Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 2 | Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared . |
| 3 | One hopes he will be rather keener to have play in marginal conditions if they arise during the next month . |
| 4 | But less than three hours after that , fifteen hundred footsoldiers of ours could be there , provided they start within the next half-hour . ’ |
| 5 | The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction . |
| 6 | Pupils follow either the ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ road until they get to the next question . |
| 7 | After a short discussion on the merits of the duck , he decided to join her ; and while they waited for the first course to arrive , he regaled her with a colourful account of that afternoon 's meeting in the history department to sort out the timetable . |
| 8 | The minutes dragged while they listened for the first hum of the approaching helicopter . |
| 9 | Steve Coppell , the Palace manager , pointed out that Arsenal remain the only team they have not beaten since they returned to the First Division . |
| 10 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 11 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 12 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |
| 13 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 14 | To the English , when they returned in the fifteenth century , fortified towns provided both a military threat and a challenge which they could not ignore . |
| 15 | So when they come across the first element of mystery which they can not understand , they conclude that Christianity is not rational after all . |
| 16 | they tend to drift away when they get to the last year anyway , you know ? |
| 17 | After hours of learning to hook the ball from the tee , when they get to the 18th the ideal shot is a fade . |
| 18 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 19 | Some submissions were to clear the initial hurdles relatively quickly , even when they fell at the first one . |
| 20 | While short-term separation of parent and child under favourable circumstances is unlikely to be damaging to the child , long-term separations can have more serious effects , particularly when they occur in the first three to four years of the child 's life . |
| 21 | When they resumed on the third afternoon after time lost for rain , they lost quick wickets , and at 214 for 6 seemed to have wasted the advantage . |
| 22 | Desert Orchid had often won from worse positions , but he seemed unable to quicken , and was half a length down on his two younger rivals as they landed over the last obstacle . |
| 23 | The healthy stayed away , or hovered sceptically at the back of the crowd , talking as they waited for the first miracle . |
| 24 | United have now taken just three points from a possible 12 and manager Alex Ferguson 's only consolation is that the defeat of rivals Aston Villa at Carrow Road means it is now Norwich who hold a twopoint advantage over them as they go into the last seven games . |
| 25 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 26 | Rising through two floors of the White Tower , was the chapel of St. John where the lady Alianor and Joan attended Mass each morning : it was as they returned on the second morning that Joan voiced her enquiry . |
| 27 | But the practical components of the curriculum , whether in the medieval university or in courses of professional education as they developed after the Second World War , have been subsidiary elements in a much wider programme of studies ; and they have an internal connection with the general programme of theoretical studies . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State may from time to time revise the whole or any part of a code of practice to which this section applies and issue that revised code ; and the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply ( with appropriate modifications ) to such a revised code as they apply to the first issue of a code . |
| 29 | As they headed for the first aircraft they were fired on by a sentry . |
| 30 | As they moved towards the next tee she nodded towards her niece . |