Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the police were talking to everyone Angie had seen in the two weeks before she … well … vanished , and so far had come up with nothing . |
| 2 | It was this role that the new model unions had consciously adopted in the eighteen fifties and that the Webbs had emphasised in the eighteen nineties . |
| 3 | But , what Freud had realized by the nineteen twenties was that there are lots of different ways of doing that , and has given one example . |
| 4 | Already we were beginning to talk among ourselves about the feasibility of a Hungarian-type reform to replace the central planning mechanism which Stalin had created in the 1930s . |
| 5 | North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 6 | Of the 35 goals England have scored in the 26 matches Taylor has been in charge , just three have come from outside the penalty area . |
| 7 | All payments between Kazakhstan and Russia have to pass through the two countries ' central banks . |
| 8 | In addition to seeking a long overdue first global hurdles title , Jackson wants to qualify for the 100 metres and compete alongside his great pal , Linford Christie . |
| 9 | In addition to seeking a long-overdue first global hurdles title , Jackson wants to qualify for the 100 metres and compete alongside his great pal , Linford Christie . |
| 10 | The new exhibition comprises thirty-eight paintings with particular emphasis being placed upon those works which Caulfield has created in the eleven years since his retrospective held at the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool , and the Tate Gallery , in 1981–82 . |
| 11 | Members of the National Front , the opposition the Shah had crushed in the fifties and ignored ever since , leftists , rightists , monarchists , republicans , dentists , doctors , lawyers — almost anyone it seems could finally get into see His Imperial Majesty . |
| 12 | At the next attempt , Odom excluded and when Cheshire had to take on the two Newcastle riders on his own , the result was just the same as in the initial race . |
| 13 | However , both the Warsaw Pact and NATO have changed since the 1950s , and although their military hegemony , based largely on phenomenal nuclear overkill capacity , remains unsurpassed , other blocs have arisen to challenge them on a variety of strategic issues . |
| 14 | Some are looking to sell their practices or merge their way out of problems that have been brought on by the severest recession the UK has experienced since the 1930s . |
| 15 | As measured by examination performance , educational achievement in secondary schools in the United Kingdom has increased during the 1970s and 1980s ( especially in the 1970s ) . |
| 16 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 17 | Cheery tombola social nights at local Labour Clubs were replaced by showings of Peter Watkins 's brilliant but heart-stopping antinuclear film , The War Game , which the BBC had commissioned in the 1960s but still wimpishly refused to screen . |
| 18 | Die Gruenen had dropped below the 5 per cent needed to enter the Bundestag in the last polls . |
| 19 | Italy and Switzerland electrified their main-line railways early in this century , but the UK had to wait till the 1960s for electrification from London to north-west England , and the late 1980s to Yorkshire . |
| 20 | Beaverbrook considered it an achievement that the USA and UK had settled on the 1943 draft as a formula for future negotiations , but US ambassador John Winant , at lunch with Churchill , Berle , and Beaverbrook , thought the Prime Minister wanted the Lord Privy Seal to ‘ soft-pedal ’ the internationalization aspect so as not to offend the USA . |
| 21 | Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls fought long and hard to persuade his colleagues that the Court of Appeal should free itself from the fetter of being bound by its own previous decisions just as the House of Lords had done in the 1966 Practice Statement ( see below ) , and also suggested that the Court of Appeal was free to refuse to follow decisions of the House of Lords which were considered to be clearly wrong ( Carty , 1983 ) . |
| 22 | Duke Albert began collecting in the 1760s , the dawn of a golden age in British art . |
| 23 | Much has been said and written as to how exactly the miracle is performed , but it is widely agreed that a relatively stable group of large general electronics companies in Japan did succeed in the 1970S and 1980S in being continuously innovative in terms of products and markets . |
| 24 | The vehicle for raising the issue again will be the Criminal Justice Bill which Mr Waddington expects to introduce in the 1990/91 parliamentary session . |
| 25 | As a military exercise , however , many gaps in British naval and air provision had been shown up ; but it was a spectacular triumph , the first that Britain had known since the 1950s . |
| 26 | My plaster of paris plaque of Robes-pierre had smashed in the 1989 Loma Prieta quake , thrown from the wall of my sitting room in the Adobe motel . |
| 27 | She told her parents how she and Susan had bumped into the two lads from Northallerton and that they 'd all gone together to the Lobster Pot for a drink . |
| 28 | As we reported in The Art Newspaper for December 1991 ( No.13 , pp.6–7 ) the boom in museum building that Germany had enjoyed in the Eighties is drawing to a close under the financial pressure of reunification . |
| 29 | In 1969 NATO had agreed that progress in Germany should lead to a conference on European security which Moscow had wanted since the 1950s . |
| 30 | Faraday had written in the 1820s that it was a good idea to have the same pitch on various bits of apparatus , so that they could be connected together in different ways ; but this idea had not become general . |