Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team will play to the rules laid down for the 1992 World Cup . |
| 2 | All these data will help to inform the stage of development into which the records-of-achievement movement is now moving , namely that of nationalization following the proposals laid out in the 1984 policy statement . |
| 3 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 4 | Japan continued to favour the guidelines laid down in the 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resources ( Cramra ) . |
| 5 | The personal relationships built up over the 15 weeks often encourage longer discussions on how the subjects the pupils are learning about relate to the outside ‘ grown-up ’ world of industry and academe . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We shall be dining tête-à-tête tonight , ’ he announced , as Sabine 's eyes flickered uncomprehendingly over the two isolated covers laid on the massive dining table . |
| 8 | Her eyes flickered momentarily between the two men then she pulled open the door and hurried inside . |
| 9 | We have already noted the over 3 million animals used annually in the 1980s in UK research laboratories ; the total having dropped from 5.6 million to 1970 . |
| 10 | And in the library there is a more recent collection of men 's pin-up books dating back to the Fifties . |
| 11 | Central Asia 's ethnically based republics were invented after the 1917 revolution , their artificial borders drawn up in the 1920s and 1930s , leaving thousands of Uzbeks , Kirgiz , Kazakhs and others in the ‘ wrong ’ republic . |
| 12 | At Christmas we announced the Sainsbury's/BBC Good Food Wine Taster of the Year competition , and the entries poured in by the thousand . |
| 13 | The bargaining was affected both by the new opportunities opened up in the 1970s and by the growing risks attendant on the 1980s . |
| 14 | COMPUTER scientists and entrepreneurs are worried that delays by the British government in responding to the Alvey report on advanced information technology may be harming Britain 's chances of joining an elite of computerised nations lining up for the 1990s . |
| 15 | This is the area to the north of St Paul 's Cathedral , where there is a 1950s development , which he described as ‘ the prototype for all the windswept urban squares dreamt up in the fifties and sixties ’ that amounted to ‘ the rape of Britain ’ . |
| 16 | The newest styles hark back to the Seventies ; wedge-soled styles which lace up the leg . |
| 17 | An identical red position indicator points at flap settings coloured up to the 45 ° setting in white , thereafter up to the maximum 60 ° in red . |
| 18 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 19 | In the centre of the formal gardens laid out in the 1930s is the Singing Fountain by F. Terzio , cast in 1564–8 . |
| 20 | They are analogous to the family saloons that car production lines turn out by the thousand . |
| 21 | On Oct. 13 the UN Security Council unanimously approved Resolution 783 which established a deadline of Nov. 15 for the Khmers Rouges to co-operate fully with the 1991 UN peace plan [ see p. 38511 ] . |
| 22 | The resolution , passed 14-0 ( with China abstaining ) , was adopted after the failure of all efforts to persuade the Khmers Rouges to co-operate fully with the 1991 UN peace plan . |
| 23 | The actual yeoman costumes date back to the 1940s . |
| 24 | ‘ The biggest influx of Asian people to West London came in the 1970s , but there were small communities springing up in the 1960s . |
| 25 | A grim Panorama programme on BBC television on May 17th highlighted the problems of Britain 's increasingly insecure workforce : milkmen working longer hours for the same money , CD stackers sacked just before the two years after which their jobs would be legally protected , betting-shop workers thrown out if they refuse to work evenings . |
| 26 | As the many Ontario lines stretched out in the 1870s and 1880s , dozens of new stations were built . |
| 27 | The distribution of life expectancy across countries is not symmetrical : the lower half of the distribution is more spread out than the upper half ( figure 11.7 ) ; many countries are pushing up against what looks like some kind of a ceiling of around seventy-seven years , while some poorer countries trail down in the forties and two countries ( Sierra Leone and Guinea ) even and leaf display of raw data register a staggering thirty-eight years . |
| 28 | Big crowds turned out around the 1.46 mile city centre circuit , covered eight times after the international field had already done 105 miles over tough territory in Yorkshire and Lancashire . |
| 29 | Flows decreased dramatically in the 1960s with the completion of Israel 's National Water Carrier , which conveys water from the River Jordan into the country 's water grid , and after the Kingdom of Jordan diverted the Yarmuk . |
| 30 | These two scrutinies led directly to the two other major planks of the Thatcher government 's managerial approach within central government ; namely , MINIS and the Financial Management Initiative ( FMI ) . |