Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Legends about the Babylonian and Persian period were revived — or perhaps invented for the first time — to encourage faithfulness to the Mosaic Law in the new conditions . |
| 2 | But do not be downhearted if your story is not taken up , or indeed ousted at the last moment because a major story comes up : your campaign will not suffer in the long run . |
| 3 | Greg had said before the tournament that the secret of winning might be in not taking worse than bogey and that definitely applied to the third round . |
| 4 | These institutions are among some 200 ‘ unverified and lost ’ , and so excluded from the 11th edition of the Directory of British Associations , just out . |
| 5 | The cottage is essentially of the seventeenth century , but was restored in 1800 and greatly enlarged during the second half of the nineteenth century |
| 6 | CROSSRAGUEL Abbey , near Maybole , was founded as a Cluniac monastery in 1244 by Duncan , Earl of Carrick and much rebuilt during the next three centuries . |
| 7 | This type of fence is very quickly and easily erected in the second and subsequent years if the materials are carefully put away ; it is the initial preparation and setting up that takes the time . |
| 8 | Protected on three sides by a sheer rock face and massively fortified on the fourth , its garrison had every reason to feel confident . |
| 9 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 10 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 11 | 1st century BC , and extensively restored in the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | She realised it was crammed full of television sets , and sedately moved to the next , to examine dresses , until she could walk into the Supermarket without anyone remarking her breathing . |
| 13 | The Irish Times reported : ‘ He regards the Ovens factory as an ideal guinea-pig situation in which the workers , protected by the best current standards , would be medically tested going into the plant and continuously tested over the next 20 years in order to measure the exposure risk and the effectiveness of the standards ’ . |
| 14 | The Conwy pairing of Gary Macara and Roy Williams won the last two holes to level the match and then won at the 19th after Flint had put their tee shot out of bounds . |
| 15 | Folasade , for example , left school without anyone knowing she was pregnant , and then returned to the sixth form after having her baby , to take her A-levels . |
| 16 | And that all if you put this together with the documents that we know , it suggests that there was a twelfth century church here which was demolished and then rebuilt in the fifteenth century . |
| 17 | It showed the leader board and then switched to the seventh where Krantz was preparing for a long approach putt down the kidney-shaped green . |
| 18 | The first was that Stirling had promised his men that they would never be subjected to the indecisions of the Commando days when operation after operation was planned and then cancelled at the last minute . |
| 19 | It was given only six months in the cinema and then screened in the third week of Channel Four transmission in 1982 . |
| 20 | He has affectionate links with the county and indeed played for the 2nd XI and a local club after being brought over originally by Viv Richards , a fellow Antiguan . |
| 21 | Th you know it was just the sort of it , it all changed after the First World War and completely changed after the Second World War . |
| 22 | Seven minutes later , McGlashen reached a through ball on the corner of the box yards ahead of goalkeeper Sieb Dykstra and neatly flicked in the second with his head . |
| 23 | If James had to go , some Tories would have preferred to make Mary Queen , on the argument that the Crown had demised with James 's flight and therefore passed to the next in line of succession . |
| 24 | If the judge orders a trial in two parts there is an irremediable danger of two appeals to the Court of Appeal and justice requires that an appeal to the Privy Council should not be denied on the first part but perforce accepted on the second part . |
| 25 | Central to Thorngumbald was the blacksmith 's shop , hub of working activity for a large area , now rebuilt as a modern garage but still owned by the fourth generation of Willinghams . |
| 26 | It was accurately but extensively restored in the mid-nineteenth century by Viollet-le-Duc . |
| 27 | Mercer , who picked up the injury in the first 20 minutes , was substituted by Andy Goodway but bravely returned in the second half wearing a protective head guard . |
| 28 | The Church of São Bento in Ribeira Brava was built in the sixteenth century but completely altered in the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | Here , he is allowing the Bible a degree of jurisdiction over scientific statements , which , though merely affirmed in the first place , might after all turn out to be demonstrable . |
| 30 | 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 . |