Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that we have fallen badly behind in the three important areas of economic development , social policies and , sadly , the quality of our democracy . |
| 2 | In January 1871 there were 166,407 female out-door paupers in England and Wales ; in January 1891 only 53,371 , despite the fact that the policy was pursued less vigorously in the 1880s than in the preceding decade . |
| 3 | Those dependent on state benefits have fared particularly badly during the 1980s , eligibility conditions having been made more stringent and the rates of many of the benefits having been cut . |
| 4 | In the final analysis the full impact of reform will be felt most keenly by the thousands of Scottish men and women whose income falls the wrong side of the line . |
| 5 | A romantic vista on a moonlit holiday night is across the Bay of Funchal , and most nights it is made more so by the hundreds of flickering lights on the small fishing boats . |
| 6 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 7 | Because towns and cities had grown too rapidly in the 1930s , it was decided to restrict the growth of cities and to disperse populations into new towns . |
| 8 | But equally , the alliance should nut be dated too late in the 430s , because then it would have cried out fur mention at some point in the book i narrative , where the immediate ‘ alleged reasons ’ for the war are rehearsed at length . |
| 9 | The unit operated very effectively during the 1980s on the Namibia/Angola border against infiltrating bands of SWAPO guerrillas who were attempting to destabilise the country by ambush and assassination . |
| 10 | DET expenditure on black education has certainly risen very significantly during the 1980s , with per capita expenditure for all educational levels rising from 176 rand per pupil ( 1988 rand ) in 1980/81 to 595 rand in 1987/88 , though much of this increase had been taken up by the rising bill for teachers ' salaries . |
| 11 | It had done very badly in the 1967 local elections , and in November Wilson at last devalued the pound — assuring a somewhat puzzled nation that ‘ the pound in your pocket ’ would somehow not be affected . |
| 12 | Direct overseas investment has fallen off sharply since the 1989/90 peak . |
| 13 | Sotheby 's expert Melanie Clore emphasises that Matisse has alway been an artist for discerning collectors and was never speculated in even during the 1988–90 period like Picasso and Renoir . |
| 14 | The DipHE , recommended by the James Committee as a first stage in teacher education , was interpreted more broadly by the 1972 White Paper . |
| 15 | I think in general by virtue of the fact that we go to great lengths to make sure that people fully understand exactly what they have got I mean we 're not in a in a situation where we want people to think that they 've got something they have n't , which is why we go to the lengths that we do erm to make sure that people are fully aware of what they 've got , and if they 're unhappy with what they 've got then obviously within the fourteen day period we give them the right to cancel . |
| 16 | On average , the goals are ranked almost equally by the mid-fifties high achiever . |
| 17 | We have concentrated thus far on the two sectors statutory and voluntary , by which most formal care in the community is delivered . |
| 18 | Peterson commented to Brigham Young University President Holland , generously , on the ‘ remarkable coincidence that such similar research had sprung up independently at the two universities . ’ |
| 19 | By the same token , five cases representing Crohn 's disease ( category E ) by virtue of containing sarcoid like granulomata ( evidently overlooked by the original pathologists ) , as well as 15 cases with varying degrees of overlapping histology ( categories B , C , and D ) , were also distributed almost evenly between the two groups . |
| 20 | ‘ It will be set very firmly in the 1930s , as this is 1993 , and we ca n't suggest these things are still happening . ’ |
| 21 | Both these beautiful fish have a deep body , smoothly tapering to a pointed , central mouth at the front ( nothing new in that arrangement ! ) , and with the back end almost cut off vertically from the two divisions of the dorsal and anal fins . |
| 22 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 23 | The term ‘ ancient monument ’ is defined very widely in the 1913 Act , and it is defined even more widely in the Act of 1979 . |
| 24 | The arguments he uses here are standard ones , taken over bodily from the ten ‘ tropes ’ of the Greek sceptics as presented in Diogenes Laertius ' Life of Pyrrho , and Sextus Empiricus ' Outlines of Pyrrhonism . |
| 25 | Britain 's traditional supporters fell into line , and Pleven 's blueprint was taken up only by the six states of the ECSC . |
| 26 | Furthermore , many of the women and girls working at fruit-picking and jam-making were related to railway workers at nearby Cambridge Station and were brought to work by the 8.20 train from Cambridge in the morning and taken back home by the 6.34 in the evening . |
| 27 | Mrs Swami , who is in her 40s and lives in Kingsbury , north-west London , claims she was beaten almost daily by the two sisters of the Emir of Kuwait . |
| 28 | Indeed , for most of the inhabitants of the countries in which xenophobia is now epidemic , the old ways of life have changed so drastically since the 1950s that there is very little of them left to defend . |
| 29 | All these bits are changed quite simply in the 44 with a spanner and locking pin , while the smaller 88 uses a C-spanner and fingers . |