Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [num ord] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Distantly she could feel the tremor of a heart still recognizably her own — though whether it shook with terror or from the first stirrings of a ferocious excitement was hard to distinguish now . |
| 2 | Except for the last Albanians in the Labour party , I do not believe that anyone seriously disputes that the process of competition is essential to maximise what is bought for the taxpayer . |
| 3 | This , it was argued , suggested that in the first years of life the two hemispheres have similar linguistic abilities and that the left side became dominant only as speech itself developed . |
| 4 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 5 | Yet it is important to realise that in the last decades of the old régime in France the parlements were often expressing more or less accurately what public opinion there was on the issues at stake , and that they had frequently widespread popular support for their attitudes . |
| 6 | As we wandered across the Széchenyi Bridge towards my hotel , László pointed out that in the last days of the Nazi occupation , Admiral Horthy had protected the Budapest Jews . |
| 7 | It may come as a surprise to learn that in the last years of the twentieth century there is still a part of one of Europe 's most enlightened democracies where women can not vote . |
| 8 | After unification it was proposed that about 16 politicians from East Germany should attend with observer status and that at the next elections to the European Parliament ( scheduled for 1994 ) Germany 's representation in the Parliament would be increased from its present 81 members to 97 . |
| 9 | The old Whig platform for constitutional reform was slowly taken up by the London Tories , with the result that by the last years of Anne 's reign they had largely absorbed their opponents ' former libertarian rhetoric . |
| 10 | A stool was brought out , and as the last echoes of twelve faded in the warm night air a dark-haired young man with flashing black eyes came and stood alone in the dim light . |
| 11 | It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones . |
| 12 | It saw a slight recovery of demand for its products by the end of 1992 and during the first months of 1993 . |
| 13 | He sailed for Algiers in March 1943 and during the last days of the Tunisian campaign he saw a mere fortnight 's active service . |
| 14 | Johnson Matthey 's business in the supply of both catalysts and complete engineered systems to control noxious emissions from industrial plants has benefited from the tightening of emission standards in our major markets and from the first signs of recovery from the recession . |
| 15 | Applying Kirchhoff 's current law to the unloaded network , the phasor node-pair potentials , and are found to be related by Substituting for in the second equation in terms of and from the first yields from which the transfer function is Consequently the ratio of potential-difference amplitude between output and input is When k = 1 this is the same transmission as provided by the Wien network of figure 8.8(a) . |
| 16 | This was just five days after his seventeenth birthday , and in the first weeks of his first term in Cape Town , so there was cause for excitement . |
| 17 | For 133 days in 1988 Lyle had led the US Money List , he had won the Phoenix , Greensboro and Masters titles and in the first months of 1989 he twice came second . |
| 18 | And in the last hours of night , Hell 's streets teemed with the addicts , the muggers . |
| 19 | Regional Sector has no locomotives of its own and in the last months of the loco-hauled Cambrian Coast Express various locos have appeared . |
| 20 | The old man was a cripple and in the last years of his life . |
| 21 | A young man in his late teens by the time of the council of Whitby and the son of the reigning king in Bernicia by Eanflaed , daughter of Eadwine , Ecgfrith was almost certainly in a position to attract support not only among the Bernicians but also among the Deirans in the territory of Ealhfrith , and in the last years of his reign Oswiu did make him sub-king of Deira . |
| 22 | Pollen was also vice-president of the council of the Federation of British Industries , chairman of the British Commonwealth Union , and in the last years of his life took an active role in the development of English Catholicism as chairman of the Tablet . |
| 23 | Experiments with captive eels suggest that they can navigate by the stars , just as some migrating birds can , and on the first stages of their journey away from Europe , when they swim near the surface , this may be the way they guide themselves . |
| 24 | But it will be several weeks before we are in a position to provide greater detail on the composition of the three Divisions , and on the next steps in setting them up . |
| 25 | And by the first days of May , the entire Russian line in the area was in flight . |
| 26 | The evangelical and puritan strands vigorously opposed the double standard , and by the last decades of the century were able to pose a significant challenge to its easy acceptance . |
| 27 | Tolkien and Lewis had met as early as 1926 ; in 1939 Charles Williams had moved as a publisher from London to Oxford , and by the last years of the war Christian revival was in active literary life . |
| 28 | The authorizing of a new ordination service for the clergy in 1550 was followed two years later by the appearance of a second Edwardian Prayer Book , and by the last months of Edward 's reign the country was officially Protestant . |
| 29 | He sat on a couch of deerskin , under the awning of his tent , a long , sinewy man in the prime of his powers , forty-eight years old , black of eye and black of hair , but for the first frostings of grey at temple and lip . |
| 30 | But in the first years of the twentieth century the scale of such efforts sharply increased . |