Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 2 | On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 3 | Where their profits were associated with service to the Empire , their operations reverted to the nineteenth century ‘ tradition ’ of patriotic capitalism . |
| 4 | The publication in April of Poems on Various Subjects , its preface written at the last moment in Cottle 's bookshop , was a genuine cause for satisfaction and received enthusiastic reviews . |
| 5 | BRIGADE batsmen Marshall Kilgore and Stephen Smyth hit top form at the weekend as their club cruised into the third round of the All Ireland Schweppes Cup . |
| 6 | Their escape ended on the seventh circuit and during a hectic last couple of laps in which there were a number of attacks by Andrew Moss ( Ballymena RC ) Movilla 's John West , Mark Smyth ( Newry , O'Rourke 's ) and Jonathan Kenny ( Movilla ) , it was left to the sprint with Fullerton just shading the decision ahead of Brennan . |
| 7 | Today the planes are flying home … their pilots shaken by the first accident at Fairford in 23 years . |
| 8 | In 1980 Irish constituencies had their boundaries and the number of their seats reviewed for the first lime by independent Constituency Commissioners . |
| 9 | The statue of the Archangel Michael had its head removed in the seventeenth century by a marksman in the castle . |
| 10 | At the same time a platoon from A Company were finishing their week attached to the 1st Battalion the Danish Life Regiment , during which time they were thundering over training areas in the Danish Ml 13 Armoured Personnel Carrier . |
| 11 | Opposite Shipping lines and their agents advertised throughout the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | Their revolutions based on the 18th century economics of Jean-Baptiste Say and Adam Smith , paved the way for the most profligate age since the 1920s . |
| 13 | Although curling , as a competitive game , had been played in Ayrshire for many centuries , its popularity increased in the 18th and 19th centuries , with town competing against town , village against village , and parish against parish . |
| 14 | We asked respondents whether they had been stopped ( on foot or in a vehicle ) or had their house searched in the last year , and whether they had been arrested in the last five years ( called here , ‘ stopped , etc . ’ ) |
| 15 | One of the most famous amplifiers of all time , the Quad 405 has come to the end of its production run with the 100,000th unit . |
| 16 | His creditors met on the 28th and they read a letter from their debtor telling them the law was an enemy he could not conquer . |
| 17 | The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face . |
| 18 | A man in a two-piece suit , and a thin cotton shirt and his tie knotted at the second button of the shirt . |
| 19 | However inadequate his predictions proved in the twentieth century , Marx 's appeal remains incomprehensible unless it is recognized that he did have an unsurpassed grasp of nineteenth-century capitalism . |
| 20 | His life depended on the next few minutes . |
| 21 | His symptoms worsened over the next two days and he returned to the nutritionist . |
| 22 | So , as Harriet Ryley reports , he never knew of , and was never honoured for the vital role his plane played in the Second World War . |
| 23 | ‘ As Kim Bailey does n't like making up his mind about where his horses run until the last minute , it 's been difficult to try for outside rides . |
| 24 | In thus questioning whether poverty should be defined as existence in conditions below the barest subsistence minimum , or whether a higher minimum standard should be established in the interests of humanity and of aiming for high national standards of comfort and efficiency , Bowley and his colleagues raised for the first time some of the problems concerning the definition of poverty , which have remained at issue ever since . |
| 25 | Has the size of your household changed since the last time you bought a kitchen appliance ? |
| 26 | For example , 80 per cent of our tin and 75 per cent of our bauxite come from the Third World . |
| 27 | Following amendments to update our Constitution approved at the last Annual General Meeting held on 27th April 1985 , three members of the Executive Committee will retire annually , which of course means that it will be necessary in future to hold elections each year to fill these vacant places . |
| 28 | What has your society achieved in the first century of existence ? |
| 29 | Now that you have your program typed in the next stage it to run it . |