Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 2 | The town also became the home of Scotland 's first university , founded in 1410 and formally recognized by the Pope at Avignon three years later . |
| 3 | He was baptised by John Kingdon in the chapel 's own ‘ baptistry ’ on Friday 5 May 1780 and officially received into the church two days later . |
| 4 | The London Deaf Video Project ( LDVP ) , established in 1985 and initially funded by the former Greater London Council , exists to provide the deaf community with information through video tapes in BSL Subjects treated so far include AIDS , welfare benefits , the dangers of smoking solicitors and their services , and the need for retirement . |
| 5 | On the one hand we may trace the influence of the theories of ‘ adaptation to environment ’ , a natural extension of the policy of indirect rule , argued in the influential reports of the Phelps Stokes Commissions in the early nineteen-twenties and brilliantly summarised in the memorandum of the Colonial Office 's Advisory Committee on Native Education , Educational Policy in British Tropical Africa , 1925 — hence the school gardens ( or the remains of them ) , the handwork , the needlework , the local History and Geography programmes and the ‘ vernacular ’ syllabuses . |
| 6 | A paper by the Russian scientist D. Ivanovsky , published in 1892 and often regarded as the beginning of the science of virology , describes how a disease of tobacco plants can be transmitted by the sap after it has passed through a filter capable of retaining bacteria and other particles . |
| 7 | Dreadnought 16 , was delivered in 1898 and initially operated on the conduit system . |
| 8 | Marx started out as a Young Hegelian in the early 1840s and never threw off the underlying presuppositions of Hegelian rationalism . |
| 9 | The Hovertram was built in 1963 and originally sponsored by the Shell Oil Company . |
| 10 | Rather lovable in spite of all ’ — was recorded at age 7 and still remained on the secondary school record at age 14 . |
| 11 | 4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the Order , the price quoted includes delivery to the address specified in the Order , provided that the Seller reserves the right to make an additional charge to cover any increase in transport costs occurring before the date of delivery . |
| 12 | The shop , established in 1934 and now run by the founder 's grandsons , is undoubtedly one of the most important delicatessens in the country , vast in its range of goods and uncompromising in its quality . |
| 13 | His close rival , the Maharaja of Rewa , reached a total of 500 and then withdrew from the contest . |
| 14 | Our non-fusion polypeptide spanned VZV 140k codons 417 to 646 and mainly consisted of the highly conserved region 2 , designated on the basis of homology between the HSV-1 Vmw175 and the VZV 140k proteins ( 18 ) . |
| 15 | Brenda had been born in May 1925 and therefore conceived during the previous August when Helena was still second housemaid at Chesney Hall . |
| 16 | The existing standard number , determined under section 15 of the Education Act 1980 and generally set at the intake of pupils to the school in 1979–80 ( a peak year ) , will be the new standard number — unless in 1989–90 , the year before the law changed , admissions exceeded the 1980 Act standard number . |
| 17 | The ecology wall charts were to be the most recent in a series of a dozen or so published by the Natural History Museum with sponsorship from BP and featured in their educational catalogue . |
| 18 | It 's the main ‘ motorway ’ through the city , and there are a dozen or so stalls on the Rialto selling souvenirs — including the painted masks you 'll see on sale all over the city . |
| 19 | It is a weakness in Dunn 's useful book Baptism in the Holy Spirit that he sweeps aside these dozen or so references to the Spirit in the first three chapters of Luke and insists that the kingdom did not come until the baptism of Jesus . |
| 20 | He has a long and distinguished career in public health medicine : he was the first doctor to give a patient penicillin in 1941 and then moved to the post of director of the Medical Research Council 's Pneumoconiosis Research Unit , investigating diseases of the lung . |
| 21 | However , if we also add the timings of such movements from two more manuscripts of Lalande motets , F-Pn , H387 , a reduced score of the Miserere a grand choeur ( illus.4 ) , and F-Pn , Rés. 1363 , a reduced score of Dominus regnavit , both being copies apparently dating from the 1740s and probably prepared for the Concert Spirituel , we begin to notice the familiar syndrome of some slowing down in some tempos , compared with those of the earlier H400D . |
| 22 | Commissioned in the 4th Regiment of Foot , he fought at the battle of the Boyne in 1690 and then served in the Netherlands , where he may have gained experience of hydraulic engineering . |
| 23 | The two older girls had already begun boarding school , so were away for most of the time , and Charles was only three and easily amused by the nanny . |
| 24 | The Park — itself unmentioned by Pevsner — had been built in the 1870s and greatly enlarged in the years after 1883 . |
| 25 | Spennymoor Comprehensive 's Steven Thorogood hit 74 but still finished on the losing side as 14-year-old Ian Dixon 's 72 took Willington Parkside Comprehensive to victory in a high-scoring game . |
| 26 | The total number of Egyptian fighting men in Saudi Arabia is put at about 27,000 , with another 5,000 or so based in the United Arab Emirates . |
| 27 | The ship , of 925 tons was commissioned at Sheerness in 1884 and immediately attached to the Mediterranean Squadron . |
| 28 | He joined LASMO in 1981 and later transferred to the company 's US subsidiary as exploration vice president , returning to the UK in 1989 . |
| 29 | Present Hall built by Smiths of Warwick in 1690s and still occupied by the Cave family . |
| 30 | Salvidge of Liverpool was the best-known example , becoming chairman of the National Union in 1913 and often cited as the only party boss on the American model in English politics , but his authority in Liverpool was no greater than that of Sir James Oddy in Bradford or Sir Percy Woodhouse in Manchester . |