Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ middle class ’ designation has retained some validity for so long , covering such disparate socio-economic categories , largely because of the remarkable tenacity of the amalgam of cultural values which characterised the nineteenth century middle classes : part bourgeois ( thrift , independence ) and part acquired from the aristocracy and gentry ( respectability , ‘ gentlemanly ’ behaviour ) . |
| 2 | The broken promises which littered the first of Mr Lamont 's three-part adaptation of Hard Times is testimony to the depth of crisis which grips both Government and country . |
| 3 | The civil servants who drafted the first version of the Bill , the Green Book , were not united on any issue but the simple one that there needed to be reform at all . |
| 4 | This claim illuminates one of the recurrent features of the military history of the period ; the frequent presence of the men of one civitas or another on campaign , above all during the civil wars which bedevilled the second half of the sixth century , when rivalry between cities seems to have exacerbated problems . |
| 5 | " Pedro Churruca " — wayward child , self-seeking politician , defender of the Republic and bringer of pain to his mother — represented a mixture of Ramón Franco and Francisco 's detestation of politicians and of the democratic ideals which inspired the Second Republic . |
| 6 | The link with the scary world of Spielberg was revealed to potential future students who visited the first of the university 's two open days . |
| 7 | There was certainly no repeat of the violent confrontations which marred the last Springboks ' tour in 1970 as only a group of about 70 chanting protesters stood outside the ground . |
| 8 | Yorick had discarded the strong rhythms , the simple melodies and the accessible lyrics which characterized the first phase of his career . |
| 9 | As one of Wesley 's leading preachers he attended the first Methodist conference in 1744 and in 1748 promoted the system of ‘ quarterly meetings ’ to oversee the local Methodist ‘ circuits ’ ( groups of societies ) . |
| 10 | Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures . |
| 11 | The original station in Colombo had twin towers which housed the first and second-class booking offices at their bases . |
| 12 | It 's another thing that makes me wonder if the crazed geniuses who developed the first Intelloids were n't perpetrating some subtly painful joke on the human race . |