Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many hundreds of thousands of trade unionists were among those who became shareholders for the first time . |
| 2 | He also had a keen grasp of steam locomotive matters and was responsible for introducing suburban passenger locomotives in 1945 , in which year he also made proposals for the first LMS ( and British ) main-line diesel-electric locomotives , which were finally introduced under his successor H. G. Ivatt two years later . |
| 3 | We then laid plans for the next voyage . |
| 4 | The majority of actual examples investigated by Johnson revealed profiles of the second type , so that it may be concluded that much of the material forming the bar is eroded from the sea floor . |
| 5 | However , Newell made amends in the 64th minute when he raced on to a hopeful through ball , rounded Hitchcock and fired home . |
| 6 | Both missed with other attempts before Stephens made amends in the second half , landing another three penalties and kicking three conversions . |
| 7 | The Don made amends in the second innings with a memorable 103 not out and the crowds held a ‘ bob in ’ collection to buy their idol a piano . |
| 8 | We swopped experiences for the last time . |
| 9 | Guerrillas in Kashmir used rockets for the first time on June 19 , in an attack on two waterfront hotels in Srinagar which were being used as barracks by Indian security forces . |
| 10 | However , we found indications in the last chapter that this could lead to a very large number of possible word strings . |
| 11 | Only three other deaf men became missioners for the first time in the 1920s , although some moved from one place to another like George Mackenzie . |
| 12 | Too often it was not open because social workers were at meetings , he told members at the twenty-fifth AGM . |
| 13 | For Brundle , making his last appearance for the team , it was a bitter-sweet moment as he scored points for the 11th time in 12 races . |
| 14 | THE Duke and Duchess of Kent became grandparents for the second time yesterday when the Earl of St Andrews and his wife had a baby girl . |
| 15 | Many élite families made fortunes in the first half of the nineteenth century and then invested their wealth in agriculture , usually in plantations . |
| 16 | WREXHAM manager Brian Flynn said : ‘ We desperately needed to score when we dominated things in the second half but we caught a goalkeeper on a hot day . |
| 17 | Shooting raises fear of sectarian bloodbath Cardinals on either side of the Irish Sea yesterday joined forces for the first time to condemn the IRA , reports Gary Duncan . |
| 18 | This was one of the changes initially seen under the Republic : the capture of Jamaica in 1655 opened up a new road which encouraged rulers in the second half of the century to go forward and force other European powers to give up their lands on almost the whole of the North American coastline . |
| 19 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 20 | Hitherto , the Frelimo president was also President of the Republic ; the proposed change followed discussions at the fifth Frelimo congress in July 1989 , which centred on ways to broaden popular support for the party and strengthen national unity [ see p. 36804 ] . |
| 21 | Mr Holdsworth expressed reservations about the seventh firm and sought a meeting with the Chief Technical Officer . |
| 22 | The allegations , which coincided with the opening in October of a fatal accident inquiry into the Lockerbie air disaster [ see p. 37732 ] , raised questions for the first time about the widely held view that the bombing had been the work of a German-based cell of the PFLP-GC [ see pp. 37897-98 ] . |
| 23 | In July Mahathir revealed details of the Sixth Malaysia Plan ( SMP ) , the first of the decade 's two more detailed economic plans [ for details of NDP , OPP2 and SMP see pp. 38100 ; 38293 ; 38344 ] . |
| 24 | More and more Anglican bishops broke ranks before the next Lambeth Conference in 1930 , which emphasized motives rather than method and gave grudging acceptance to ‘ other methods ’ than abstinence , noting that Church opposition was rooted in tradition not in Scripture . |
| 25 | Up until the early years of the nineteenth century , the British monarch still laid claim to France and to represent this claim heraldically the Royal arms included fleurs-de-lis in the second quarter . |
| 26 | The software included a second k-D matrix which recorded errors in the first matrix . |
| 27 | The MP was one who switched sides at the last minute to vote in favour of the treaty . |
| 28 | Many continue the tradition of a market day ; others established permanent , covered markets in the last century . |
| 29 | For they always avoided towns and traffic ; they avoided also the larger roads which became turnpikes in the eighteenth century and were subject to tolls , and they were short-turfed for the cattle and sheep , grazing as they went . |
| 30 | Before they acquired firearms in the first years of the |