Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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1 | I was born on the twenty eighth of December nineteen ten . |
2 | I was born in the seventies she might be in this one . |
3 | No I think I was restricted to the one brainwave this week . |
4 | WATCHING the collapse of the opinion polls ' projections of a hung Parliament early last Friday morning , I was reminded of the 1970 General Election . |
5 | Possibly due to my lack of marquetry expertise I was drawn towards the three veneer section , and E.J. Higgs ‘ Light Music ’ ( left ) won third prize in the class . |
6 | Time and time again the reviewers in Early music have attacked ideas and suppositions of a kind that characterize much modern culture but which were strengthened in the 1960s : that one should be allowed to do what one wishes without the interference of authority ; that every kind of self-expression is equally valid because it is self-expression , and so on . |
7 | the record of some of the institutional innovations which pluralists have suggested and which were created in the 1970s , do not appear to have been as successful in reducing military expenditure as pluralists have assumed they would . |
8 | The leading case on the requirement of reasonableness arose , not under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , but under the earlier provisions of the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 which were replaced by the 1977 Act . |
9 | Wren designed fifty new churches , most of which were constructed during the 1670s . |
10 | However , centres will be able to continue to offer any programmes which were developed from the 1992 |
11 | The earliest comprehensive statistics , which were compiled in the 1860s , indicated that about seven or eight per cent of the population were accused of some criminal offence each year . |
12 | The news categories used by the 1947 Press Commission , which were followed for the 1975 analysis , were too general to show up many differences of detail , but are recorded in Table 6.6 . |
13 | The original calculations which are outlined in er N Y six are based on assumptions which were available at the time which were based on the eighty one census essentially , those calculations form the basis of the consultation plan and the deposit plan . |
14 | At the national level , women 's political participation was confined to the ladies auxiliaries of the Conservative and Liberal parties , which were formed during the 1880s and 1890s as a means of making use of women 's formidable political energies and of siphoning off potential protest |
15 | The US decision will be welcomed by environmentalists concerned about the safety risks posed by several US nuclear bomb making plants , which were built in the 1950s . |
16 | This shift of emphasis , the seeds of which were sown in the 1960s and 1970s , would root teachers much more firmly in the communities they serve . |
17 | Only three cantons ( Zürich , Basel City and Graubünden ) voted in favour of the reforms , which were backed by the four government parties , the trade unions , and the bankers ' associations . |
18 | The squalor of rural housing conditions became a mid-century scandal , highlighted by the government Blue Books on living conditions and public health which were published during the 1850s and 1860s . |
19 | Two schools for the deaf which were opened in the 1900s were both from the start to establish a pure oralist tradition . |
20 | The clauses , which were introduced under the 1974-79 Labour Government , were no doubt designed to reassure people that the dangers would be minimised , as the spent nuclear fuel would be returned to the country of origin . |
21 | For large numbers come into the criminal justice system unnecessarily , erm that is likely to set back the progress which was made during the nineteen eighties and er increase and reinforce criminality . |
22 | there is a model of a robot from Japan which was made in the 1960s . |
23 | The proposal to restore the provost as local civic figurehead raises the prospect of restoring a position to the region 's small towns and burghs which was lost in the 1975 reforms . |
24 | There are numerous picturesque villages , ruined abbeys , and historic houses within easy driving distance , including Sledmere House which was built in the 1750s and rebuilt after a devastating fire , using the original plans , in 1911 . |
25 | The sale of surplus housing , which was built in the 1950s , and land near Harwell is to be managed by Kemp and Kemp , an Oxford firm of surveyors and planning consultants . |
26 | The Premiership outfit , who have already built three new stands in the past 15 years , are drawing up plans to replace the old south stand which was built in the 1930s . |
27 | It used to be called the Great Western railway , which was built in the 1830s under the guidance of the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel . |
28 | By the end of the war numbers had increased to 458 , which included 60 in the recently re-housed Junior School , the success of which was indicated by the 136 candidates for the 28 vacancies at the previous Entrance Examination . |
29 | The ruin of the German economy which was completed by the Thirty Years War also brought the ruin of the Fuggers . |
30 | Such a cautious approach to the potential of genetic engineering is also to be applauded in the wake of the dilemmas that have been created by the harnessing of nuclear power , the science for which was developed in the 1940s in response to weaponry requirements in the Second World War . |