Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If someone tries to get into the first room , two of the three men will fight , but Rupert of Hentzau or Detchard will run into the second room and kill the King , ’ Johann said . |
| 2 | The forthcoming work will aim to remove the layer of dirt which has accumulated over the last thirty years not surprisingly , since the church is located in one of the most polluted parts of Florence . |
| 3 | The Barcelona festival is the most enjoyable , experimental stop on what Gibson jokingly calls the ‘ virtual rubber chicken circuit ’ , a global network of theoretical conferences , trade fairs and arty think tanks which has developed over the last two years to tap the millennial fascination with virtual reality . |
| 4 | All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war . |
| 5 | The picture which has emerged over the last five or six years it is very different than the one painted above . |
| 6 | In spite of the claims of the success of the Thatcher years , Mr Lang will emphasise the need for Scotland to fill that critical gap which has emerged over the last 13 years . |
| 7 | It is one of the world 's fastest-growing industries which has burgeoned since the Second World War , and especially since the 1960s . |
| 8 | They 're all members of the British Nuclear Test Veteran Association which has campaigned for the last ten years to get recognition for its members , who feel they were used as human guinea pigs . |
| 9 | One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society . |
| 10 | Permanent plants include the architectural Cordyline australis , and the winter flowering cherry Prunus subhirtella " Autumnalis " , which has flowered for the last two years . |
| 11 | I mean , two of them seem as if they are referring back to something which has happened since the first two . ’ |
| 12 | It 's the latest twist in the lengthy club versus country row which has simmered for the last two seasons . |
| 13 | The devaluation of sterling from September onwards and its significant effect on raw material costs put pressure on margins which has continued into the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 14 | Brightreason will now have 20 per cent of the booming pizza market , which has doubled over the last eight years . |
| 15 | In particular the area 's unemployment rate which has doubled in the last 18 months . |
| 16 | His argument will pivot on the spiralling bill for legal aid , which has doubled in the last five years , reaching £83 million last year . |
| 17 | The Free Churches have made much use of the explosion of hymn writing which has occurred during the last thirty years and which crosses the boundaries of all denominations . |
| 18 | Mr Dryfe said : ‘ The violence which has occurred during the last several weeks outside the factory gates and the damage done to the property of several of our employees is deplorable . |
| 19 | The explosion of knowledge , skills and ideas , which has occurred in the last half century makes any mapping to some extent arbitrary . |
| 20 | We certainly can not bank on the 49 per cent increase in the size of the Bar which has occurred in the last 10 years . |
| 21 | Bishops were unlikely to help them , for " Whatever the cost , even if it means the destruction of the church , [ bishops ] try to preserve that power and significance which prelates possessed in the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries " . |
| 22 | It also contained her unconscious valedictory : As a Catholic observer who has lived in the Third World for nearly 30 years , I have followed developments in the Church , at times with despair but mostly with optimism . |
| 23 | Torrance , who has played in the last six Ryder Cup matches and badly wants to figure in the next at the Belfry in September , shot his 69 despite having a nose bleed for the first time in his life early in the morning , then again on the course . |
| 24 | Maude 's telegram from the Queen was also expected this morning at Trees Park Village , near Middleton St George , where she has lived for the last seven years . |
| 25 | Joan Knight will also be returning to the theatre which she has run for the last 25 years , Andrew McKinnon having invited her to direct Tally 's Blood . |
| 26 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 27 | Fergie was not , strictly speaking , Diana 's type ; she was certainly not like her old friends , nor indeed many of the friends she has made in the last few years . |
| 28 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 29 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 30 | And she 's gone into the second years , you go there when |