Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick Spelman , general manager of marketing for the Halifax , Britain 's biggest mortgage lender , said the current recession has resulted in the first post-war collapse of house prices . |
| 2 | ‘ This connection is particularly important at the current time when we know the numbers of women on low income has doubled in the last decade . ’ |
| 3 | This season has a side struggling to stay in the second divison . |
| 4 | Barring some abrupt turn in the diplomacy , the chances of fighting having begun in the next few weeks are high . |
| 5 | Greek tragedy , he impressed on his audience , had been a total art form , a Gesamtkunst ( Wagner 's slogan , although Wagner 's name was not mentioned ) , to suit an age of whole men:a poetic drama that made use of architecture ( the theatre ) , painting ( scenery and costume ) , song , dance and music ; a drama created amid " perfection and harmony " by " artistic man " , who , at least in the earlier part of the fifth century , the time of Aeschylus , was poet , composer , conductor , producer and actor in one ; a drama performed at the communal festival of Dionysus before an audience which brought to the theatre something of the instinctive , rapturous spirit from which , in the Dionysiac celebrations , tragedy had originated in the first place . |
| 6 | ‘ How did they get the £250,000 spare wealth needed to qualify in the first place ’ , is one theme I hear from these envy-driven commentators . |
| 7 | There are several other systems , regionally important , ethnically , culturally and/or theologically based but none has , as yet , had the pervasive success that capitalism has enjoyed in the twentieth century . |
| 8 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 9 | The influence of pressure groups in the political process has waned in the last decade , largely because the Conservative Party , and indeed many electors , took against the relationship between the Labour government and the trade unions in the 1970s in which the unions had seemed to exercise excessive influence over the government . |
| 10 | Rainfall in October could reach record levels — more rain has fallen in the first two weeks than usually falls in the entire month . |
| 11 | As modernity has progressed in the last one hundred and fifty years , it is not only the world of work that has become secularised , but also government . |
| 12 | Announcing the decision , Defence Under-Secretary Lord Cranbourne said : " The culture and climate has changed in the last few months … |
| 13 | I hope the majority of regular readers of this column appreciate a broad spectrum of modern , popular music styles ; after last month 's metal mayhem , we now have Martin Rooms of Leicester to thank for requesting an article on the track One Of Us from the album ‘ The Visitors ’ by one of the purest pop acts to emerge in the last 20 years , ABBA . |
| 14 | Some kind of crisis had developed in the last few minutes , and she did n't know why she felt afraid . |
| 15 | Given that this competition — which Forest have monopolised in the last four years after playing in three of the last four finals , winning two of them — offered Brian Clough 's only route to Europe next year they appeared unusually indifferent . |
| 16 | They 'd probably be better off on the erm soft going tonight , but erm in the past few results erm it 's been evenly balanced Peter , you know , but every trap 's won in the last two or three meetings . |
| 17 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 18 | But the poll shows 82 per cent feel moral values have declined and 83 per cent think young people 's behaviour has declined in the last decade . |
| 19 | In the years following the violence of the Mexican revolution , great attention was paid to the content of education , in an attempt to involve the young in the principles of the revolution , but this emphasis has declined in the second half of the century . |
| 20 | So Spurs getting the lead they so dearly wanted after all their upsets of recent weeks , but back came United in the eighteenth minute , Les Phillips sent Nogan free over the halfway line and Eric Torsville had to race from his line to hack the ball into the stand . |
| 21 | Either the tumour in my lung had grown in the last three and a half weeks , in which case it must be even more in evidence , or it had stood still , in which case today 's X-rays must be much the same as the previous ones , or it had diminished . |
| 22 | I have been depressed about life in the Eighties , the way the economy has gone in the last twelve years . |
| 23 | Air traffic has doubled in the last 10 years so that Singapore is now served by 57 airlines , linking it to 110 cities in 54 countries . |
| 24 | MORE men could be finding it difficult to father children because the average sperm count has halved in the last 50 years , an expert revealed yesterday . |
| 25 | Around the Stratford locomotive works a powerful cooperative movement had grown in the last third of the nineteenth century , and from the Beckton gasworks in 1889 new unionism had sprung . |
| 26 | Even in this chapter the discussion of The Winter 's Tale had occurred in the first edition much earlier in the book , from where it has been removed and rewritten to be included in the last chapter . |
| 27 | Referrals to ACET for Home Care in the London area have increased in the last six months by 50% . |
| 28 | In 1970 the Heath government sought to fit in the third piece of the Plowden jigsaw — the efficiency function . |
| 29 | The majority of readers probably regard these features as self-evident , but they may not be aware of the speed with which UK society has changed in the last three decades , or , as we shall see , of the effects on areas which have not shared in the process . |
| 30 | Pound was in all seriousness embarked on an epic poem ( which he defined , following of all unlikely authorities Rudyard Kipling , as ‘ the tile of the tribe ’ ) ; he could not and did not expect understanding from readers who supposed that the epic poem had died in the seventeenth century if not before , whose expectations therefore were conditioned by their experience of the brief or else extended lyric . |