Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However disagreements arose between the two parties and after taking legal advice Mr Manners challenged the terms of the Licence and argued that his occupation had all the rights of a protected tenancy . ’ |
| 2 | On the right is the entrance to Newington Crescent where Nicholson and Maule lived during the 1850s . |
| 3 | " Walls built after the 1953 floods are getting old " , explained Peregrine . |
| 4 | In the late 1989 and 1990 West German elections for the state legislatures , the Republicans ' support sank below the 5 per cent hurdle necessary for parliamentary representation . |
| 5 | If two such solutions were displayed as in Fig. 24.2(b) , the overall impression given would be the same ; however , sufficiently long after initiation , the times at which the changes of level occurred in the two solutions would be totally uncorrelated . |
| 6 | Whitlock shouted at the two policemen on the motorcycles to get the photographers back a few feet to give Mobuto a chance to get out of the limousine . |
| 7 | The remaining 17% occurred over the 10 seconds preceding the onset of the common cavity episode , being evenly distributed through this time . |
| 8 | The 15 most heavily indebted developing countries ( see p. 37017 ) in 1988 as a group increased the surplus of their merchandise exports over their imports to nearly dollars 28,000 million ; the dollar value of their exports rose above the 1981 peak for the first time since the onset of the Third-World debt service problem , although the GATT report pointed out that this trade performance needed to be seen against the background of rising interest charges and continued lack of fresh capital inflows . |
| 9 | The concept of a Common Market is not new , the term arose in the 1950s , to describe an area where there exists free movement of goods , services , capital and labour . |
| 10 | The attempt Grumman made in the 1970s to reduce its dependence on Pentagon and NASA contracts produced an excellent delivery truck for the post office . |
| 11 | Today , there is a small octagonal chapel in the Beirut coastal suburb of Antelyas dedicated to the 1915 massacres . |
| 12 | The research now available shows that crime tripled between the two world wars , particularly at the time of the great depression . |
| 13 | A notable example among many of government intervention to avoid strike action occurred in the 1954 pay negotiations . |
| 14 | Most talk occurred among the four non-Wesleyan groups although in 1886 Hughes and his Methodist Times began urging a total reunion which would create one church . |
| 15 | Indeed , the proportion of children attending ‘ public ’ ( ie. private ) schools rose throughout the eighties . |
| 16 | Whitlock 's eyes flickered to the two sombre-suited men standing apart from the others , Paul Brett and Jack Rogers . |
| 17 | Dunwoody moved onto the 77 winner mark with Bishops Island , Royal Piper and Its Nearly Time . |
| 18 | The net result was that the United States moved during the 1970s from being 90 per cent self-sufficient in energy to importing 50 per cent of its needs . |
| 19 | The LEAs created by the 1944 Act could set up new schools themselves ; these are called county schools . |
| 20 | Do you think there 's a danger that the West could undermine Gorbachev 's position particularly with the delicate situation over Lithuania , if it 's not prepared to support moves to try and get tension reduced between the two blocks ? |
| 21 | The main thrust for use of videos as an aid came from the three Welsh areas — just under three-quarters seeing it as an aid that could improve training . |
| 22 | John Plamenatz announced enthusiastically that " the voice of the people is heard everlastingly " through the spokespersons of these organizations , and Robert Dahl believed in the 1950s that the United States possessed " a political system in which all the active and legitimate groups in the population can make themselves heard at some critical stage in the process of decision " . |
| 23 | In the UNIP contest for the 1979 presidential nomination , when both Kapwepwe and Nkumbula challenged him , Kaunda showed that he was not prepared to tolerate any real alternative to himself , even when the bid came from the two most experienced politicians in the country . |
| 24 | Every balcony was full as the cars blasted around the 2 kilometre town centre circuit . |
| 25 | Dusky light came from the two small front windows between the toothed leaves of nettles . |
| 26 | It will be evident from the dates of most of these references that this kind of training and the supporting research flourished in the 1960s . |
| 27 | The mockery consisted of the one major taunt : that Jesus should save himself because he was ( i ) the Messiah , the Chosen One ; and ( ii ) the King of the Jews . |
| 28 | Corbett nodded at the two hard-faced Sub-prioresses and went to order Ranulf and Maltote to saddle their horses as swiftly as possible . |
| 29 | Labour began in the 1890s because the Liberal Party failed to respond to social change . |
| 30 | It has been overtaken by local practices and informal agreements — and that has been the case since mechanisation of the industry began in the 1950s . |