Example sentences of "as [noun] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Graves pulled three points back with a penalty goal , there was no let-up as Gregory put over the second dropped goal of the season . |
| 2 | Others saw the action in a more defensive light : as Brezhnev explained at the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , the situation in Afghanistan posed a ‘ direct threat to the security of [ the Soviet ] southern frontier ’ , and it was certainly true that an unstable , possibly militant Islamic government in a state immediately adjoining the USSR 's southern borders might have quite serious implications for public order in the traditionally Muslim republics of Central Asia . |
| 3 | As Brezhnev explained to the 26th CPSU Congress in 1981 , developments in Iran were ‘ complex and contradictory ’ but what had taken place was nonetheless an ‘ anti-imperialist revolution ’ . |
| 4 | OPENER David Boon hit a five-hour century yesterday as Australia struggled on the fourth day of the first Test against the West Indies in Brisbane . |
| 5 | A nation which experienced years of defeat and disaster ( as France did in the mid-fourteenth century ) beat its breast in self-reproach and accepted war 's afflictions . |
| 6 | In contrast to Clare , her sister Miranda was leading the fast and frivolous life of the exciting sixties as Britain launched into the first real business boom since Hitler 's war . |
| 7 | As Pittsburgh expanded during the twentieth century and out-of-town residential locations became feasible , the population profile of the North Side changed . |
| 8 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 9 | There is little political controversy attached to the figure of the sovereign , for as Bagehot recognized in the nineteenth century , the successful constitutional monarch should be seen to be removed from politics . |
| 10 | In the last decade of her reign the yield of direct taxes , clerical subsidies , and forced loans averaged about £144,000 per annum , much the same in cash terms as Henry got in the last seven years of his reign . |