Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after 6 a.m. the rebels took control of Radio Nigeria ( situated 300 metres from the barracks ) , announcing that Babangida had been deposed and the governing Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) dissolved , and stating their political objectives . |
| 2 | Shortly after two o'clock the police returned in strength . |
| 3 | The establishment of the mixed patrician-plebeian collegium of the Xviri sacris faciundis coincides with the full parification of the two orders in the Licinian-Sextian laws of 367 B.C. The members of the college presumably had to know some Greek if they were to consult the Sibylline books . |
| 4 | Above all only the eyes retain any spark of life , and they are filled with the overwhelming emotion of anguish . |
| 5 | After Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Kambyses in 525 BC the Greeks and Karians lost their old employers ; but it is certain from several pieces of evidence that they stayed on under the new management , as distinct ethnic groups , surviving until and beyond the Macedonian takeover in 331 . |
| 6 | They are unique among the deer family in that both the males and females have antlers which are eaten when shed to build up the reindeer 's calcium stocks . |
| 7 | In 586 BC the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem , including the Temple , and many of the inhabitants of the southern kingdom , Judaea , were deported to Babylonia . |
| 8 | In 66 AD the Jews rebelled against their Roman overlords in Palestine . |
| 9 | Just before ten o'clock the reporters set out on their ‘ beats ’ . |
| 10 | The looser structure of many Languedocian and meridional towns , with their consuls and syndics , never developed in the south-west , and from 1261 onwards the tendencies with Bordeaux showed towards becoming a city-republic were tempered by ducal intervention to appoint its mayor and jurats . |
| 11 | Beyond that lay the Germans ' barbed wire , and beyond that still the Germans , waiting for them in their trenches . |
| 12 | At eleven o'clock the teams stopped working . |
| 13 | It starts at eight o'clock the tickets are six quid on the door and appearing are the Ivy League Alf Berry and Heather Nixon , Night Ride organist and drummer and the compere is Peter Lawrie it 'll be a good night I 'll tell you that . |
| 14 | At 5 o'clock the justices indicated that they were retiring to consider their conclusions and to draft the reasons that they intended to state to support those conclusions . |
| 15 | At 6 a.m. the guards on the Austrian frontier showed little interest in the Jaguar or its occupants . |
| 16 | At ten o'clock the lights went out . |
| 17 | At ten o'clock the gates were shut to prevent a sudden influx of new voters — anyone could leave , no one could enter . |
| 18 | The party continued after Bibit had returned to his cell , and at 2.45 a.m. the gates had been opened to allow the delivery of further stocks of alcohol . |
| 19 | At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed . |
| 20 | This was a success and at last even The Times , under pressure from rising costs , succumbed . |
| 21 | By 5 am the guns of both batteries had been spiked as planned , by having iron wedges driven into their touch-holes , and the two groups had met as agreed and set about their work of destruction . |
| 22 | Now they they they do n't like bodies lying around unattended so the incinerators are always open for that . |
| 23 | By 1967 even the refugees , the last vestige of things Palestinian to the outside world , had become a permanent and institutionalized presence under each host government , and half of them were by then Jordanian citizens . |