Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the magazine took the opportunity to address the whole post-1960 transformation : " The elections of 1960 and 1988 are brackets enclosing a period of astonishing transformation — change that has placed the two campaigns in different eras . |
| 2 | They sold off the mine 's equipment , including the water pumps that had kept the 1,500 foot shafts dry . |
| 3 | Even a change of name — from the Windscale that had witnessed the 1957 fire to the brave new world of Sellafield — has failed to expunge public hostility . |
| 4 | The dream that had brought the two of them to the other side of the globe was wedging a distance between them . |
| 5 | But they might ponder whether such sentiments are more in line with the German and Japanese approaches that will probably dominate the 1990s rather than are their traditional capitalist values that have dominated the 1980s . |
| 6 | ‘ He takes care of all the legislation and has established the Seven as a quality British product . |
| 7 | Constructed " on a large scale " , she was en route from her birthplace in Scotland to London , and had steamed the 120 miles from Milford Haven against a head wind at an incredible 10 knots . |
| 8 | The once dominant Lotus 72 had lost its edge ; Chapman was developing the 77 and had abandoned the 76 . |
| 9 | At Christmas he had insisted on hanging up Robert 's stocking on the end of his bed , and had suggested the two of them visit the Cranborne School carol service . |
| 10 | With the fanaticism and blind obedience demanded of a Triad warrior , the dying oriental had sacrificed himself to carry out his brutal superior 's final order , and had detonated the four firebombs ! |
| 11 | But if you turned round and said to them all right with the consent of the people and with the consent of the Planning Authority we will authorize a site , we would get on and provide it , and they would n't spend four hundred thousand pounds of the taxpayers money in doing it , and it does n't stop there because having spent the four hundred thousand pounds you 've then got to provide the wardening of the site and the constant maintenance , which is a drain . |
| 12 | Hungarian radio said on Oct. 22 that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev 's spokesman had reported him as having condemned the 1956 Warsaw Treaty intervention in Hungary as a violation of international law . |