Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] the [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the economic and social backwardness of the Russian metropolis itself is often invoked to justify the reforms of Peter the Great or the 1917 Revolution , the state of affairs in its vast eastern colony was inevitably much worse in many respects . |
| 2 | Refusing both the taxpayer 's applications , Mr Justice Harman said in respect of the first that the 30 day time limit prescribed by s 56(4) , TMA 1970 was mandatory . |
| 3 | Cycling is the internationally popular sport of the 1990s and the 1992 Tour will extend its boundaries beyond France . |
| 4 | At 3.8 per cent of the total population of Northern Ireland , this was the same as the 1961 percentage ; it compared with a modest increase of o.86 per cent in the three counties east of the Bann ( Antrim , Armagh and Down ) and a small decline of 0.23 per cent west of the Bann ( counties Derry , Tyrone and Fermanagh ) . |
| 5 | The question about the first category was the same as the 1984 survey , but that about the second differed in that it was concerned with the use of agency workers in the previous month rather than the previous 12 months . |
| 6 | To get both the 250 and the 125 race is more than I could have imagined . ’ |
| 7 | For why should anyone involve themselves with a stranger when the one thing that everybody had in plenty was trouble ? |
| 8 | Mark you , I said as she was too big , but they said as it could just be the water , as they could n't hear no more than the one heart . |