Example sentences of "[conj] were [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact . |
| 2 | but it 's only available for contributions that were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three and you know if you did n't meet that particular date then the only other way of of covering gaps is which is far more expensive . |
| 3 | It has gone on reducing the fantastic levels of public sector borrowing requirement that were reached under the last Government . |
| 4 | They stayed quite still , smiling back at it , until it disappeared with a plop , leaving ripples of disturbance that were erased by the next wave . |
| 5 | The present psychiatric services have to work with many large old hospitals that were built during the nineteenth century as lunatic asylums . |
| 6 | Many of the classifications that were proposed in the nineteenth century rested upon a conception of social evolution , which itself was understood in various ways and was frequently connected with the idea of progress . |
| 7 | The first one is the existing arrangements on nursing home care , really reviewing the process , and members will recognize that the arrangements that were agreed in the first agreement with Health Authority related to gaining permission from the Health Authority before our placing nursing homes . |
| 8 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
| 9 | What was taking place was much more complex , and the working-class patterns of family and sexual life that were brought to the twentieth century were as much the product of working-class adaptation to rapid change in the context of a ruling set of ideas as a successful colonisation . |
| 10 | ‘ On the 20th July we reached the 26th degree of S. Lat. , and were visited for the first time by the Cape petrel . |
| 11 | In Trinidad , West Indies were without Richards and were led for the first time by Desmond Haynes . |
| 12 | Yesterday , after England suffered their fifth successive Test defeat , their worst run since 1986 when they lost 5-0 in the West Indies and were beaten in the first two Tests at home to India , Fletcher said : ‘ Test matches are more important than one-day internationals , although if you lost all your one-dayers then that would become important . |
| 13 | In 1893 they changed their name from Royal Arsenal to Woolwich Arsenal , adopted professional status and were elected to the Second Division . |
| 14 | All these have several domes carried on pendentives and were built between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries . |
| 15 | The derivations given here are due to the author and were published in the first edition , but Larson has also carried out similar work independently . |
| 16 | A number of churches here survived the Turkish occupation , but were lost in the nineteenth century when the capital of the newly independent Greece was re-organised and planned on broad lines . |
| 17 | The research students ' grants were ending at different points in the year , but were concentrated In the third quarter of 1984 . |
| 18 | As we have seen , the SAS came under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief , but were attached to the Eighth Army for immediate operational control . |
| 19 | Elections for both the Lok Sabha and the state Assembly had then been scheduled to coincide with the June 1991 general election but were cancelled at the last moment [ see p. 38287 ] . |