Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laurie Degnan has watched his youngsters take national junior boxing titles for nine out of the last ten years . |
| 2 | And then what would we do with so that 's the first pizza that 's dealt with and they got a piece like that out of the first one . |
| 3 | From 1559 until 1584 , years of almost unbroken peace , direct taxation from laity and clergy rose above £20,000 in sixteen out of the twenty-three years for which figures are available . |
| 4 | The defendants paid the reduced rent from 1941 down to the beginning of 1945 , by which time all the flats in the block were fully let , and continued to pay it thereafter . |
| 5 | It considered whether the definition of sexual intercourse should be expanded in the case of the relatively insignificant offence of taking an unmarried girl of 18 out of the possession of her parent with intent to have sexual intercourse , and concluded that little would be achieved by doing so . |
| 6 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 7 | Soon after I arrived , with the parish church nearly full ( it seats about 250 ) , Hartmut took a team of twelve out from the church to form a new congregation in a disused Brethren hall given to us free of charge . |
| 8 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
| 9 | ‘ There are a lot of blanks in the Thirties where we do n't know a great deal about it and there was a period just after the war from 1947 through to the middle Fifties — that 's another gap . |
| 10 | The Board have upped the fines in the Nat West Trophy and the B&H Cup from the previously meaningless level of £100 per over not bowled by curfew time to an escalating scale ranging from £220 in the first two rounds to £330 in the quarter-finals , £660 in the semi-finals and … wait for it , £1320 per unbowled over in the final . |
| 11 | Indeed , the ruined fence can still be seen running from above the top waterfall in the Gill to high up onto the side of Birk Fell . |
| 12 | This has been the case with three out of the past four successful Labour by-election candidates : a slow but novel way for Mr Kinnock to stamp out dissent in his parliamentary party . |
| 13 | Local social services departments ( formerly local health departments ) provide day nurseries for some up to the age of 5 . |
| 14 | Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks 2 ( Pen and Sword Books Ltd , 192pp , illus , sbk , £9.95 ) by Ron Collier tells the stories of 26 out of the 50 aircraft that have crashed in the Dark Peak area of the peak District National Park over the past 60 years . |
| 15 | I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 16 | This coverage was epitomised by a photograph of a demonstrator appearing to kick a policeman in the head , featured on the front pages of seven out of the ten newspapers analysed . |
| 17 | The institutions themselves succeeded in raising fifty per cent of the price of eleven out of the eighteen drawings and the support of the National Art Collections Fund , the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Foundation for Sport and the Arts has been crucial in raising most of the remaining moneys required . |
| 18 | Provisional indicators from the institute 's latest bi-monthly survey based on the first batch of replies from 170 out of the 300 normally canvassed were rushed out after being swiftly analysed yesterday morning by consultants Taylor Nelson . |
| 19 | The poll based on replies from 431 out of the 574 members of the General Synod was carried out during October . |
| 20 | Whyte ( 1980 ) provides several instances of the influence of the Roman catholic moral code in both state decision-making and in public behaviour from 1922 through to the 1950s . |
| 21 | Oh , it 's no distance at all up by the path , only a few moments … yes … |
| 22 | Before leading a protest outside the Scottish Office , the Scottish Trades Union Congress general secretary , Campbell Christie , said unemployment was now at its highest level for almost four years , with the official figures showing a rise in 13 out of the last 14 months . |
| 23 | Produces the leading brand of Scotch whisky in eight out of the top fifteen markets in the world . |
| 24 | Over 520 members replied to the survey questionnaire which represented a response from 200 out of the 250 boards . |
| 25 | Although lay delegates had been tried before — in the 1290s , for example — the frequency of their presence in six out of the last eleven assemblies of Edward III 's reign added a new ( and continuing ) dimension to convocation . |
| 26 | He confirmed the view that among perfectly ordinary people , who were neither Pharaohs nor priests , full brother-sister marriages occurred in a minimum of nine out of the 113 marriages he analysed , If the less certain cases are also included along with marriages between half-siblings , the proportion of incestuous marriages was of the order of 20% . |
| 27 | In 1990 out of an intake of 48 on to the new graduates management training course 13 were women , in 1991 this had risen to 30 out of 90 . |
| 28 | The crimes of detaining a woman against her will with the intention that she shall marry or have unlawful sexual intercourse , and taking an unmarried girl under the age of 18 out of the possession of her parent or guardian with intent that she shall have sexual intercourse , are restricted in the same fashion . |
| 29 | It truly was a parochial effort as children from the age of six up to the oldest members took part . |
| 30 | Each one of the forty women made some attempt to complete the test , though the number of statements made varied from three to eleven , with an average of 8.03 out of the desired ten per respondent . |