Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Teesside seats outside of the two where the Conservatives had famous victories , only Dr. Marjorie Mowlam won for Labour with a anti-Tory swing anything like that necessary to put the national outcome into hung parliament country . |
| 2 | Bland believes that a catastrophic faux pas was made at the start of the 1980s when the Scandinavians introduced the red light against the South African golfers . |
| 3 | When drift mines were first sunk in this valley during the 1850s the workforce walked in each day from the surrounding villages and hamlets , but from the 1860s onwards the coalmasters had to provide new accommodation ; Pease and Partners , for example , had built 151 houses at Waterhouses by 1874 . |
| 4 | Until the 1980s when the moves to create the SEM began to assume major importance , the formation of a CU was the main method used by the EC to integrate the economies of the member states . |
| 5 | Taken together with the replacement of the solid , load-bearing external walls by rows of brick piers flanking narrower infill panels , this development allowed the area of window relative to wall to increase to a maximum in the 1900s when the façades of mills became more glass than brick . |
| 6 | We continue drinking , gazing out at a sea now almost as redundant as five o'clock tea or straw boaters , both commonplace back in the 1950s when the children in Lord of the Flies became violent in the midst of their paradisical island , at precisely this magical hour of five o'clock , and in the living room , that sweetly British interior , flowering the semi-darkness into a plethora of chair covers and curtains , sprigged bone china and mums in Liberty-print dresses … |
| 7 | Yet despite that , even in the 1950s neither the Conservatives nor Labour ever obtained an absolute majority of the votes , and today it is even clearer that there is no one majority party in British politics . |
| 8 | And shall there insert every persons name that shall be wedded christened or buryded And for the sauff ( safe ) kepinge the same boke the parish shale bonde to provide of these comen charges one sure coffer with twoo lockes and keys where of the one to remayne with you and the other with the said wardens , wherein the said boke shalbe laide upp Which boke ye shall every Sonday take furthe and in the presence of the said wardens or one of them write and record in the same all the weddinges , christenyngs and buryenges made the hole weke before , And that done to lay upp the boke in the said coffer as afore . |
| 9 | Johannsen each claimed a Hurricane shot down at 1045 , both in the same location-obviously the Fulmars . |
| 10 | By the 1660s all the islands were committed to sugar and the white planters were taking drastic steps to prevent their white employees from leaving the islands and tilting the population balance still further towards the black slaves , but this of course made white employees all the more determined to avoid going to the West Indies . |