Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the naked longing in her amber eyes and realized for the first time how much he had been neglecting her . |
| 2 | The Great River swept sluggishly through meads that were aflame with buttercups and dotted with the last patches of melting snow . |
| 3 | Also on June 21 both the Bundestag and the Volkskammer approved a resolution recognizing the inviolability of Poland 's borders as established after the Second World War and guaranteeing the Oder-Neisse border with Poland as the eastern border of a future united Germany . |
| 4 | Using a rate of discount of 10% per annum ( 0.027% per day ) implies that the expected duration of a job is about 1.3 years if accepted in the first three months of the unemployment spell and three years if accepted later ( see footnote 3 ) . |
| 5 | In such conditions as prevailed in the last phase of the Weimar Republic , of the total discrediting of a State system based upon pluralist politics , the ‘ functional ’ leadership of the bureaucrat and the Party politician as the representatives of the impersonal ‘ rational-legal ’ form of political domination , imposing laws and carrying out functions for which they are not personally responsible and with which they are not identifiable , lost credibility . |
| 6 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 7 | J K Galbraith drew up a range of alternative situations as shown on the next page : |
| 8 | Second , simply in what Scruton classifies as perversions — masturbation , bestiality , necrophilia , paedophilia , sado-masochism , homosexuality , incest , fetishism — he shows himself to have accepted uncritically the sexological/Freudian classification of perversions as developed in the nineteenth century . ’ |