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

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1 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 .
2 The auditors of the Company Ernst & Young , Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors , of Becket House have made a report under what is now Section 235 of the Companies Act 1985 on each set of statutory consolidated accounts for the five years ended 31 December 1991 .
3 He will take responsibility for the five courses
4 In Environment Issues we do n't usually have room to record every birth , marriage and death ( hatches , matches and despatches ) , however , Hygiene Leeds warrants a mention for the five marriages that have taken place over the last three months .
5 The Central Committee believes that the implementation of its programme for the five years can help create the conditions for real peace — reconciliation , harmony , well-being , mutual respect , a sense of community and inter-dependence .
6 The result of his labours during the five months he had been there is a collection consisting of 500 Birds ; 100 Skeletons , 60 nests , the eggs of alike [ sic ] No. of species , and 3 nine gallon Kegs of specimens in spirits …
7 The financial information contained in this document does not constitute the Company 's statutory accounts but has been extracted from the statutory accounts of LASMO for the five years ended 31 December 1991 and also includes certain other information .
8 THE planned Signals ( C4 ) on the American wave of hate comedy has run into IBA trouble so instead we had Sue Judd 's programme about the five finalists for the Vivian Ellis award for young writers of musicals .
9 During clamps a significant rise in plasma hormone concentration was defined as a concentration greater than the mean of the five baseline ( euglycaemic ) values plus two standard deviations in two or more consecutive samples .
10 There were those among the remaining husbands of the five daughters of Ealdred who would like nothing better than to see Siward perish in an effort to plant a few Anglian soldiers and a bishop in some crumbling old forts in the Lothians .
11 I figured me for a piece of the five G's . ’
12 Both Robert Jones and Dewi Morris will be in action on the final Saturday of the Five Nations but Jones — probably only Ireland 's Simon Geoghegan has lost more ground than him in the course of the season — would need just about the game of his life to regain his lead over Morris as the other scrum-half to Gary Armstrong .
13 Zubi , who had been Prime Minister since 1987 [ see pp. 36178-79 ] , was reported to have selected his new Cabinet after consultations with the leaderships of the five parties ( including the Ba'ath Party ) which were components of the National Progressive Front .
14 The representational aspects of the five theories differ widely , but all suffer from the same problems of knowledge acquisition and inefficiency when implementations are attempted .
15 That is no doubt perfectly all right , but it makes you wonder why King Charles ever found it necessary to burst into the Commons with his soldiers , in search of the five rebel members .
16 The reports of the SD station in Würzburg and its subsidiary agencies in the area offer an opportunity to explore the changing mood of the population of Lower Franconia in the light of the five air raids on the local town of Schweinfurt , an important centre of ball-bearing production , so crucial for the armaments industry , between August 1943 and April 1944 .
17 The full amount of your initial investment plus bonuses is guaranteed to be returned to you on completion of the five year term — and of course you could see a healthy return on your investment due to stock market growth during this time .
18 For example , the width of the five grades is not consistent , and grade 3 not only accounts for about half the land , but also covers a much wider range of possibilities than , say , grade 1 ( Gilg , 1975a ) , and even the subsequent sub-division of grade 3 in the 1970s can not be applied objectively ( Worthington , 1982 ) .
19 The scheme has operated since 1920 and allows successful candidates into the five universities of the Joint Matriculation Board ( JMB ) .
20 Last year the EEC 's member-governments decided to double the size of the structural funds in the five years 1988-92 to 50 billion ecus ( $55 billion ) to offset ‘ imbalances ’ likely to be caused by the 1992 project .
21 In the Bundestag elections last December , the Party of Democratic Socialism , as the communists now call themselves , won almost 25 per cent of the vote in the five east Berlin constituencies .
22 A big coaching scheme to take rugby league to schools in the five London boroughs that surround the Crusaders is already in full swing .
23 The median delay before a first appointment during 1992 was nine weeks in the five clinics based in district general hospitals ( interquartile range 6–13 weeks ) and three months in the five clinics based in teaching hospitals ( interquartile range 7–18 weeks ) .
24 A spokesman for the Irish RFU , confirming it would also debate the plan , said : ‘ All countries are finding there is congestion with league fixtures and — in the case of Scotland and ourselves where we are trying to get the district/provincial structure in as well as a prelude to the Five Nations — that the pre-Christmas period is getting very congested .
25 It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years .
26 And in the Jar din Massey there is a museum tracing the history of the regiment of Hussars over the five centuries since its first formation in Hungary .
27 What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow .
28 On the eastern side of the Rotonda is the wide major road of Via Regina Margherita which leads to Piazza Cinque Giorante , the square of the Five Days , where stands the monument to the Five Days .
29 For the first time in recent years , payments to producers showed no increase , at 20.2p/litre , although Mr Howie pointed out it was the best figure among the five UK boards .
30 Murdoch McKillop , joint receiver from accountants Arthur Andersen , said the 1,600 job losses at the five UK plants had to made ‘ to maintain the business and carry on trading as a viable operation ’ .
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