Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [vb pp] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , as predicted , two buckets of pigs blood were poured over the two of them and they were received by hysterical laughter . |
| 2 | Letters under the privy seal were prepared by the thousand , and instructions were sent to the chief commissioners in each shire . |
| 3 | The individual and collective rights of the labour force were codified in the 1980 Workers ' Statute . |
| 4 | It was generally understood that there was very little chance of the deal being referred to the MMC . |
| 5 | The inclusion of the ADM-19 , dominated by the former M-19 left-wing guerrillas who had demobilized in March 1990 , effectively removed the threat of legal action being taken against the M-19 leadership for their involvement in an attack on the Palace of Justice in November 1985 [ see p. 38907 ] . |
| 6 | By comparing the fineness of the Sutton Hoo coins themselves with this trend , it was possible to say that the basest and therefore latest coins in the purse were made in the 620s AD , thus defining the earliest probable date for the ship burial . |
| 7 | Grand mean is derived from the four group-mean data points of b . |
| 8 | This type of partnership is described in the 1990 Act as a ‘ multi-national partnership ’ ( ‘ MNP ’ ) . |
| 9 | The north side is formed by the Five Sisters , four being above the qualifying 3000 feet ; on the south side , they are even more prolific , seven Munros in a line , with two more better approached from Shiel Bridge . |
| 10 | Tension is reported between the two wives . |
| 11 | The oceanic crust of the East Pacific Plate does collide with the continental mass of South America but instead of piling up in a heap , it ducks down , and dives under the continent ; the site of the ‘ bend ’ being below the 7,500 metre deep Chile-Peru Trench , while the zone of actual sliding contact between oceanic and continental crust is defined by the 60 degree dipping earthquake belt , the Benioff zone . |
| 12 | For a hybrid motor the pull-out torque is maximised with the two-phases-on excitation sequence : . |
| 13 | This Danish video system on an unmarked police car is used by the six forces taking part in the crackdown . |
| 14 | Each suffix can take values 1 , 2 or 3 , corresponding to the three coordinate directions ; a vector equation can be read as any one of its component equations by substituting the appropriate value for the suffix common to every term ; and the repetition of a suffix within a single term indicates that that term is summed over the three values of that suffix . |
| 15 | As an example , the Lewis Association was formed in the 1930's , and it took on a life of its own by promoting research and by issuing booklets . |
| 16 | A deal was made between the three of them . |
| 17 | But while there was no direct link between the Victoria Press and the later recruitment of women in Edinburgh , the Scottish capital was the one place in Britain where Emily Faithfull 's experiment was imitated in the 1860s . |
| 18 | A modern police force was established in the 1860s , but until 1906 it remained largely confined to urban areas . |
| 19 | No mention was made in the 1956 Defence White Paper of the possibility of ending National Service , but within the War Office a committee was set up under General Sir Richard Hull ( later to become Field Marshal , succeeding Mountbatten in 1965 as Chief of Defence Staff ) to examine the size of regular Army that would be needed , and could be recruited , if National Service was abolished . |
| 20 | Reminiscence was perceived in the 1950s and 1960s to be an unwelcome symptom of mental deterioration , a failure to maintain contact with the realities of the present , and a potentially harmful process . |
| 21 | Signs of Constantine 's new deal for the church were that the council petitioned and obtained from the emperor a degree of tax exemption for the sake of the church 's welfare for the poor , and that exile was imposed on the two bishops who withheld their signature to the creed and canons . |
| 22 | The most recent example of this kind took place in 1783 , when lava was erupted from the twenty-five kilometre length of the Laki fissure in southern Iceland . |
| 23 | The castle changed hands many times during the Scottish Wars of Independence and remained a thorn in the crown until James V sacked it in the sixteenth century ; but before the level of the loch was raised in the 1930s , |
| 24 | The sounds built , the creaks got louder , her mind was absorbed with the two of them together . |
| 25 | A second concentration was represented by the 40 SMLAs occupying the East and West Midlands , Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire : another 33 per cent of the population of the country on 14 per cent of the land area . |
| 26 | In these cases a one nucleotide ‘ creep ’ of the blocked transcript was observed over the 15 min elongation time studied , as has been noted previously with other intercalators ( 11 ) . |
| 27 | In addition , a more limited study was made of the 105 largest wholesale , retail , and service corporations . ’ |
| 28 | The possibilities for disputes of the latter kind of course have increased since this study was done in the 1960s because of rising rates of divorce and remarriage , and we need up-to-date data on how people handle the range of claims of inheritance in families where there is a complex series of step-relationships . |
| 29 | An attempt was made in the 1920s and 1930s to pursue Japanese aims more skilfully and to enlist the cooperation of the Korean people . |
| 30 | This practice was revived in the 1950s with the sale of land at Marden and elsewhere . |