Example sentences of "[num] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In March 1943 the Prime Minister broadcast on the theme of a Four Year Plan for peace , and announced the government 's intention to plan to prevent the return of mass unemployment after the war . |
| 2 | In November 1943 the Middle East crisis flared up again , when the British intervened on behalf of the Lebanese government . |
| 3 | Naval tactics early in the war avoided such ship-to-fort confrontations ; but by 1943 the accepted practice was to blast coast defences , stripping them of camouflage , if not destroying their guns in sea and air bombardments that were timed so navy shells did not cut the path of strafing planes . |
| 4 | But in 1943 the Italian scholar Maria F. Squarciapino painstakingly collected and analysed the material , recognised its quality , labelled it as the output of a " school " , and urged a re-evaluation of the artists ' contribution to the history of ancient sculpture . |
| 5 | SINCE 1943 the Royal Air Forces Association has provided a welfare and community service for serving and former members of the Royal Air Forces and their families . |
| 6 | In 1943 the American Treasury had conceived the ‘ Morgenthau Plan ’ to turn Germany into an agricultural economy , but in the summer of 1947 the Americans and British agreed to increase steel production in the Bizone . |
| 7 | In 1943 the well-known painter , Hans Hofmann , asked the young Pollock how important nature was for his art . |
| 8 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 9 | As these family dramas were played out around Low Birk Hatt farm and the Hauxwell family battled against the twin effects of an overpriced heavily mortgaged farm , and an agricultural depression which presaged the deep national depression of the thirties the other people in Baldersdale coped with their lives . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When the destroyers , HMS Volage and HMS Saumares , ran into Albanian mines while passing legitimately through the Corfu channel between Albania and Corfu , 44 men had been killed ; in 1948 the International Court of Justice at the Hague had ruled that the Albanian government should pay £843,947 compensation . |
| 12 | In 1948 the International Ozone Commission was formed , with Dobson as president and Normand as secretary ( until 1959 ) . |
| 13 | Restoring their land fell within the purview of the bill because in 1948 the Slovak government had agreed that many Hungarians should get their land back , but the decision had never been implemented . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In 1948 the United Nations gave Israel to the Jews in Israel . |
| 17 | In 1948 the National Health Service took over all the hospitals and institutions as psychiatric and subnormality hospitals under the regional hospital boards , while local health authorities continued the provision of community services . |
| 18 | As we have seen , by 1948 the British government seemed to have modified its attitude , and many thought the time to be more propitious for attempting to pull Britain more firmly within the European orbit . |
| 19 | Denis Smith reckoned you could n't tell which was the top club … and which was the bottom … that 's a fair point … but Charlton took all three … 1-0 the final score … |
| 20 | Sixteen months later , in January 1858. the first tenants were already in their new farmhouses . |
| 21 | In 1275 the first statute of Westminster spoke of Edward 's concern to improve the lot of both the church and the realm generally : the statute was issued |
| 22 | Eventually in 1275 the first Statute of Westminster appears to have provided that the ravishment of any woman was an offence punishable with a penalty of two years ' imprisonment and ransom and in 1285 the second Statute of Westminster turned this into a capital offence . |
| 23 | SUMMER PROGRAMME ‘ 92 THE GRAND Theatre & Opera House , Leeds |
| 24 | In 1852 he became the first Moderator of the new Presbytery of Otago Province and in 1869 the first Chancellor of the University of Otago . |
| 25 | In 1875 the notorious Duchess of Sutherland , responsible for some of the most brutal Clearances , was in London with the Duke lionising Mr Moody . |
| 26 | In 1875 the British government awarded him a pension of £200 per annum in recognition of his discoveries at Ephesus . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 3.3.3 The Scandinavian Data Freight Receipt |
| 29 | 3.3.3 The Re-indexed CED |
| 30 | By the summer of 1934 the Labour leadership had repudiated the Hastings resolution with a joint TUC/Labour Party statement reaffirming their commitment to ‘ preventing War by organising Peace ’ . |