Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1920s these pressures became , if anything , even stronger , but in 1924 US legislation effectively placed a ban on Japanese immigration . |
| 2 | During the 1970s several teams attempted to refute this claim , arguing that the connection is a figment of Arp 's imagination , that it is an optical illusion caused by the overlap of isophotes ( light contours ) from the two objects , or that it is an illusion caused by a star or galaxy which just happens to be located between the two objects . |
| 3 | But during the 1980S these policies and plans made fairly little progress . |
| 4 | During the 1930s several alkaloids were prepared from the plant and investigated , but their properties did not correspond to the sedative and hypotensive properties of the crude drug . |
| 5 | He pointed out that as the three former impressions had sold out and as there had lately been a new edition of the main Dictionary , ( the sixth , 1752 ) , with many alterations , he judged it proper to include them in a new abridgement . |
| 6 | They extended their warnings to children of divorce , claiming that such children would also experience great disruption in their lives if they were to live in two houses , that is , in the case of joint custody between the two former spouses . |
| 7 | Obviously many arts teachers are not entirely happy that the arts are examined at all , but in my interviews the majority of teachers were generally happier now that the new examination had replaced the old system — the most obvious benefit being the removal of the need to discriminate between the two former examinations . |
| 8 | A courtesy bus operates between the two several times a day . |
| 9 | And and it is also perhaps distracted er attention from the interesting disagreements also taking place at the Labour party conference this week between the one more pushes , if I might describe them and the hard liners who believe you 've got to be radical . |
| 10 | By the end of the 1960s many economists were critical of this policy of fine-tuning on the grounds that it added to rather than reduced the instability of the economy . |
| 11 | These have understandably been strained by the collapse of BZW 's profits to £5m last year , as well as by the £110m the bank had to pay last November to buy out most of the 200 former partners who together owned a fifth of the investment firm . |
| 12 | For instance , of the 68 such buildings at West Stow , six had been used for weaving , some producing up to 100 loomweights used to tension the warp-threads of an upright loom ( Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 13 | The majority of the 850 former workers were asked for their opinions after a suggestion that they revert to a festive dinner — the original idea when the tradition was established in 1963 . |
| 14 | Wing John Timu was one of the four All Blacks in the Otago XV , North Harbour called on another six , as did Waikato , who had already upset Otago 47–13 , while North Auckland has as their captain Ian Jones , New Zealand 's most recent All Black of the Year . |
| 15 | Towards the end of the 1970s these unions began to revive , in response both to labour needs and to frustration at the failure of the conventional political process . |
| 16 | In apoR2 the charges of the four acidic residues forming the metal site can be partly compensated for by protonation of the two former ligands His118 and His241 . |
| 17 | When one examines the performance of the two latter sets of electors , the words ‘ too clever by half ’ spring to mind . |
| 18 | This , of course , is a much more significant limitation on scope than exists in single-contract Conventions such as the Sales Convention , and in this respect the case for the second limb of application of the two latter Conventions is stronger . |
| 19 | No. 46521 normally operates on the Severn Valley Railway , it is one of the two such locomotives which regularly operate on the railway and from time to time are loaned out to operate in other parts of the country . |
| 20 | The result was that the minority party carried the election , in the absence of the three former Councillors who were in prison . |
| 21 | By the end of the '70s many elements were fusing together making change in the way schools were run inevitable . |
| 22 | In 1986 38 per cent of the 103,000 conceptions outside marriage to teenagers ( under age 20 ) were aborted , declining to 32 per cent of the 25,000 such conceptions to women aged 30–4 and rising to 56 per cent of the 2,000 conceptions to unmarried women aged 40 and over . |
| 23 | Even Laurie Mains , the All Black selector whose face rather appears like a grave image when he is interviewed on television , managed a quiet smile after he had superintended the selection of the 30 All Blacks who are touring Australia at the moment and will later play one cataclysmic test against South Africa . |
| 24 | He was rumoured to own upwards of a dozen such houses in various parts of East Oxford , all let on short leases to students or teachers , in addition to his own home in Divinity Road . |
| 25 | The distinguished nuclear physicist Lord Flowers , a veteran of a dozen such committees , told me : |
| 26 | Throughout the eighties some officials displayed a tendency to overdo the latest idea , often itself not particularly sound . |
| 27 | However , throughout the 1930s these preparations were seriously inhibited by the fact that all civil defence discussions were conducted in an atmosphere of secrecy and pessimism . |
| 28 | Also in every shire one town at least , like the two latter examples , served as the focus for community affairs and local administration . |
| 29 | Undoubtedly Cranmer will be best remembered for his part in Prince Obolensky 's historic try against the 1936 All Blacks at Twickenham : ‘ I 'll never forget that break which started from a line-out . |
| 30 | ‘ If you stay here she 'll probably call for a dozen more rehearsals of that damn kiss — so why do n't we cut out of here for a while and go for a coffee ? |