Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You trust the judgement of a man whos been proven right over the last 5 years . |
| 2 | Believe it or not , the society has now been in existence for a year and subscriptions became due on the 16th of March . |
| 3 | As regards the cost implications of these shifts , although the over-85s are heavier users of costly services than younger age groups , the heaviest financial cost of the elderly arises from pensions not from services and , to repeat , the total pensionable age group will remain stable for the next two decades . |
| 4 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 5 | Now it was replaced by an administrative , legal , and organizational unity , which first became possible in the twelfth century as a result of the development of the administrative , legal and scholastic instruments of government . |
| 6 | With twelve children to her credit , she became pregnant for the thirteenth time by a British soldier . |
| 7 | When she became pregnant for the third time she was given an amniocentesis , the only form of testing available at that time . |
| 8 | If there is a tail of two or more syllables , the normal pitch movement is for the pitch to fall on the tonic syllable and to remain low until the last stressed syllable in the tail . |
| 9 | Wood Walton 's ‘ speciality ’ , it became extinct in the nineteenth century , but was reintroduced from Holland in 1927 and can be seen on the wing in July . |
| 10 | This is more prominent in the early stages of the diarrhoeal illness , and returns to near normal by the fourth day , by which time the faecal weights are coming down . |
| 11 | Anxiety on this score became acute during the last decades of the fourth century , and the first of the fifth . |
| 12 | The Soviets , as shown by declining equipment orders since 1976 , have themselves become more careful in weighing the balance , and have lost much of their earlier enthusiasm , as Brezhnev made clear to the Twenty-Sixth Party Congress of 1981 : |
| 13 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 14 | This invention turned out to be ahead of its time ; U-shaped grooves remained normal until 1939 , and Packman-type cutters only became universal after the Second World War . |
| 15 | Last Thursday their problems became public for the first time when Allen began a legal battle for custody of three of their children . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine . |
| 17 | His bid started to go wrong at the 12th hole and spluttered out at the 17th , the Road Hole , where many an aspiration had been snuffed out in the past . |
| 18 | Council goes public for the first time |
| 19 | Although foreign loans had been banned , reports indicated that Albania had about US$30,000,000 in short-term debt and $25,000,000 in long-term debt which would fall due over the next 13 years . |
| 20 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 21 | Conversely , if the rent is payable quarterly in arrear the term will be taken to begin at the first moment of 26 March , so that the last payment of rent will fall due on the last day of the term rather than the day after its expiry by effluxion of time . |
| 22 | The latest Williams-trained discovery , New Level , looks outstanding in the first heat of the Regal Puppy Trophy , having won his first three races and never being headed to the first bend . |
| 23 | Midnight shrugged , not wanting to talk about the old slave days in Spanish Town or Montserrat , walking her along , keeping clear of the last idling stragglers . |
| 24 | Rooms gaped empty on the next landing , their doors gone for firewood , paper stripped and plaster crumbling away from the lath walls . |
| 25 | It would have given Northern Ireland breathing space ; at 1–0 there was still a trace of anxiety in their play and Latvia , for whom Popkov and Charando had looked dangerous in the first half were never totally out of it . |
| 26 | But in chemistry , physics and physiology , the laboratory sciences becoming prominent in the nineteenth century , there was little scope for the amateur . |
| 27 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |
| 28 | Preventive health measures which tackle the cause of why people are becoming sick in the first place could save vast sums of public money which are being wasted by the National Health Service treating the symptoms . |
| 29 | The worst wildlife depletion occurred prior to the Second World War before conservation was even recognised . |
| 30 | Unlike still red wines , sparkling Champagne does not benefit from a detectable tannin content , although a little tannin will be added prior to the last racking to activate the fining agent . |