Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appellate jurisdiction of the Paris Parlement not only over the three dioceses of Limoges , Càhors and Périgueux , but the whole of the duchy , meant that a constant ducal presence at Paris was necessary . |
| 2 | Would it be worth your while to consider sending for the chairman not only of the 1922 committee but also of the parliamentary Labour party so that the leaders of the respective parties in Parliament can discuss with you the conduct last night ? |
| 3 | There follow accounts not only of the four voyages of Christopher Columbus but of the life of Cortez and conquest of Mexico , followed by specialised essays on the peoples and art of Mexico , Central America , Peru and Amazonia , with particular emphasis on the art of the island of Marajo at the mouth of the Amazon , in which the Barbier-Mueller Museum holdings are particularly rich . |
| 4 | Our permanency planning has been a two-stage affair , but we never got our preventive and rehabilitative act together properly in the 1960s . |
| 5 | The indications are , therefore , that Offa was engaged fairly intensively against the Welsh across the first twenty-five or so years of his reign and this may have prevented him from pursuing Mercian interests in eastern and south-eastern England too vigorously before the mid-780s . |
| 6 | By the end of last week , Conservative strategists were talking about broadening Tory support still further from the 42 per cent achieved on Thursday . |
| 7 | We may regret some inevitable omissions — but a fair conspectus of Ferrier 's repertory has been preserved for posterity with the one great regret — the absence of her Angel in Gerontius , which I heard her sing under Barbirolli so memorably at the 1952 Edinburgh Festival . |
| 8 | And Dunlop 's string with a score already well into the thirties for the season knows the time of day when assessing its youngsters . |
| 9 | Having returned to pre-election campaign levels in the aftermath of John Major 's confounding of the pollsters , dealers found themselves confidently bidding the main index up well beyond the 2600 level . |
| 10 | We provide a service not only for the six thousand odd people that are on the campus |
| 11 | ‘ Our music is 50s , 60s and 70s-orientated over the weekend and Keith was a big name around here in the 60s , and in fact still is . ’ |
| 12 | But enough couples respond to economic motivations for the theory to describe ‘ average ’ behaviour quite well since the 1960s ( ni Bhrölchain 1986b ) . |
| 13 | In terms of their overall impact on prison numbers , it is possible to apportion responsibility fairly accurately between the two levels of court in England and Wales , though the data need to be interpreted with care . |
| 14 | Effective implementation may depend upon co-operation not merely between the two ‘ levels ’ but also between different organizations at the same level ; |
| 15 | Cocoa production rose in 1989 to 9,000 tonnes ( from 8,188 tonnes in 1987-88 ) , a production rate still well below the 35,000 tonnes frequently produced in the 1960s . |
| 16 | Chairman John Akers stated the situation rather blandly in the 1989 annual report : ‘ Rapid changes in technology and advances in manufacturing productivity have created overcapacity in both physical and human resources . |
| 17 | There have been urgent calls for action to end all production of ozone-depleters such as CFCs well ahead of the 2000 deadline set by the Montreal Protocol [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 18 | The same issue arises with respect to the critical comparison shown in Fig. 5.6 , as this depends on the assumption that stimulus A acquired associative strength equally readily in the two groups during the aversive conditioning phase . |
| 19 | Now he has his leg in plaster … and is under strict orders from wife Angela to stay calm when Christie bids for glory again today in the 200 metres . |
| 20 | For example , the well-established tradition of ‘ community studies ’ , which involves a researcher or a team of researchers using a wide variety of methods to study a whole community , has been producing work in both Britain and the USA almost continuously since the 1920s . |
| 21 | When the team trusts itself it builds up a view not simply about the one school and what needs to be done in small detail but also about the pressures and demands of society as a whole . |