Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 2 | So much so , that it has fallen from the 50 per cent standard of the 1930s , to less than 15 per cent in the late 1970s — which is no better , and in some areas far worse , than the standard already achieved before the First World War when the Probation Act of 1907 had hardly consolidated itself . |
| 3 | Mr Dayton currently co-chairs a committee seeking to raise $50 million for endowment a far cry from the $30,000 annual drives he remembers leading in the 1940s ! |
| 4 | I 'd be very surprised if he manages to keep to the 1.5 per cent increase in public sector pay . |
| 5 | It claims to rank among the 20 largest mutual life offices in the world . |
| 6 | If you think about this it 's based on the four carbon structure so you 've got ta have a few in the name there is a carbon carbon double bond so the basic structure we 've got is the Butane but as there is more than one position you could have that carbon carbon double bond now , to indicate this position and so this one would be called futes it would normally be a butane but to indicate it 's position bute one E and again you 're taking the lowest number so instead of it being a bute three , it 's a bute one E you start at the appropriate . |
| 7 | Right , we wan na think about style , how it 's changed since the sixties . |
| 8 | Various other places too , so they get a good idea of the English language as it 's spoken in the nineteen nineties . |
| 9 | I think he 's overpowered by the three white blobs of the boats . |