Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | The broadcasting ‘ liberalization ’ phase under ‘ Chaban ’ had ended : the broadcasting law of July 1972 had distinguished between the state monopoly of radio and television broadcasting and the public organization ( ORTF ( entrusted with the monopoly ; the same law increased — on paper — the autonomy of ORTF and the powers of the ‘ MD ’ who became in addition chairman of the board of directors ( 'PDG' ) ; but conflicts arose between the first ‘ PDG ’ , Arthur Conte , and the Information Minister , Philippe Malaud . |
| 3 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 4 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 5 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 6 | Until finally , after ten minutes of desperate plodding , the welcome sight of a cream stone building arose around the next bend , nestled among a clump of very wet , but suddenly beautiful , rich green trees . |
| 7 | Most cases occurred in the first 48 hours of detention ( until July 1988 Austrian law allowed detainees to be held incommunicado for 48 hours ) . |
| 8 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
| 9 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 10 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 11 | A second and more fundamental change occurred in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Europe and in the Islamic world , when lead was added to the ingredients for the inlay . |
| 12 | So blackly venomous was his expression that Perdita fled towards the next pitch , scattering the polo balls which lay like a hatch of goose eggs near the goal posts . |
| 13 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 14 | If " adornment " is to be identified in linguistic patterns which have no semantic utility , we can point to the alliterations clustered in the last few lines . |
| 15 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 16 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |
| 17 | While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] . |
| 18 | There were reports that Iraq had received another Russian system , the SS-21 , though specialist circles are uncertain about this and arrival was not independently confirmed — perhaps the confusion arose from the last digits of the SS-12 having been inverted . |
| 19 | The Summerchilds lived in the third one along , with the peeling woodwork and the neglected grey rendering . |
| 20 | The practice arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century within the ruling class . |
| 21 | When the new class of bourgeois manufacturers and traders arose in the nineteenth century , it was able to merge with the commercialised aristocracy through marriage , and through the newly reformed public schools and universities . |
| 22 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 23 | Scepticism arose with the first television interviews . |
| 24 | Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk . |
| 25 | Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) . |
| 26 | The first peacetime , and civil , air disaster in Ayrshire occurred on the 20th October , 1948 . |
| 27 | Episodes of intestinal obstruction usually occurred in the first year of operation but in seven patients admission to hospital with obstruction occurred after the first 12 months . |
| 28 | This tragedy occurred in the last Grand Prix race on the old circuit and was won by James Hunt in a McLaren . |
| 29 | It was a slow-going mile , but towards the end one could hear occasional cars along the road ahead and Gareth and Coconut with whoops crashed through the last few yards , again , as the week before , relieved to be back in the space age . |
| 30 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |