Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dutchmen of New Amsterdam were the first community of any substance outside the British Isles to be absorbed into England 's possession by conquest but they were close enough to the English in religion — the line of really intense division between groups in the seventeenth century — for there to be no prolonged resistance . |
| 2 | Numerous hardline candidates reportedly failed to secure election as representatives to the 14th party congress . |
| 3 | Cakes , Easter gifts and toys contributed £75 to club funds , while the Traidcraft stall was making money for communities in the Third World . |
| 4 | So when the wedding was over , the special train pulled out amidst a rainstorm , and there was an undignified scramble for seats in the first ordinary scheduled train into Windsor Station . |
| 5 | Hayburn Wyke Hotel , near Cloughton , Scarborough , a haunt for smugglers in the 19th century , has been put on the market at £350,000 by owner John Colledge . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , IBM Corp shares plunged $5.50 to $72.50 on the day the company reported a stunning net loss after charges for the third quarter of $2,778m last week and scepticism rose over the prompt promise in the analysts ' call after the announcement that the dividend is safe . |
| 7 | It is essential to the association of individuals in the first place and essential to ensure its continuation by sharing codes of behaviour . |
| 8 | I tried to analyse , through studying a succession of reports in the last decade on community care in general and on services for people with dementia in particular , whether this sort of enhanced role for the voluntary sector had been charted or signalled in any way . |
| 9 | Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century . |
| 10 | When asked about the Holocaust , Le Pen , in common with other antisemitic ideologists of the extreme right , questioned whether the mass murder of Jews during the Second World War actually took place . |
| 11 | The first meeting will be an opportunity for those interested in teacher research to meet , to formally establish the group and create a programme of activities for the next year . |
| 12 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 13 | For example : ( 1 ) a school in Liverpool may feel their local history to be linked to part of the world of work on American cotton plantations ; ( 2 ) a school in rural Wales may wish to exploit connections of Welsh emigrants to Patagonia ; ( 3 ) a school in Lancashire may feel it essential to include a study of textiles in the nineteenth century as an in-depth study in a Victorian core unit . |
| 14 | Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov about the " violation of Moldova 's airspace " by the CIS airforce , and requested measures to ensure the " non-interference of servicemen of the 14th Army in Moldova 's internal affairs " . |
| 15 | By 1700–25 the funeral furnishing trade had become firmly established , providing funerals for all classes of society and at various costs , dependent on the social status of the deceased , basing their street ritual and panoply on that exhibited by the College of Arms during the last quarter of the seventeenth century , diluting or adding to it accordingly . |
| 16 | Effective anthelmintic therapy of ewes during the fourth month of pregnancy should eliminate most of the worm burdens present at this time including arrested larval stages and in the case of ewes on extensive grazing , where nutritional status is frequently low , this treatment often results in improved general body condition . |
| 17 | By the time Tetsu reached the Loop — the stretch of holes between the 7th and the 12th — the wind was up and the scene unsettling . |
| 18 | Similar complaints were heard in the Church of England about the condition of curates during the nineteenth century , a time when what pay they got came from the parish priest under whom they served or whose place they took in the parish while he lived elsewhere . |
| 19 | Towers and spires had become something of an obsession with Nonconformists during the last forty years of the century . |
| 20 | A 10% cut in benefits in the first three months of the unemployment spell reduces the expected duration to 11.98 weeks for this particular individual.15 The elasticities are also slightly higher at the lower benefit levels . |
| 21 | Were the passage to be literally transcribed , with the melody in octaves on the 1st violins and violas , the semiquaver figures in the right hand to the second violins and the arpeggios in the left hand to the cellos , the intentions of the composer would be most inadequately represented . |
| 22 | San Jose , California-based Conner Peripherals Inc warns that it expects to report a loss from operations for the second quarter ending June 30 , adding that the expected loss reflects ongoing price competition , excess capacity and a transition in product demand to 200Mb and higher capacity drives ; a continuation of factors affecting the second quarter , as well as a seasonal slowdown in the summer , could also lead to operating losses in the third quarter , the firm said . |
| 23 | Every attempt by liberals in the nineteenth century to replace foral liberties by the uniform liberty of a liberal constitution was resisted in the name of provincial liberties . |
| 24 | In December 1989 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , following the visit of an IMF delegation , decided to delay disbursement of funds for the second phase of the structural adjustment programme agreed with Equatorial Guinea in December 1988 [ see p. 36923 ] . |
| 25 | It is true that much was written about the moral upbringing of children during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but this topic was itself clearly linked with the expectation of death , rather than with the hope of a balanced and integrated life . |
| 26 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 27 | Mr Edwards accepted and was duly elected as Treasurer until the election of Officers at the next Annual General Meeting . |
| 28 | Theda had followed in the Gallery of Fashion — which all her young charges had avidly studied — the steady rise of waists over the last three or four years , but never before had she felt quite so outdated . |
| 29 | Accordingly , with the collector 's salary no longer burdened with a kind of pension to a colleague , Elphinstone of Quarrel was challenged by Buchanan of Aucheneen , apparently with the support of friends of the second Duke of Montrose . |
| 30 | Frequent use of search was often marked by a period of experimentation with a variety of firms in the first instance , followed by a settling down to regular work with a smaller number of firms with whom the client had achieved a modus vivendi . |