Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stolypin 's problems were epitomized by the constitutional crisis that arose in 1911 over a bill to establish zemstvos in the western provinces . |
| 2 | The first of France 's war pilots flew in Blériots that cruised at fifty m.p.h. and took an hour and a half to climb to 6,000 feet . |
| 3 | A partnership practice that operated from two offices ceased to be carried on when the partnership was dissolved and the two main equity partners continued as sole practitioners from their respective offices . |
| 4 | Hindus have long fled the rural parts of Punjab ; now some Sikhs are joining the exodus , disgusted by terrorist excesses that led to 3,787 deaths last year and about 1,500 so far this year . |
| 5 | And that led to one momentary scare . |
| 6 | For at last the witch was weakened by Carmellina 's guile , and hoisted her to her feet , and pulled her over to the window and pointed down the stony path that led to one of her lair 's doors , and to the Indian fig cacti growing there in bat-eared monster shapes , and said , ‘ I 've always fancied a new little number , made to measure , of stuff woven from prickly-pear skins , bit of red for excitement , but mainly green , it 's so elegant , do n't you think , with long sleeves and a full skirt sweeping around me , with a bit of a train … . |
| 7 | Indeed , during almost a thousand years the only important legislation concerning English highways was a statute dating from the reign of Edward I. It required lords of manors to supervise the felling of trees and undergrowth up to 200ft on both sides of any ‘ highway ’ that led from one market town to another . |
| 8 | I am saying that Lord Justice Woolf , who produced an authoritative report on prison riots and the improvement of prison conditions — admittedly , a report that does not recommend the one thing that the Home Secretary has chosen to do , but a report which the Home Secretary wrongly described as comprehensive — draws attention time after time to the simple fact that all prisons that rioted in 1990 and were the subject of the inquiry were so overcrowded that many of the proper duties that prisons should perform were not being and could not be performed . |
| 9 | It was full of long tables that seated from six and eight to a dozen or more . |
| 10 | Oh it was a nice ball that by , shoots and scores , Notts get a second just moments after they might have conceded one at the other end , the referee unimpressed by the penalty claims but the crowd are there , with a really fine piece of finishing by Gary , nine minutes to half time and adds to the one that got in twenty four , and it 's two nil to Notts County against . |
| 11 | The $400m settlement , which will be split between the RTC and the FDIC , took eight months to negotiate and resolves all outstanding claims relating to thrifts that failed before 25 September 1992 . |
| 12 | Alfaro 's descendants in next-door Nicaragua include the Somoza family that ruled from 1933 to 1980 , displacing their cousins , the Lacayos and the Chamorros , who had provided ten previous presidents . |
| 13 | Macedonian soldier who became King of Egypt ( 305–282 ) and founder of the dynasty that ruled until 31 BC . |
| 14 | In the case of oil , for example , the raw material was in one republic , the petrochemical plants were in another , the scientific research was conducted in a third and the extracting equipment was in a fourth ; and who owned the pipelines that passed from one republic to another ? |
| 15 | Their simplest method is that used by one of them , the scrub-fowl , which lives in the north-east of the continent . |
| 16 | Ross organized the patent distillers ' campaign and was largely responsible for their victory before the royal commission on whisky that reported in 1909 . |
| 17 | The last serious look at finance was the Royal Commission on the NHS that reported in 1979 . |
| 18 | And Hubert Bortzmeyer , the French space agency 's military adviser , chaired a UN experts group that reported in 1981 . |
| 19 | 800m east of HMS Hazardous was an LCT or Canadian tank-landing craft that sank in 1944 . |
| 20 | My own introduction to the world of stand-up involved performing at benefit gigs in the upstairs room of a pub in Exeter to an audience that shouted at one another until the local anarchist punk band came on . |
| 21 | By the sixth week , Charlie could strip and clean a rifle almost as quickly as Tommy , but it was his friend who turned out to be a crack shot and seemed to be able to hit anything that moved at two hundred yards . |
| 22 | S. H. The worst part of the job is when you had to go round that beat at four o'clock in the morning and it 's teeming with rain . |
| 23 | Many writers have noted the widespread change in ideas and attitudes that occurred between 1939 and 1945 [ Addison , 1977 ] . |
| 24 | The major demographic changes that occurred between 1979 and 1990 , in particular the increase in very elderly people ( 85 years and over ) , had significant effects on the age and sex structure of the majority of the care sectors ( table IV ) . |
| 25 | AGE-SPECIFIC RATES — The frequency of demographic events ( live births , deaths , marriages , etc. ) that occurred during one year in a population defined by age ( usually one or five-year age groups ) and also often by sex relative to the size of population of the given age or age group ( and sex ) relative to the mid-year size of the same population ( expressed per 1,000 population ) . |
| 26 | Similar findings emerged from the investigations of births that occurred during 1950–1952 in New York State , which was controlled for maternal age and prematurity ( Chase , 1961 and 1962 ) , and from another study conducted in 1953 in Hawaii ( Yerushalmy , et al , 1956 ) . |
| 27 | This serious problem led to the record 47,000 business failures that occurred in 1991 . |
| 28 | It is a massive con trick — Or will Labour go back to very large Government borrowing , on the scale that occurred in one year under the last Labour Government , of 9.5 per cent . |
| 29 | There have been none of the head-on clashes that occurred in 1986 , when President Mitterrand had as his prime minister the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac . |
| 30 | In Hungary , for example , during 1967–1968 , the proportion " premature " ( i.e. under 2,500 grammes birth weight ) was higher among births that occurred within two years after the previous one . |