Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current machinery broadly follows the framework of collective bargaining laid down in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 2 | The team will play to the rules laid down for the 1992 World Cup . |
| 3 | All these data will help to inform the stage of development into which the records-of-achievement movement is now moving , namely that of nationalization following the proposals laid out in the 1984 policy statement . |
| 4 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 5 | Consistent with conversationist bodies , however , we are appalled by much of the development of our pub heritage carried out during the 1950s and '60s . |
| 6 | Early in April 1848 the committee which Nicholas had set up under Menshikov reported negatively on the two most popular journals of the day , The Contemporary and Notes of the Fatherland , and recommended the creation of a new body to supervise the activity of the regime 's censors . |
| 7 | An exhibition of the work of conceptual photographer Hans Peter Feldmann carried out in the 1960s and 1970s runs parallel to these two exhibitions . |
| 8 | Japan continued to favour the guidelines laid down in the 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resources ( Cramra ) . |
| 9 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 10 | And the other group of ten have another ten pounds , and so you 'd get , each group of ten would have one pound shared out between the ten of you . |
| 11 | The President gazed thoughtfully at the two dispatches lying on his desk . |
| 12 | Actual practice changed fast in the 1980s as central government 's desire to cut public spending overwhelmed all other considerations . |
| 13 | The personal relationships built up over the 15 weeks often encourage longer discussions on how the subjects the pupils are learning about relate to the outside ‘ grown-up ’ world of industry and academe . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We shall be dining tête-à-tête tonight , ’ he announced , as Sabine 's eyes flickered uncomprehendingly over the two isolated covers laid on the massive dining table . |
| 16 | Her eyes flickered momentarily between the two men then she pulled open the door and hurried inside . |
| 17 | We have already noted the over 3 million animals used annually in the 1980s in UK research laboratories ; the total having dropped from 5.6 million to 1970 . |
| 18 | Lisa Stansfield looks forward to the Eighties |
| 19 | And in the library there is a more recent collection of men 's pin-up books dating back to the Fifties . |
| 20 | Bede describes how in the 670s the South Saxons were saved ‘ from a cruel and horrible extinction ’ as a result of their conversion to Christianity by Wilfrid : ‘ … for no rain had fallen in the province for three years prior to his arrival , and a terrible famine had ensued which reduced many to an awful death ’ ( HE IV 13 ) . |
| 21 | Central Asia 's ethnically based republics were invented after the 1917 revolution , their artificial borders drawn up in the 1920s and 1930s , leaving thousands of Uzbeks , Kirgiz , Kazakhs and others in the ‘ wrong ’ republic . |
| 22 | At Christmas we announced the Sainsbury's/BBC Good Food Wine Taster of the Year competition , and the entries poured in by the thousand . |
| 23 | THE TIME has come for the egg industry to look forward to the 1990s . |
| 24 | THE England ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand could prove to be a mixed blessing thanks to an insufficiently competitive provincial itinerary leading up to the two ‘ tests ’ against a New Zealand XV at the end of the tour . |
| 25 | The bargaining was affected both by the new opportunities opened up in the 1970s and by the growing risks attendant on the 1980s . |
| 26 | COMPUTER scientists and entrepreneurs are worried that delays by the British government in responding to the Alvey report on advanced information technology may be harming Britain 's chances of joining an elite of computerised nations lining up for the 1990s . |
| 27 | One very severe winter , when all public transport was temporarily halted , and cycling quite impossible , Miss Onions walked daily over the five miles of frozen fields between her village and our school . |
| 28 | His mind touched briefly on the two defaulters who were awaiting their fate in the basement cells . |
| 29 | The gruesome story of the headless lover began early in the 1900s when Brooke End signal box controlled the up and down main lines , an up goods loop and sidings used by the pick-up trains of that period . |
| 30 | The balance of effect varies widely among the three parties shown in figure 4.3 . |