Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 32 | Erm so I all we 're trying to do now at the moment though is , is to , to operate from the point of view of saying look , if you actually take all these things into account , we should n't be worse than we were ultimately , once these systems have bedded in , we 're doing more checking on letters for example th than , than we w we wo n't have to once we 've checked through the first two months of auto-offs , and we 're getting used to the new reports and so on and that sort of stuff , so we expect there to be a blip , but you would expect a learning curve in anyway . |
| 33 | A 7 day tour to Poland , open to CIT members , spouses , and colleagues has been arranged for the first week of July , boasting a programme , both transport orientated and cultural . |
| 34 | It would be appreciated if the Herts , Beds , Cambs. , teachers would attend to the teat at the Meeting arranged for the 27th February . |
| 35 | This was the end of the first visit and a date , 10 days away , was arranged for the next visit . |
| 36 | I noticed there are horse treks arranged for the next three days . |
| 37 | In Birmingham , the dealers have gathered for the 11th British Antiques Fair ( Thursday to the following Wednesday ) , while over the Border , there is still time to catch Pen Panting 's second one-man show , at the Glasgow Print Studio . |
| 38 | The whole of Ramsay 's Edinburgh-Rome-London career is examined for the first time , with over one hundred exhibits , including many of his fine drawings . |
| 39 | In most cat books , the figure given for the first domestication of the cat is between 3,500 and 4,500 years ago . |
| 40 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 41 | More detail is given for the first part on document preparation systems as this has been developed into the HyperCard system described below . |
| 42 | In France the post of Secretary of State for War was given for the first time to a soldier ( the Maréchal de Belle-Isle ) in 1758 ; and in the second half of the century there was a slow but steady tendency for the most important officials concerned , the intendants d'armées and the contrôleurs des guerres , to be military men . |
| 43 | The new date for the first round had been announced on Feb. 4 , when new provisional dates were also given for the second round ( March 8 ) and the two rounds of the presidential elections ( March 22 and April 5 ) . |
| 44 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
| 45 | There are three common grades of olive oil : extra virgin , which is thick and green , and cold-pressed with an acidity of less than 1% ; virgin , which is green and cold-pressed but with up to 4% acidity , and fine olive oil , for general cooking , which is heat treated during the second pressing to extract the maximum oil from the fruit and often blended with other olive oils . |
| 46 | Ivan 's son Djuradj is honoured as the first man to introduce a printing press into the Balkans . |
| 47 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |
| 48 | The changeover from the domestic system of manufacture to that of the textile mill was completed during the next generation . |
| 49 | The North Atlantic deep-sea ophiuroid fauna , comprising of approximately 120 species , is revised for the first time . |
| 50 | He contributed two articles to the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica ( 1875–88 ) , for which his father also wrote , and thirty-nine articles to the eleventh edition ( 1910–11 ) , seven of which were revised for the fourteenth ( 1929 ) . |
| 51 | The Republic of Indonesia comprises mainly some 13,700 islands known until 1949 as the Netherlands East Indies ; since 1976 it has also included East Timor ( when the latter was effectively annexed as the 27th Indonesian province after the withdrawal in 1975 of Portuguese troops , although this act has never been officially recognized by the UN ) . |
| 52 | The plates were developed for the first migration in a solvent saturated chamber consisting of chloroform/methanol/ammonium hydrate/water 184:105:7.5:7.5 vol and then dried in cold air . |
| 53 | The couple will begin their married life in Cyprus , where Paul , whose home is in Liverpool , has been posted for the next 18 months . |
| 54 | The case against Therese Dunne ( 42 ) , a buyer with Dunnes Stores , was halted for the second time in three months yesterday because of the alleged interference . |
| 55 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 56 | A cow , reared for the first six months of its life in an environment of people and horses , may refuse to have anything to do with cows in its own paddock for all the years that follow . |
| 57 | The impersonal and durable character of these rights was highlighted during the last years of Louis VII 's reign , in the use in charters of the phrase corona regni ( the crown of the kingdom ) , a phrase which marked out royal rights from princely by asserting their value to the kingdom as a whole . |
| 58 | Strikes were legalized for the first time in Bulgaria 's history when on March 6 the National Assembly passed a bill on settling collective industrial disputes . |
| 59 | Fire ripped through the first floor of the Afro-West Indian Centre in Marton Road , Middlesbrough , early yesterday . |
| 60 | But I 've jumped off the second one , I have n't dived off the second one . |