Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows then that if a poor vein on a good tribute suddenly improved then the men working it would stand to profit well , though they might expect to find that on the next setting-day , the rate would almost certainly be reduced in the mine 's favour . |
| 2 | And so it came to pass that on the third day we journeyed to Gstaad and skied . |
| 3 | Moreover , there is evidence to suggest that by the seventeenth century both literacy and Bible reading were on the increase ; in the parish of Keevil in Wiltshire , for example , only 4 per cent of testators who died during the decades between 1590 and 1630 appear to have possessed a Bible , whereas during the course of the 1630s and 1640s the proportion rose to 18 per cent . |
| 4 | It is this evidence that led West to the cautious conclusion that ‘ it is reasonable to assume that in the nineteenth century education played some part in economic growth . ’ |
| 5 | I also noticed a tendency to assume that by the twentieth century women had overcome most of the problems of inequality . |
| 6 | It is sufficient to stress that during the first hours and days of life the child 's whole interaction with other things consists of reflex adaptation to the circumstances of the moment in so far as these affect biological need — the need , at this stage , of continued existence only . |
| 7 | Land availability , the activities of speculative builders , and rapid association of suburban living with status and respectability , combined with the growing railway network , contrived to ensure that during the second half of the nineteenth century the population of London 's outer suburban ring grew by approximately 50 per cent in each of the ten years between 1861 and 1891 and by 45 per cent between 1891 and 1901 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It already has a labour force there of 15,000 and plans to double that over the next year or two , investing around DM1 billion . |
| 11 | But sightings of the young lady continued and the curious point was that people used to say that in the first compartment next to the tender there would often be the strong scent of roses . |
| 12 | He was serious , it 's his get out from telling you to say that in the first place |
| 13 | It is fair to say that in the last instance , it will not actually produce a design with the colours separated out into their appropriate rows , but will make a card design showing the colours so that punching a card from this is made easier . |
| 14 | Even Roxburgh had to admit that over the last year , during which Ferguson has flirted with letting the latter trait get the better of the former , has brought the player an ‘ awareness of the tough , competitive business he is in . ’ |
| 15 | A market economy in China promises to mean that over the next decade Asia 's geography can reassert itself . |
| 16 | Times were changing ; the popes had abolished the use of chrism in the imperial anointing , had denied the authority of kings over priests ; the time would shortly come when the popes themselves claimed to be vicars of Christ , and interpreted the phrase to mean that in the last analysis all earthly authority was mediated through them , not through kings . |
| 17 | It is interesting to note that in the last analysis it is evil which is its own undoing . |