Example sentences of "[noun] the five [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yet it was undeniable that such formulae were available for certain special quintic equations ( for instance the five roots of unc are each radically expressible ; see exercise 4.6.6 ) .
2 After five hours the five judges awarded the gold medal to a sweet wine from the Pilton Down Vineyard in Devon .
3 In other words the five year housing land supply should not be the Structure Plan requirement plus an allowance of 60% .
4 Its name was given to it by Jesuit missionaries in South America who saw the flowers as a representation of the Crucifixion — the corona is the crown of thorns , the anthers the five wounds in the hands , feet and side of Christ , the three styles , the nails , the five petals and five sepals 10 of the disciples , less Peter and Judas , the hand-shaped leaves and tendrils the hands and whips of Christ 's torturers .
5 Table 7. 1 outlines the five stages involved in a scrutiny .
6 If votes had actually been cast in accordance with this advice the five UUUC candidates would each have received over five thousand first preference votes apiece .
7 The old gentleman shook his head sadly and gave Mr Bumble the five pounds .
8 Then I paid the woman the five shillings she asked for her hospitality and went on my way .
9 In overall charge of the Empress 's Household was her Grand Master , General Count Tascher de la Pagerie , descendant of the family of the Empress Josephine , who had under his control the five court chamberlains plus a private secretary and a librarian .
10 In return the government promised to police the five security zones inside which an estimated 13,000 contras had congregated , in line with an April agreement [ see pp. 37370-71 ] to disband under UN supervision , and to transform the security zones into development areas .
11 As I stared at the German with the white flag , I remembered ( as no doubt the five Frenchmen lying beside me also remembered ) a short time ago in Amfreville a small party of Germans had surrendered and , as the Commando patrol approached , one of the Germans had lobbed a grenade , killing and wounding several members of the patrol .
12 This time the H.Q. was in the old offices of Hiltons , in Ferry Road , and again true to tradition the Five Bells became the unofficial H.Q.
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