Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To the north is the Caspian Sea , to the South and west , the Persian Gulf , through which most of the worlds oil had passed in the twentieth century . |
| 32 | There is no sign that their number had decreased by the sixteenth century . |
| 33 | From the moment the world championship reached its present stature by moving to The Crucible at Sheffield no title holder had gone beyond the first round the following year . |
| 34 | Taunton Cider will cease operations quietly on January 1 , but Fitzgerald Lighting will mark the end of their connection on December 1 in style with a steam hauled run by the last train from Walker Lines Industrial Estate to Bodmin Parkway . |
| 35 | Sylvia 's problem had arisen in the first place because of the negative situation imprinted on her subconscious memory when her mother lay unconscious in the darkness of the air raid shelter . |
| 36 | Town and country planning , published in 1933 ( significantly , in view of the new interest taken in planning in the wartime years , with a second edition in 1943 and three further reprints by 1945 ) , declared that : Historic examples showed what had been achieved in the past , but Abercrombie stressed the degradation of industrialization which the country had experienced in the nineteenth century . |
| 37 | This vantage-point commanded a view of the low-lying coastland from which the sea had retreated in the seventeenth century . |
| 38 | She turned from him on the words and was aware that her tone had risen at the last . |
| 39 | A small illustration of its front view had appeared in the second edition of Boalch among a selection of plates chosen to illustrate signatures and inscriptions — in this instance ‘ Gulielmus Smith Londini fecit ’ written in ink directly on the frontboard . |
| 40 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 41 | The key common element is that both systems took seriously the possibility that , whatever students were studying ( for specialization had begun in the nineteenth century ) , higher education offered a general enlargement of the mind . |
| 42 | A much shorter note had appeared in the first volume in 1748 . |
| 43 | Cos in actual fact there was a , a lot of sort of de facto redistribution because er some of these account settling things were just so ridiculous you know make them pay for crimes their family had committed over the last sixty years or whatever . |