Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ An order under section 6(2) requiring the third , fourth and fifth defendants to pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or , alternatively , to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct for the purpose of restoring persons who entered into transactions with the first defendant in the course of contravention of section 3 by the first defendant to the position in which they were before the transactions were entered into . |
| 2 | The most dramatic outward sign of this change , according to Le Roy Ladurie , was a series of peasant rebellions which occurred at intervals throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 3 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 4 | Mary McKenna , playing in the tournament for the 25th year , could have made it a tie by winning the bottom match but she lost the 15th and 16th to go two down , won the 17th with a big birdie putt and salvaged a half when her opponent , Fiona McKay drove into bushes at the 18th . |
| 5 | Cultures , especially the patriarchal cultures instilled into children in the first four or five years of their lives , had now distorted an essentially benign human nature . |
| 6 | Mr Bush turned to attacks in a last bid to keep his job and pull off the political upset of the century and ripped into ‘ the slippery one ’ as a man who can not be trusted during a hectic five-state blitz to shore up his support . |
| 7 | From him , I heard of leys for the first time , and learned that he had found alignments of tree clumps in the countryside around his home . |
| 8 | That 's the meaning , it 's what you spent on stamps in the last year . |
| 9 | The word ‘ object ’ amuses me because no-one talked about objects in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Ideas , in a scientific sense , about the nature of development , started with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC . |
| 11 | He had a small but good library , much of it kept on shelves on the first landing . |
| 12 | Interviews also took place with parents in 10 of the 25 cases selected for follow-up.The study looked at cases during the first six months after the initial case conference . |
| 13 | When he ventured forth , he felt he remained very tentative , lagging the eight and 10-foot putts he had for birdies on the second and third greens . |
| 14 | However , there was something feverish , even desperate , in the manner in which shoppers crowded into shops in the last days before Christmas . |
| 15 | Churchill had at moments in the First World War manifested great strategic prescience ; his intuition swung into action even more powerfully the second time round . |
| 16 | He also created a Consultative Assembly in Algiers , where representatives from the Resistance sat alongside members of the Third Republic 's final parliament . |