Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 2 | Moreover , MacDonald was in principle in favour of an election , but unable to secure agreement upon a formula which could reconcile protectionists and free traders up to the very last moment . |
| 3 | This is both in respect of the run up to the seventy fifth birthday and also with the increase in responsibility to take on the remit for the development of our work in relation to the European Community , central and Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | Almost certainly if we had the full text of Edward 's coronation oath , we should find that , like his predecessors back to the early twelfth century and his successors to the end of the Middle Ages , he promised to protect the liberties of the church , which , after all , was also the substance of the first clause of Magna Carta . |
| 5 | As you approach the time of competition , begin ‘ interval training ’ in your aerobic band by working very hard to raise the pulse rate almost into the anaerobic threshold , then easing up to drop the pulse rate down into the lower third of the band . |
| 6 | Most West Europeans and North Americans found no need for strict national alignments up to the late eighteenth century ; the East Europeans the late nineteenth century , ; much of the rest of the world , the present century . |
| 7 | The village playing field stands opposite the old school and occupies the old titheyard where tithes were paid to the church up to the early 19th century . |
| 8 | One possible course of action is simply to leave the OED and completed Supplement as they are , a record of the vocabulary of English up to the late twentieth century but no more , and to concentrate on the production and revision of other smaller dictionaries . |