Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day began at 10 am for rehearsals for the next production but if this proved unsuccessful , it was taken off and the new production rushed on . |
| 2 | The word ‘ object ’ amuses me because no-one talked about objects in the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | The Big Six are in an unassailable position and no new firm formed through mergers in the second tier will ever be able to catch up with them , according to former Arthur Andersen senior partner Ian Hay Davison . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 24 , said : ‘ They agreed to stand in as headliners at the last minute . |
| 6 | Search unemployment can be seen as part of the annual turnover of the job market — firms rid themselves of workers who have proved to be unproductive or unsatisfactory in some way , and workers quit jobs which have failed to meet their expectations or which were intended only as stop-gaps in the first place . |
| 7 | The Royal Navy became a popular career for Scots in the eighteenth century , from about the period of the American Revolution onwards , and it was a particularly apt choice for a gentleman of small means for it was a less expensive profession than that of an army officer . |
| 8 | Casting around for precedents for the next move forward , he seized on Michelet 's improvisatory style , which he said put him in mind of the rough sketches of a painter . |
| 9 | Under a new law , proposed during the fifth session of the eighth National Assembly ( which convened in Hanoi on June 20-30 , 1989 ) , non-CPV members were allowed to stand as candidates for the first time . |
| 10 | Both Major and Hurd were then immediately nominated as candidates for the second round , while Heseltine was also renominated . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The artist was one of the so called Bevin boys , who were drafted in to work as miners during the last war . |
| 13 | For decades during the twentieth century it was heresy to give any credit to the ideas of Alfred Wegener ( 1880–1930 ) , and others before him , that the continents slowly moved in different directions over the surface of the globe . |
| 14 | Though there have always been differences between countries outside the First World , for a long time it did appear to make sense to speak of The Third World , the title of Worsley 's very influential book ( 1973 ) on the subject . |
| 15 | Both the Britons ' and the IFL literature contained lurid tales of alleged Jewish responsibility for crime , the white slave traffic , for casualties in the First World War , for corrupting public life and for financial malpractices and banking irregularity . |
| 16 | The Bill also implements penalties introduced for offences under the Second Banking Coordination Directive and the Supervision of Credit Institutions Directive . |
| 17 | Cakes , Easter gifts and toys contributed £75 to club funds , while the Traidcraft stall was making money for communities in the Third World . |
| 18 | The use of herbs during the twentieth century had dwindled so much before their present popularity that it had been reduced to the culinary few , such as parsley and mint , with adventurous cooks experimenting with chives , sage and thyme . |
| 19 | The Domesday Book gives a good indication of the status of certain places as caputs at the heads of estates in the eleventh century . |
| 20 | Ludendorff has widely been given sole credit for the great German victory at Tannenberg , but before he and Hindenburg had even arrived at their new post imaginative steps had been taken by Colonel Max Hoffmann , Deputy Chief of Operations of the Eighth Army , which made that victory possible . |
| 21 | The aim of this research is to investigate the historical commitment of both managements and workers to this system despite a large number of attempts before the second world war to adopt alternative reward structures in industry . |
| 22 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it signed a number of contracts during the first quarter of 1993 totalling $30m for AXE digital switching kit to extend the public telecommunications network in Liaoning Province , Peoples Republic of China . |
| 23 | 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 " . |
| 24 | Slowly the exterior background settings for religious paintings , the major activity of artists in the seventeenth century , took on more detailed contours and established geographic as well as topographic influences that we still see in some forms of landscape painting today . |
| 25 | Around seventy-five firms will be showing a range of objects on the third floor of the shop , all of which will be vetted by an independent committee prior to the event . |
| 26 | All this raises the question of why the Reagan administration wants to quit the business of satellites in the first place . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Of birds for the first time ever heard , |
| 29 | The gonococcus , a micro-biological master of male chauvinism , not only gives virtually no clues as to its presence in an infected female , but , should she attend a clinic or specialist for the purposes of diagnosis , it will only reveal itself m-some 50 per cent of cases at the first visit compared to well over 90 per cent of cases in males . |
| 30 | Similarly , responses to us in writing within six weeks of referral rose from 25% of cases in the first audit to 60% in the second . |