Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accepting only one of the UDHK 'S 20 proposed candidates , he named principally those in favour of stability rather than faster democratization ; however , none of his appointees were backed by China . |
| 2 | Always popular , this year in the calendar we have gathered together one of the most beautiful collections of positive images of life in Africa , Asia and Latin America . |
| 3 | Buckinghamshire are playing Leicestershire … just the day for a game of cup cricket … just the day for the local people to come out and see if their team could knock down one of the high and mighty … |
| 4 | Before CD ‘ thought of Mr Pickwick ’ and wrote the first number , he had already gained for himself more freedom in the conduct of his story than Seymour and his publishers had originally intended , but the sudden death of Seymour when he had completed only 3 of the 4 illustrations for No. ii , and his replacement by the young artist Hablot K. Browne ( who soon adopted the signature ‘ Phiz ’ to parallel CD 's ‘ Boz ’ ) , contributed to the dominance of text over illustrations : from No. iii on the plates were reduced to 2 per number and the pages of text increased from 26 to 32 . |
| 5 | South Africa earns about 40 per cent of its export income from gold but produces only one-third of the world 's supplies . |
| 6 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
| 7 | The meetings of the Association helped both to raise the consciousness of scientists and also to enforce some specialization : members expected to attend only one of the sections . |
| 8 | On one occasion I got together twelve of the most prominent crimps ; they were a soulless and cold blooded lot . |
| 9 | In face of spending cutbacks in the Japanese private sector , NEC Corp is trying to drum up business for its SX-3R supercomputers by cutting monthly rental rates on 10 models in the family by up to 38% : it says it sold only eight of the things last year , down from 14 in 1991 . |
| 10 | He also saw booming business in multimedia , and forecast that Apple will sell over 1m CD-ROM drives this year and more than 2m next — it sold only 50,000 of the things last year . |
| 11 | In 1668 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , becoming thereby one of the very few businessmen in that body . |
| 12 | SOME OF the 17ft thick walls of Bristol Castle 's keep , built circa 1135 by the illegitimate grandson of William the Conqueror , Robert of Gloucester , are being revealed by an archaeological dig , writes David Keys . |
| 13 | Of 22 chosen flights , I failed to get on only six and was carried on one of the next two flights . |
| 14 | The Hetherington study shows the increase in the amount of parliamentary news carried on three of the main news programmes , Channel Four News , BBC1 's Nine O'Clock News , and ITN 's News at Ten : |
| 15 | Moreover , we have included only three of the four sections of our " checklist " presented in section 3.1 ( p75–80 ) . |
| 16 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 17 | The US company will retain its European software headquarters in Galway , employing only 350 of the current workforce of almost 1,200 . |
| 18 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 19 | The sedentary farmer succeeded the migrant shepherd as the agent by whom the soil of Spain was squandered ; by the early nineteenth century cereals occupied perhaps three-quarters of the cultivable land , an imbalance between crop and animal husbandry as pernicious as that which prevailed in the heyday of wool . |
| 20 | The Luggage came ambling down one of the other passages that radiated from the room . |
| 21 | She moved down one of the long aisles ; the body of the hall was in darkness and she stumbled a little as the floor sloped downwards . |
| 22 | In Cornwall , for example , Perry and Chalkley ( 1982 ) have shown that the Development Commission built only one-fifth of the small premises ( less than 5,000 ft 2 ) provided between 1975 and 1981 . |
| 23 | Where the African species has two opposed prehensile lips or perhaps ‘ fingers ’ at the tip of its trunk , the Asian has only one on the upper surface . |
| 24 | But what happens if within my design , horizontal line one does not contain all the colours used , or even has only one of the colours , as in the case of a pattern that has either horizontal stripes , or large areas of colour ? |
| 25 | The multimedia pavilion on the ground floor has only three of the 15 stands available . |
| 26 | Although the final results of the legislative elections , also held on May 11 , were not available at the end of June , it appeared that the Lakas-NUCD coalition had won only two of the 24 Senate seats , and around 50 seats in the 200-member House of Representatives . |
| 27 | The latest results of the Nov. 11 congressional elections showed that the MAS had won only 27 of the 100 seats in Congress compared with 41 for the UCN . |
| 28 | If this is so then the Danzig Volkstag elections of 1927 would have confirmed this opinion , since the NSDAP polled a total of 1,400 votes to obtain only one of the 120 possible seats . |
| 29 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 30 | As he was walking along one of the long , green-painted corridors he ran into John Postlethwaite . |