Example sentences of "[num] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The first Australian team was South Sydney , named the Rabbitohs these days , because in the hard times of the Thirties the sand-dune dwellers of that part of the city subsisted by rabbit hunting .
2 Under the Children Act of 1948 the local authorities were given a duty to place a child in foster care unless this was not practicable or desirable in the child 's best interests .
3 They were also losing votes to the left : in 1948 the Christian Democrats received 49 per cent of the votes while the Communists and Socialists together polled 31 per cent ; by 1963 the Christian Democrats ' share had fallen to 38 per cent and the Socialists and Communists ' had risen to 39 per cent .
4 In 1948 the United Nations gave Israel to the Jews in Israel .
5 Sixteen months later , in January 1858. the first tenants were already in their new farmhouses .
6 10.1 The Academic Parties undertake that as respects copyright and other intellectual property rights in any items comprising technical information in respect of their results they will at the request and cost of the Non-academic Parties to this Agreement assign to and execute and do all such deeds acts matters and things as may be requisite for vesting such rights in an Non-academic Party either along or jointly with other Non-academic Parties to this Agreement .
7 In the October of 1934 the Catholic Charities Convention held a meeting in New York City at which one of the speakers was Monsignor Amleto Giovanni Cicognani .
8 In August 1934 the Soviet Writers ' Congress held in Moscow provided a unique forum at which communists and non-communists could discuss positive measures to promote an anti-fascist cultural front .
9 Added to this were other ‘ bus operators and from around 1934 the United Counties ran services into Wolverton market from most of the surrounding villages .
10 In 1934 the British members of the NATPS took another step along this road when , after talking with officials of America 's National Association of Creditmen , they planned to form an ‘ Institute of Creditmen ’ , a body of individuals , which came into being in April 1939 based in London but with local societies all over Britain .
11 15.11 The different consequences of an expert 's decision and an
12 In 1861 the Insolvent Debtors Court had been abolished , he said , but imprisonment for debt continued .
13 1.5 The predominant issues
14 Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 .
15 In the decade after 1770 the industrialized regions became centres of high wages drawing on the surplus labour of the hinterland , setting up a wave of immigration that was to spread outwards until , in the later nineteenth century , it tapped the poverty of the deep south and Murcia .
16 Between 1394 and 1396 negotiations continued , and in March 1396 the two sides agreed to a truce of twenty-eight years and the marriage of Richard II to one of Charles VI 's daughters , Isabella , who was to bring with her a large dowry .
17 Since 1925 the same interests can be created in personalty as in realty , and all the beneficial interests which can be created under a settlement can similarly be created behind a trust for sale .
18 By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like .
19 ( In this way they were of course only following the examples set down in the 1820s and '30s by British visitors to America such as Captain Basil Hall or Mrs Frances Trollope. ) ln 1850 the Teetotal Times recorded an ‘ atrocious outrage ’ .
20 However , after 1850 the two countries ' experiences begin to diverge .
21 In July 1986 the Metropolitan Police mounted a huge raid in Brixton , involving nearly 2,000 officers , aimed at selected premises in which cannabis offences were allegedly being committed .
22 In 1986 the following causes were pressed successfully by the Lords : wider consultation rights for workers in relation to reorganization of the naval dockyards ; local authorities to decide whether tenants should have the right to buy old people 's properties ; abolition of caning in schools ; application of health and safety laws to all buildings used by the national health service .
23 1.2 The basic axioms .
24 However , it is important to remember that after 1935 the traditional industries recovered in the run up to a second war and continued to be prosperous until the early 1960s .
25 In Table 6.2 the two sets of figures are given .
26 By July 1971 the estimated costs had risen to £47,000 and the Building Fund stood at £12,000 .
27 In 1971 the Industrial Relations Act was passed , which made trade union privileges conditional upon registering and satisfying the Registrar that their internal rules contained minimum safeguards for their members ' rights .
28 1971 The Rolling Stones play a farewell concert at The Roundhouse , Chalk Farm , London , before becoming tax exiles in France .
29 If in the age of Paul VI the major challenges to Roman policy still came from Western Europe , by the age of John Paul II they were coming from other continents .
30 the eight the eight competencies on there I would suggest
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