Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wendy Ramshaw 's retrospective exhibition at the South Bank Centre in London from 3 September to 7 October charts her career from the Newcastle College of Art and Design , where she studied in the Fifties , to her present eminence as the leading modernist woman artist-jeweller in Britain . |
| 2 | Brainstorming on creative tasks has been a major activity in the advertising business where it began in the 1930s . |
| 3 | If the hon. Lady or Puffin Books can show that the use of the puffin symbol contravenes the text that I quoted from the 1986 voluntary agreement , without being bound by court procedures and legal niceties and technicalities , we have a system deliberately designed to be sufficiently flexible to allow action to be taken and new barriers which will not be allowed to be broken . |
| 4 | Again , I respect my hon. Friend 's strongly held personal views , but Parliament has expressed its views and I can not add anything to the answer that I gave to the two previous questions . |
| 5 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 6 | If he is really concerned about unemployment , why does he want to cripple British industry by bringing back flying pickets , by encouraging mass pickets , by returning trade union immunities , with all the difficulties that we saw in the 1960s and 1970s ? |
| 7 | The right hon. Gentleman 's policies would reintroduce the levels of unemployment that we saw in the 1930s . |
| 8 | I think about these things because they were domestic economies that we practised in the 1950s . |
| 9 | Well , we 've got a couple that we made in the fifties . |
| 10 | Certainly of of the size of of the desn deafness claims that we had in the nineteen eighties and will continue to have for the rest of this er of this century . |
| 11 | It 's the fact that we are so close to America , that we 've got this highly dynamic American sound that we had in the sixties in this country with the kind of dynamism in the sixties and the desire to sort of break through all kinds of formal barriers — I mean the mini skirt period , you know what I mean and in certain cities , like Liverpool , where this feeling of it is necessary to break through barriers to create this kind of dynamic sort of extremely vital sound . |
| 12 | His jobs tax would cost 50,000 jobs ; his strikes charter would cost jobs and lose orders ; the sweatshop mentality on the Opposition Front Bench would risk losing the 450,000 jobs that have come in ; their minimum wage policy would cost hundreds of thousands of jobs ; and the abolition , one way or another , of the trade union legislation that we have produced would reintroduce the difficulties that we faced in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 13 | I believe that we shall have greater continuity of orders throughout the 1990s than we did in the 1980s , due to the maturing nature of offshore oil and gas work , including refurbishment , sub-sea systems and satellite developments . |
| 14 | It seemed to fly OK , so we prepared for the 482 kilometres water crossing to Australia . |
| 15 | But police in Foxboro , Massa-chusetts , said there was less trouble than they expected from the 50,000 crowd . |
| 16 | Renault feel comfortable with the hatched style that they started with the 16 and developed into a smooth aerodynamic shape with the 25 . |
| 17 | The Tories were in some disarray after the association of some of their leaders with Jacobite intrigue : Oxford was impeached and sent to the Tower in 1715 , and although eventually acquitted in 1717 , his political power was effectively destroyed ; Bolingbroke fled abroad , and although he returned in the 1720s to play a leading role in the propaganda campaign against Walpole , he was not allowed to resume his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 18 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 19 | Sir , I apologise , I was going by this figure made by which indicated that it expired on the thirty first of March , I think and in fact , that is a an error on the officer 's part it would appear from the licensing authorities in fact , it expired at the end of May . |
| 20 | I was going by a brief statement made by the officer which indicated that it expired on the thirty first of March . |
| 21 | Making fathers pay the poll tax for their under-age children , he said , hindered the growth of population , which had advanced less in the twenty years since the mid-1830s than it had in the twenty years before that . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the draw has dealt more sympathetically with the Scots than it did before the 1986 World Cup , when they found themselves grouped with West Germany , Uruguay and Denmark . |
| 23 | Much of the major investment in this country 's telecommunications infrastructure in recent years has been from BT , which has made a much bigger contribution to the Exchequer than it did in the 1970s , as it is more efficient , more productive , sells more services , makes more money and pays more tax . |
| 24 | The green belt policy commands even wider support today than it did in the 1950s . |
| 25 | Is it not about time that he said to the 44 million voters who are sick and tired of the phoney election campaign that the general election will be on 9 April ? |
| 26 | He told me that he had said to Ivy that he hoped between the three of us we might make head or tail of it , and she said , ‘ Well , we are three intelligent people , so I ca n't see why we should have any difficulty . ’ |
| 27 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 28 | This famous author of 3,000 ‘ incomparable ’ ( Byron ) letters , among other largely dilettante activities , showed by a letter written to Sir Horace Mann on 8 June 1791 that he knew of the 1788 Kentish Town Act , which freed the Earl of Camden to build 1,400 houses in Kentish Town . |
| 29 | Jones ' best data did not exist until 1989 ; by the time that he met with the two chemists he had measured ‘ run number 6 ’ ( see Figure 4 , page 69 ) which is shown in his paper as the most dramatic signal and which proved to the BYU team 's satisfaction that they were right . |
| 30 | You can buy slack-key that he did in the '40s and the '50s and the '60s , it 's all there . |