Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |
| 2 | The blow fell on the 7th Division and on Allenby 's cavalry , which connected Haig 's Corps with the 3rd Corps to its south . |
| 3 | The winner came in the 64th minute thanks to a combination of fine attacking play from Jason Soloman and inept defending by Boro . |
| 4 | ‘ Once the Springboks tired , the tide turned in the second half . |
| 5 | But the tide turned in the second game of the second set when Graf finally broke serve on her fourth break point . |
| 6 | Or was that where all the money went in the first place ? |
| 7 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 8 | That would imply that the recession started in the second quarter of 1990 , which it clearly did not , because output rose between the first and second quarters of 1990 . |
| 9 | Although the classic definition of a recession is two successive quarters of falling real GNP — implying that the recession started in the fourth quarter of last year — the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ) , America 's official business-cycle watcher , uses a different yardstick : the monthly indicators for employment , industrial production , real business sales and real personal disposable income . |
| 10 | Observatories go back many centuries , perhaps even to Stonehenge ; but modern observatories in the West began in the sixteenth century . |
| 11 | The only knockdown of the fight came in the 11th round when the champion floored Close with a short , right upper cut . |
| 12 | All three thought it right that the fight continued in the eleventh round when McDonnell 's right eye was all but closed , though the fighter admitted he could not see from that eye . |
| 13 | The Russian spoke for the first time . |
| 14 | The allegation came on the third day of an insurance fraud trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 15 | The vote coincided with the 21st meeting of the JLG , which took place in Hong Kong on Dec. 3-5 . |
| 16 | The land was sold to the second to fourth defendants on 21 July 1988 , and by order dated 16 December 1988 they were added as defendants and the action stayed against the first defendants . |
| 17 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 18 | The car wallowed around the last bend in the descent and cruised across in front of the school gates leaving two trails of dust behind . |
| 19 | The jeep careered between the 17th green and the now empty stand , then tackled the undulating terrain beyond , plunging into hollows , climbing steep sandy slopes with all four wheels grabbing for grip . |
| 20 | The Admiralty had from the first a ‘ prize ’ jurisdiction , i.e. a jurisdiction to determine all questions as to the ownership of ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent . |
| 21 | The club slipped into the Fourth the season after he left and were almost relegated from the Football League . |
| 22 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 23 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 24 | The practice arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century within the ruling class . |
| 25 | The sum of£3 8s 6d was raised in this way , and the practice continued for the next eighty years . |
| 26 | There were reports that Iraq had received another Russian system , the SS-21 , though specialist circles are uncertain about this and arrival was not independently confirmed — perhaps the confusion arose from the last digits of the SS-12 having been inverted . |
| 27 | The Regno consisted in the twelfth century ( and for most of the thirteenth ) of two parts : the island of Sicily and the southern half of the Italian peninsular , the mainland . |
| 28 | And as you said , really some of the football played in the first half was quite delightful was n't it ? |
| 29 | Sometimes the flash is near slit 2 with the conclusion in that case that the electron went through the second slit . |
| 30 | He always escaped because the dream ended in the last frame . |