Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was allowing the Defence Forces to expand at last . |
| 2 | The building materials sold to third parties during the year had cost £14,000 of which all but £1,000 had been paid for by December 1990 . |
| 3 | The first of three previews , based on the selection of leading titles to be published during the coming season which appears in the Spring Books issue on 12th February . |
| 4 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 5 | From the camps of Europe , those who had avoided the execution pits and the gas chambers had at last reached the Promised Land about which their cantors had sung at Auschwitz . |
| 6 | By the end of the century things had at last begun to change : in 1899 Primitive Methodists agreed a minimum of £100 while Congregationalists and Baptists set aside part of their Twentieth Century Funds for salaries . |
| 7 | Despite these conditions , the convention looked set for signature two years ago , with the industrialised countries considering the nodle terms balanced by Third World concessions in other parts of the treaty . |