Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1989 the Libyan news agency JANA said that Italy could make up for its " wrongdoing " during the colonial period-particularly the deportation to Italy between 1911 and 1942 of some 5,000 Libyans as forced labour-by speedily paying the compensation demanded by Libya , which regarded as inadequate a settlement of dollars 6,700 million reached in 1956 . |
| 2 | During the 1980s both the community and its schools suffered from the severe effects of deindustrialisation , which for the schools was compounded by an above average drop in pupil numbers caused by a fall in the birth rate . |
| 3 | Thus the distance from the bank to the nearest point of the island was about the same all the way around It resembled a moat , about thirty yards wide . |
| 4 | If we work through the former alone the range of choice or the breadth of the spectrum will vary from area to area . |
| 5 | If however the adhesive strength of the interface is less than about one-fifth of the general cohesive strength of the solid then the interface will be broken before the main crack reaches it and a crack trap or crack stopper has been created . |
| 6 | Without the consent of the latter neither the succession to the throne nor the territorial limits of the Grand Duchy were to be changed ; nor was war to be declared or existing legislation altered . |
| 7 | If the answer is no to even one of the above then the product is not truly providing a replacement for the layout artist , that 's the human who normally does page makeup . |
| 8 | From the 1860s onwards the Commons , Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society campaigned to save Britain 's rural heritage so that city-dwellers could be revitalized through contact with Nature ( a campaign that only became realistic in the era of rapid transportation by rail ) . |
| 9 | When drift mines were first sunk in this valley during the 1850s the workforce walked in each day from the surrounding villages and hamlets , but from the 1860s onwards the coalmasters had to provide new accommodation ; Pease and Partners , for example , had built 151 houses at Waterhouses by 1874 . |
| 10 | After all , back in the Thirties even the holiday posters would tell of ‘ Healthful Hartlepool — the most bracing air in the kingdom ’ . |
| 11 | Agriculture , in the 1920s still the occupation of 27% of Americans , suffered a depression throughout the decade . |
| 12 | Yet despite that , even in the 1950s neither the Conservatives nor Labour ever obtained an absolute majority of the votes , and today it is even clearer that there is no one majority party in British politics . |
| 13 | And shall there insert every persons name that shall be wedded christened or buryded And for the sauff ( safe ) kepinge the same boke the parish shale bonde to provide of these comen charges one sure coffer with twoo lockes and keys where of the one to remayne with you and the other with the said wardens , wherein the said boke shalbe laide upp Which boke ye shall every Sonday take furthe and in the presence of the said wardens or one of them write and record in the same all the weddinges , christenyngs and buryenges made the hole weke before , And that done to lay upp the boke in the said coffer as afore . |
| 14 | Johannsen each claimed a Hurricane shot down at 1045 , both in the same location-obviously the Fulmars . |
| 15 | Since the 1960s both the US and Britain had supplied aircraft and related training programmes . |
| 16 | Everything is smaller down there — including their eyeballs — to the same extent-so the eye still gets filled up with what it 's looking at in the normal way . |
| 17 | If the outrage is confined to a few then the chances of success are small . |
| 18 | By the 1660s all the islands were committed to sugar and the white planters were taking drastic steps to prevent their white employees from leaving the islands and tilting the population balance still further towards the black slaves , but this of course made white employees all the more determined to avoid going to the West Indies . |
| 19 | By the 1880s half the wheat harvest was being exported . |