Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other bad news is that not only did John Fullard get a letter for the wrong house in The Grove , he also got another on the same day intended for 27 The Oval . |
| 2 | This decline was due to both the sale of council dwellings and to fewer starts , which — at perhaps 20,000 or so in the mid-1980s — represents about one-fifth the early 1970s total . |
| 3 | And the fact remains that the People 's Charter not Co-operation , not Owenism , became after 1832 the great cause . |
| 4 | Then she gets in the back bedroom , we got a mirror at the back there what was took off one the dressing tables , and she sits and looks at herself in there and she keeps going like that |
| 5 | Figure 3.8 illustrates for 1979 the dominance of large firms in private sector unions . |
| 6 | At that time it developed as a means of circumventing US restrictions on foreign direct investment , but when those restrictions were lifted in 1974 the market contracted sharply . |
| 7 | He later joined the CNES management , before becoming in 1986 the secretary general of the Eureka committee — the French-inspired project for European co-operation in high technologies . |
| 8 | After 4,000 perished in 1952 the government introduced the Clean Air Acts , with 2,000 local Clean Air Zones . |
| 9 | Of the scientific Discourses at the Royal Institution some were describing original research , occasionally very new as when J. J. Thomson reported in 1897 the discovery of the electron ( if we may allow that phrase ) ; others were in the nature of a review of recent work . |
| 10 | He ranged widely , soliciting in 1741 the office of sutler of Stirling Castle , believed to be profitable , and at the same time the contract to clothe Lord Loudoun 's independent company permanently stationed in the castle . |
| 11 | Although 39 members resigned in 1939 the year ended with a surplus of £50 . |
| 12 | So here you have no revision under naive expectations we have four right Now the the closer that our expectations come to gamma , lies to one the more weight farmers attach to last years price relative to prices in T minus two , T minus three , T minus four right . |
| 13 | Ochirbat visited China in May 1990 [ see p. 37454 ] , and co-operation agreements in the educational and legal fields were signed on Nov. 26 and on July 4 , 1991 ; an agreement was signed on June 24 to increase to eight the border crossings between China and Mongolia from the hitherto sole crossing at Erenhot in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia . |
| 14 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 15 | He was replying to a query about how a letter correctly addressed to 27 The Grove , Hartlepool TS5 1PQ had been delivered to 27 The Grove , Hartlepool TS26 9LZ . |
| 16 | They agreed to meet at ten-thirty the following day at the Archdeaconry . |
| 17 | On Aug. 28 , 1990 , the then Agriculture Minister , Braks , announced a programme — described as the strictest in the world — designed to halve by 2000 the use of pesticides by the country 's intensive agricultural industry . |
| 18 | New lawyers acting for two the three defendants accused Galligan of racism and incompetence and suggested that they would appeal against the sentences . |
| 19 | In London a survey has recently been carried out of Holborn and Westminster area firms and the High Court taxing officers have accepted for 1992/3 the broad average direct cost for carrying out litigation in an area will be £88 per hour . |
| 20 | Bede 's reckoning from 642 for the accession of Oswiu would suggest to him the year 664 , but if Oswiu did not succeed until 643 the reference to his twenty-second year would point to 665 as the year of the council . |
| 21 | When the Second Congress of the Communist International met in 1920 the basic query , says McLane , was how much attention was to be paid to the East . |
| 22 | It was in the course of his translation work that he received in 1790 the stimulus which led him to his radical rethink of medical treatment . |
| 23 | Beginning with a bargain struck between the Crown and the nobles , and then moving into a skilful attack in the lawcourts , the government managed to persuade Parliament into passing in 1536 the great Statute of Uses which turned the ‘ use ’ into a legal estate and abolished completely this method of evasion . |
| 24 | Thus the EC adopted in 1970 the Werner Plan which envisaged the creation of a European monetary union through " the irrevocable fixing of parities and the total liberalisation of capital movement , " by 1980 . |
| 25 | The British Journal of Educational Psychology published an article on the negative correlation between fertility and intelligence by Gerald O'Hanlon in 1940 and an attack by Charlotte Fleming on the assumption that socio-economic level and intelligence were highly related in 1943 The Times Educational Supplement reviewed Maguiness 's book Environment and Heredity without querying the causal assumption that intelligence was mainly inherited . |
| 26 | The Labour Government of the day responded by establishing in 1976 the Royal Commission on Legal Services ( Benson Commission , 1979 ) with wide terms of reference . |
| 27 | Socio-biology drew much of its inspiration from the zoologist E. O. Wilson who proclaimed in 1975 the birth of a new synthetic super-discipline that would merge social science with biology , and which he named sociobiology . |
| 28 | In a profile of Denis Law written in 1962 the late great Scottish journalist John Rafferty summarised the '60s in a few short condemnatory words . |
| 29 | The first links between smoking and lung cancer were revealed in 1950 the man behind that report says education and a ban on advertising is the only way to cut the death rate . |
| 30 | Built in 1884 the house has been modernised but still retains its original charm with a very pretty secluded south-facing garden . |