Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier that day the newspaper Faks had revealed the names of 32 deputies in the Grand National Assembly ( GNA ) who had been identified by a parliamentary commission as secret police informers under the communist regime ousted in 1989 . |
| 2 | Held at the Newton Davis Hall , Froyle , courtesy of Lord Mayor Treloar College , the concert featured eight musicians from the world famous Yehudi Menuhin School , and the expertise of radio and television broadcaster Martin Muncaster as master of ceremonies . |
| 3 | The mercenary captain John of Hainault brought a force of 500 men-at-arms from the Low Countries , and at York they became involved in a violent affray with a band of archers from Lincolnshire , which culminated in the deaths of a sizeable number of the Lincolnshire men . |
| 4 | 3.6.2 Investigations with the Overlap Algorithm |
| 5 | Duddy , a flyweight , was a 16–6 winner over the talented Ken Andrews of St Matthew 's but then came a shock in the division when Paddy Brown of Holy Trinity Belfast was beaten . |
| 6 | And the building society bloke 's told me today they 've got a hundred and fifty accounts in the office that are sort of heavily in arrears |
| 7 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 8 | Now , after thirty-seven hours in the air , he was touching down in Salt Lake City . |
| 9 | The Prime Minister , John Major , presented on July 22 a 50-page white paper which he called a " Citizen 's Charter " , incorporating some 70 proposals for the improvement of public services . |
| 10 | The opening impact was made by 180 repeats of the Lloyd Webber Variations on themes from Purcell and Peer Gynt , followed by Mr Tim Rice , laid back with greatness . |
| 11 | ‘ Food poisoning ’ , for instance , shows the effect of the 44,000 cases of the ‘ runs ’ reported this year with a cartoon strip depicting bacteria like so many vengeful Smurfs . |
| 12 | We will press creditor countries to accept the Prime Minister 's proposal — the ‘ Trinidad Terms ’ — for a two-thirds reduction in the official debt of the poorest countries . |
| 13 | This , strictly , is a pressure group of more than 500 deputies in the Soviet parliament , rather than a faction of the Soviet Communist Party itself . |
| 14 | Eight clubs from the North-Western Federation attended and were busy putting up their stalls by 8.00am . |
| 15 | Split-half reliability for the BPVT is reported as between 0.75 and 0.85 for items in the short form , and between 0.70 and 0.95 for items in the long form . |
| 16 | Split-half reliability for the expressive scales is reported as being between 0.84 and 0.96 , while for the comprehension scales it varies between 0.60 and 0.96 on Scale A , and between 0.46 and 0.95 on Scale B |
| 17 | Your accommodation may be in any one of the eight mini-villages within the Ten Bel complex . |
| 18 | He checked his watch ; fifty-five minutes from the time he had replaced the phone in Mr Patel 's fruit store . |
| 19 | In 1977 , the University Grants Committee decided to fund enhanced engineering courses at eight institutions in the UK . |
| 20 | A referendum after 2007 would decide the future formation of the Legco ; however , any changes approved by referendum would require the endorsement of a two-thirds majority of the Legco , the consent of the chief executive , and the approval of the NPC standing committee . |
| 21 | In the absence of such consent , the President might still introduce a state of emergency subject to ratification by a two-thirds majority of the USSR Supreme Soviet . |
| 22 | A proposal to this effect could be made from within the Congress itself or by a two-thirds majority of the USSR Supreme Soviet , but subject to findings by the USSR Committee for the Supervision of the Constitution . |
| 23 | A vote in favour of secession would be carried subject to a two-thirds majority of the republic 's total electorate . |
| 24 | Commentators noted that the requirement of a two-thirds majority of the electorate in favour of secession left Lithuania , with its 80 per cent Lithuanian population , with a realistic chance of seceding under the new law . |
| 25 | Such a treaty would be subject to approval by a two-thirds majority of the Philippines ' Senate , however , at least 15 of whose 23 members had stated their opposition to the continued presence of the bases . |
| 26 | Constitutional changes required a two-thirds majority of the total Latvian Supreme Soviet membership , i.e. 135 out of 201 votes . |
| 27 | The Secretary-General is appointed by the Council by a two-thirds majority of the member states for a five-year term . |
| 28 | The offer of further help was widely interpreted as attempt to improve the chances of the treaty being ratified by the requisite two-thirds majority of the 23-member Philippine Senate . |
| 29 | Decisions on a new constitution would have to be reached by a two-thirds majority of the assembly , whilst in other matters it would act by consensus . |
| 30 | Union members were openly expressing the view that there was a real chance that the ailing division would now pull out of its dive with the Peters ' Plan , which had been fully supported by Bunker and a two-thirds majority at the plant . |