Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , at balance , in addition to equation ( 7.28 ) applying , the mesh currents are given by Now the potential differences V 1 and V 2 applied to the two meshes by the source transformer are again in the ratio given by equation ( 7.25 ) and combining equations ( 7.25 ) , ( 7.28 ) and ( 7.29 ) yields as the balance condition for the double-transformer ratio-arm bridge . |
| 2 | He preached in Portadown again in 1801 , and in 1802 preached within the uncovered walls of the new preaching house . |
| 3 | Several thousand people massed in the streets of Bamako , and opposition groups said that 148 had been killed and hundreds wounded in the three days . |
| 4 | After a dismal 1991 spent in the lower reaches of the table , the revived Reading side have a 100 per cent record from six matches , head the Gold Cup southern section and enter a hectic Easter schedule buoyant . |
| 5 | Great Fire of London started second of September in sixteen sixty six started in the early hours at a baker 's house in Pudding Lane . |
| 6 | From 1275 , with the exception of a certain number of years , usually two parliaments met annually , even three in 1278 ; altogether fifty assembled during the thirty-five years of the reign . |
| 7 | In fact , the failure of the ASEAN countries to issue a neutralisation blueprint in early 1975 resulted from the communist victories in Indo-China , which changed the political and social balance of forces in Southeast Asia . |
| 8 | It worked out electronically that it took a fish finger less time to defrost than a leg of lamb , and when your designer-label , calorie-counted tagliatelle was ready for eating , it told you so with five bleeps rather than the paltry three offered by the cheaper models . |
| 9 | Moreover , one might predict further that had royalty in 1940 continued with the rich pageants of peacetime ( as the Prince Regent had done during the Napoleonic wars ) , the indifference might have turned to explicit criticism . |
| 10 | My work in the 1970s focused on the black holes that can result from such stellar collapse and the intense gravitational fields around them . |
| 11 | Hopes attached to the new Social Democratic Party of right-wing Labour Party defectors in 1981 collapsed after the internal divisions that followed electoral disaster in June 1987 . |
| 12 | A group of eight armed civilians who took over the radio station in Antananarivo , the capital , on July 29 surrendered to the armed forces after they failed to win popular support . |
| 13 | Hundreds gather on the platforms at Hof station , Bavaria , holding sheets of paper with names aloft on sticks , anxiously scanning the faces of the crowds pouring out of the trains , just as Germans did when millions fled before the advancing Russians or the avenging Poles and Czechs at the end of the war . |
| 14 | In another reinterpretation , in 1874 , the Rev. Sedley Taylor of Cambridge talked of the trial of Galileo , drawing attention to the possibility of a forged Inquisition minute , and the probability therefore that Galileo ought to have been acquitted whatever one thought of the general merits of his theories ; his condemnation was the fault of a dirty tricks brigade rather than of the Church . |
| 15 | In the small county constituency of Rutland , of forty-three beneficed clergymen who polled in the election of 1710 , thirty voted for the two Tories , four split their votes , and a mere nine voted for the two Whigs . |
| 16 | In Cuba at least five people were killed and 28 injured as the powerful winds , rainstorms and freak waves battered western and central parts of the country . |
| 17 | Nasrallah argued that those parties calling for a boycott of the elections had nevertheless in 1982 participated in the presidential elections which , he said , had been held " under Israeli guns " . |
| 18 | Its members , since 1951 nominated by the national parliaments , themselves displayed a tendency in many debates to cluster around political party identity rather than nationality . |
| 19 | Now the spruce spar boom wanted to shrink and swell about twice as far as the plywood which was glued to it and this naturally gave rise to serious stresses near to where the two met along the glued joints ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 20 | 281 , 287 referred to the three matters that , in his view , gave ‘ rise to an equity in favour of the defendants . ’ |
| 21 | The most appropriate approach might comprise of a combination of the two used in the early stages of design , with an optimization option being employed when the design possibilities have been explored and the parameters , constraints and objectives are no longer likely to change . |
| 22 | The figures are inevitably distorted by the fact that several of the great old grammar schools opted to join the private sector after the Labour governments ' reform of secondary education in the 1970s , but of the twenty-two schools attended by Cabinet ministers , eighteen belonged to the 1990 Headmasters ' Conference . |
| 23 | The centre-left coalition in power since late 1989 struggled during the 12 months to 1991 to maintain its joint commitments ( i ) to reduce the government budget deficit from 5.25 per cent of net national income ( NNI — gross national product ( GNP ) minus consumption of fixed capital ) in 1990 to 3.25 per cent by 1994 , and ( ii ) to maintain the country 's highly developed social welfare system . |
| 24 | Only one-third knew about the financial benefits available to carers , less than half knew of support services available and only 38 per cent would turn to social services for advice . |
| 25 | In the small county constituency of Rutland , of forty-three beneficed clergymen who polled in the election of 1710 , thirty voted for the two Tories , four split their votes , and a mere nine voted for the two Whigs . |
| 26 | NORTH WEST : Labour targeted 28 seats , so Tory workers were delighted to have kept the region 's losses to nine , with two gained from the Liberal Democrats , Ribble Valley and Southport , writes Nigel Bunyan . |
| 27 | There would be 12 judges ( six from the Czech Lands and six from Slovakia ) appointed by the President upon the proposal of the Federal Assembly Presidium , having been chosen from 24 proposed by the legislative bodies ( eight by the federal and eight by each national parliament ) . |
| 28 | On the other hand , it would be incorrect to suppose that the first influx of nuclear workers in Thurso did not produce the twofold or greater increase noted in rural new towns : the only two cases at ages 0–14 in the period 1951–67 occurred in the five years following the influx in 1958 ( expected 0.41 ; not significant ) . |
| 29 | During the bullbaiting , thousands tore through the narrow streets of Wokingham , providing a splendid opportunity for the disaffected and unscrupulous to push their unwanted spouses or other associates in the path of the stampede . |
| 30 | Lord Justice Woolf 's inquiry into the serious disturbances that erupted at Strangeways and other prisons in the Spring of 1990 extended beyond the immediate causes to an examination of such underlying factors as prison overcrowding , conditions and regimes , and policies towards remand prisoners . |