Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 2 | The mayorazgos had been bitterly criticized since the sixteenth century for encouraging laziness as well as being an injustice to younger children . |
| 3 | The move was widely regarded as the first step towards full normalization of diplomatic relations , which had been suspended after the communist victory in the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 4 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 6 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
| 7 | Much depended in the last resort , too , on the power with which the negotiators went to the negotiating table , what goodwill there was between parties and what the strength of the bargaining power was . |
| 8 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 9 | November — We are often better favoured in the last weeks of the season … ’ |
| 10 | On Jan. 7 the Iraqi Health Minister Umid Midhat Mubarak said that 85,942 Iraqis , including 27,473 children under five [ not 80,000 as wrongly given in the first paragraph of the article on p. 38696 ] , had died due to medical shortages . |
| 11 | number for Malcolm Smith , secretary of N.E.B.E. , was wrongly given in the last issue . |
| 12 | Now , I think there 's probably a very nice parallel here , I ca n't help thinking it was probably a bit better , must have been better organised in the Second World War , but there 's going to be a erm special exhibition here is n't there , on memories of change on Oxford in the Second World War , and of course there were a great many extra people there too . |
| 13 | But their spirit had entirely vanished by the Second World War . |
| 14 | With the Jenny Pitman horses in such tremendous form at the moment , MOSSGARA ( 2.15 ) must be greatly respected in the second division of the Knight Park Novices Hurdle . |
| 15 | Amateur Champion Stephen Dundas was only named as the first reserve … |
| 16 | 79/80 class lists are included with these notes where they were not personally collected on the 21st June . |
| 17 | The Herdwick sheep , who withstand wind and weather on the fells with their ‘ heafing ’ property of returning to base , were not so named until the 18th Century , the name ‘ Herdwyke ’ previously referring to the abbey sheep farms . |
| 18 | To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote . |
| 19 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |
| 20 | The evangelical belief , much disseminated in the mid-nineteenth century , that children should be protected from the rigours of the adult world and educated and assisted to be morally good adults , was joined by the end of the century by a belief in the economic and military importance of building , from birth , a strong and stable race . |
| 21 | He is as baffled as anybody over why Pool have suddenly slumped in the last month . |
| 22 | These later changes have all occurred in the last century and the pace of change is ever quickening . |
| 23 | There 's another item of news , which erm , er Ron only got on the sixteenth August and it 's about the pre-congress pensioner 's march and rally , now the congress is held in Glasgow , so I think we were n't going to that one anyway , but it just giving details of erm the arrangements for the pensioner 's march which we usually have , we usually attend if it 's in the South anywhere , but that 's just for information . |
| 24 | Then John Gielgud opened in a Barrie play , but he had only got into the third act when the siren went . |
| 25 | It comprised 118 pictures , with paintings by Claude , Poussin , Veronese , Van Dyck , Rubens , Salvator Rosa , Nicolaes Berchem , and a group of ten pictures by Adriaen van der Werff , a contemporary Dutch classicist painter much admired in the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | Please will you send me ( perhaps enclosed with the next statement ) a new book of vouchers ? |
| 27 | ‘ That 's just not true , ’ she protested , ‘ his innocence did n't prevent him from being wrongly accused in the first place , did it ? ’ |
| 28 | Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage . |
| 29 | It was the plentiful supply of ‘ fixed air ’ ( carbon dioxide was so called in the 18th century ) above the vats that held his attention . |
| 30 | First-half turnover was down compared with the first half of 1991-92 to $171.1m from $196m , although the company says revenues were constant , given comparable structures . |