Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the new class of bourgeois manufacturers and traders arose in the nineteenth century , it was able to merge with the commercialised aristocracy through marriage , and through the newly reformed public schools and universities . |
| 2 | Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk . |
| 3 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
| 4 | The allegations of drug-taking sessions came on the first day of Murray 's trial before Lord Kirkwood . |
| 5 | I am well aware of the atrocities that some Croatians perpetrated during the second world war , and of the tensions between Serb and Croat that go back long before that , which left a legacy of hatred and fear . |
| 6 | During a subsequent march of some 200,000 pupils backed by the teachers ' union FEN in Paris on Nov. 12 , police held back while cars were burned and shops looted in the seventh arrondissement , but finally intervened with tear gas and water cannon to prevent marchers approaching the presidential palace ; 234 police and a number of journalists were injured and 83 people were arrested . |
| 7 | A decisive break from the narrowness of these rules came in the fourteenth century , with Dafydd ap Gwilym , in a period marked both by increasing interaction with a more general European culture , after the loss of political independence , and yet , creatively , by a new ‘ national ’ poetry , itself governed by more flexible but still clear internal rules ( the cywydd metre ) . |
| 8 | Further , because raw material imports rose through the eighteenth century while those of manufactured goods fell , there was an even more marked increase in volume than in value . |
| 9 | Those Roebuck penalties apart , the only other scores from the Australians came in the first half , when strapping winger Damien Smith barged his way through two tackles to notch the game 's only try . |
| 10 | The levels and movements of urban rent are hard to document , but where substantial series of records survive , it is clear that in some towns at any rate , rents fell in the fifteenth century . |
| 11 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 12 | Electricity companies sparkled for the first part of the year . |
| 13 | At Hunstead Park from May nineteen eighty nine until May nineteen ninety , both parents stayed for the first week and thereafter supported the plaintiff in taking her back for home visits , every weekend plus a week at Christmas and Easter . |
| 14 | Many of the country houses requisitioned during the Second World War never returned to domestic use . |
| 15 | McCord 's revelations led to the first crack in the united front amongst Nixon 's officials . |
| 16 | Rich raw smells of tar , rotting excrement , spices and brine rose up along with the sight of ship masts , looped sails , small boats beached on the first mud of the receding tide , sailors in striped breeches and greasy caps leaning on the wooden railings , others arm in arm on their way to the taverns , piled kegs and crates , winches , the last of the horsedrawn sleds and — a gathering knot of people beyond a bonded warehouse . |
| 17 | Stock boats came on the first day , they start coming away in May . |
| 18 | At least seventy three percent of all foetuses aborted in the first trimester are male . |
| 19 | Nearly a third of the principal carers complained at the first interview about the adverse effects of looking after the dementia sufferer upon their own physical or mental health . |
| 20 | Dealers emerged from the first day 's sale of the Blackmer library gasping at the high prices . |
| 21 | The revelations emerged on the first day of the World Indoor Championships in Toronto , representing the worst possible news for beleaguered international athletics officials coming hot on the heels of the repeat Ben Johnson scandal . |
| 22 | Most of the buildings lasted into the fourth century . |
| 23 | Within the EEC de Gaulle 's efforts led to the first summit meetings of the Six since the Community began , in Paris in February and in Bonn in July . |
| 24 | When the hounds checked for the fourth time and could no. find again no matter how the huntsman held them round , Nora and Sir George withdrew . |
| 25 | Like the French Foreign Ministry the Posolskii Prikaz and College of Foreign Affairs showed during the eighteenth century an increasing tendency to divide into specialized departments . |
| 26 | But , at the same time , the steepest decline in Dun and Bradstreet 's ‘ optimism index ’ since quarterly surveys began in the fourth quarter of 1987 points to a sharp slowdown in economic activity . |
| 27 | All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century , the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures . |
| 28 | As we have seen in the section on Education , Wordsworth grew up in a mathematical and scientific age , which still adhered to principles discovered in the seventeenth century . |
| 29 | This state of affairs persisted into the 19th Century , Serret , in 1849 , observing that " Algebra is , properly speaking , the analysis of equations . " |
| 30 | Our problems started on the first pitch . |