on June 12 that the production of the French short-range nuclear missile Hades would stop .
12 The UN announced on Oct. 12 that the number of refugees from Iraq and Kuwait awaiting repatriation in Jordan had fallen to 700 , from some 43,000 at the start of the month .
13 It was not until the 1830s that the idea of a teaching laboratory became at all general ; at Durham University then , for example , laboratory instruction was still an optional extra , to be paid for if taken .
14 Defence Minister Antonio Ermán González announced on Nov. 2 that the reduction in number of senior officers , due to begin " this year " , would be between 25 and 30 per cent , with a more gradual three- or five-year plan for officers below the rank of general , admiral or brigadier .
15 2 That the activities of some young people , particularly adolescents , are not to be explained in terms of the ordinary , rational rule-following upon which we pride ourselves , but as springing from primitive , almost animal-like impulses and drives .
16 The reasons for this puzzling association of money wage changes and real-wage changes in classical theory are not altogether clear , though we speculated in Chapter 2 that the influence of the quantity theory of money probably played an important part since it anchored the price level to the quantity of money in circulation , releasing the money-wage bargain to determine real wages .
17 It was emphasised in Chapter 2 that the demand for labour is a derived demand — it is derived from the demand for goods and services .
18 The suggestion was discussed in Chapter 2 that the manner in which a pen is held in the hand during writing may be used as an index of speech lateralisation .
19 She reiterated the Governments view ’ first expressed by us in 1985 that the majority of full-time students should not have access to benefits as a means of supporting themselves whilst studying . ’
20 However , John Howard , an official of their union commented as early as November 1985 that the HMI of Mines feared that the proposed new mining legislation would reduce the power of the HMI whilst raising the power of the colliery manager , who could decide what is ‘ reasonably practicable ’ ( Labour Research 1988a ) .
21 Labour is second in 92 of these , the Liberal Democrats in 30 and the SNP in three .
22 Apart from the stray references to external events in the letters between Helen and Edward , the incomplete Fiction is a fuller guide to the decisions Thomas was making between Easter 1895 and the summer of 1896 than reinterpretation of the Morgans novel .
23 The use of telex machines increased 7 per cent in the year 1987-88 and the demand for fax machines will outstrip that this year .
24 Between mid-1979 and the end of 1980 , the output of Britain 's manufacturing industry fell by some 12 per cent ; and many parts of the country became quieter at night .
25 After the depression of the 1890s and the dilapidation of many of the lines , the companies were able to make a remarkable resurgence in the early decades of the twentieth century before their terminal decline .
26 These consists of the periods of time between the abdication of the king in 1931 and November 1933 , between November 1933 and the election of the Popular Front in 1936 , and from February 1936 to the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936 .
27 Samples received from ICC show the ratio of characters to keystrokes to be 2:3 and the ratio for data delivered to the project team may increase to 1:2 .
28 3 Concessions in the Great Charter 1215 and the Charter of the Forest 1217 .
29 Then the rejection of a reading where ‘ him ’ is bound to the dog will cause CLE-1 and the reasoner to cycle through all of John , Bill , Fred , and the vet as candidate referents for ‘ he ’ before a change to the ‘ him ’ binding is considered .
30 There were other pointers occasionally , such as Charles Kingsley 's book on Town Geology published in 1872 and the objection of Kropotkin ( 1893 , p. 350 ) to the trend to exclude man from physiography .
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