Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government . |
| 32 | The Regno consisted in the twelfth century ( and for most of the thirteenth ) of two parts : the island of Sicily and the southern half of the Italian peninsular , the mainland . |
| 33 | Woolley swung into a second chorus , and gave it greater volume . |
| 34 | Richard Carlile followed with the first book on contraception in 1826 ( Every Woman 's Book ) , followed by Moral Physiology by the American socialist Robert Dale Owen , 1830 , and Dr Charles Knowlton 's Fruits of Philosophy in New York in 1832 . |
| 35 | ANC president Nelson Mandela indicated for the first time on Dec. 29 that the ANC would consider the possibility of guaranteeing white seats in a future parliament along the lines agreed under the 1979 Lancaster House settlement on Zimbabwean independence [ see pp. 30165-75 ] . |
| 36 | There 's even a 100MHz dual-processor penned for the second quarter of next year using Cypress ' promised three-layer , 0.5 CMOS technology , touted at up to 320 MIPS , 162 SPECmarks , 142 SPECfp and 77 MFLOPS . |
| 37 | Gorbachev returned for a second visit on Nov. 18-21 , 1988 , accompanied by the Foreign Minister , Eduard Shevardnadze , and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers , Vladimir Kamentsev . |
| 38 | When Levi walked off the 15th green , somebody told him , ‘ Watson 's gon na get you . ’ |
| 39 | Critics of this theoretical approach emphasise that spectator violence existed before the First World War . |
| 40 | When something in that costly box of tricks above the pool side malfunctioned on the first night at the Grove , they had no option but to call on a back-up team of stopwatch timekeepers . |
| 41 | Blood loss started about the eighth day of infection when the immature adult has developed the toothed buccal capsule which enables it to grasp plugs of mucosa containing arterioles . |
| 42 | Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government . |
| 43 | I am well aware of the atrocities that some Croatians perpetrated during the second world war , and of the tensions between Serb and Croat that go back long before that , which left a legacy of hatred and fear . |
| 44 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
| 45 | During a subsequent march of some 200,000 pupils backed by the teachers ' union FEN in Paris on Nov. 12 , police held back while cars were burned and shops looted in the seventh arrondissement , but finally intervened with tear gas and water cannon to prevent marchers approaching the presidential palace ; 234 police and a number of journalists were injured and 83 people were arrested . |
| 46 | This penal optimism reigned throughout the first half of this century ( Bailey , 1987 ) . |
| 47 | The vote coincided with the 21st meeting of the JLG , which took place in Hong Kong on Dec. 3-5 . |
| 48 | Mauritania , still in dispute with Senegal , was not represented by its head of state , and there was no delegation from Nigeria , which had been represented in Casablanca in December 1988 [ p. 36717 ] ; however , President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda attended for the first time . |
| 49 | No trace of the plage de l'Arsenal , where Camus glimpsed for the first time the beauty of the Mediterranean . |
| 50 | Is it possible to tell us how your advertising revenue performed in the first half on your Westminster Press and F T and whether you 've experienced any improvements in sits vac advertising since the end of the first half ? |
| 51 | But Bull 's eighth goal of the season was Wolves ' only reward for their territorial dominance , and Aston Villa squeezed into the third round by virtue of the early goal Derek Mountfield had added to their first-leg advantage . |
| 52 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 53 | Despite the complaints of Rousseau and many others , this practice continued into the 19th century . |
| 54 | On the 5th June 1156 , Frederick Barbarossa married for the second time . |
| 55 | On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence . |
| 56 | In The Faerie Queene , Spenser wrote of the first man and woman as ‘ Elfe … and Fay … [ of ] whom all Fayres spring ’ : |
| 57 | England piled on the pressure and were rewarded when Martin Offiah struck in the 55th minute . |
| 58 | Mul was evidently established as king in Kent but he was burnt to death there and Caedwalla responded with a second invasion in 687 ( ASC A , s.a. 687 ) and may then have ruled Kent directly for a time . |
| 59 | Fighting continued into a second day , with the presidential palace again coming under fire from the air and from snipers , despite presidential assurances to the country that the situation was under control . |
| 60 | As sporadic fighting continued through the next day , many Nez Perce warriors became keen to withdraw . |