Example sentences of "[num] and [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took his appearance and speech on 30 September 1942 to dispel such rumours , only for them to recur in the winter of 1942–3 and especially after the Stalingrad disaster . |
| 2 | For example , the encouragement of council house sales by Conservative governments under the terms of the Housing ( Finance ) Act 1972 and subsequently by the Housing Act 1980 has boosted owner-occupation . |
| 3 | John Pemberton was Palace 's genial and gutsy full-back throughout our promotion drive to Division one in 1988–89 and then in The Eagles ' progress to the FA Cup Final and Replay of' 1990 Indeed , his surging run in the semi-final against Liverpool at Villa Park , which took him past several defender s , before he delivered the cross from which Mark Bright put the Palace on terms and on the way to our stunning victory , will probably remain for ever in the memories of those who saw it , even though he impressed enormously in the two Cup Finals against Manchester United 's sophisticated and costly imports . |
| 4 | The Gresham telescope was demonstrated to Charles II in October 1660 and then at the king 's request was moved to the garden at Whitehall Palace . |
| 5 | This heterogeneous group , initially totalling over 30,000 and loosely under the command of a German colonel , von Seeler , surrendered to 5 Corps on 12 May and was concentrated in a large open encampment at Viktring , south-west of Klagenfurt . |
| 6 | This was introduced by Heseltine in the Department of Environment in 1980 and later in the Ministry of Defence . |
| 7 | I had learned to fly in the Fleet Air Arm in 1940 and immediately after the war I spent nearly two years in South America flying for the Shell company . |
| 8 | In that office he had to deal first with the Visigothic king Alaric II and then with the Ostrogoth Theodoric I. He was twice accused of treason , but was exonerated on both occasions . |
| 9 | This is because the least common multiple of 584 and 260 is 37,960 , which is equal to the product of 65 and 584 and also to the product of 146 and 260 . |
| 10 | The medical examining committee met at the Crown & Anchor tavern up to 31 July 1809 and thereafter at the Freemasons ' tavern until at least 1821 . |
| 11 | Some 60 letters written by Sir William Hillary to the Institution between 1824 and 1845 and now in the RNLI 's archives have recently been treated for preservation and placed in a presentation box — the cost being met from money raised by the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society . |
| 12 | The objects offered in the present sale have been culled from ‘ [ secret ] warehouses dating back to the start of the Revolution in 1949 and also from the time of the Cultural Revolution ’ . |
| 13 | It then rested when finances ran out before resuming in 1790 and reaching its intended link with the Aire and Calder and Don navigations in 1816 and thence to the Humber estuary . |
| 14 | 459 , 467 and also in the speech of Lord Salmon in Reg. v. Humphrys [ 1977 ] A.C. 1 , 46 : |
| 15 | He is just 50 and apparently at the limits of his political ambition . |
| 16 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 17 | The institutionalization of Hitler 's charismatic leadership , first of all within the Party during the 1920s and then within the State after 1933 , served a crucial function in sealing the bonds between Hitler and the subordinate Party leadership . |
| 18 | I sighed heavily as I looked first at one and then at the other while we made our slow way down the main street , past Woolworth and the traffic lights . |
| 19 | But these demands had first found expression in a world of thought provided by non-socialist intelligentsia , first in the 1930s and increasingly during the war . |
| 20 | England are due to play a friendly in Dublin on March 28 and even before the draw Lansdowne Road was assured of a sell-out . |
| 21 | The statement of standard accounting practice set out in paragraphs 16 to 61 of the [ draft ] FRS should be read in the context of the Objective of the [ draft ] FRS as stated in paragraph 1 , the definitions set out in paragraphs 2 to 15 and also of the Foreword to Accounting Standards and the Statement of Principles for Financial Reporting currently in issue . |
| 22 | Not daring to leave his kingdom in its current state , in September 1325 and probably on the suggestion of Bishop Stratford of Winchester , who was then negotiating in Paris , he very reluctantly despatched the Prince of Wales to act for him . |
| 23 | Erm , could I ask er , a little about er , Longman and er , and er , Penguin in nineteen ninety two and particularly in the case of Longman , is the momentum of profits improvement in the second half carrying , carrying through into nineteen ninety two ? |
| 24 | I am particularly er pleased to see the I T provisions at three two and elsewhere in the report the training for the business plan has been given to the staff . |
| 25 | ‘ The boys come , two at a time , when they are 14 and again between the ages of 16 and 18 . |
| 26 | Only briefly at the end of the 1960s and again in the mid-1970s did average earnings rise significantly above the all-industry average . |
| 27 | Utah 's natural-resources boom of the 1970s was stopped in its tracks , first by the recession of the early 1980s and then by the oil bust later in the decade . |
| 28 | The girl claimed she was raped in her bedroom during Christmas 1990 and again in the man 's home on New Year 's Day 1991 while her brother slept only feet away . |
| 29 | In an unbecoming shade of battleship grey undercoat it took over the Museum 's service train for the last two runs on Sunday , May 24 and again on the afternoon of the 25th . |