Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The President gazed thoughtfully at the two dispatches lying on his desk . |
| 2 | Actual practice changed fast in the 1980s as central government 's desire to cut public spending overwhelmed all other considerations . |
| 3 | THE TIME has come for the egg industry to look forward to the 1990s . |
| 4 | His mind touched briefly on the two defaulters who were awaiting their fate in the basement cells . |
| 5 | The gruesome story of the headless lover began early in the 1900s when Brooke End signal box controlled the up and down main lines , an up goods loop and sidings used by the pick-up trains of that period . |
| 6 | The balance of effect varies widely among the three parties shown in figure 4.3 . |
| 7 | This latter institution developed rapidly in the 19605 , with the particular blessing of the Schools Council , which recognized its value as an agency of teacher involvement in curriculum development . |
| 8 | The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn . |
| 9 | Analysts had been bullish on the indicator ahead of the announcement , but in the event , the US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for February fell to a still very healthy 1.18 , from 1.20 in January , the latter figure revised upwards from the 1.19 reported at the time . |
| 10 | Puzzles are abundant and are only put there to stop Zack walking freely around the 60 or so factory rooms . |
| 11 | Tunnel linings on the British side are generally of the expanded grouted type used successfully in the 1973–75 project but in poorer ground cast iron linings are used . |
| 12 | As a result , the evidence for this second stage in the history of marriage depends entirely on the two assumptions which we have already noted . |
| 13 | Easily Accessible : Bathford is an attractive stone-built village dating mainly from the 1700s . |
| 14 | The single biggest boost came in 1987 ( ahead of the 19th October 1987 stock market meltdown ) , when the portfolio profited hugely from the two takeovers of Associated Book Publishers and the Octopus Group . |
| 15 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 16 | With post war affluence and rising living standards consumption grew steadily through the 1950s , 60s and 70s , peaking around 1978/l979 . |
| 17 | Its share price and profitability improved dramatically during the 1980s ( refer to Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 18 | While Khrushchev was in power the Barnabite Committee debated here in the 50s the so-called ‘ crimes ’ against the Communist Party . |
| 19 | The remarkable structural similarity that exists between IP 3 Rs and RYRs probably reflects a common evolutionary origin which is supported by the very close sequence homology identified primarily in the two membrane-spanning domains and in the free C-terminal region , which includes two cysteines within a TXCFICG motif that is absolutely invariant for all the intracellular calcium channels examined so far ( Box 3 ) . |
| 20 | HITMEN Dave Barnett and Derek Payne kept Barnet 's Third Division promotion bandwagon rolling yesterday in the 2–1 win over Cardiff at Underhill . |
| 21 | The corporate-governance issue emerged strongly in the 1980s as investors found that bosses talked of putting shareholders first while pursuing their own dreams at shareholders ' expense . |
| 22 | This is partly supported by the evidence that the CSI and the distribution of vesicular cholesterol differed significantly between the two groups ( Table ) despite the lack of significant correlation between the nucleation time and these variables in each group ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 23 | The means of mobilizing employee consent to the Process of change differed markedly between the three companies . |
| 24 | The Midland 's business expanded rapidly through the seventies , like the other clearers ' , and its balances were boosted by high inflation and interest rates . |
| 25 | But the picture changed sharply in the 1980s . |
| 26 | Relaxation came only with the two Geneva conferences of 1954 and 1955 . |
| 27 | Their appearance owed more to the 1937 Brush-rail railcoaches than the English Electric family , and represented the ultimate and probably most handsome development of the streamlined design . |
| 28 | The cost of recovery varies greatly between the two . |
| 29 | Across the green , she saw the rector marching purposefully toward The Two Pheasants . |
| 30 | Because of tightening central government controls on borrowing , the proportion of local authority capital income derived from borrowing fell sharply during the 1970s and 1980s ( from 83.7 per cent in 1974/5 to 48.4 per cent in 1984/5 ) ( all figures for England are calculated from Travers , 1986 , tables , App. 4 and 5 ) . |