Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A lot of shareholders have turned down generous takeover bids over the last few years and have regretted it , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Only the defeat of Germany in 1945 made it possible for a satisfactory study of German war aims in the first world war to be undertaken . |
| 3 | The direct evidence belongs to the first century B.C. ( Diod. 5.22.4 ) . |
| 4 | The origin of a different approach lies in the mid-nineteenth century in Lumley v. Gye . |
| 5 | The result — an outline of public spending limits for the next financial year — was published by the Chancellor , together with the economic forecast , as an ‘ Autumn Statement ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ If the gods will it that the old man dies in the next six months , he will die , and I will claim the credit . |
| 7 | The stone free date corresponds to the first time the gall bladder was considered to be free of fragments and sludge . |
| 8 | In this extract the social worker focuses on the first aspect of the triad and explores with the client whether she is consistent in their guilt reaction . |
| 9 | This exciting find dates from the 2nd century . |
| 10 | About four-fifths of all phosphate raw material comes from the Third World . |
| 11 | This challenge to the assumption that the revolution can be understood primarily by studying the major actors on the political scene leads to the second major theme addressed by revisionist work : the impact made by ordinary men and women upon political developments . |
| 12 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 13 | As the chubby fallen cherub howls into the first of three solo shows with a head-down run through purely Pixies material , it 's all a bit like coming across the devil conducting a cheery pub singalong . |
| 14 | The large early building dates to the First , or Old , Temple period and is the best-preserved building of that age so far found in Crete . |
| 15 | Easy rock leads to the first bulge , where a swing left under the overhang gains a glorious hand-jamming crack . |
| 16 | Mr Beregovoy is expected to approve proposals for a Gallic form of personal equity plans in the next few weeks which would allow French investors up to £60,000 worth of shares each , free of dividend and capital gains tax . |
| 17 | We have made a survey of the overall mortgage costs in the last one , three and five years . |
| 18 | Similar logic applies to the second situation . |
| 19 | A similar thing occurs in the next quatrain where the hard plosive ‘ b ’ of ‘ by and by black night ’ is eased with the soothing ‘ s ’ of ‘ second self that seals ’ . |
| 20 | The distinction between knowing and doing is by no means clear-cut , but the real problem arises with the third stance identified in Figure 2.1 , that of ‘ being ’ . |
| 21 | Incomes Data Services , an employment research group , says there was a rise in the number of postponed pay increases during the first part of the year . |
| 22 | Although a total prohibition exists for the third category above , special circumstances may exist for the first two services . |
| 23 | The Korean ware comes from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and includes a hexagonal vase and a square section bottle vase , both estimated at £30–40,000 ( $55–70,000 ) . |
| 24 | The funding for this and the downtown programme comes from the fiftieth anniversary campaign , launched in 1988 by the museum 's board of trustees . |
| 25 | is judged to be acceptable , because it can be ‘ completed ’ by squirted with the hose , and that exact phrase occurs in the first part of the sentence . |
| 26 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 27 | If successful , the region 's bid for Objective One status within the EC would open the door to a multi-million pound package of regional development grants over the next six years . |
| 28 | Although this site is quite old , the present building dates from the 19th century . |
| 29 | The present building dates from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was rebuilt in the early nineteenth century . |
| 30 | The car 's long prow dips into the first tunnel . |