Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed . |
| 2 | In Toulouse also , the steadily falling value of comital coins in the second half of the century made them relevant at last to the needs of the merchant classes . |
| 3 | The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time . |
| 4 | In other political states during the twentieth century , there has been strong support for the view that art should serve a social purpose . |
| 5 | Mr Rawlins announced his intention to leave Sturge at some time in the future towards the end of last year although he had no specific plans for the next step in his career . |
| 6 | In one of the political meetings at the second branch a councillor had voiced typically conservative views on education , stressing the need to encourage the brightest and discourage bad behaviour by the cane . |
| 7 | At eight hours after the last injection they found 17.0 ml emptying , which was not significantly different from postprandial gall bladder contraction without treatment . |
| 8 | Nine cases achieved a response within the first week ( five prednisone , four PEN ) , eight cases by the second week ( six prednisone , two PEN ) , five by the third week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) , and five by the fourth week ( two prednisone , three PEN ) . |
| 9 | These steps were agreed by the government , the African National Congress ( ANC ) and 17 other political groups at the first meeting of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( CODESA ) in December [ see pp. 38662-63 ] . |
| 10 | Laqueur finds in the political , cultural , and economic transformations of the eighteenth century a context in which ‘ the articulation of radical differences between the sexes became culturally imperative ’ . |
| 11 | So far , as I have indicated , nationalism has proved to be , in any direct confrontation , a stronger force ; and it is undoubtedly the case that the most extensive and devastating conflicts of the twentieth century have been the wars between nations , not the struggles between classes . |
| 12 | There is a solution to conflicting views about the Last Supper . |
| 13 | The enduring appeal of the Conservatives is undoubtedly one of the most important political phenomena of the twentieth century : and yet both the party as an institution and the nature of British Conservatism remain relatively under-studied . |
| 14 | They will give us exactly the colour we want , especially if we dovetail them with the bassoons and thus make use of the deep low notes of the second horn . |
| 15 | The authors do not ask why the players adhered to and implemented these unnecessary checks in the first place . |
| 16 | It was a port from Norman times to the 19th century , and has an 11th-century castle perched high on the cliffs above the River Wye and a pretty church with a Norman nave . |
| 17 | The political entities of the twentieth century are the survivors of a ferocious rivalry . |
| 18 | With him came a young staff officer destined to become one of Germany 's greatest commanders in the Second World War ; Erich von Manstein . |
| 19 | Eleven minutes of the second half gone , Shrewsbury Town three , Blackburn Rovers one , Kevin , Steve with a penalty and Tommy the young Irishman doing so well tonight here to get those goals for Shrewsbury , we 're going off to Neil . |
| 20 | The other part is having coherent policies in the first place . |
| 21 | They fought like wounded lions in the next game ; 20 ; 30 years on Swindon are showing the same spirit . |
| 22 | The jury delivered the not guilty verdicts on the fourth day of the trial . |
| 23 | The jury delivered the not guilty verdicts on the fourth day of the trial . |
| 24 | Laws without strong enforcement are words without deeds , and the tragic truth is that courts in both England and the United States have displayed a general unwillingness to mete out harsh punishment to those found guilty of cruelty to animals and an even greater reluctance to render guilty verdicts in the first place . |
| 25 | Take African sculpture , much admired by European artists in the twentieth century for its bold forms , not representational of the human figure in a Western sense . |
| 26 | A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home . |
| 27 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 28 | Guests can enjoy panoramic views from the ninth floor cocktail bar and A La Carte Restaurant , featuring an extensive Chef 's Table . |
| 29 | Mind you , England should have been home and clear before that , but poor Barnes , the man who had won the Cup final at Twickenham with a last-minute magical goal kick , could not get a goal from eight attempts in the first half . |
| 30 | Pontypool3 Llanelli27 AN ERROR by Arwel Parry eight minutes into the second half which allowed Wayne Proctor , the Llanelli left wing , to score the first try , changed the course of the game . |