Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waverley 's opening statement came from vice-chair Michele Munro , who said the trust board felt it was time to offer the benefits former Scottish Homes tenants in the Borders had enjoyed with Waverley for the last four years to Tweeddale tenants . |
| 2 | Sainte En grace the saint was in fact Portuguese , and said to have been martyred in Saragossa in the fourth century . |
| 3 | Another nightmarish error let in Swail in the ninth but his inexperience proved significant with the winning line in sight . |
| 4 | FIVE new cases of Hepatitis A have been reported in Darlington within the last week , it has been revealed . |
| 5 | Although the Soviet Union had become the major influence on revolutionary socialist movements since 1917 , the Communist International had always looked upon Germany as the next most likely centre for a proletarian revolution . |
| 6 | The writings of the rabbis repeatedly maintain that the Holy spirit departed from Israel after the last of the prophets , Haggai , Zechariah and Malachi ( e.g. T. Sota 13:2 ) . |
| 7 | Traditional grammar originated in Greece in the 5th century and has always been associated closely with philosophy and literary criticism . |
| 8 | ( It is also relevant to Athenian fears that , as Livy tells us under the year 431 , Carthage now encroached in Sicily for the first time , iv.29.8 with R. M. Ogilvie ( 1965 ) Commentary on Livy i-v , Oxford . ) |
| 9 | A strange change had come over Leo in the last week or so . |
| 10 | Maidstone explained that he had first come to Italy after the First World War . |
| 11 | This is one of three drawings of Lopokova by Picasso , the latter having come to London for the first time to work on designs and sets for Massine 's Le Tricorne , writes Joanna Gibbon . |
| 12 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 13 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 14 | It was also remarkable that Germans — thought to be so liberal — now looked to England as the last refuge of Liberty ; they applauded Nelson 's recent victories — the political wheel had turned full circle . |
| 15 | General enquiries should be addressed to CFSU in the first instance . |
| 16 | Coventry v Southampton Having just won at Liverpool for the first time , Coventry ought to be in the mood to take Southampton even though the latter have lost only once in a dozen games . |
| 17 | Fives & Heronians won at Westcliff in the last over where new captain Glen Poulter scored 58 and Mel Hussain 93 . |
| 18 | ‘ All the transactions of goods loaded and off-loaded at Strasbourg in the last ten days . ’ |
| 19 | This was the first of many palatial properties occupied by Franco over the next forty years — a tendency which is difficult to reconcile with his hagiographers ' insistence that he was a man of austere tastes and habits . |
| 20 | situated in Ludgate in the City of London near Blackfriars , the church had been rebuilt by Wren in the seventeenth century . |
| 21 | Crawley 's killer haul polished off Mold in the 44th over despite a defiant 30 from Simon Jones and 21 from wicket keeper Brian Williams . |
| 22 | Being mostly Muslim and with a Central Asian cultural background , the Uighurs had been incorporated into China in the nineteenth century ( Xinjiang was formerly known as Turkestan ) . |
| 23 | An attack to the utmost — offensive a l'outrance — was to be made into Lorraine by the First and Second armies , while the Third and Fifth armies , on their left , would take the offensive north of Metz or , if the Germans did indeed come down through Belgium , strike them in flank . |
| 24 | The exhibition , running until 27 June , comprises 130 items from French and Spanish collections including vessels carved in semiprecious stones and mounted in enamelled and jewelled gold , from the ‘ tresor ’ of the Grand Dauphin , presented in France for the first time since the eighteenth century , and works by French painters such as Michel-Ange Houasse , Louis-Michel Van Loo and Jean Ranc and sculptors Rene Fremin and Jean Thierry , who were commissioned by Philip to decorate his palaces . |
| 25 | In 1947 the Methodist Conference met in Portadown for the first time . |
| 26 | With the additional assistance of a British Conference Grant from the British Academy the workshop met in London on the 25th and 26th of June 1993 . |
| 27 | This is by far the largest cache of Roman coins to be uncovered in Britain since the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | The Ukrainian delegation offered to resettle in Ukraine the ethnic Germans who were forcibly deported from Ukraine during the Second World War . |
| 29 | Map 2 : map of roads built in Italy during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC . |
| 30 | There are proposals for three more nuclear power stations to be built in Britain during the next decade : Hinckley Point C , Wylfa B and Sizewell C. And there may be plans to build a total of ten extra nuclear power stations by 2010 . |