Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , a tired reminder of arrangements made sufficiently confusing by the first notice . |
| 2 | As such their contribution was crucial to the related locational changes in economic activity and in population which became so important from the third quarter of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | As we have seen , this approach became less dominant in the second half of the 1980s , although it is still there as a card to be played should political problems necessitate it . |
| 4 | In the coming year , the Government will also face its greatest crisis over public sector borrowing , having to borrow too much to pay the interest on its debts — the trap that caught so many in the last few years . |
| 5 | Gross margin was as we expected broadly level with the second half of last year . |
| 6 | Champagne wines became immensely popular in the eighteenth century amongst the English aristocracy . |
| 7 | She came as night-nurse on the second of May when I had a bad attack of sciatica and left on the fourteenth of June . |
| 8 | FEW PEOPLE seemed particularly interested in the second annual Leadmill-hosted festival . |
| 9 | Alex had spilled some juice on the table top and was drawing his finger through the orange puddle with enjoyment ; Sarah seemed completely preoccupied by the last mouthful of toast . |
| 10 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 11 | Although it appears that sentencing became more severe during the first three years the guide-lines were in use , Minnesota remains one of the very few states that has avoided huge increases in prison population size ( Parent 1988 ) . |
| 12 | As the town became more prosperous in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries a new and greater university was built on the ruined foundations of the old . |
| 13 | A further indication of renewed population pressure is that complaints about land enclosure became more conspicuous in the second decade of the sixteenth century , at precisely the same time as real wages began to fall . |
| 14 | ‘ I got more popular in the sixth form . |
| 15 | Since the strength of feeling by the Norfolk members Chairman only became really apparent in the last two dates and the wires of telephones were hot yesterday with a conversation between myself and others north of the border and since discussions we held yesterday with representatives of the Department of Transport in Bedford indicates a solution to suit all interests to make it achievable . |
| 16 | And in one particular patch of I worked damned hard over the last three years to get a doctor onto that estate . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , a number of mathematically capable natural philosophers were to be attracted to the Copernican system , and their efforts to defend it became increasingly successful over the next hundred years or so . |
| 18 | It became increasingly clear in the next two years that the change in leaders and policy had served only to weaken the Party still further . |
| 19 | The latter course kept the family together , a consideration which became increasingly important during the first half of the twentieth century , but which was believed to be open to abuse unless the state assumed the role of the male breadwinner and insisted on good household management and sexual fidelity . |
| 20 | They became increasingly sleepy for the first four days until it became almost impossible for the experimenters to keep them awake . |
| 21 | Breach of promise suits , which allowed individuals to sue for damages if they had been injured by unenforceable marriage contracts and which became increasingly popular in the nineteenth century , provide one example of this development . |
| 22 | However , it became increasingly obvious during the next two years that the Ryder Report had been over optimistic about the market share of Leyland , and that even large injections of capital were insufficient to overcome the problems of poor labour relations , low productivity and entrenched attitudes . |
| 23 | For two reasons this process became particularly massive during the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Several aspects of catholicism became particularly important in the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | She felt poorly for about one month but then seemed to recover and felt somewhat stable for the next 6 weeks . |
| 26 | The number of compulsory and creditors ’ voluntary liquidations fell below 5000 in the third quarter of 1991 . |
| 27 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , they did not all take their studies very seriously and some of the bruising battle scenes , including a duel that went disastrously wrong on the first night , attracted misplaced laughter . |
| 29 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |
| 30 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |