Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing more was seen or heard of the two men , and after a few days , the event was forgotten . |
| 2 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 3 | The USSR as such was held to have ‘ ended its existence ’ , but the members of the Commonwealth pledged themselves to discharge the obligations that arose from the 15,000 or so international treaties and agreements to which the USSR had been a party . |
| 4 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 5 | The door to the short flight of stairs that led to the two topmost floors was locked . |
| 6 | The error of 1987 that led to the 1990s depression |
| 7 | As er Chairman of the last countryside forum that met on the twenty ninth of April ninety three , it 's the week before the County Council elections . |
| 8 | It is , however , an approach that failed in the 1970s , and one that will not work in the 1990s . |
| 9 | The most important Romanesque churches of this type in the city of Cologne are that dedicated to the twelve apostles ( S. Aposteln 328 , 330 ) , S. Maria im Capitol , the earliest of the group , constructed on the foundation walls of the Roman Capitoline Trias , S. Martin ( Gross S. Martin ) , S. Gereon ( 329 ) and S. Pantaleon . |
| 10 | Visual information from neurons in these zones supplements that provided from the three semicircular canals and is distributed in parallel with it to the part of the brain that controls our balance , the cerebellum . |
| 11 | Yeah — i have not mentioned Ronny before — he has not been a regular in our national team — but he did play against Holland in our 0–0 away draw and he was also the man that headed in the 3–0 goal on wednesday in Norway 's humiliation of Poland . |
| 12 | Table II shows this further by the changes in juice concentrations that occurred in the two subgroups according to whether the final plasma vitamin C concentration was high or low . |
| 13 | The collapse of trust in government that occurred in the 1970s can not be attributed entirely to Watergate ; the trend was established before 1973 . |
| 14 | The data below relate to the 1179 perinatal deaths that occurred in the 114362 singleton deliveries to women resident in Leicestershire during 1978–87 regardless of place of delivery . |
| 15 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 16 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 17 | The second innovation that flowed from the 1976 crisis was complementary to the first — a new financial information system ( FIS ) . |
| 18 | The treaty , covering the external aspects of German unification , complemented that signed by the two German states on Aug. 31 [ see p. 37661 ] and removed the last major obstacle to unification on Oct. 3 , 1990 . |
| 19 | In fact this banal verse , which forms a part of the novel At Swim-Two-Birds , is a satire on the cult of imbecile proletarian writers that began in the thirties and later reached its apotheosis under Joan Littlewood . |
| 20 | The financial crises of 1929 and 1931 and the following years ' dramatic collapse in trade and production helped to lay the foundations for the new industries and the new international trading blocs that began in the 1930s and 1940s , and for the new international financial system established in the 1940s . |
| 21 | The most valuable of the representations that I have had on manufacturing industry is the excellent report from the manufacturing advisory group of the CBI , which hails the resurgence in manufacturing that began in the 1980s and calls on us to continue and to build on the policies that brought that about . |
| 22 | Many of these organizations have regular newsletters , for example the Interfaith Center has The Corporate Examiner and the flood of environmentalist and consumer-advice literature that began in the 1980s often contains material critical of the TNCs . |
| 23 | The fashion of male circumcision that began in the 1890s , and a wide range of related subjects . |
| 24 | Surely it was too predictable that Daisy was going to want to elbow him out ; the feelings that existed between the three of them were substantial enough to forbid anything so trite . |
| 25 | It says something , perhaps , about the persisting British inability to realise the depth of commitment to something totally new that existed among the Six . |
| 26 | PESC is clearly an improvement on the system that existed in the 1950s , but it has defects . |
| 27 | Together they were the necessary and sufficient conditions for the surge in bank loans to the developing countries in the 1970s , and together they provide much of the explanation for the reverse flow of funds , from South to North , that followed in the 1980s ( see figure 1.3 ) . |
| 28 | We have been bemused too long by the great military roads of the Romans and have not given enough thought and research to the local ‘ economic ’ roads that developed during the two or three centuries that followed the Conquest and the brief phase of military occupation . |
| 29 | By the late 1660s it is almost certain that , as Thomas Shadwell [ q.v. ] suggests in The Medal of John Bayes ( 1682 ) , he began employing the young Dryden to write prefaces , commencing a relationship that developed through the 1660s and 1670s when Herringman bought up the copyrights to most of Dryden 's work . |
| 30 | It is significant that charity law was unable to accommodate the modern contemporary social welfare and recreational trusts that developed in the 1940s and 1950s and legislation had to be passed to deem them charitable , provided the public benefit element was there . |