Example sentences of "the [noun sg] in [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think that management committee will meet , divide the money in two and then race off and never meet for another year . |
| 2 | Now extremely overweight and looking older than his sixty-five years , Brando spurns most film offers , although he appeared in The Freshman in 1989 and promptly denounced it to the world before it was even in the can . |
| 3 | He missed the cut in 1990 and again last year , when he also dropped to 53rd in the American money list . |
| 4 | AT&T fought hard to hang on to its equipment businesses through telephone deregulation — the Justice Department took the firm to court on the issue in 1949 and again in 1974 . |
| 5 | In the Senate , meanwhile , the Democrats held all the seats in the South in 1960 but only 68 per cent by 1972 . |
| 6 | When , as a result of the Independent Labour Party 's adoption of a ‘ living wage ’ policy , a joint committee of the Labour Party and Trades Union Congress examined the question in 1928 and again in 1929 , two reports were issued . |
| 7 | King Charles I visited the community in 1633 and afterwards borrowed its Great Concordance of the Gospels , which he said he would return only if another were made for him . |
| 8 | But this man says his documents prove the trough was given to the town in 1907 and still belongs to the parish council . |
| 9 | As one would expect , people who consider themselves ill are more likely to visit their doctor than the population in general and hence the consultation rates of Table 3.10 are higher than those of Table 3.9 . |
| 10 | The French inventor Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the Moon in 1839 or slightly earlier , and since then literally thousands of detailed pictures have been acquired , including those transmitted back-to Earth by the Moon-probes of the late 1950s and the 1960s . |
| 11 | Of the 47 cases decided , Mr Platt ruled wholly in favour of the complainant in 18 and partly in four . |
| 12 | The policy decisions which put the whole project into motion , the reporting of the opening in 1900 and all too shortly afterwards the closing in 1910 , and above all the accounts , technical and economic , of the lift 's operation , are quite incredibly thin . |
| 13 | That 's where it all comes confusing cos there is things in there which still ascertains the shock in that as well as the other |
| 14 | Yeah , it 'll be warmer near the top in these as well . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Women were important to the economy in general and especially so in manufacturing . |
| 17 | For if all the parts were neatly laid down in the egg like a little homunculus , then separating the embryo into two or more separate parts would divide the pattern in two or more and each should form just a fragment of the whole . |
| 18 | Fold the paper in half and then make two more folds in the doubled ends . |
| 19 | Having thus concluded that it is Mehmed Sah , not his father , to whom the list entry corresponding to the year 832 ( 833 ? ) refers , Husameddin mentions the pilgrimage in 833 and then proceeds to try to invalidate the evidence of the biographical sources about Molla Fenari 's death date by saying that Ibn Hajar dates his return to Rum , not his death , in Rajab 834 and that Ibn Taghribirdi gives that date for his departure on the pilgrimage . |
| 20 | It drowned the roar of the waves which she knew would be crashing on to the beach in impotent and seemingly endless fury . |
| 21 | In 1987 , the Gunners won the League Cup , followed by the Championship in 1989 and then a second title in 1991 . |
| 22 | Monckton Milnes , a good memorialist but a forgettable poet , visited the lake in 1838 and later wrote a poem about the tragedy , taking a more honour ably sentimental line towards it than had the morbid locals : |
| 23 | Don had been experimenting for years before he took out the patent in 1970 and significantly stated that ‘ The difference in camber and relative incidence on the central fore and aft sections serves to stabilise the kite in pitch ’ . |
| 24 | Attempts were made to contact all those writing for information about the scheme in 1980 and then follow them up in detail . |
| 25 | Mr Shove joined the company in 1937 and eventually became chairman and managing director . |
| 26 | It was a privilege which the state guarded jealously and which was made available to business enterprises whose purposes aimed to benefit the public in general as well as enrich the corporators . |
| 27 | Wedgie [ Tony Benn ] then made what I found a very effective speech , pointing out that we had got to look at the problem in domestic as well as international terms . |
| 28 | Professionals often intervene before they understand the problem in full and so fail . |
| 29 | Catastrophic floods inundated the region in 1636 and again in 1697 , exacerbated no doubt by deliberate sabotage by the commoners , but also caused by the insufficient capacity of the new channels and by peat shrinkage . |
| 30 | In the Paris by-election , in the 13th ward , Michèle Barzach ( Minister-Delegate for Health and the Family in 1986-88 and once regarded as a protegé of Chirac ) trailed behind the official RPR candidate René Galy-Dejean by 26.56 per cent to 41.17 per cent on the first round . |