Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was in March , when eight bombs fell on the outskirts of the village , killing one person and wounding fourteen others , and damaging the convent in which the Dominican nuns lived . |
| 2 | Large anti-war demonstrations followed the outbreak of the land war on Feb. 24 , when a total of 50,000 protesters marched through the streets in Madrid and Barcelona demanding an immediate ceasefire . |
| 3 | After his re-election in 1972 Nixon asked for the resignations of all non career employees in the executive branch and took steps to ensure that all those appointed or reappointed were loyal to him and his policies . |
| 4 | In Ramallah , more than 300 women took to the streets . |
| 5 | Three times a week , Ira would saddle a couple of quarter-horses and they 'd walk between the banked roses , listening to the zip , zip , zip , as water from fifty sprinklers fell among the blooms . |
| 6 | The Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act gave to the governors of county and controlled schools the duty of devising arrangements for the appointment of staff , excluding head teachers and , in some authorities , deputy head teachers . |
| 7 | In 1898 Spain suffered at the hands of the upstart United States a humiliating military and naval defeat in the Caribbean and Pacific . |
| 8 | In 1926 , only 26 films went before the cameras . |
| 9 | In 1991 Ecuanor reapplied for the permits under a law permitting mining in protected areas if it were deemed " in the national interest " . |
| 10 | Minutes later , a small group of six figures emerged from the woods . |
| 11 | During 1975–9 Zuwaya applied to the courts , and used court verdicts , as well as pursuing offenders through shaikhs and the confrontation of lineages . |
| 12 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman made his name in the 1960s as a maverick historian who charged that only 30,000 people perished at the hands of the Ustashe fascists . |
| 13 | In May 1991 privatization continued with the issues of shares for minority stakes in the Turkish Petroleum Refineries Corporation ( Tupras ) and refined products distributor Petrol Ofisi . |
| 14 | More than 100,000,000 voters participated in the elections , the highest number in US history . |
| 15 | Towards the end of 1849 Gurney wrote to the Goldsmiths to request £200 " to enable him to clear off his debts and leave some money for general purposes " ; he was granted £300 . |
| 16 | The other three pairs came from the trees and down the sloping fields in complete silence . |
| 17 | The Financial Times of Dec. 12 , 1990 , reported that 90 countries had under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization agreed to set up an emergency response system to deal with oil spillages . |
| 18 | Three seeds fell in the women 's event . |
| 19 | CRACK ! as three gunshots came from the woods . |
| 20 | The Escherichia coli enzyme R· Eco K is comprised of three subunits encoded by the genes hsdR , hsdM and hsdS . |
| 21 | Three employees slogged around the streets of the capital in the London Marathon , and raised hundreds of pounds for charity . |
| 22 | The seas swamped their boats , and all three boatcrews perished in the waters , their lifeless bodies being washed ashore the next morning . |
| 23 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 June 1992 W. appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the High Court had no jurisdiction , or alternatively no jurisdiction should be exercised , to overrule the refusal of a competent minor aged 16 to undergo medical treatment ; ( 2 ) section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 should have been applied ; ( 3 ) the judge had erred in applying observations of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 which were erroneous ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly found that in respect of the Children Act 1989 the minor 's right of refusal was limited to the stage of assessment ; and ( 5 ) the judge had failed to have sufficient regard to the medical evidence against transferring W. , to the advantages of not moving her and to her wishes and his decision was plainly wrong . |
| 24 | Do you know that nearly nine hundred thousand people walked off the streets of Britain into Citizen Advice Bureaux last year to ask for their help on employment issues because they had no trade union ? |
| 25 | Twenty thousand people took to the streets of the Lithuanian capital , Vilnius , to mourn a man who became a martyr for the Republic 's bid for independence from Moscow . |
| 26 | On Saturday , January 26 , 3,000 people took to the streets of London in the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration demonstration . |
| 27 | In Kwangju itself , more than 100,000 people took to the streets where they fought running battles with riot police late into the night . |
| 28 | After the meeting , six to seven thousand students marched on the streets , reaching People 's Square ( Renmin Guangchang ) in the centre of the crowded city before proceeding towards the municipal government offices . |
| 29 | It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England . |
| 30 | Over 9,700 candidates competed in the elections and a turnout of just over 60 per cent was officially recorded . |