Example sentences of "[num] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mr Ramsay died in 1943 the Leaders paid tribute to one who was greatly loved : ‘ Testimony was given to his worth and zeal in the work and all that pertained to the welfare of the church , and particularly to his services in the choir and his love for the weekly prayer meeting . ’ |
| 2 | By the rime Ho had been released by the Chinese in September 1943 the US was beginning to make its major contribution to the war against Japan and various strategies were being considered for a drive on Canton or Hanoi . |
| 3 | In 1943 the course was at risk of being farmed when official orders were made to plough up the 9th , 10th , 11th , 12th , 13th and 14th holes . |
| 4 | Indeed , scores of battalions had already been formed from ethnic minorities on an ad hoc basis by German formations in the field , and by late 1943 the total would exceed 400,000 men . |
| 5 | By the summer of 1943 the Americans were getting into their stride so far as the war in the Pacific was concerned . |
| 6 | In December 1942 his committee issued the so-called ‘ Smolensk Manifesto ’ outlining their aims , and early in 1943 the existence of a Russian liberation movement and its Russian Liberation Army ( Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Armiya , ROA ) was proclaimed . |
| 7 | In January 1943 the Ministry of Town and Country Planning Bill was introduced , providing for the appointment of a Minister whose ‘ sole ministerial responsibility is in connection with town and country planning ’ ; the Bill was passed in February and W.S. Morrison was appointed first Minister . |
| 8 | The British Journal of Educational Psychology published an article on the negative correlation between fertility and intelligence by Gerald O'Hanlon in 1940 and an attack by Charlotte Fleming on the assumption that socio-economic level and intelligence were highly related in 1943 The Times Educational Supplement reviewed Maguiness 's book Environment and Heredity without querying the causal assumption that intelligence was mainly inherited . |
| 9 | In 1943 the pollsters began to ask people how they would vote ‘ if a general election were held tomorrow ’ . |
| 10 | By 1943 the group of three full-time and three part-time workers were dealing with 2,000 requests a year from hospital almoners , social workers and individuals , placing 523 and advising 986 , besides visiting homes to see if they were suitable . |
| 11 | In July 1943 the Town and Country Planning ( Interim Development ) Bill received the Royal Assent , legislation which effectively extended planning control to the whole of the country not so far covered by a planning scheme . |
| 12 | In 1943 the Norwood Report put forward such a suggestion , which was repeated in the report of the Secondary Schools Examination Council in 1947 , and by the Crowther Report in 1959 . |
| 13 | In the Thirties the Archbishop of Canterbury , Cosmo Gordon Lang , had such a powerful hand in the affairs of state that he was instrumental in getting Edward VIII to abdicate . |
| 14 | ‘ In the Thirties the Archbishop of Canterbury had a lot to do with the abdication . |
| 15 | In the late Thirties the Baroness Hila Rebay was busy looking for a name for the new art museum her mentor Solomon R. Guggenheim was about to found and of which she was about to become the first director . |
| 16 | Throughout the thirties the Germans had been eager to displace the British . |
| 17 | In the thirties the business expanded , with further branches opening in the North of England and Scotland and it was at this point that the name Beaverbrooks was adopted . |
| 18 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 19 | In 1948 the Works suffered another major fire . |
| 20 | This was carried out with thoroughness , but without success , by the Missing Research and Enquiry Service , and in 1948 the case was closed . |
| 21 | By 1948 the US needed an international cultural prestige to offset its military and political power : it needed a sophisticated reply to the slogans of Yankee Go Home ! |
| 22 | Meanwhile , in April 1948 the US Congress approved the European Recovery Programme , as the Marshall Plan had become , which provided several billion dollars to European countries in 1948–52 . |
| 23 | In January 1948 the US State Department began to consider posting an Ambassador to Madrid and supplies of petroleum and military and paramilitary matériel began to be sent through the Standard Oil Company . |
| 24 | By autumn 1948 the split along the 38th parallel had been formalized . |
| 25 | The Gunners ' services were regularly sought by the England selectors , and between April 1933 and November 1948 the England side for full internationals always included at least one Arsenal man . |
| 26 | In 1948 the Netherlands , Belgium and Luxembourg formed Benelux which was a CU in industrial goods . |
| 27 | Leading economic advisers began to press for greater reliance on the price mechanism , and in 1948 the Board of Trade had a ‘ bonfire of economic controls ’ . |
| 28 | We have already seen ( on pp. 33–4 , above ) that in 1948 the conventions of historic-cost , straight-line depreciation of capital led ( if the Boards broke-even on book costs ) to artificially low prices . |
| 29 | In 1948 the Vulcan Foundry of Lancashire gained a controlling interest ( strangely enough , Vulcan was an off-shoot of a firm founded by George Stephenson in the 1820s ) and in 1962 the name changed to English Electric . |
| 30 | Between June 1947 and July 1948 the Cabinet considered capital punishment six times . |