Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [num] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A busy day on the financial front , at one point the FTSE index of the top one hundred companies rose above the twenty-five hundred mark to suffer later losses . |
| 2 | A busy day on the financial front , at one point the FTSE index of the top one hundred companies rose above the twenty-five hundred mark to suffer later losses . |
| 3 | Whom did David Steel beat in the 1975 Liberal leadership contest ? |
| 4 | The best final came in the under-10 open tournament . |
| 5 | Portsmouth 's best chance came in the sixty fourth minute , a great breakaway down the left , the cross coming in , seventeen goal man Guy Whittingham getting his head to the ball , but it was n't going to be his eighteenth goal of the season , because Ken Vasey dived to his right , just got his finger tips to the ball and held on to it and the chance had gone . |
| 6 | Had a look at the records last night and saw that Sterland scored 5 goals in the Div II championship and 7 in the 20-odd matches he played in the Div I Championship . |
| 7 | The sun 's rays lingered on the one narrow minaret tower in the village behind him , and on the flat roofs where the corrugated iron was weighted down with heavy stones against the spring gales . |
| 8 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 9 | The latest attack happened as the twenty seven year old woman was walking home through the centre of Oxford after a party in the early hours of Saturday morning . |
| 10 | The mockery consisted of the one major taunt : that Jesus should save himself because he was ( i ) the Messiah , the Chosen One ; and ( ii ) the King of the Jews . |
| 11 | Two hands showed in the two hundred-strong congregation . |
| 12 | In general , though , it was considered taboo — a place scientists should not tread — until the tide apparently turned at the 1986 international conference of human geneticists in Berlin , where participants openly discussed the possibilities . |
| 13 | Brian and Deborah Curley had expected champagne and flowers when they arrived at the four star hotel on the island of Tenerife after a perfect wedding . |
| 14 | To investigate this ability of different recombinant GGFs to be secreted , we determined for the two human cDNA clones the distribution of total expressed GGF ( Schwann cell mitogenic ) activity between cell lysate and conditioned medium after transient mammalian transfections ( Table 2 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've chased Horan and Little on more than one occasion and have yet to get my hands on them , ’ said Gibbs , who figured in the 63–6 Welsh defeat in Brisbane and then the 38–3 World Cup loss . |
| 16 | Looking at significant lines discovered on the 1:50 000 map sheets , there are 204 of these sheets in all , and thus two chance alignments , apparently significant at the 1 per cent level , can be expected . |
| 17 | THE number of people who have been out of work for more than a year broke through the one million barrier today for the first time in five years . |
| 18 | A picture as they say is worth a thousand words and so it was that on the afternoon unemployment broke through the three million barrier I chanced a glimpse of the private feelings of John Major . |
| 19 | In the city the FT one hundred shares index broke through the three thousand barrier for the first time today after hopes of an early cut in interest rates . |
| 20 | So when we got overseas course we flew with the Ninety Second Bomb Group the Three Two Six Squadron and er all we were pretty well into our missions , I would say about six , seven , eight . |
| 21 | There are two types of bell housing stud pattern — the F-head type and the later 4 cylinder type which started with the 1958 2 litre diesel and is the same as the current Turbo diesel Defender and Discovery 200 TDi . |
| 22 | Earlier , the royal couple unveiled a long-awaited memorial to the British troops who died during the 1952-53 Korean war . |
| 23 | This famous author of 3,000 ‘ incomparable ’ ( Byron ) letters , among other largely dilettante activities , showed by a letter written to Sir Horace Mann on 8 June 1791 that he knew of the 1788 Kentish Town Act , which freed the Earl of Camden to build 1,400 houses in Kentish Town . |
| 24 | The period culminated in the two great Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 at The Hague , which led to the conclusion of thirteen Conventions and four Declarations , covering land and maritime warfare generally , as well as many particular aspects , such as the specific conventions covering the laying of mines , the carrying out of naval bombardments and so on . |
| 25 | But the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War resulted in the 1936 Labour Party Conference at Edinburgh support collective security , though it did not approve of rearmament . |
| 26 | However , the issue was not settled and following a rating revaluation in Scotland , which caused much unrest , a further inquiry ( the fourth in fifteen years ) began , which resulted in the 1986 Green Paper , Paying for Local Government . |
| 27 | So it has been subject to recent rigorous scrutiny by a series of government reports : the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , the House of Commons Social Services Committee Report ( 1985 ) and the Griffiths Report ( 1986 ) which resulted in the 1989 White paper Caring for People . |
| 28 | Attempts to provide a similar scheme related to earnings , but as part of state provision , resulted in the 1975 Social Security Pension Act 1975 , which came into operation in 1978 . |
| 29 | So we went to the sixty six shop and I said what 's wrong with that , pristine beautiful . |
| 30 | Cattini looked at the one full glass left on the table . |