Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economic crisis and in particular the slump produced lower totals for the next two years , but by 1939 , the number of holidays booked had risen to a substantial 62,500 , comprising 29,500 holiday-makers travelling overseas , and 33,000 taking home bookings . |
| 2 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 3 | A big move was also made by Fred Couples , America 's leading money-winner this season , when he went out in 32 and then made further birdies at the 10th and 13th . |
| 4 | It 'll be int=sting to see whether or not they 're gon na make some changes in the second half . |
| 5 | Afterwards to wear clerical clothes for the first time , and instantly to be expected to be a confidant or soul 's friend , was to many ordinands the more heartfelt turning-point . |
| 6 | There was no dramatic increase in the total volume of shipping using British ports over the first half of the eighteenth century , but there was a relative shift away from London to provincial ports . |
| 7 | So when [ named defendant ] , 41 , made sexual overtures for the first time during their five-year friendship she went to a neighbour and cried rape . |
| 8 | The proposal made some changes to the first paragraph of Security Council Resolution 598 , dealing with a ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops , in line with Iraqi demands . |
| 9 | Hezbollah announced 12 candidates for the first two rounds , eight of them in Baalbek , three elsewhere in the Bekaa , and one in Beirut . |
| 10 | The Prophet sprinted from the alley exit scant seconds before the first of the police cars roared out of the fog and screeched to a halt at the dark gap he had just left . |
| 11 | The museum contains European paintings of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries , sculpture and decorative arts from the collection of the Herzog Anton Ulrich , and drawings and prints from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries , The print room and library will stay open to the public . |
| 12 | Guests can enjoy panoramic views from the ninth floor cocktail bar and A La Carte Restaurant , featuring an extensive Chef 's Table . |
| 13 | Police are revealing few details about the fifth victim , who at this stage they are not linking definitely with the others . |
| 14 | She was a good twelve years older than me , but allowing for that , I 'd seen myself look not much better some mornings in the last few months , my skin blotchy , my eyes shadowed and swollen , my lips pale and dry-looking , my hair lifeless and uncombed . |
| 15 | Soviet writers observed that these resolutions corresponded with resolutions on eliminating foreign bases in the Third World adopted in the UN General Assembly ( for example at the Twenty-First Session in December 1965 ) and described them as part of the broader ‘ struggle against imperialism ’ . |
| 16 | The mother ship of Japan 's four-vessel whaling fleet left yesterday for the Antarctic , where officials say it will catch 300 whales in the third year of a controversial research programme . |
| 17 | The largest of them , Hydra , covers 1303 square degrees of the sky , the Southern Cross only 68 square degrees ; Centaurus has 49 stars above the fifth magnitude , Mensa none at all . |
| 18 | The force wants 800 officers of the next four years ; they 've only been given 44 this year . |
| 19 | He was also on many council committees , and chaired the committee which excluded some members of the first Protectorate Parliament . |
| 20 | We should introduce such systems within the next five years , and we need to purchase the necessary hardware and software soon , in order to begin the evaluation and development phases . |
| 21 | The PS candidate Henri Emmanuelli , a Secretary of State in 1981-86 , was elected president of the National Assembly on Jan. 22 , gaining 289 votes in the second round against 225 for the candidate of the right , Jacques Chaban-Delmas ( Prime Minister in 1969-72 and president of the National Assembly in 1985-69 , 1978-81 and 1986-88 ) . |
| 22 | It was the kind of socialism that insisted the NHS was not split up or sold off , that resented the injustice of the poll tax , and opposed the centralisation , control and censorship which had eroded civil liberties over the last 10 years . |
| 23 | Brazil had failed to meet these targets in the first two quarters of the year , but the Franco government would continue with efforts to renegotiate them , since it was dependent on IMF support to secure acceptance of the debt accord agreed in outline with commercial creditor banks in July [ see p. 39002 ] . |
| 24 | It might then be a good time to look at the original sources of stress which created these symptoms in the first place . |
| 25 | Bibb atoned for his error at the start of the second half , when after Castleford lost the ball in front of their own posts he pounced quickly and beat three tacklers for the third Rovers ' try , Knapper adding his first goal . |
| 26 | Martin Pipe has declared a powerful team for Monday 's Coral Welsh National , a race he has won three times in the last four years . |
| 27 | ‘ Orange songs ’ , a body of fine traditional music ignored by left-wing folklorists , usually celebrate Protestant victories of the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | It codified these standards for the first time , the technical details of which were the main subject of the Oct. 24 compromise . |
| 29 | The interim p&l account , balance sheet and cash flow statement therefore do not include comparative figures for the first half of 1991 ; the full year 1991 figures are shown , however . |
| 30 | Here , as in the comparable case of the beginnings of hunting , no traumatic consequences have previously been suspected ; but it is my view that the transition to cultivation from hunting and gathering was indeed traumatic , both socially and psychologically , and furthermore that the complex details of this secondary trauma , while recapitulating many elements of the first , also anticipated many later ones , including that at the root of our modern malaise . |